Buddha heads, horse heads & doors

Just stumbled across these concrete buddha heads online, and I am ALL about them!  $195 each, 20" high, so fabulous!

Speaking of buddha heads, I recently had a bit of a wander through a strip of architectural salvage and antique stores in an industrial part of North Hollywood resulting in some great finds!


I thought this large buddha head was quite fabulous.  It would make a great fountain at the end of a pool - and I know just the pool!  It has a sold sign on it that looks like it's been hanging there for about 7 years:

My husband is looking to get a collection of horse heads going, could this be a good start to the collection?

The store next door also had horse heads, this time forming a table, which I found borderline disturbing.  Those teeth!

They also had a pair of rather fabulous mustard yellow velvet wing backs:

My favorite stop was Scavenger's Paradise, located in a gorgeous old Spanish Colonial style chapel.  Such a treasure trove!

I'm sure I could figure out a great use for this:

Great shape to these wooden chairs, but a little rickety:

These doors are so fabulous, I badly want an excuse to use them!

Funnily enough this past weekend we drove past a house in the hills that had nearly the exact same doors.  I couldn't resist taking a quick sneaky pic!  

Extremely similar, no?  

Recent Random Finds

Some of my random finds from thrift and antique stores that I've visited over the past few weeks - I could furnish a small house with these finds!

This pair of sconces were very reasonably priced and seriously tempting!  They'd be great for an outdoor patio, maybe on on an exposed brick wall:

I'm definitely 100% against wearing fur but this vintage coat was kind of amazing, very Kate Moss, also kind of expensive at $650!

  

This guy from Italy is insane!  I love his facial expression.  Unfortunately he's rather steep at $255 or I would have bought him on the spot!

This couch is 9 feet long, love it!

Giant plastic rhino head anyone?  This would be incredible in a garden surrounded by succulents and silverswords:

Huge brass lamp:

Great mahogany desk:

I'm still thinking about this set of four chairs, black cane with soft blue velvet cushions.  Not too expensive and in fairly good shape.  

Tangent:  I've been leaning towards more of a bentwood style for when I replace our current dining room chairs that I have an unnatural hatred of, but maybe I could do a mix of black bentwood and these?  Four of them doesn't really make sense though I guess, maybe just two would be better as "captains" chairs and the rest bentwood?  Example of the bentwood below: