RusticLounge

Stylish Indian bags - sold at 5000% profit

2007-05-23T14:34:00.001-07:00

In India this bag sells for US$0.5

In IKEA this bag would sell for US$15. Maybe as a laundry bag. In any other interior design store it would sell for more.

Turned into drapes, or a lampshade, or sofa covers, it would sell for $50 - $100.

So for $500 You can buy 1000 pieces of these bags. If You can sell them $10/each, it makes You $10'000.

Alright, leave an extra $500 for the local helper in India.

Why I wrote this all? Because I met these very cool guys in India, and I want them to find a job. That's it.

Please take action and contact Ravi and Ajay at:
r_loving24@yahoo.co.in or
sashodhiya_ajay@yahoo.co.in

I've noticed the internet access in India is a little shaky at times, so if these e-mails won't work, You can contact me at: heikki@netikuller.ee

Eyecatching and Different

2007-05-23T14:26:00.001-07:00

Unique, original, amazing, historic... whatever the words, India is avery cool place. With it's own peculiar ways of doing business, and whatever You would do there, I'd strongly advise doing it together with a local.

Rustic Curtains

2007-05-23T14:22:00.001-07:00

You go to Thailand for the shiny-shiny silk.

Which is way too overrated in my opinion. Silk is just so yesterday. While rustic is making a comeback especially in urban settings.

So why not give these ricebags a new life as drapes in some luxurious apartment - just coarse enough to let in the subdued light, but hiding everything inside fro curious eyes outside.

Incredible India - supermarkets everywhere

2007-05-23T14:11:00.000-07:00

Er... um... Yes, of course there are supermarkets everywhere. Or rather, it is one huge supermarket.
It has no aisles, or neat shelves. No barcode scanners or credit card machines.

The streets make up this huge supermarket, maybe the biggest in the world, with more people busying by than You could have in any store in Manhattan.

Did i mention - much cheaper than Manhattan?

A close up

2007-05-23T14:08:00.000-07:00

So this is it. You can almost reach out and touch it. Yes it is coarse. And who cares anyway? This won't be used for Your underwear anyway. Some things are meant to stay coarse and have all the style with it. Very rustic!

Couch Potato - Sofas in Style

2007-05-23T14:02:00.001-07:00

So what would You think of covering the sofa pillows with these absolutely coarse bag fabric. All with all those colorful writings. I'd buy it. Ah, yes, they would NOT be fine in the minimalist Scandinavian interior design. But how about an intimate posh cafe?

Or how about just forgetting about those conventional sofas and giving a regular bench a new twist, with padding and all? Should be an extremely cheap way to redecorate.

Big Bags, Small Bags ... is this the life?

2007-05-23T13:50:00.001-07:00

Really, what did strike me about India was that it was ... a lot like the Soviet Union (yes, this is where I gre up). Of course it's different culture, different people, different politics, and yet...

Guess it was the feeling of a very closed society, with no outside influence. And no outside motivators for a change either. Which might be good. Maybe. I'm no judge.

Of course this applies to the local crafts and designs. Guess if You'd consider exporting stuff from India, You can either export authentic indian designs, or even better - give them a few ideas how to turn the local crafts into indian-western fusions, which would probably sell much better outside the cultural boundaries.

Sell it at 50 times profit! Shady business?

2007-05-23T13:42:00.000-07:00

Well, I have been really lazy updating this and getting all my thoughts written down.
Until a friend was on the phone from India - kind of reminder why I made this page anyway - to get some people turn around in their sleep and earn some money for themselves selling these cheap items for huge profit, while helping the guy in India earn a huge lot of money (well, in India anyway).

So, I was thinking of turning these cheap bags into lampsahdes. What do You think they should sell for? Oh, well, the bags did cost about $0.5 a piece; A ten times more... nah... probably around 50 times more at least.

This is poison for You!

2007-03-02T10:33:00.000-08:00

Latest Discover Magazine has an article about butter. Oh yeah, the same old butter, which You have on popcorn. Which of course is no butter, but rather a chemical called diacetyl (very yellow and in concentrated form smells just horrible). When shipped from a factory it also contains a warning: "Harmful if swallowed" which is just ironic for a food ingredient.

But, then again, these classic seeds have been treated with poison as well. Better think twice before having that sesame bun (which might contain some butter taste as well).

Here's a piece of advice - having this poison treated thing as a sofa cover won't be bad for Your health as we have got rid of all the poison (by washing the bag with some probably rather unedible stuff by Procter & Gamble)

Funnytongue... bwaahh!

2007-03-02T10:14:00.000-08:00

Have You noticed those funny engrish-language site? Check this out: Engrish.com

So what do You think they meant with that - "Not feel well. Get drunk"?

Oh well, it is Friday night. So I might just as well take their advice. I love engrish.

So in India there's lot of their own kind of engrish. I do assure, this lousy bag once contained some seeds. I just can imagine how the guy who painted this was struggling with the latin alphabet squiggles.

This is a bag! Or is it an incredible design idea?

2007-02-22T04:55:00.000-08:00

An ordinary bag. Rather ugly, maybe?

No, it's an incredible item as an interior design element. I will be posting more ideas and uses from modern looking lounges to rustic homes; accessories for notebook-carrying business minded to fashionable, yet rustic and loveable looks.

You can sit on it or have it with You, have it cover Your walls or sofas. How about a tabletop or a lampshade? It can live a second life as a handbag or a notebook tote.

How extraordinary it would be to mix the modern design with rustic elements which bring warmth to the modern days of cold.