Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Frontin with Frontgate


All the mail order deliveries are wearing out the welcome mat on my front doorstep. So I've been shopping for a new one - something with a monogram seems elegant so I turned to Frontgate, the best place for classy home trinkets. But leafing through the catalog, I became obsessed with the front doors shown. They are huge - absolutely oversized, ginormous entries. Makes my front door look like the entrance to a mouse hole.

I'm thinking they photographed this catalog at the Waldorf Astoria or maybe the Vatican. I'm also thinking that unless the mats come in postage stamp sizes, they'll all be way too grand for my brick stoop.

To top it off, the Villa Mat comes with a free companion mat when you buy the larger size (35x70). Sweet. If you buy the smaller size, you get what you paid for plus a free helping of front door envy. Bitter. So very bitter.

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