Just over a year ago, after my quest to buy readymades proved fruitless, I made some cushions for our living room. I used fabric from Ikea – it wasn’t terribly cheap but was a pleasant weight and the stripes nicely embossed rather than printed. It turns out I wasn’t the only one to think it’d make good cushions.

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(Lily thinks they’re good cushions, but I don’t mean her.)

You see, I was casually watching Fresh Meat about six months ago when I saw this – the cushions (or some of them) in the Fresh Meat house are the same as ours.

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Coinky-dink, I thought.*

Then last week, I was watching an episode of Girls, first broadcast earlier this year.

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It’s not quite so clear in this screenshot but same cushion.

Then last night, an episode of Louie from 2011:

louie-cushion

Same frickin’ cushion.

I know my fabric is from the global megabeast Ikea (and suspect now that they sold ready made cushions using it at one time) but seriously.

Please, set designers, have a bit of cushion originality so I don’t feel like such a generic cog in the mass consumption machine. Thanks.

CushionWatch 2014 continues…

* The stranger thing is that in the next scene, in a professor’s office, there was a vintage mirror on the wall – the same model 1970s vintage mirror that we have in our hallway, after buying it from eBay a few years ago. That mirror must have been from the Ikea of the 1970s.