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Re: What's your interior decorating style?
« Reply #50 on: August 01, 2016, 07:27:00 PM »
Minimalist, cold colours, almost monochrome.

Friends have variously described the look as "classic" or "old money", which is funny considering our furniture is mostly hand me downs with some Ikea thrown in. Basically: very little furniture for the space (easy in big rooms), no clutter, dark-stained wood furniture and plush, pale-coloured couches (couches are not my choice, I would like to get black leather next time).

We have jarrah floor boards which give every room a warm feel, and high ceilings, so I prefer cool tones for my furniture and paint - luckily the previous owners of the house had similar taste and painted the walls a pale greyish colour. I'm tempted to add some navy blue and maroon as and when we need new textiles e.g. couch cushions and rug. A big, Persian-look rug in a non-offensive main colour with navy blue or maroon highlights would work so well in the living room.

Annoyingly we have wood trim in the living - dining - kitchen space and white painted trim throughout the rest of the house - when we eventually repaint I want to paint the trim white throughout the house. Other than our jarrah floorboards I only like dark-stained wood, no other stain of wood is acceptable to my picky taste.

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Re: What's your interior decorating style?
« Reply #51 on: August 01, 2016, 08:58:33 PM »
We started off modern and are now slowly transforming our space to a minimalist victorian farmhouse.

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Re: What's your interior decorating style?
« Reply #52 on: August 01, 2016, 09:05:17 PM »
We live in a stilt house on the bayou.  It's a fishing camp.  Anything goes.

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Re: What's your interior decorating style?
« Reply #53 on: August 01, 2016, 09:38:30 PM »
Extremely easy to pack, and move on down the road. Plus some expensive art pieces that require crates to be built.

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Re: What's your interior decorating style?
« Reply #54 on: August 02, 2016, 02:20:15 AM »
Also, ironically given her last post, I love the photos that Brandi at The Prudent Homemaker posts of her house. Dark and light, clean, nice forms, silver and linen touches. I find them very soothing to the eye.

I also have Bertie Wooster/Poirot/1930s aristocratic bachelor influences.
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Re: What's your interior decorating style?
« Reply #55 on: August 02, 2016, 03:55:32 AM »
Stuff that I like + cat fur.

Oh yes. This. Our place has a lot of wooden furniture, neutral palette with some bright colours (cushions, rugs and paintings), accessorised with white cat fur.

Kitchen and bathroom are "retro", aka unrenovated from the late 60s/early 70s.

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Re: What's your interior decorating style?
« Reply #56 on: August 02, 2016, 07:47:58 AM »
Midcentury clusterfuck?

Am I the only one who needs to see an example of this? I think I'm gonna like it.

I only have one picture handy (at work) but you get the idea.

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Re: What's your interior decorating style?
« Reply #57 on: August 02, 2016, 07:50:48 AM »
Some years ago my buddy and I were invited to a Southern lady's home.  Her ambition far exceeded her taste.  The first words out of my friend's mouth: "Early American Cracker Barrel".

Nailed it.

I've never been able to capture that look in words, but your friend did, indeed, nail it.

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Re: What's your interior decorating style?
« Reply #58 on: August 02, 2016, 08:00:19 AM »
Midcentury clusterfuck?

Am I the only one who needs to see an example of this? I think I'm gonna like it.

I only have one picture handy (at work) but you get the idea.

That room s fascinating!

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Re: What's your interior decorating style?
« Reply #59 on: August 02, 2016, 08:05:33 AM »
Midcentury clusterfuck?

Or 50's Crackerbox/2000's Hipster Junkshop Fusion?
Another one here!!!
My house, the hipster paradise :-)


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Re: What's your interior decorating style?
« Reply #60 on: August 02, 2016, 08:09:20 AM »
Traditional with bright colors.. DH made the built-in cabinetry, the fireplace mantel, the crown molding. He also made all window surrounds including panels under the windows and all woodwork in oUr house. Ours is a gut rehab Victorian.

The window treatments are new for me, our windows were bare for 25 years. These are vintage saris, just draped over rods.
I like this, you have a good sense of colour.

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Re: What's your interior decorating style?
« Reply #61 on: August 02, 2016, 08:14:54 AM »
I'm loving the pictures.:)

My house is all magnolia walls, bare floors and minimalist. I would like it to be more minimalist, but my hub has (what I consider to be) a lot of stuff. I like red, maroon and burgundy so I have a few items in that colour such as the living room curtains and desk lamps.

My house is also covered in dog and cat fur, well, apart from the time just after vacuuming.


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Re: What's your interior decorating style?
« Reply #62 on: August 02, 2016, 11:33:51 AM »
Mid-century + Scandinavian + Bohemian. I don't know if those really go together, but whatever. We love the mid-century lines, plus the wood tones and cool grays/blacks of Scandinavian. But then I also love pattern and texture and the funkiness that the bohemian style has. We also both apparently like blue a lot, since without trying a lot of our décor is blue. I'm trying to ease up on the blue now so it's not an overload. Haha.

We try to be sort of minimalist, although I'm not a fan of super sparse homes.

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Re: What's your interior decorating style?
« Reply #63 on: August 02, 2016, 11:42:49 AM »
Dressed-up IKEA and hand-me-down menagerie. Generally go for dark wood stains / paint / textiles with pops of bright color (and love the colorful artwork I have).

But there's also plenty of hand-me-down furnishings as well (kitchen table, dresser, bookshelf) which fortunately was all very well cared for or restored before it became mine (my mom is a pro at refinishing wood furniture.

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Re: What's your interior decorating style?
« Reply #64 on: August 02, 2016, 02:05:50 PM »
Let It Be

Inspired by John Lennon and those four other guys (1970)
That adds up to 5.  Who is the 5th?

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Re: What's your interior decorating style?
« Reply #65 on: August 02, 2016, 02:06:48 PM »
Dog hair covered couch and oriental rugs, two tours in Japan tansus and art, secondhand real wood midcentury, and did I mention the dog hair?


Nice!
And true  ;-)

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Re: What's your interior decorating style?
« Reply #66 on: August 02, 2016, 07:30:49 PM »
Bare bones Craftsman with 20s antiques and nearly minimalist otherwise. Ten-foot ceilings, nothing on any walls or windows, mountain view out the south wall which is mostly 5.5 foot tall windows, off white walls and chestnut (stained) trim. No throws, geegaws, or decorative items of any sort. The view is the thing. Oh, and plants in the kitchen, but they're all edible or medicinal.


Someday I may do something about the floors, which are bare concrete, but someday is not today. Or next year, even.


All of this accented with copious dog hair.

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Re: What's your interior decorating style?
« Reply #67 on: August 02, 2016, 08:05:30 PM »
Bare bones Craftsman with 20s antiques and nearly minimalist otherwise. Ten-foot ceilings, nothing on any walls or windows, mountain view out the south wall which is mostly 5.5 foot tall windows, off white walls and chestnut (stained) trim. No throws, geegaws, or decorative items of any sort. The view is the thing. Oh, and plants in the kitchen, but they're all edible or medicinal.


Someday I may do something about the floors, which are bare concrete, but someday is not today. Or next year, even.


All of this accented with copious dog hair.
wait, you have cement floors in your craftsman era house?

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Re: What's your interior decorating style?
« Reply #68 on: August 02, 2016, 08:40:01 PM »
Bare bones Craftsman with 20s antiques and nearly minimalist otherwise. Ten-foot ceilings, nothing on any walls or windows, mountain view out the south wall which is mostly 5.5 foot tall windows, off white walls and chestnut (stained) trim. No throws, geegaws, or decorative items of any sort. The view is the thing. Oh, and plants in the kitchen, but they're all edible or medicinal.


Someday I may do something about the floors, which are bare concrete, but someday is not today. Or next year, even.


All of this accented with copious dog hair.
wait, you have cement floors in your craftsman era house?


Oh, no, the house is not from that era - I was answering the question about style - it's Craftsman style in the finishing. The house is circa 2014ish, depending on if you count when we got the certificate of occupancy, when we moved in, or when it's finished (which is some time in the future). It's an earth shelter, and my father and husband built it.

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Re: What's your interior decorating style?
« Reply #69 on: August 02, 2016, 11:11:58 PM »
Shabby Chic. Lots of painted antiques. White and some gray.

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Re: What's your interior decorating style?
« Reply #70 on: August 03, 2016, 09:02:10 AM »
Live in my BF's urban loft (white walls, concrete ceiling). His furniture is minimalist (think IKEA bed with a beige sectional couch) and sparse. I added some varied artwork (Peruvian painting, my travel photography). Image a concrete box with little personality... but on the upside, very few things to clean. No use putting too much into it. Eventually, we'll run away to the woods or on the road anyway.

I call it, "The plain white T-shirt of interior decor".