Decorating style/your home
 

EDIT: Warning! Long boring post ahead, mostly about paint color & furniture. Don't bother to read any further if you don't care.

Man am I bored. :rolleyes: Soooo......what would you say your decorating style is in your home?

I guess I would label my house as modern traditional. :shrug: Maybe a smidge of country here & there. Not contemporary at all. I have a Cape Cod style house built in 1948, it's about 1100 square feet. The bottom half of the house is dark red brick, and the top dormer area has sage green vinyl siding. I have a covered concrete patio off the back of the house, and a detached 2 car garage.

My living room/dining room combo is painted off-white with two walls glazed taupe. Carpet is beige (never again...) and furniture is dark blue. I have hard wood floors throughout the house, but I like the carpet in living areas.

Downstairs (teeny tiny) bath has a very similar color scheme, peel & stick tile on the floor and the original ceramic tiling on the walls. Thank God it's white with barely noticable small brown flecks in it - I've seen some really horrid tile colors. My brother-in-law's in gray & pink. Blech. Oak vanity, off-white marble sink; getting a bit dated.

Home office (actually a bedroom) is sage green & hunter green, seperated by chair rail molding. Built-in oak bookcase built by hubby in this room. Hardwood floor.

Guest bedroom is pale yellow, decorated in a classic 1950's style. I put my grandmother's old bedroom set in there, and one of her crystal block lamps (which I notice are back in again.) Hardwood floor.

Upstairs bath has pale blueish green walls & light gray ceramic tile floors. I love the color (Babbling Brook), but it's a bitch finding accessories & towels & stuff - blue doesn't match, neither does green. Dark gray is best, but last time I was at Penney's & Target, they didn't have any. F*ckers. White toilet & pedestal sink, extra wide shower with swinging glass door.

Master bedroom is a deep cinnamon color, with a dark taupe on the ceiling. Bedroom set is medium color wood, made to look old & distressed even though it's not. Queen bed, 1 tall chest & 1 mirrored dresser. Berber carpet.

Basement is partially finished, so half is laundry/utility room, the other half is our bar/family room. We're going to re-do it this spring, since it was last done in the 60's, I would guess. The tile floor is white & I think it's supposed to look like stones. :rolleyes: The walls are classy wood-look paneling, and there's (I swear) a mural on one wall, which is turquiose & pink & cartoonish & depicts some sort of water scene. We spend so much time down there (gas fieplace & big screen TV) that I want to make it more modern & homey.

God, I am so bored. :rolleyes:

A) You couldn't possibly be as bored as I am, waiting for dial up, with my mom's "story" playing in the background. (All My Children). I was watching this cool show about Steve Jobs and the evolution of the ipod. But no.

B) Is "dark cinnamon" dark reddish brown? Is that oppressively dark for a room, or does it somehow work? Dark taupe...I really can't picture that color. Anyway, I'd love to have a room dark reddish brown, but I'm afraid it will close me in and depress me.

C) My decoration could best be described thusly: :shocked: :confused: :laugh: :eek: :confused: :shrug: :distress: :rolleyes: .

I like to randomly paint things, because every surface in my apartment was white. Sometimes, I don't quite finish painting. :wavey: To be fair, I was unemployed and bored off my ass during most of the painting. I'll clean it up a bit sometime...

Our abode is a combination of Mission-style and post-modern sex pit.

That's hot. :nod:

Amber:

A) Her stories. :laugh:

B) It's not that dark, I'm not describing it properly. It's not bright orange either. It's more of an earthy brownish reddish orangish color. :shrug: It's Dora The Explorer Bilingual Brown (Nickelodeon paint I got at Lowe's.) :D

C) You have an eclectic style - I'd call your place hip single gal flat with an international flair. :nod:

Wow, you are bored. :) I should be working, but I'd rather do this, so here goes:

Mine's very eclectic - I get that from my mom and the house we grew up in - every room had a different theme.

My house was built in 1980 and much of it shows how dated it is. The exterior is the color of (take your pick): a Taco Bell building, The Simpsons' house, circus peanuts (that horrible marshmallow thing) w/ terra cotta trim. When I do get it repainted, I want either off-white or a light gray w/ cobalt blue trim. I had the roof re-done a couple years ago - w/ white shingles. I also got new garage doors, also white.

I re-did all the flooring when I bought it. Cobalt blue, marbled ceramic tile in the foyer; black and white checkerboard ceramic tile in the kitchen (a la OSOTM album cover but not because of that, more about that later); and light gray carpet everywhere else. I splurged on the carpet padding, at the advice of my real estate agent.

In my living room, I have a gray, overstuffed, contemporary sofa, loveseat and chair set. I have a celestial area rug under the coffee table and celestial things adorning the room (like candle votives, wall hangings, a clock, and stuff). I have the 2 Bob Masse posters matted and framed, as well as the big TISL poster that hangs over the TV. Two of the walls are painted purple. There's a limestone floor to ceiling wood-burning fireplace as well. And my treadmill, up against the sliding door. It does get used. :p

My kitchen is slowly being transformed into a 50's diner. I started w/ the floor. I bought an oak light fixture on Ebay and spray-painted it silver for that stainless steel look. My coffeemaker is red and I'll be replacing my other countertop applicances w/ red ones whenever they break. Or maybe I won't even wait that long. :laugh: I've replaced all the cabinet and drawer pulls w/ white and silver circles and I want to put a stainless steel backsplash on the wall w/ the stove. I just recently purchased a real 50's dining table, w/ the "marble" top and chrome trim. The chairs are new, but look old. They are red, sparkly vinyl. I friggin' love them! It took me forever to find what I wanted, for the right price (thanks, Craigslist!), and that's why the floor was done when I first moved in. I should have extended the tile into the dining nook originally, instead of putting carpet there. So, that's the next project. Good thing I still have some tile left, in the original boxes w/ the serial #, etc. so I can get the same ones, hopefully. I'm also going to paint the dining nook red. The light switch plate cover there is the Dance album cover (most of my light switch plate covers are Mac or Stevie related). I just got an OSOTM one made to replace it. Before the table, my Rhodes keyboard was there, now it's in my bedroom cuz that's the only place I could put it. My bedroom is huge, so luckily there was room for it.

My bedroom is being transformed w/ a Moroccan/genie bottle theme. I've got lots of mosaic candle votives in there and my bedding and pillows are gorgeous! 2 large walk-in closets, my keyboard and my sink/vanity. The master bath is next to get done w/ that same theme. It's currently celestial w/ cobalt blue rugs and the original, icky 80's stick-on beige tile floor.

The guest room isn't much, sort of a tropical thing in there, I guess. Bed-in-a-bag bedding in pastel colors, just a purple sheer thing over the window and a fake palm from Michael's. :) The bed is comfy, ask Bruce!

My office is the room ebay threw up in. Most of my FM and Stevie **** is in there. Computer and Total Gym are in there too. The Total Gym will get used more in 2007, I swear it! :) The walls are light pink, leftover from the girl who used to live in it.

The guest bath is celestial, but with Mardi Gras colors and beads thrown about. I'm going to re-paint it lavender to go w/ the floor better (stick-on tile, but it's pretty); and to cover up my hair dye accidents on the walls.

Okay, now I have to get to work. :)

I hate soap operas. Plus, it is leaching my valuable cable time. The other night i had to go to bed and read because my dad wouldn't stop flipping channels, and i was getting pissed off. There was stuff i wanted to watch, but apparently he only flips channels constantly. oops, going to store, write more later. I finally get to go somewhere....:rolleyes: stupid parents.

Livia - I LOVE retro kitchens, that is so cool!

I forgot to mention that my downstairs bath has a celestial theme. And my kitchen? Well, I was trying for a Mexican look.

The cupboards are OK, not great but not terrible. Kept them cuz I couldn't afford to replace them. Darkish wood. Painted the counters to look like granite (beige & brown tones.) Put in a taupe cast iron sink. Ripped out the WHITE EZ BRICK backsplash (insert barfing smiley here) and put up Talavera tiles I get straight from Mexico. I love my tiles, I'm very proud of them. The walls were yellow paneling, which I painted a pale cream color. The soffit above my counter was painted a dark reddish brown. The crappy linoleum was replaced with a tile-look laminate.


Hey, btw - do you guys hire people to do you remodeling/decorating/repairs? We do pretty much all of it ourselves. I enjoy it. Plus, remember - I'm cheap. :D

Simple and quaint is the theme of our house, though there's plenty of electronics in the living room and in the master bedroom. The living room is bone white with wood accents (Except where the wall-furnace system was located, it will be painted over some time this spring, As will the master bedroom...Health forbiding that is)

The dining room is paneled in dark wood and the kitchen is sky blue w/Sunflower accents.

The bathroom is painted colbalt blue, and when we get the time the floor will have nearly the same color linoleum tiles (Just replaced the floor and finished replacing the sewer lines, so the bathroom is now in great shape. Replaced the faucet in the sink after the infamous '3 foot geyser in the bathroom' incident.)

The second bedroom is a pig-sty, mainly because almost all of my Mom's belongings are in there. That room will soon be cleaned and organized (Will be boxing up the material scraps so Deb can make blankets/quilts) and the 2 of 3 sewing machines will be moved (Including Mom's ol' cast iron 1900 treadmill powered/electric Singer sewing machine, which is now priceless)

We wont do much more work on this house (We've been here since Oct.12,1992), because we havent decided yet if we'll tay here or move in the future (We're leaning towards getting out of this town and closer to a bigger city/town.)

Anyways...
I know what color you are talking about now. It's been popular recently, so I've seen on T.V. that it usually looks really good. :nod:

Wow, your kind words about my apartment may have inspired me to finish painting...maybe....:laugh:

Livia - your house sounds awesome inside! I especially love the moroccan/genie bottle thing, I would have that. I don't love the 50's diner thing in theory, but it sounds really cool to have it in your house, if that makes sense.
I really want to put pretty, non white tiles in my bathroom and "kitchen", but I'm kind of scared. It has ugly "white" linoleum right now. But it's only an apartment, I don't own it. Still, I like my house to look cute and pretty with lots of colors.

mine is very victorian/shabby chic/hippie loveliness!!!~

I don't know my style... haha! I like color. Here's a few pics. Maybe you can tell me what my style is.

This is Sara's room. Bed could be made better, but I'll give her credit for the bed being made at all.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...7/DSCN2360.jpg

This is the view of the living room from the kitchen. I need curtins badly, but can't decide on what I want.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...7/DSCN2359.jpg

This is the "formal" living room (if that's what you want to call it).
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...7/DSCN2358.jpg

This is my bedroom. Note that I hate the wall color, and plan to change it to a sage green soon.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...7/DSCN0897.jpg

Paula - I had someone come to my house once and do some "use what you have" decorating. They rearrange things and look in the basement and bring up old treasures. I love how they did it. I had them come back another time to do some more. It was like $200 for 2.5 hours of their time. They move furniture, take you to stores ... give you a paint plan for rooms .... it was fun!

It's true -- I love that bed....:wavey:

rbs

You need to post pics of your music room!

Who's music room?