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Absolutely....we've worked extremely hard to make our house reflect ourselves and our personal styles. I think it's decorated quite stylishly, when it's actually clean. Most of the time I leave beer bottles and pizza boxes strewn amongst the beauty.
Lived in our new home for 4 years. Besides the plasmas we have only hung 1 thing on the walls. Doesn't bother me at all.
Our house (and living room) reflect OUR style...not a magazine writer's opinion of "style". Our furniture is kid-proof and cat proof, and doesn't match (black futon, orange-ish couch, blue padded Adirondack chair, gold upholstered swivel rocker. There's also a trestle table that usually has a jigsaw puzzle in some stage of growth and an old wood lab bench purchased from ISU surplus that serves as a surface for board games. The carpet is beige funk, decorated with all the cat toys that little Molly drags all over the house and squirrels away under the couch to hide them from the bigger cats. There are two pose-able California Raisins hanging from one of the chandeliers, and an ISU sock monkey hanging from the other one. Orangutan stuffed toys swing in jute plant holders that no longer hold the plants I killed. There is a pair of shelves dedicated to sheep, one dedicated to angels, another holds strange things we picked up in our travels. There is a small stuffed Scooby-doo chair that the cats fight over. There is a humongous flatscreen on a wall swivel next to the fireplace, and large windows on both sides of the room that look out on our woods.
It will never win any design awards...but it definitely does give insight into the type of people we are, and the lifestyle we enjoy.
It will never win any design awards...but it definitely does give insight into the type of people we are, and the lifestyle we enjoy.
And if your friends lived in shacks would your wife be happy? Classic example of keeping up with the joneses.
Reminds me of a story that I saw that people get depressed because their facebook friends are always on vacation and you get to see all of their beach pics of them having a great time.
Reminds me of a story that I saw that people get depressed because their facebook friends are always on vacation and you get to see all of their beach pics of them having a great time.
We like people. Fortunately, the people we like don't sniff at our eclectic style...or lack thereof!
Yeah, I was being a bit flip there. Let's just say we don't hang out with judgmental people, so we don't do much with other people's opinions in mind.
My house is comfortable. When people come over, I tell them to make themselves at home and I want an environment that reflects my attitude.
I refuse to buy a piece of furniture that sacrifices comfort for style. We have some paintings done by my bil and some pictures taken by a good friend of ours.
In the end, our house is nice, but I'm a practical soul. We have what we need, but my extra money goes to my daughter's college fund and our retirement.
I refuse to buy a piece of furniture that sacrifices comfort for style. We have some paintings done by my bil and some pictures taken by a good friend of ours.
In the end, our house is nice, but I'm a practical soul. We have what we need, but my extra money goes to my daughter's college fund and our retirement.
Mostly...no. When we need something, we try and match what we have, and one example where we wanted something for on top of the kitchen cabinets because the ceiling was high enough that it looked weird with nothing up there. I had seen something done on a website with decorative baskets that looked neat, so we got some...but the secret was that while it looked stylish...we store **** in them that we don't use very often, like a waffle iron that we use once every 6 months and a kool-aid man pitcher from when I was a kid that I can't part with....and we never have kool aid.
Overall, though...it's functional, but not styled.
Overall, though...it's functional, but not styled.
Nope it certainly is not. It's functional and I've done quite a bit to get it there when we moved in. Let's just say that my wife's project of painting the kitchen cabinets is still in the basement. Doesn't bother me. We could use some better furniture and organizational things but we've got better uses for the money right now.
"Well styled" is all in the eye of the beholder.
I work for a company that specializes in flooring and interiors and I can tell you that 90% of people's homes wouldn't be considered "well styled" by any current trend metric. It doesn't really matter as long as you're happy with it. If you need to decorate your home to keep up with what everyone else is doing, then you've likely got bigger issues than outdated wallpaper.
I work for a company that specializes in flooring and interiors and I can tell you that 90% of people's homes wouldn't be considered "well styled" by any current trend metric. It doesn't really matter as long as you're happy with it. If you need to decorate your home to keep up with what everyone else is doing, then you've likely got bigger issues than outdated wallpaper.
My house has books scattered everywhere. Beer bottles on the counter top, half chewed bones and rawhides everywhere, a spitter here and there, text books half opened, hats on every door handle, and livestock paintings on the walls. But I rent, so IDGAF.
