I am a decorator's nightmare

[Foxfyre]

Okay, I have long accepted that I don't have a whole lot of fashion sense about what looks good on me, and I suspect my decorator talents aren't a whole lot better. My philosophy on decorating:

1. It is supposed to be functional but is difficult to use, out it goes.
2. I like comfortable surroundings and comfortable colors
3. Pretty things are great if they don't need much dusting
4. Who cares if it matches if it is useful?

As a result, I figure any decorator would start by throwing everything out of my house.

BUT....what about this place? Pleasing to the eye? Functional? Horrendous? What do you think. (Hint: It's for sale):

 

[Dis]

Okay, I have long accepted that I don't have a whole lot of fashion sense about what looks good on me, and I suspect my decorator talents aren't a whole lot better. My philosophy on decorating:

1. It is supposed to be functional but is difficult to use, out it goes.
2. I like comfortable surroundings and comfortable colors
3. Pretty things are great if they don't need much dusting
4. Who cares if it matches if it is useful?

As a result, I figure any decorator would start by throwing everything out of my house.

BUT....what about this place? Pleasing to the eye? Functional? Horrendous? What do you think. (Hint: It's for sale):

Like #1, HATE #2, LOVE #3. I have no idea what that makes me.

 

[Ringel05]

Great if you're into French provincial.

(I'm not. It's God awful ugly.)

This is kinda cool though.

 

[Dis]

Oh. You added more.. Or they just didn't show up for me. I hate the blue bedroom thingy. Everything else I like, and the bathroom I LOVE. I could soak for weeks in that tub.

 

[Foxfyre]

Oh. You added more.. Or they just didn't show up for me. I hate the blue bedroom thingy. Everything else I like, and the bathroom I LOVE. I could soak for weeks in that tub.

That's kind of where I am too Dis. The living room isn't me at all. I don't really mind the blue room as a guest room, but wouldn't want it as the one I use daily. The rest I thought really pretty and incredible views from every room.

But like our friend here who doesn't like French provincial--is that what that stuff is?--this has gotten a lot of really negative reviews. So I'm wondering what's wrong with my tastes?

 

[Dis]

Oh. You added more.. Or they just didn't show up for me. I hate the blue bedroom thingy. Everything else I like, and the bathroom I LOVE. I could soak for weeks in that tub.

That's kind of where I am too Dis. The living room isn't me at all. I don't really mind the blue room as a guest room, but wouldn't want it as the one I use daily. The rest I thought really pretty and incredible views from every room.

But like our friend here who doesn't like French provincial--is that what that stuff is?--this has gotten a lot of really negative reviews. So I'm wondering what's wrong with my tastes?

It's not an acquired taste.. You either like it, or you don't - end of story. For most people, it's too busy, or they feel uncomfortable in it. Me, I'm all about beautiful things.

 

[Terry]

all the rooms but the bathroom gives me a claustrophobic feel too it...and yes the french/modern they were going for didn't work for me.

They need to change the TV out to a flat panel, and bring in some more organics in the bathroom.

 

[boedicca]

Hate them all - the Marie Antoinette wanna be look does nothing for me.

I like the features and layout of the bathroom, but not the decor or the woodwork.

 

[Dis]

When I have to leave town, and spend any time in a hotel, that's the type I'm looking for. Normal hotel rooms give me the heebiie-jeebies...

 

[boedicca]

I like the contemporary look - ala W Hotel.

 

[Terry]

If I walked into that living room, I would probably crash into that Mirror trying to take a seat on the "RIGHT" side of the room. LMAO

 

[Ringel05]

More my style

 

[Terry]

More my style

Too dark, ceiling way to low for me. Other then that it is ok.

 

[Dis]

More my style

Your seating leaves an awful lot to be desired. I kinda like the far wall in the first pic, tho.

 

[Dis]

I'm 5'3" WITH shoes. No ceiling is too low for me.

 

[boedicca]

More my style

Frank Lloyd Wright. Love it.

My dream house is Falling Water.

 

[Foxfyre]

When I have to leave town, and spend any time in a hotel, that's the type I'm looking for. Normal hotel rooms give me the heebiie-jeebies...

Gee Dis, me too. I'm beginning to think we were separated at birth.

I want gaudy and embellished and something 'special' in my hotel room--something that I would never decorate with at home.

And while I like looking at the decorator's masterpiece here, it just doesn't look that comfortable to me. I prefer more casual--something you can just crash and sink into without worrying about mussing something up.

I could live with that bathroom as is though. I like the idea of soaking in a bubble bath while watching my favorite television program.

 

[Ringel05]

More my style

Frank Lloyd Wright. Love it.

My dream house is Falling Water.

First one is living/dining room Falling Water, 2nd is a Greene and Greene interior and 3rd is a neo-classic Japanese interior.

 

[Foxfyre]

The other stuff you guys are posting is pleasing to the eye too. But I can't see myself living in it. Maybe you have to be there?

 

[boedicca]

I want to live in Falling Water when I grow up.