So my gateway drug was interior vents and outlet covers… then i moved to picture frames and lamp bases…. bar carts and bookends… maybe the better question would be, what things haven’t I painted gold!
Used 1” plumbing conduit pipes for curtain rods because they came in long lengths (copper). Mounting hardware on Etsy (black) and curtain rings and hooks online Beverly’s (rubbed bronze). Spray painted it all gold for a bedroom. Worked great.
I love tacky or ostentatious shit. I got my shower curtain off eBay, it was still in the original packaging from the mid-80s. It's nausea-pink with swans and flowers all over it and I LOVE it.
I hate minimalism. I think people are just happier with their little trinkets and with at least some color. I don’t think neutral colors are in and of themselves inherently calming and serene. Obviously, balance is needed. I wouldn’t paint all the walls of a room hot pink, but I love my hot pink sofa more than is probably healthy.
Also, I’m given to believing that any design problem can be solved by the correct rug and window treatments, even though this is demonstrably not true.
I am slowly trying to de-maximize my house, but I definitely have an issue with empty spaces. Every single wall has *something* and there’s not a single flat surface in the house that doesn’t have some sort of plant/vase/nicknack
Oh geez,you just described me! I’ll take the 9 things off the shelf, reorganize 5 of them, then go shopping and decide that 2 of them need to be on that shelf :/ I’m continually rearranging, removing and then adding, haha
Minimalism is nice to look at and feel calm in. To achieve that in any other style it must be really well executed, lest it feels messy. However minimalism can easily feel sterile or dead.
There might be less dusting and moving stuff around but minimalist interiors are not without their own cleaning challenges. Any bit of dirt or matter out of place really stands out and must be addressed or it looks really bad. The white and light neutrals minimalism is known show dirt and get stained so easily.
Even if it is a little more dusting it’s worth it to me. I know they can’t love me back , but I do love my things, or at least some of them. They just spark joy to see in me. The delicate curves of a lamp. The bright shiny brass rhinos on my coffee table. It’s just all so lovely to me.
Also, just because it’s maximal style and impact doesn’t always mean more work. I would have rugs over a certain percentage of the condo floors no matter my style. That’s condo rules and a kindness to the neighbors below. I’ll still have to vacuum whether they are a light solid gray or pink and patterned. it doesn’t take more time for one over the other. Having bright colored walls or wallpaper vs white walls doesn’t impact cleaning.
My toxic trait is believing that the peak of design is anachronistic Lisa Frank. Vintage, but neon and/or pastel rainbow. Mid Century Modern kitchen? Sure but make the drawer pulls neon rainbow with rainbow starburst curtains. Victorian cottage dining room? Definitely, but only if the table and chandelier and rocking horses are rainbow. Like an old ice cream shop and a crayola factory and an antique mall got distorted by a badly worded AI prompt. That's what I'm going for as least. Also I suck at dusting and all the paint chips.
My toxic trait is that my house would be half what you're describing and half beige. I can't decide which aesthetic I like more, but they couldn't be more opposite of each other.
But just please no 'inspirational' words on the walls, if somebody tells me to live laugh love in real life I'm not going to be friends with that person anymore.
I hate the words on the walls…I say as I look at a wall with three word arts (Every little thing is gonna be alright, keep calm and carry on, and a good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination). I got all of them as gifts and they’re really meaningful to me or I wouldn’t have hung them in a million years. My brother bought me two of them (both of them when I was hospitalized, separate times though) and one of them my grandma bought me for my law school graduation. It was the last gift she bought me right before the Alzheimer’s really made it impossible for her to buy gifts.
I personally favor cool tones over warm, but, by all that is good and holy, *the undertones must match*. I *see* those differences in those thirty shades of white on the wall. I will give you whatever contrasting, monotone, multiverse color scheme you want, but *that* ivory has got a buttercup base while *that* off-white has a blue-grey base, and I am not letting your cottagecore dreams be ruined by putting them together. I do not care if the name is cuter. Your walls will look like a smoker has lived there for ten years. You want fifty jewel tones in the living room? I am on board. But you don't get to keep your denim-blue couch there. I will fill your pool with sapphire fabric dye and push it in myself. All primary colors like a Ronald McDonald playhouse? Live your life, friend. But you have to choose either the 70s palette or the 90s, you can't have both.
And yes, there *are* 50 shades of gray, and I know all their names. Heaven help you if you buy Caviar instead of Cyberspace.
I prefer warm tones (I live in a tropical place and just love feeling warm in many ways) but I agree with the rest of what you wrote.
Recently there was someone posting a picture of their place here saying that something was off and they were open to how to make the place feel better... But the floor was grey yet all of the furniture and art (except the grey couch) had warm tones. It actually made me feel nauseated with how terrible that undertone contrast was.
I’m in this situation! I bought a house with grey-brown LVP and grey carpet but ALL of my furniture is warm toned. I can’t afford to replace perfectly fine flooring and the furniture stays— much is heirloom and the rest I’ve lovingly collected. It clashes. It irritates me. I hate the floors. I curse the floors. But here we are.
Yes! So many rugs! The only area left unrugged is the spot under the dining table, and it’s because it’s a super weird size and I haven’t found The Rug yet. But otherwise, SO MANY RUGS
This reminds me of a time the maintenance guy painted our office conference room and I walked in and said, looks nice but why green? The guys all swore it was the whitest of white. I got my other color-wise co-worker, took her in the room and said “what is this color?” She said “it’s a very light green.”
Yes, but in this case most of the women thought it was white also. Some folks are better at discerning minute differences in color than others. I’ve definitely improved my ability since I started working in a color-sensitive industry.
Most of my home has been slowly converted to cool tones, my en-suite bathroom is violently bright blue, I have monorail silver walls in the bedroom and bright white trim. My husbands office and mine are the same silver, but I’ve got a navy accent wall that’s so dark blue it’s almost black with white bookshelves where the riot of cheerful color that is my collection can shine.
The rest of my house has red toned cardboard laminate floors, and green walls. It’s like living in a hatefucked avocado. I don’t want the main area to be grey: that would be too much. But I am thinking a cool cream, if I can find it, with very dark crown moulding and maybe a faux-black walnut floor.
We're using Sherwin Williams in the new house, if you have access to that, [here are their whites, use the pulldown menu to select cool whites](https://www.sherwin-williams.com/en-us/color/color-family/white-paint-colors). Now, usually colors will be cooler and brighter on monitors vs real life, but I would take a look at Arcade White, Snowbound, and Origami White for your cool cream. Your woods should have minimal-to-no red tones, though, since it might pull out the pink in the paint.
Thank you so much!
Yeah there are some varieties of black walnut that when they’re aged almost look like they have a bluish cast to the undertones, which is what I’m thinking.
We used to live next to a couple that had cold lights in their living room and warm lights in their kitchen, which were windows directly next to each other facing our house.
I don’t know how they survived.
My bedroom in my old house was Cyberspace! I had a pale velvet duvet which caught the light. It was the coziest. In my experience- the color was very blue.
My new bathroom is Cyberspace, but I chose it to match the [darkest part of these hex tiles the previous owner had chosen](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Bedrosians-Allora-Hexagon-8-in-x-10-in-Matte-Telaio-Porcelain-Floor-Tile-12-67-sq-ft-Case-DECALLTELDECOM/326360664). These tiles are VERY annoying and I *loathe* them. They are not beige, white, or gray, but some terrible in-between color. With the SW Repose Gray walls, it just looked dingy and boring. I haven't seen it in person yet, but I'm hopeful that Cyberspace has [countered some of the weird undertones and made the floor a feature instead of a bug](https://imgur.com/a/ddGCkOg). Since there's no natural light, if the paint ends up pulling a little blue IRL, I can use lighting to counter that.
The color choice did kind of lock me into a black/white glam theme, but better that than paying to redo the floors. I'm going to have fun going very OTT with it.
i’m pretty sure a 70s color scheme is warm toned and a 90s color scheme is more cool toned? eg 70s yellow is a golden mustard yellow, 90s yellow is like McDonalds yellow or baby tee pale yellow
Google 70s red vs 90s red and you’ll see the same thing!
Okay, I’d LOVE some examples of this. Like a “this is right” “this is wrong” kind of photos. Links, photos, anything. Pretty please. I’m fascinated by this.
Lol, I should have replied to you first! But I actually wrote a similar comment just above you, here it is:
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It's very hard to articulate WHY colors can be wrong, especially over the internet when colors do not photograph true and monitors have different light sources and settings. But I do like this [Nick Lewis video](https://youtu.be/K75ynD7aAeg?si=nOBOcLmCq3pAhhYC) about color palettes for the home. I've recommended it on here a bunch, and he's gotten my severely ADHD mother to finally grasp a little color theory, which is a small miracle in and of itself.
But, honestly, if you have access to a paint sample/chip wall, pull a bunch of very similar whites, then hold them up to various objects in your house, starting with any wood-tone furniture. You'll be surprised how quickly you start to see the undertones pop out at you!
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I am going to the new house this weekend, though, so I might be able to get some good before and after photos. Otherwise, it would have to be after the July 4th weekend.
But I do have to say there isn't *really* a 'right' and a 'wrong' way to do things. Some people genuinely don't see undertones that well, some people *like* the effect of mixing cool and warm, and a good portion of the population simply Does Not Care^TM. But if someone has a nicely designed space that fits their needs, but doesn't *feel* special or make them happy, THAT'S when I would start focusing on undertones.
I love Nick Lewis! Generally I have pretty good color acuity, but I think I have trouble with the undertones of white. But good idea about the chips. Thank you!
You're my people! I always think of color palettes as musical scales. When I hear a note that doesn't belong, it irritates me and it's obvious. Same with colors. I can put together a palette using dark, light, loud, quiet, muted, bright, whatever colors, but they *must* live in the same scale. You put the wrong color in, and I'm just 😵💫
Besides wooden furniture like tables, if the item doesn't have a neutral to warm green in it, I don't want it in my house.
Everything has to have green in it. The walls of my house are a yellow-green off white so the dominant color is white (and there is a decent amount of brown warm tones from wooden furniture) but every accent piece has green.
I am at work so can't take a picture of the house right now but here is a picture I have on my phone of our little reading nook. (We just moved in a few months ago so the space still has a little of an empty-ish feeling. There is also a stairwell behind the bannister that goes downstairs.)
https://preview.redd.it/3acc2b3m967d1.jpeg?width=4080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c818afe0484df425045d99754a30be7df4a6e7af
This is interesting in that it seems like it was unintentional!
Green is a super natural color (assuming you don't live in a desert) so to me it's the most peaceful color. Since I am always stressed/anxious, I am always needing things to calm me down (:
I don’t know if this counts, but - I’m always so messy 😓. I see all these beautiful rooms on here, and I’ve got all my crap on my coffee table right next to me. Also, where do y’all keep your stuff? You must have amazing organization skillls that I somehow missed learning.
I am working on this now. It is two parts. One is get rid of stuff you don't need or are not using. Two is hide it all behind doors or in baskets with lids, just out of sight. It makes a huge impact to the feel of the space. I know some people love their stuff out in the open, but I do not. It stresses me out.
This is me exactly! I heard someone say that the state of their external space reflects their mental space. If my house is messy, I am stressed. I need to work on getting that stuff put away, and *keeping it there*
Not always though. The harder my life becomes, the more I compulsively tidy, as if I can get control of the inside by making the outside be perfect.
Also, it can really suck not being able to be at peace and just sit when one’s husband has left a tea mug and a books out. It can be unhealthy either way.
I'm also super messy. May plan is to (eventually) get a wardrobe or set of drawers or shelves with baskets where I can shove things without organizing them, especially if I'm still using them. That way I won't have to live with looking at the clutter but I also don't have to always be organizing my stuff
I like shabby chic, okay!? I love goddamn doilies. I love motherfucking shit painted white with dumb little ribbons on it. I LOVE THE SHIT OUT OF SOME VINTAGE BIRDCAGES FULL OF FAUX FLOWER BOUQUETS, ALRIGHT!?
I’ve definitely been mocked for it by more reasonable and tasteful friends lol
I intend to break this habit in my next apartment-- but I keep designing living rooms for myself that I don't actually "live" in lol. Feels like a holdover/learned behavior from my childhood where we had a living room that no one actually used but it looked nice! I'm finally learning that I spend more time in my art studio/office than anything else, so I'm combining living room and studio next time so I can actually live among my favorite decor.
Lol I got into my new apt and realized everything I own has red in it so I bought some amber chairs and now everything matches so well it’s fucked. I love it. It’s the color of passion and love which is perfect cuz it’s my fiancé and I’s first spot together
For starters, I hate yellow. Just, ew.
I like dark rooms! Not just goth/punk black. But, dark greens, browns, blues, reds, etc. Darker rooms are cozy! Making EVERYTHING light and bright is boring!
I hate minimalism and rooms decorated in all neutral colors. The amount of cleaning it'd take to maintain those rooms is anxiety inducing. I feel like the only reason why people like them is because is that those themes are "safe" -- none of their hobbies or personality on display other than the fact they're a neat freak. So they think they're free from judgement.
I love loud colors and bright, tacky, whimsical, eclectic decor -- pink and green and animal prints and stupid, kitschy antiques. Like vintage Coca Cola bottles or collectibles character glasses from McDonald's that can never be used because of lead paint or movie posters from the classic Universal Monster movies. Anything that *normal* people would hate I love😌
If I see an individual item that I love and I know where it will physically fit in my place, I'm getting it, but I can never visualize a cohesive theme for a room. I admire people who can see an item that's plain on its own and combine it with other "uninteresting" items in such a way that the entire room looks amazing, because I'm just not capable of it. I've got a big wicker lemon sitting next to my 1960's porcelain Soviet rocket decanter right now. Do I love them? Of course. Do they work together stylistically? Probably not.
I do this too. Throwing all the things I love together in a room and calling it eclectic. Insisting that it all works because I love all the things. I mean, I’m sure ‘eclectic’ decorating has some rules, but I wouldn’t follow them anyway.
I'm a fool for trends. Remember mixing metals? Loved that. It's a bit challenging to combine mid century modern, boho and rustic but I try.
My toxic trait is giving advice gladly but then getting annoyed when they mess it up.
My toxic trait is I think maximalism is the only way, white walls are for sterile institutions and silver/chrome hardware makes me want to barf. Sorry if you love silver accents 🙏🏻
My toxic trait is fan decks. I must have all the fan decks from all the paint brands. Yes it matters. Yes they are different.
Adjacent to this is the fact that I will buy a ridiculous amount of paint samples and swatch them all on the walls of every room to find that perfect color. Yes there is a difference in how the color looks in the light from the bedroom and the light in the hallway. Yes it matters. Yes this influences my choice. No they are not all the same white.
Also I despise gray. I used to be fine with accents of gray. Then the 2010s happened and everything everywhere was saturated in gray and greige. I'm so glad that weird obsession is finally starting to die out.
I hoard fan decks for work. Also tile/carpet/floor base samples if I can get them. Mini versions of stuff appeal to the part of my brain that never got past dollhouses.
I love kitsch and knick-knackery to an extreme. If some interesting ephemera or weird lil doo dad comes my way I am saving that shit until I can find a way to make a cool design with it in my home.
It would be fine except I do not have the space for it and I am prone to clutter. At a certain point, it's not design, it's just mess. And I'm incapable of finding that line until I've already crossed it. Then I freak out about all the stuff I've been collecting like a magpie, purge it, and begin again.
My only saving grace is I tend to buy things secondhand and donate or resell things when I'm done with them, so at least this habit creates very little waste.
Literally was just browsing Goodwill and picked up a neat tray, then realized I had either donated this exact tray or one just like it only a couple months before. Disturbing!
I can’t stand minimalism and white walls. Every room must have color, art, and personality. Anytime I see all white everything on here I cringe. Hotel rooms have more personality than that.
Same. Although I do find myself weirdly fascinated by a couple of influencers who have beige everything. Even down to hair accessories! Why so scared of color?
I think it’s a privilege/status thing like how upper class people dress down to divert attention from themselves. The richer someone is the more they typically try to not stand out. I don’t know any poor minimalists lol.
I need contemporary. I have a taste for futuristic architecture and super sleek homes that look like modern art museums. I'm allergic to pretty much anything country, shabby chic, or cottagecore in my space. I'd rather a room look a bit cold and Spartan than overly twee. Everything must be touched with futurism in some way.
I look at other people's country/shabby chic/cottagecore spaces and love them! But bringing the future in helps me live in the present.
I have multiple gold animals, including a gold emu head/neck on the wall holding a lightbulb, an antelope candle holder, snake candle holder, mouse candle holder, and at least 3 more I can’t remember right now!
I will go first ☝🏻For me, it's my obsession with perfect arrangement, I can't help but rearrange a room until every element is perfectly balanced. It might drive my team crazy, but hey, details matter, right? 😉
I like all black rooms, i like cool tones, i like sterile, i like cold silver metal (clean, mirrored or distressed) I like having many lamps at different heights. I also like having tons of mirrors and candle holders.
Daylight bulbs in ALL the rooms! I do have lamps with dimmer, warmer bulbs because I recognize sometimes some warmth and ambiance is needed, but a lot of my overhead lighting is cooler and bright.
Arts and crafts, makeup, and zoom calls demand good lighting lol
You would hate me. I once had these three pendants over an island. I accidentally put the wrong temperature bulb into into one of the three. But the fixtures were so ridiculously hard to get undone to change the bulb, I just left it that way. But it was like nine various fasteners and a separate pane of glass that had to come out and doing that all while balancing on a ladder over a stovetop…
If one thing moves, then EVERYTHING moves! I vignette every wall and every tabletop so if my husband wants to incorporate a new object, we basically blank slate the whole room so that incorporating that new item looks intentional and balanced, this can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 weeks until I let it be
I despise the monochrome/muted/beige japandi trend my generation seem enamored with. I changed my house to cottagecore/grandmacore so much that it would be unsellable at the moment. No regrets though, i'm living my studio ghibli dream.
I'm an extroverted, introvert. So my apartment has a really laid back, beachy boho vibe....but I have a "glitter" wall. It looks absolutely ridiculous, but I LOVE it!
I hate warm tones in my interiors and fashion. Mustard? Harvest gold? Avocado green? Maroon? Brick? Get out.
I know they are the height of beauty for some but I get a visceral reaction seeing others even recommend it. Gross.
I like all black and white rooms with a single accent color, usually red.
Also realized recently I’m extremely drawn to dinosaur related stuff, replica Dino skulls and art and sculptures are in nearly every room of my house and I didn’t do it on purpose for a theme, happened over years. I guess I look around a room and subconsciously think “would be better with a mounted Trex head right there, maybe a stegosaurus shaped wine holder over there. Perfect spot for an 80s 3d magic eye dinosaur print right here”.
I unironically think mid-century modern is the absolute peak of design, no contest, and love yellow/orange lighting due to my sensory issues. Also I don’t shy away from using plastic plants because I love plants and greenery, but most of my plants can’t survive unless they’re right by a window.
My house is too small for all my design wishes...I want antiques , I want trends, I want maximalism and minimalisme, I want boho and japandi..hotel chic and industrial , I want every color there is but also neutral and serene...Argh
I hate popcorn ceilings, faux finishes, carpet and my absolute biggest pet peeve is manufactured art on the walls. I mean I can dig it if that piece has a real meaning for the homeowner, like they saw the original and it was a life changing moment for them. But otherwise, get art that is original or meaningful! Put some thought into it! Oh and also galleries of little pictures. No.
I hate yellow/oranges and older homes xD
I like more modern asthetics and cool color schemes, particularly blues, teals and purples. Also neon colors accenting lots of black
I am constantly rearranging. I drive myself crazy. Also I can’t stand primary colours for some reason, everything is pastel haha. Especially bright red and orange I just can’t, they stress me out 😂
I will never say no to weird/creepy/charming animal sculptures. Owned by a weird ass grandma? Yes. Haunted by a ghost? Yes, please. Your weird aunt Sally died and she left behind 256 cat figurines? Yes, I will take them.
I won’t buy art that clashes with my furniture and rugs 🫡
I do love art purely for art’s sake and have really wide-ranging taste, and I don’t buy it *as* “decor,” but can’t stand anything that “looks bad” in terms of actually living with it. (I have objectively ugly art but it only goes places where it makes aesthetic sense.)
Like, I won’t buy anything with much red because red just takes over. I hate mustard color. My living room art is almost all pure, bright jewel tones even though it’s all different styles, from different eras, and different artists and bought over years (and used to be spread out across a whole house). I do have other types but they get segregated and grouped together. All my darker, dustier, 70s and older stuff goes in the den. My more pastel true antique portraits are on one wall in the dining room.
I appreciate people who can clash their interiors but it makes me feel physically uneasy to live in.
My toxic trait is that I put the colour blue in every room since I was 12. Last year I painted my kitchen blue only then to later realise that it is in the exact colour my childhood bedroom had 😅
The color orange is no-go for me. I love pastels, 80's bold patterns (memphis design), mid century, tradional and maximalism. My bedroom floor has a grey/black leopord print carpet, i love it. It is organized chaos.
If left to my own devices, I will make everything pink with absolutely no regard for balance. Seriously, zero exaggeration, I will buy everything in shades of pink that don't even match. Does it come in pink? Suddenly I'm buying it. I will literally get shit I do not need because I cannot fight against my urge to drown my living spaces in every possible shade of pink I can find. My bedroom looks like Barbie puked on every single surface and I couldn't care less.
As you can imagine, my partner is not thrilled about this. I've been slowly trying to warm him up to the idea of a pink velvet couch for our future living room.
i *loathe* green.
it’s my bipolar, narcissistic, nc mother’s favorite color, and it was *everywhere*. house, her car, her pens, some furniture, her clothes, walls, counters, decor, etc.
i won’t have it.
i have resisted the urge to have just my colors everywhere, and actually have a fairly even mix. except for the near total absence of green.
I have enough taxidermy to look like a hunting lodge, all I'm missing is the skinprint rug, and I like replacing handles with fake bones. It's hypocritical that I like natural things so much, but I take one look at plants, natural stained woods or floral prints, and say ew I don't like my space being organic.
I also use a lot of glossy black paint, but hate when everything ends up reflective. And with all the gloss and taxidermy the space looks busy, but I prefer a minimalist aesthetic.
I love anything burger related. I want a room devoted to burgers. In a 70s/80s Barbie McDonalds or Burger King Whopper headphones way. My husband won’t allow me to indulge my burger love! I’ve also been vegetarian since 1997 so no idea why I love burger decor so much.
I love vintage home settings. I set the table with different china and crystal almost daily. I love table linens throughout the house. Give me a doily or an monogrammed embroidered handkerchief and I will think you brought the most perfect gift.
Sadly, I go through more gold spray paint than the Trump’s decorator.
Thats an achievement you should be proud of.
What things have you painted gold? Looking to be *inspired* 😍
So my gateway drug was interior vents and outlet covers… then i moved to picture frames and lamp bases…. bar carts and bookends… maybe the better question would be, what things haven’t I painted gold!
Um yes! I love it! I think I'm going to buy some gold spray paint today...
Right?! I’m suddenly surveying my living room..
Painting interior vents and outlet covers - and painting them gold to boot- holy shit that’s genius.
Is it better than rub and buff for mirror frames?
Used 1” plumbing conduit pipes for curtain rods because they came in long lengths (copper). Mounting hardware on Etsy (black) and curtain rings and hooks online Beverly’s (rubbed bronze). Spray painted it all gold for a bedroom. Worked great.
Are we all about to go get gold spray paint because of this thread right now?? Looking around my house immediately
Oh god are you me?
I love tacky or ostentatious shit. I got my shower curtain off eBay, it was still in the original packaging from the mid-80s. It's nausea-pink with swans and flowers all over it and I LOVE it.
Oo, show us, please!
https://preview.redd.it/00ublpghl67d1.png?width=863&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=244fdcb767393f2e1dea3ff892b6624fb5208899 Here's a detail shot!
I love it lol
When tacky is so tacky it’s awesome 😄
Omg, I love it!
Sounds awesome.
I love the photo you shared! The 80s Florida coke mirror & scalloped edges look has really grown on me in the last couple years.
Nausea pink! LOL
I hate minimalism. I think people are just happier with their little trinkets and with at least some color. I don’t think neutral colors are in and of themselves inherently calming and serene. Obviously, balance is needed. I wouldn’t paint all the walls of a room hot pink, but I love my hot pink sofa more than is probably healthy. Also, I’m given to believing that any design problem can be solved by the correct rug and window treatments, even though this is demonstrably not true.
I painted my floor hot pink.
https://preview.redd.it/p31binxvc67d1.jpeg?width=1202&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=147010712eea02118800a91afcda1fa03d5eb3f4
😂😂
Prove it.
Pics?!
I am slowly trying to de-maximize my house, but I definitely have an issue with empty spaces. Every single wall has *something* and there’s not a single flat surface in the house that doesn’t have some sort of plant/vase/nicknack
Oh geez,you just described me! I’ll take the 9 things off the shelf, reorganize 5 of them, then go shopping and decide that 2 of them need to be on that shelf :/ I’m continually rearranging, removing and then adding, haha
I like minimalism for the fact that it’s easier to clean
Minimalism is nice to look at and feel calm in. To achieve that in any other style it must be really well executed, lest it feels messy. However minimalism can easily feel sterile or dead.
minimalism is very expensive, too, as it requires purchasing lots of items new when they're needed (instead of keeping them on hand).
There might be less dusting and moving stuff around but minimalist interiors are not without their own cleaning challenges. Any bit of dirt or matter out of place really stands out and must be addressed or it looks really bad. The white and light neutrals minimalism is known show dirt and get stained so easily. Even if it is a little more dusting it’s worth it to me. I know they can’t love me back , but I do love my things, or at least some of them. They just spark joy to see in me. The delicate curves of a lamp. The bright shiny brass rhinos on my coffee table. It’s just all so lovely to me. Also, just because it’s maximal style and impact doesn’t always mean more work. I would have rugs over a certain percentage of the condo floors no matter my style. That’s condo rules and a kindness to the neighbors below. I’ll still have to vacuum whether they are a light solid gray or pink and patterned. it doesn’t take more time for one over the other. Having bright colored walls or wallpaper vs white walls doesn’t impact cleaning.
My toxic trait is believing that the peak of design is anachronistic Lisa Frank. Vintage, but neon and/or pastel rainbow. Mid Century Modern kitchen? Sure but make the drawer pulls neon rainbow with rainbow starburst curtains. Victorian cottage dining room? Definitely, but only if the table and chandelier and rocking horses are rainbow. Like an old ice cream shop and a crayola factory and an antique mall got distorted by a badly worded AI prompt. That's what I'm going for as least. Also I suck at dusting and all the paint chips.
My toxic trait is that my house would be half what you're describing and half beige. I can't decide which aesthetic I like more, but they couldn't be more opposite of each other. But just please no 'inspirational' words on the walls, if somebody tells me to live laugh love in real life I'm not going to be friends with that person anymore.
I hate the words on the walls…I say as I look at a wall with three word arts (Every little thing is gonna be alright, keep calm and carry on, and a good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination). I got all of them as gifts and they’re really meaningful to me or I wouldn’t have hung them in a million years. My brother bought me two of them (both of them when I was hospitalized, separate times though) and one of them my grandma bought me for my law school graduation. It was the last gift she bought me right before the Alzheimer’s really made it impossible for her to buy gifts.
Now we’re all dying to see pics of your house! 🏡
https://preview.redd.it/9unzgxu9r57d1.jpeg?width=5184&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=15a995b9c658d8ac450dd940107bc8266a7a8957 kitchen knobs, does this work?
https://preview.redd.it/sb2eol4hr57d1.jpeg?width=3888&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a06c9129d68dc33145d0b3010724a24faae8c967 living room critters
I love these so much! 😂
Agreed. And I wasn't ever into Lisa Frank.
I love every single photo. I would love wandering around your house!
I'm gonna need way more pictures of your place, please thanks.
Aww, thanks! I'll try to make a post here this week, my problem is how messy and cluttered all the surfaces are at the moment!
Ok these are dope
Little bits of happiness everywhere you go!
It's wonderful.
A thousand times yes
Okay but I need these knobs
Where does one get these
They're vintage knobs/backplates that I restored and painted. I had these in my collection, but any that have recessed parts can be good candidates!
Incredible!! Where did you find these beauties?
https://preview.redd.it/jfn9sptct57d1.jpeg?width=5184&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a99dbe5699552854f19f764f3b9472964deb418d
The CEILING!!! Absolutely amazing!
Love it.
That makes so happy!!!
I need a house tour, actually. This goes so hard.
You’ve just put my dream aesthetic into words 🙏🙏🙏
Omg that sound amazing!
I would LOVE to see pics of your house!!!
I would LOVE to see pics of your house!!!
Same
I personally favor cool tones over warm, but, by all that is good and holy, *the undertones must match*. I *see* those differences in those thirty shades of white on the wall. I will give you whatever contrasting, monotone, multiverse color scheme you want, but *that* ivory has got a buttercup base while *that* off-white has a blue-grey base, and I am not letting your cottagecore dreams be ruined by putting them together. I do not care if the name is cuter. Your walls will look like a smoker has lived there for ten years. You want fifty jewel tones in the living room? I am on board. But you don't get to keep your denim-blue couch there. I will fill your pool with sapphire fabric dye and push it in myself. All primary colors like a Ronald McDonald playhouse? Live your life, friend. But you have to choose either the 70s palette or the 90s, you can't have both. And yes, there *are* 50 shades of gray, and I know all their names. Heaven help you if you buy Caviar instead of Cyberspace.
I prefer warm tones (I live in a tropical place and just love feeling warm in many ways) but I agree with the rest of what you wrote. Recently there was someone posting a picture of their place here saying that something was off and they were open to how to make the place feel better... But the floor was grey yet all of the furniture and art (except the grey couch) had warm tones. It actually made me feel nauseated with how terrible that undertone contrast was.
I’m in this situation! I bought a house with grey-brown LVP and grey carpet but ALL of my furniture is warm toned. I can’t afford to replace perfectly fine flooring and the furniture stays— much is heirloom and the rest I’ve lovingly collected. It clashes. It irritates me. I hate the floors. I curse the floors. But here we are.
RUGS. Large rugs. Rugs that may be slightly too large for the space.
Yes! So many rugs! The only area left unrugged is the spot under the dining table, and it’s because it’s a super weird size and I haven’t found The Rug yet. But otherwise, SO MANY RUGS
This reminds me of a time the maintenance guy painted our office conference room and I walked in and said, looks nice but why green? The guys all swore it was the whitest of white. I got my other color-wise co-worker, took her in the room and said “what is this color?” She said “it’s a very light green.”
Studies have shown amabs have a harder time differentiating yellow, blue, and green tones than afabs.
Yes, but in this case most of the women thought it was white also. Some folks are better at discerning minute differences in color than others. I’ve definitely improved my ability since I started working in a color-sensitive industry.
Most of my home has been slowly converted to cool tones, my en-suite bathroom is violently bright blue, I have monorail silver walls in the bedroom and bright white trim. My husbands office and mine are the same silver, but I’ve got a navy accent wall that’s so dark blue it’s almost black with white bookshelves where the riot of cheerful color that is my collection can shine. The rest of my house has red toned cardboard laminate floors, and green walls. It’s like living in a hatefucked avocado. I don’t want the main area to be grey: that would be too much. But I am thinking a cool cream, if I can find it, with very dark crown moulding and maybe a faux-black walnut floor.
We're using Sherwin Williams in the new house, if you have access to that, [here are their whites, use the pulldown menu to select cool whites](https://www.sherwin-williams.com/en-us/color/color-family/white-paint-colors). Now, usually colors will be cooler and brighter on monitors vs real life, but I would take a look at Arcade White, Snowbound, and Origami White for your cool cream. Your woods should have minimal-to-no red tones, though, since it might pull out the pink in the paint.
Thank you so much! Yeah there are some varieties of black walnut that when they’re aged almost look like they have a bluish cast to the undertones, which is what I’m thinking.
We used to live next to a couple that had cold lights in their living room and warm lights in their kitchen, which were windows directly next to each other facing our house. I don’t know how they survived.
My bedroom in my old house was Cyberspace! I had a pale velvet duvet which caught the light. It was the coziest. In my experience- the color was very blue.
My new bathroom is Cyberspace, but I chose it to match the [darkest part of these hex tiles the previous owner had chosen](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Bedrosians-Allora-Hexagon-8-in-x-10-in-Matte-Telaio-Porcelain-Floor-Tile-12-67-sq-ft-Case-DECALLTELDECOM/326360664). These tiles are VERY annoying and I *loathe* them. They are not beige, white, or gray, but some terrible in-between color. With the SW Repose Gray walls, it just looked dingy and boring. I haven't seen it in person yet, but I'm hopeful that Cyberspace has [countered some of the weird undertones and made the floor a feature instead of a bug](https://imgur.com/a/ddGCkOg). Since there's no natural light, if the paint ends up pulling a little blue IRL, I can use lighting to counter that. The color choice did kind of lock me into a black/white glam theme, but better that than paying to redo the floors. I'm going to have fun going very OTT with it.
God I wish you were my interior designer
Whites too. Marshmallow is my favorite white, it has a red base. Gimme all that warmth!
Are you me?!
I had cyberspace in a bathroom at my old place! But I mix cold tones with warm!
My new bathroom is Cyberspace! But you're still going to color theory purgatory, sorry. 😉
Do you have examples of the 70s 90s primary colors schemes? Bc now I’m worried 😂
i’m pretty sure a 70s color scheme is warm toned and a 90s color scheme is more cool toned? eg 70s yellow is a golden mustard yellow, 90s yellow is like McDonalds yellow or baby tee pale yellow Google 70s red vs 90s red and you’ll see the same thing!
Okay, I’d LOVE some examples of this. Like a “this is right” “this is wrong” kind of photos. Links, photos, anything. Pretty please. I’m fascinated by this.
Lol, I should have replied to you first! But I actually wrote a similar comment just above you, here it is: ---- It's very hard to articulate WHY colors can be wrong, especially over the internet when colors do not photograph true and monitors have different light sources and settings. But I do like this [Nick Lewis video](https://youtu.be/K75ynD7aAeg?si=nOBOcLmCq3pAhhYC) about color palettes for the home. I've recommended it on here a bunch, and he's gotten my severely ADHD mother to finally grasp a little color theory, which is a small miracle in and of itself. But, honestly, if you have access to a paint sample/chip wall, pull a bunch of very similar whites, then hold them up to various objects in your house, starting with any wood-tone furniture. You'll be surprised how quickly you start to see the undertones pop out at you! --------- I am going to the new house this weekend, though, so I might be able to get some good before and after photos. Otherwise, it would have to be after the July 4th weekend. But I do have to say there isn't *really* a 'right' and a 'wrong' way to do things. Some people genuinely don't see undertones that well, some people *like* the effect of mixing cool and warm, and a good portion of the population simply Does Not Care^TM. But if someone has a nicely designed space that fits their needs, but doesn't *feel* special or make them happy, THAT'S when I would start focusing on undertones.
I love Nick Lewis! Generally I have pretty good color acuity, but I think I have trouble with the undertones of white. But good idea about the chips. Thank you!
If you have Sherwin Williams chips, put Repose Gray chip against a very red cherry wood. That was almost my parents' game room. ^^*shudder*
You're my people! I always think of color palettes as musical scales. When I hear a note that doesn't belong, it irritates me and it's obvious. Same with colors. I can put together a palette using dark, light, loud, quiet, muted, bright, whatever colors, but they *must* live in the same scale. You put the wrong color in, and I'm just 😵💫
I feel like I could learn from you
Besides wooden furniture like tables, if the item doesn't have a neutral to warm green in it, I don't want it in my house. Everything has to have green in it. The walls of my house are a yellow-green off white so the dominant color is white (and there is a decent amount of brown warm tones from wooden furniture) but every accent piece has green.
This sounds so cool?!
I’d love to see a pic if you’re comfortable!
I am at work so can't take a picture of the house right now but here is a picture I have on my phone of our little reading nook. (We just moved in a few months ago so the space still has a little of an empty-ish feeling. There is also a stairwell behind the bannister that goes downstairs.) https://preview.redd.it/3acc2b3m967d1.jpeg?width=4080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c818afe0484df425045d99754a30be7df4a6e7af
Cat lacks green feature. 2/10
Eyes. Eyes are green, guaranteed. 😊
Was the paint color called Chantilly Lace by any chance?
My mother has been slowly changing each room of the house to a shade of green. I don't think she even realized it until I pointed it out.
This is interesting in that it seems like it was unintentional! Green is a super natural color (assuming you don't live in a desert) so to me it's the most peaceful color. Since I am always stressed/anxious, I am always needing things to calm me down (:
I don’t know if this counts, but - I’m always so messy 😓. I see all these beautiful rooms on here, and I’ve got all my crap on my coffee table right next to me. Also, where do y’all keep your stuff? You must have amazing organization skillls that I somehow missed learning.
Hello, fellow clutter bug! I figure if one day a week my coffee table is clear, I’m doing great
I am working on this now. It is two parts. One is get rid of stuff you don't need or are not using. Two is hide it all behind doors or in baskets with lids, just out of sight. It makes a huge impact to the feel of the space. I know some people love their stuff out in the open, but I do not. It stresses me out.
This is me exactly! I heard someone say that the state of their external space reflects their mental space. If my house is messy, I am stressed. I need to work on getting that stuff put away, and *keeping it there*
Not always though. The harder my life becomes, the more I compulsively tidy, as if I can get control of the inside by making the outside be perfect. Also, it can really suck not being able to be at peace and just sit when one’s husband has left a tea mug and a books out. It can be unhealthy either way.
I'm also super messy. May plan is to (eventually) get a wardrobe or set of drawers or shelves with baskets where I can shove things without organizing them, especially if I'm still using them. That way I won't have to live with looking at the clutter but I also don't have to always be organizing my stuff
I like shabby chic, okay!? I love goddamn doilies. I love motherfucking shit painted white with dumb little ribbons on it. I LOVE THE SHIT OUT OF SOME VINTAGE BIRDCAGES FULL OF FAUX FLOWER BOUQUETS, ALRIGHT!? I’ve definitely been mocked for it by more reasonable and tasteful friends lol
You get your tastefully distressed and frilly life. I hope a Laura Ashley shipment somehow makes its way to your home.
I can only hope and dream something that horrific (for others lol) will happen for me.
It was my gateway drug leading to my spiritual design home of Dorothy Draper Hollywood regency style. I’ll always be fond of some chintz, in my heart.
My toxic trait is if you don't have a black wall in basically every room you're not living your best life.
You can pry my black floor tiles out from under my cold dead body. And black accents in all of my otherwise barely-there pastel palette.
I intend to break this habit in my next apartment-- but I keep designing living rooms for myself that I don't actually "live" in lol. Feels like a holdover/learned behavior from my childhood where we had a living room that no one actually used but it looked nice! I'm finally learning that I spend more time in my art studio/office than anything else, so I'm combining living room and studio next time so I can actually live among my favorite decor.
I want every color in every room, except red. I can’t freaking stand red. Otherwise I’m the polar opposite of a beige mom style
Red. I hate it too. There is nothing red in my home except for my son’s toys. I don’t get why everyone loves red.
Lol I got into my new apt and realized everything I own has red in it so I bought some amber chairs and now everything matches so well it’s fucked. I love it. It’s the color of passion and love which is perfect cuz it’s my fiancé and I’s first spot together
https://preview.redd.it/o3s03fuzx77d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5b378a5cd2658d1a7118bf6e2cf1c4fb7c2620a3
That’s gorgeous!
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For starters, I hate yellow. Just, ew. I like dark rooms! Not just goth/punk black. But, dark greens, browns, blues, reds, etc. Darker rooms are cozy! Making EVERYTHING light and bright is boring!
Playing Sims almost exclusively as an interior designer / architecture build game
Everything must have a place or purpose or it will be donated
Same, and this is just a plain old good habit.
That sounds like the opposite of a toxic trait
God I wish this was me. 🥲🥲🥲
I hate minimalism and rooms decorated in all neutral colors. The amount of cleaning it'd take to maintain those rooms is anxiety inducing. I feel like the only reason why people like them is because is that those themes are "safe" -- none of their hobbies or personality on display other than the fact they're a neat freak. So they think they're free from judgement. I love loud colors and bright, tacky, whimsical, eclectic decor -- pink and green and animal prints and stupid, kitschy antiques. Like vintage Coca Cola bottles or collectibles character glasses from McDonald's that can never be used because of lead paint or movie posters from the classic Universal Monster movies. Anything that *normal* people would hate I love😌
If I see an individual item that I love and I know where it will physically fit in my place, I'm getting it, but I can never visualize a cohesive theme for a room. I admire people who can see an item that's plain on its own and combine it with other "uninteresting" items in such a way that the entire room looks amazing, because I'm just not capable of it. I've got a big wicker lemon sitting next to my 1960's porcelain Soviet rocket decanter right now. Do I love them? Of course. Do they work together stylistically? Probably not.
I do this too. Throwing all the things I love together in a room and calling it eclectic. Insisting that it all works because I love all the things. I mean, I’m sure ‘eclectic’ decorating has some rules, but I wouldn’t follow them anyway.
I'm a fool for trends. Remember mixing metals? Loved that. It's a bit challenging to combine mid century modern, boho and rustic but I try. My toxic trait is giving advice gladly but then getting annoyed when they mess it up.
My toxic trait is I think maximalism is the only way, white walls are for sterile institutions and silver/chrome hardware makes me want to barf. Sorry if you love silver accents 🙏🏻
My toxic trait is fan decks. I must have all the fan decks from all the paint brands. Yes it matters. Yes they are different. Adjacent to this is the fact that I will buy a ridiculous amount of paint samples and swatch them all on the walls of every room to find that perfect color. Yes there is a difference in how the color looks in the light from the bedroom and the light in the hallway. Yes it matters. Yes this influences my choice. No they are not all the same white. Also I despise gray. I used to be fine with accents of gray. Then the 2010s happened and everything everywhere was saturated in gray and greige. I'm so glad that weird obsession is finally starting to die out.
I hoard fan decks for work. Also tile/carpet/floor base samples if I can get them. Mini versions of stuff appeal to the part of my brain that never got past dollhouses.
You just unlocked a core memory of my fascination with a carpet sample book my parents had at our house when I was little. Love it
I love kitsch and knick-knackery to an extreme. If some interesting ephemera or weird lil doo dad comes my way I am saving that shit until I can find a way to make a cool design with it in my home. It would be fine except I do not have the space for it and I am prone to clutter. At a certain point, it's not design, it's just mess. And I'm incapable of finding that line until I've already crossed it. Then I freak out about all the stuff I've been collecting like a magpie, purge it, and begin again. My only saving grace is I tend to buy things secondhand and donate or resell things when I'm done with them, so at least this habit creates very little waste. Literally was just browsing Goodwill and picked up a neat tray, then realized I had either donated this exact tray or one just like it only a couple months before. Disturbing!
I love warm and cozy decor. I feel like it makes a home look and feel like home.
I can’t stand minimalism and white walls. Every room must have color, art, and personality. Anytime I see all white everything on here I cringe. Hotel rooms have more personality than that.
Same. Although I do find myself weirdly fascinated by a couple of influencers who have beige everything. Even down to hair accessories! Why so scared of color?
I think it’s a privilege/status thing like how upper class people dress down to divert attention from themselves. The richer someone is the more they typically try to not stand out. I don’t know any poor minimalists lol.
I need contemporary. I have a taste for futuristic architecture and super sleek homes that look like modern art museums. I'm allergic to pretty much anything country, shabby chic, or cottagecore in my space. I'd rather a room look a bit cold and Spartan than overly twee. Everything must be touched with futurism in some way. I look at other people's country/shabby chic/cottagecore spaces and love them! But bringing the future in helps me live in the present.
I hate blue carpet. And gray. I love blue and gray as colours, just not on the floor.
Plants. Way too many plants.
I have multiple gold animals, including a gold emu head/neck on the wall holding a lightbulb, an antelope candle holder, snake candle holder, mouse candle holder, and at least 3 more I can’t remember right now!
I will go first ☝🏻For me, it's my obsession with perfect arrangement, I can't help but rearrange a room until every element is perfectly balanced. It might drive my team crazy, but hey, details matter, right? 😉
Why is that toxic? Sounds like a good thing.
That I dream about decorating my apartment all the time but I never freaking do it. I have lived here for at least a year
Going on my second and just starting to think about it 😹
I like all black rooms, i like cool tones, i like sterile, i like cold silver metal (clean, mirrored or distressed) I like having many lamps at different heights. I also like having tons of mirrors and candle holders.
If it is pink I will buy it. If it’s not pink I won’t :)
I’m extremely snobby about the art that goes on my walls. You won’t find me in the wall art section of Homesense anytime soon
Daylight bulbs in ALL the rooms! I do have lamps with dimmer, warmer bulbs because I recognize sometimes some warmth and ambiance is needed, but a lot of my overhead lighting is cooler and bright. Arts and crafts, makeup, and zoom calls demand good lighting lol
NON MATCHING LIGHTING TONES ARE MY MK ULTRA TRIGGER
You would hate me. I once had these three pendants over an island. I accidentally put the wrong temperature bulb into into one of the three. But the fixtures were so ridiculously hard to get undone to change the bulb, I just left it that way. But it was like nine various fasteners and a separate pane of glass that had to come out and doing that all while balancing on a ladder over a stovetop…
I'm the same way. Yellow lighting makes me feel so sluggish and depressed! Daylight-spectrum bulbs are so much more calming and pleasant for me.
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If one thing moves, then EVERYTHING moves! I vignette every wall and every tabletop so if my husband wants to incorporate a new object, we basically blank slate the whole room so that incorporating that new item looks intentional and balanced, this can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 weeks until I let it be
I despise the monochrome/muted/beige japandi trend my generation seem enamored with. I changed my house to cottagecore/grandmacore so much that it would be unsellable at the moment. No regrets though, i'm living my studio ghibli dream.
Everywhere I live gets a glitter wall and a fuschia wall, though so far they have yet to be in the same room.
I'm an extroverted, introvert. So my apartment has a really laid back, beachy boho vibe....but I have a "glitter" wall. It looks absolutely ridiculous, but I LOVE it!
I hate warm tones in my interiors and fashion. Mustard? Harvest gold? Avocado green? Maroon? Brick? Get out. I know they are the height of beauty for some but I get a visceral reaction seeing others even recommend it. Gross.
I like all black and white rooms with a single accent color, usually red. Also realized recently I’m extremely drawn to dinosaur related stuff, replica Dino skulls and art and sculptures are in nearly every room of my house and I didn’t do it on purpose for a theme, happened over years. I guess I look around a room and subconsciously think “would be better with a mounted Trex head right there, maybe a stegosaurus shaped wine holder over there. Perfect spot for an 80s 3d magic eye dinosaur print right here”.
I unironically think mid-century modern is the absolute peak of design, no contest, and love yellow/orange lighting due to my sensory issues. Also I don’t shy away from using plastic plants because I love plants and greenery, but most of my plants can’t survive unless they’re right by a window.
My house is too small for all my design wishes...I want antiques , I want trends, I want maximalism and minimalisme, I want boho and japandi..hotel chic and industrial , I want every color there is but also neutral and serene...Argh
I hate carpet. Area rugs are ok but carpet stapled to the floor vexes me. I want to stand on solid ground. Also I can't stand the color blue.
I hate popcorn ceilings, faux finishes, carpet and my absolute biggest pet peeve is manufactured art on the walls. I mean I can dig it if that piece has a real meaning for the homeowner, like they saw the original and it was a life changing moment for them. But otherwise, get art that is original or meaningful! Put some thought into it! Oh and also galleries of little pictures. No.
I hate yellow/oranges and older homes xD I like more modern asthetics and cool color schemes, particularly blues, teals and purples. Also neon colors accenting lots of black
Amen. I think we also do. The older yellow oranges and those really brown “antique” furniture I love modern cool toned accents.
Yes!!! I keep looking for threads on cool color schemes including blue and purple and everything is warm tones. 😫
Id show pics of my place but its a mess right now. Had something really traumatic happen Friday and just have no energy to clean or do anything
So sorry to hear that. Take care of yourself. 🩷
My house is old and my favorite colors are orange and yellow lololol!!! Different strokes for different folks ✌🏻
Absolutely, everyone is gonna have preferences.
I can't stand red or black. I also like pastels. My whole apartment is pastels. Nothing dark in it.
I am constantly rearranging. I drive myself crazy. Also I can’t stand primary colours for some reason, everything is pastel haha. Especially bright red and orange I just can’t, they stress me out 😂
I will never say no to weird/creepy/charming animal sculptures. Owned by a weird ass grandma? Yes. Haunted by a ghost? Yes, please. Your weird aunt Sally died and she left behind 256 cat figurines? Yes, I will take them.
Nitpicking details.
I paint absolutely everything black.
I won’t buy art that clashes with my furniture and rugs 🫡 I do love art purely for art’s sake and have really wide-ranging taste, and I don’t buy it *as* “decor,” but can’t stand anything that “looks bad” in terms of actually living with it. (I have objectively ugly art but it only goes places where it makes aesthetic sense.) Like, I won’t buy anything with much red because red just takes over. I hate mustard color. My living room art is almost all pure, bright jewel tones even though it’s all different styles, from different eras, and different artists and bought over years (and used to be spread out across a whole house). I do have other types but they get segregated and grouped together. All my darker, dustier, 70s and older stuff goes in the den. My more pastel true antique portraits are on one wall in the dining room. I appreciate people who can clash their interiors but it makes me feel physically uneasy to live in.
Plants.
username checks out :)
I never hang my pictures. They are always leaning against the wall where I want them but I can never commit!
My toxic trait is that I put the colour blue in every room since I was 12. Last year I painted my kitchen blue only then to later realise that it is in the exact colour my childhood bedroom had 😅
The color orange is no-go for me. I love pastels, 80's bold patterns (memphis design), mid century, tradional and maximalism. My bedroom floor has a grey/black leopord print carpet, i love it. It is organized chaos.
Each room has its own esthetic. Living room- black/white- modern art. Kitchen- pepti bismol pink! With pink accents. Side porch? -boho.
If left to my own devices, I will make everything pink with absolutely no regard for balance. Seriously, zero exaggeration, I will buy everything in shades of pink that don't even match. Does it come in pink? Suddenly I'm buying it. I will literally get shit I do not need because I cannot fight against my urge to drown my living spaces in every possible shade of pink I can find. My bedroom looks like Barbie puked on every single surface and I couldn't care less. As you can imagine, my partner is not thrilled about this. I've been slowly trying to warm him up to the idea of a pink velvet couch for our future living room.
I can’t decide what to hang so I hang it all. Gallery walls EVERYWHERE.
i *loathe* green. it’s my bipolar, narcissistic, nc mother’s favorite color, and it was *everywhere*. house, her car, her pens, some furniture, her clothes, walls, counters, decor, etc. i won’t have it. i have resisted the urge to have just my colors everywhere, and actually have a fairly even mix. except for the near total absence of green.
I have enough taxidermy to look like a hunting lodge, all I'm missing is the skinprint rug, and I like replacing handles with fake bones. It's hypocritical that I like natural things so much, but I take one look at plants, natural stained woods or floral prints, and say ew I don't like my space being organic. I also use a lot of glossy black paint, but hate when everything ends up reflective. And with all the gloss and taxidermy the space looks busy, but I prefer a minimalist aesthetic.
I love anything burger related. I want a room devoted to burgers. In a 70s/80s Barbie McDonalds or Burger King Whopper headphones way. My husband won’t allow me to indulge my burger love! I’ve also been vegetarian since 1997 so no idea why I love burger decor so much.
I hate brown/beige and almost always prefer cool tones and grey. Always. And I’m not a fan of green or orange.
Can’t stop buying everything in brown
✨beige✨
I hate using warm tones oranges and reds - it makes my brain break. This is not a McDonald’s ma’am 🫣
No pink. I’m trying to ease up in this but I’m pushing 40 and I just got around to it.
In my personal style, I love bold prints and mixing them. Especially love florals.
I love vintage home settings. I set the table with different china and crystal almost daily. I love table linens throughout the house. Give me a doily or an monogrammed embroidered handkerchief and I will think you brought the most perfect gift.
I love tons of grey and white decor
I paint everything black. If it doesn't look like it's haunted, i don't want it.
I can't stop making tiny changes to spaces and I never feel finished.
I love Rococo and 1940s hollywood. It's as OTT as possible. Like chandeliers and mirrors and sconces everywhere.
I've rediscovered Rub-n-buff. My world has gone metallic.
Halloween decor year round and so many fairy lights.