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Do you have a design style?
Confession: our living room furniture is my parents' stuff from the early-mid 90's. Our desk is an ikea special from my university days. Our bed? Likewise.
I feel like we have tons of little things that represent our personalities (like my Japanese tea cup collection), and a great art collection (friends and art show purchases alike) but that our furniture doesn't really represent us at all!
Where do you like to shop? Do you and your husband have a sense of style? Is it compatible or do you like somethings and he something else?
Re: Do you have a design style?
we are slowly working on making our living areas pretty to look at. I think when I'm done with a project DH like's it but in the process he hates replacing "perfectly good" stuff with newer stuff.
I'm jealous of your art collection - I wish we had more direction and ways to make the house really reflect us. I'm embarrassed to say we have not hung one thing on our main living area walls. My sister is an artist and I have one of her prints in the guest room (she does native art and it doesn't really go with the look of my home so I themed that room around her work). Other than that I'm still slacking on hanging the framed pictures I have had since we moved in.
I think I'm traditional in style and gravitate towards cool colors. I am happy to see each new pottery barn catalog and love craftsman bungalow style homes. My favorite color is aqua and I love vintage stuff. In that sense, the nursery would be most "me" - it's painted aqua and I decorated with vintage toys and an awesome 60's dresser I refinished. Most of our furniture is craiglist or thrift store stuff and the master bedroom is my current project, this is kind of my inspiration:
http://www.decorpad.com/photo.htm?photoId=82363
Like the PP, my favorite color is an aqua-teal. If I had my way, everything in my house would be that color! I've restrained myself to a teal mixer, teal bedset and a soft teal throw blanket on the couch
This is our first apartment together and we don't have much money to throw around on decorating... so it is kind of a mismash of stuff. My aunt bought us a bed as a wedding present, so we picked out a simple chocolate brown frame/headboard and tried to go around that. Our living room stuff (couch, chair and tv table) are all dark brown as well. Our apartment is all painted white and I love bright colors but dark browns are just easy to match.
I want to hang up some fun prints but I've having trouble finding the right frames - all walls are concrete so we have to use those 3M hooks to hang things, and not all frames work with those!
I looooove the pottery barn style!! DH likes to keep it more simple or doesn't have an opinion about things.
We have no sense of style whatsoever. Our stuff is definitely hand-me-downs, my old stuff, and IKEA stuff. We're not really in a financial position to be buying new furniture so I am making do with our old, ugly, sofa.
Oh, I recently put new seat covers on our dining room chairs so now it looks a little more modern chic. That's about the extent of my abilities.
I am really jealous of people who "find" great pieces at garage sales and off Craigslist...
We're trying to slowly collect some art. So far it's Haida art and Australian Aboriginal art. We're in a 1 BR so space is limited, too. Gah!
DH and I are not compatible in our sense of style. He's picky about certain things, and I'm picky about other things.