What is your homes decor style?

Question

French Renaissance? Early American?Tuscan? Sanford and Son Arms? Please describe the look and feel of your homes decor.

My home is French Country throughout, I love the cozy, cheery look of French Country.

Answer 1

Mine is a mix of Victorian and traditional. The living room and parlour have mauve carpeting (which I'd like to replace!), with floral wallpaper that has a small print in pink, burgundy, tan, and green on a white background. My windows are huge (ten foot ceilings) and have dark green drapes pulled back to show white lace panels. I have two Duncan Phyfe sofas, two burgundy wing chairs, several rockers, and a little Victorian parlour chair in tufted burgundy velvet. I have tons of flowers, teapots and teacups, family pictures in pretty frames, and a baby grand piano in front of a very large window, with a glass display case behind it holding my crystal collection. The dining room is large, painted yellow, with lovely hardwood floors. The kitchen and bathroom are both kind of crazy; the house was "remodelled" in the 40s in Art Deco; the walls have huge glass tiles; salmon bordered with black. The house is over 100 years old, and it seems everyone in town has been in it over the years; some folks in their 80s tell me they used to take piano lessons here. It's very tranquil, and my refuge.

Answer 2

It's New Mexican style, which is slightly different than Southwest. We have brick floors except in the bedrooms, with some Navajo area rugs over the bricks as accents. The brick floors are in a herringbone pattern. We have high ceilings, with vigas and latillas. Most of the rooms have kiva fireplaces. The mantles over the fireplaces are hand carved wood. The interior artwork is somewhat mixed, but mission style furniture and folk art from New Mexico, Mexico, South America, Native American and even African. The style, which may be difficult to understand without googling the terms, is very clean, crisp and almost plain, but for the abundance of artwork and bright fabrics.
The exterior construction is adobe, with stucco over the adobe. The wall surrounding our front yard is made with straw bales covered by stucco. We have a xeroscaped lot, with a bamboo fence and no grass, but lots of scrubs, native flowers, herbs and native trees. The landscaping criteria is low water use.

Answer 3

French Country

Answer 4

Juliet Tuscan Renaissance. With chickens.

Answer 5

We bought this place new , 3 years ago, so the look is modern. Big windows with a cool view over the bay. We have filled the place with mementos of travels, a lot of pics of our kids and families, and a big fake palm tree in the living room - I love it when people do a double-take upon seeing this thing, its up to the ceiling and looks pretty real.

All the colours here are pale - this is a rebellion on my part because for decades I lived with my ex-husband's favourite,very loud, colour-schemes, and this time around my partner and I were completely in tune. So everything is cream, pale coffee, pale pink...I could eat this place its so nice.

Answer 6

Total disorganization. That must be classified under "sanford and son". When I do get it organized again, I'll not be able to find anything, but at least I won't keep tripping over stuff.

BTW, you wouldn't want a description of this decor. :o)

Answer 7

We are just basic Contemporary American style. Some carpeting, some hard wood floor, drywall construction, with painted walls. Modest fixtures. Basic and comfortable. Lucky to have a place to call home.

Answer 8

Early falling apart....mid renovation!

I started renovating the inside of my home piece by piece as I had the money for it, and realised that things had been allowed to go so badly for the past thirty years (I inherited my parents home after my father died), that it was going to take MAJOR work to make this house safe and comfortable. So I applied for a home improvement loan.

Well, it turns out that because I didn't have any major credit cards, nor that I actually worked (I babysit while my two daughers who live with me, work. Plus the youngest daughter's boyfriend works as well) that I would first have to establish a good "credit history" with the bank before they would think to lend me the kind of money I needed. (I figure $75,000 will do everything, inside and out, as long as most of the scut work of tearing down and re-insulating and tiling and all cosmetics are done by me and my family. Save the big money to pay for the plumber and the electrician!)

So....like I said "mid-renovation NOT chic!"

Answer 9

Transitional, eclectic, some clutter, and some well organized....shabby in some places, well tended in others, preparing to renovate. My husband and I are evolving a bit with our style. We started out with some family pieces (hope chest, armoire, rocking chair) that were late Victorian. At one time we liked overstuffed upholestry and heavy oak furniture. The rooms in our house are just too small for this type of furniture....and so over the last 8 years we've replaced some of our old furniture with sleeker styles.....more Dannish and modern with lots of natural fibers and clean lines, we have more to replace, but it's fun doing it a bit at a time.

We have photos, prints, paintings hung in every room. Small collections of sentimental items and 'oddities' mixed in with the mish mash of furniture. Loads of books, electronics, and musical equipment, lots of stone-wood-metal-and plants.

We hope to refinish the hardwood floors in the oldest part of our house, replace the flooring in the rest, install new cabinets in the bathrooms and kitchen, and hopefully add a hot tub and screened porch next year. Right now, my house kinda looks like Frank Lloyd Wright smashed into shabby chic....a bit disconcerting but still plenty of comfy spots.

Answer 10

Ours is very traditional. But, we remodeled our kitchen in French Country style this year and I like it so much, I'm thinking about doing the rest of the house in French Country style.