What is your decor style. Mine would be wood and wicker. And books everywhere.

[applegrove]

[hobbit709]

1. Early Goodwill.

[applegrove]

3. My desk is two plastic sets of drawers with an old door laying on top. I love it.

[hobbit709]

4. I use two filing cabinets and a door.

The newest furniture in the house is about 15 years old.

[KG]

24. I use two filing cabinets and 5 ft section of formica countertop.

the splash-guard keeps things from falling off the back of the desk.

[PassingFair]

37. Mine is "Late Grandparent".

They only sat on the edges of everything.

Good thing I'm a BIG FAN of mid-century modern!

[kentauros]

2. Chaos.

Or mix/match/don't care, and not just books, but everything I need to donate and haven't gotten around to it yet. I did clean out a closet a few weeks back and donated that to Goodwill. The rest is either hand-me-downs, even for furniture, or stuff I bought because I liked how that particular piece looked without regards to whether it matched anything else.

So yeah, chaos as a decorating style }(

[sarge43]

5. Recycling center eclectic with book pile accents n/t

[Shagbark Hickory]

6. Solid gold furniture and diamond-encrusted wallpaper.

[applegrove]

7. LOL!

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. shabby genteel southern with some English garden sensibility

covered in dog and cat hair.
books and music all over the place.
house looks like the maid was raptured in 1980.

[applegrove]

9. I'm with you on the cat hair. I have a plaque on a door handle when you first walk in that says "You

can touch the dust but please don't write in it". LOL!

[blueamy66]

10. books everywhere here too

too many damn books...way too many damn books...but my Uncle built bookshelves and I love them....sports memorabilia as well

but it looks homey...fireplace and the backyard is the bomb, thanks to my guy

some nice art, some nice furniture pieces and knicknacks

wish I had a hutch for my Hummels and china, which are in the garage in boxes :-(

lots of family pics, bookshelves and plants

love my house!

oh, and DUST!

[applegrove]

11. A fireplace and a great back yard? In my dreams. (Actually I'll probably never have those things).

[blueamy66]

13. Our yard is small, but we have roses and palm trees

and 4 raised bed veggie gardens and stupid frog statues and gnomes and grass and grapes and a few "Christmas trees" and a patio and windchimes and stupid signs and a birdbath and 4 bird feeders and wildflowers and SQUASH that is TAKING OVER MY FREAKING YARD!!! I live with the junior version of my Dad....he loves his yard.

There is nothing like spreading a blanket down on the grass and eating icepops with my great nieces and nephews. They love our yard. They love the butterflies and the birds and especially the hummingbirds. They don't like the bees too much. :-)

I love the fireplace myself...even though I live in AZ. I was told that I wasn't allowed to build fires every morning this Winter....I told him to shut it! I'm buying a 1/4 cord of wood this year!

I am happy and feel very lucky to have what I have.

Hope your dreams come true.

[applegrove]

15. Sounds heavenly.

:hi:

[Lionel Mandrake]

32. Books everywhere describes our house as well

We have built-in bookshelves in the living room, family room (aka media center), upstairs hallway (at both ends), downstairs office, guest room, and three other rooms upstairs. There are also free-standing bookshelves scattered here and there. I've never counted the books; that would be a big chore.

[blueamy66]

39. I really need to organize mine, but there are just too many.

And if I ask my guy to put one more bookcase together, he may shoot me!

Gotta love them books!

[applegrove]

53. There was a while there where I kept moving so I got rid of a ton of books over the years. Still,

every year I accumulate a new bookcase full.

[Aristus]

12. Victorian, without the clutter.

Clean lines, dark paneled woods, discrete mood lighting, lots of books (me, too!). All modern gadgets would be required to sport a "steampunk" look.

[Throd]

14. Old car parts

[applegrove]

16. Really? Because my brother does have rusty lawn art all over the place.

[Odin2005]

17. Tropical/travel theme, lots of light, wall maps, and I also like books everywhere.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. Eclectic.

Meaning: IKEA + some 200-year-old antique furniture + weird prints on the wall + a whole wall of bookcases + cat furniture.

[nolabear]

19. I like rustic Asian, but I don't have that. I have rustic random.

[Joe Fields]

20. Southwestern with a slant toward Native American

[RebelOne]

36. Same here. I have lots of Native American art on my walls. n/t

[Tikki]

21. Santa Barbara style....

Tikki

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. very pretty...I don't usually like faux wall paint - but this looks good. nt

[Tikki]

28. Thing is there are walls (or walls with arches) separating..

the different areas. I could never live in an open concept type
home. They remind me of Little House on the Prairie.


Tikki

[Tabasco_Dave]

22. Art Deco. n/t

[dimbear]

46. And a borzoi dog?

Love deco. Congrats.

[Bunny]

23. Early Tacky.

I think I inherited the tacky gene from my mother.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

26. love this post ! Could you amend and ask people to post pics?? nt

[KG]

27. odds and ends gathered along the way.

[hedgehog]

29. Thank you for asking this question. The answers have been very reassuring to me

that I'm not the only one!

[LanternWaste]

30. Edwardian Interior

Edwardian Interior.

I've spent the past ten years or so ever-so slowly picking up closely-matching sets of end tables, desks, Queen Anne chairs, faux gas lamps etc. to give my place a (very thin) veneer of Edwardian authenticity.

The second bedroom is converted into a very lovely study/library that looks like it was taken from one of the sets of Upstairs Downstairs. My favorite room. :P

[hifiguy]

31. Poverty-stricken mish-mash so far

but had I my druthers, the cash and the space, something like a cross between traditional Japanese and Frank Lloyd Wright with the odd Scandinavian Modern piece here or there. A friend of mine has a custom built house decorated in that style and I flipped out for it. Elegant, simple lines that sculpt the space around the furniture. Way cool.

[sinkingfeeling]

33. Victorian clutter.

[guitar man]

34. "leftover recording studio"

I used to have my studio in about half the house before I moved it out to where it is now... the decor remains though, the room we use as the den still has carpet covered walls, the control booth with window and a louvered ceiling :silly:

[ScreamingMeemie]

35. Neo Modern Cat Scratch.

:(

[applegrove]

38. I know. My couch has been destroyed by my cats.

[ScreamingMeemie]

42. It's a good thing they're so darned cute.

[LiberalEsto]

40. Scandinavian teak

all purchased at yard sales or thrift shops.

[grasswire]

43. a great investment!

Considering that mid-century teak is the hottest trend in furnishings right now.

I am the proud owner of two teak "lounge" chairs with the original burnt orange cushions -- I rescued them from a thrift shop parking lot for five bucks each and they are easily worth $500 for the pair now. And I have a lovely teak side table that I picked up in the free pile of a yard sale -- stamped "Denmark" underneath -- worth a couple of hundred.

Get that stuff everywhere you can find it! I'm about to sell those chairs because I don't have room for them, and will be very happy for the huge profit.

[GoCubsGo]

48. That is what I strive toward.

I have a few pieces, but Danish Modern is difficult to come by in these parts. I'll probably wind up with some of my parents' furniture eventually. Meanwhile, the rest is contemporary. I quite like Mission and Shaker,too. (I like clean lines).

The artwork on the walls is wildlife prints, nature photos, and a watercolor painted outside of Tuscson--except for the spare bedrooms, which is Chicago-rama. There's a Vienna Hot Dogs poster and a picture of Wrigley Field. Eventually, I will have a shrine to Ron Santo there. ;-)

[Chan790]

41. I've been told steampunk but I don't see it.

I'm not very tech-interested for one thing. My furnishings are a mix of elegant simple modernity: straight lines, little adornment, solid visual planes...and retro-20s: damask prints, bright color contrasted with dark, moody use of light. Think Gatsby meets Bauhaus.

Also lots of books. Orderly in book cases, hundreds of them...they're the most immediate design feature of my apartment.

[Ivan Sputnik]

44. Ironic "rustic"

An Adirondack camphouse "woodsy" look, sort of like a Twin Peaks set.

[femmocrat]

45. Williamsburg-style Colonial.

I'm glad I bought the cherry pieces I have years ago. I don't think I could afford them now.

[Lucinda]

47. Cat Hair Modern

We built a modern house (on the in inside) with a nondescript exterior to fit into a vacation cabin community that we live in.
Stained black concrete floors, modern furniture, minimal, but not too cold - with a constant layer of woodsy cat gunk and fur to remove.

The kitchen opens onto the living dining room and has art, & our framed photography, no upper cabinets, no books, just furniture and plants and the view.

I have a ton of built-in bookshelves in the loft bedroom though, and bookcases in my office and guest room.
3 cats + stand of woods + cat door + black stained floors = constant housework.

[quakerboy]

49. Solid, comfortable, and water proof

My ideal does not exist. But a room that combined the elements of really comfortable, with solidly non breakable would be a good start.

Then super size the sprayer dealie from the inside my dishwasher and put it on a nice high ceiling for cleaning purposes.



alas it is not to be. Waterproof books are few and far between. I have 2, but they contain only my own writing, which is not overly interesting reading. Nor nearly voluminous enough.

[Duppers]

50. English Country/ Traditional

I've 2 huge, long wall with built-in bookcases, that are totally full, in my great room. They also add acoustical value to the room 800 sq. ft. room.

I love my huge, overstuffed yellow sofas. Furniture must first be comfortable. That's my rule.

[WinkyDink]

51. Beer Pocketbook.

[JI7]

52. shabby, victorian, french provincial etc not into the modern looks too much

[valerief]

54. Ugly retro. The uglier, the better. nt

[tammywammy]

55. 1950s style retro, but modernized; eccentric.

Complete opposite from my parents. If I didn't look like them they'd swear I was adopted. :)