I was just going to ask if Kitty Chic is a decorating style?Originally Posted by katiemae1277
a hodgepodge of cat chic
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How is your house decorated?
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It's in the Contemporary Fur style!!
Seriously, it's mostly pretty traditional, a bit of Queen Anne furniture, cherry woods. My fave piece of furniture is the beautiful, solid wood HUGE china cabinet I got for $80 last year, and the Habitat Homestore. I call it the Coreleone Family china cabinet, as DH said it looks like something a Mafioso would have in his house!
Some furniture is antique, like my dining table and the old trunk DH bought on our 2nd date. I found a glass top for it, and it's our coffee table.
I like to find my furniture and artwork at yard sales. I don't think I own any valuable furniture! Most of my art is antique Civil War prints; I have one original Currier & Ives lithograph of a semi-naked lady.
My walls are beige, Parisian Taupe, by Behr Paint. People always comment on the nice color--not too dark, but not too light. It's warm. Lots of white gloss trim, too--looks very nice with the color. Only 1 room has any real color--my bathroom--a melon-peach color. I have an orange paisley quilt on the bed, so it coordinates. I have all warm colors for other stuff; mostly burgundy and burnt orange. I have organgey-maple laminate floors, with oriental rugs in reads, blues, greens, and tans.
The kitchen is beige, with matching tile flooring, with a black table and chairs, and maple cabinets, with a dark brown "granite" (really Silestone) countertop.
I don't like clutter, nor many knick-knacks. I like my house to look spacious, though it's really not. Clutter breeds germs/dust, and is just one more thing to move so I can clean--which, with 7 fur-monsters, I have to do a LOT. Four are Maine Coons, so you can imagine the fur! I vacuum up a large cat every week!
Seriously, it's mostly pretty traditional, a bit of Queen Anne furniture, cherry woods. My fave piece of furniture is the beautiful, solid wood HUGE china cabinet I got for $80 last year, and the Habitat Homestore. I call it the Coreleone Family china cabinet, as DH said it looks like something a Mafioso would have in his house!
Some furniture is antique, like my dining table and the old trunk DH bought on our 2nd date. I found a glass top for it, and it's our coffee table.
I like to find my furniture and artwork at yard sales. I don't think I own any valuable furniture! Most of my art is antique Civil War prints; I have one original Currier & Ives lithograph of a semi-naked lady.
My walls are beige, Parisian Taupe, by Behr Paint. People always comment on the nice color--not too dark, but not too light. It's warm. Lots of white gloss trim, too--looks very nice with the color. Only 1 room has any real color--my bathroom--a melon-peach color. I have an orange paisley quilt on the bed, so it coordinates. I have all warm colors for other stuff; mostly burgundy and burnt orange. I have organgey-maple laminate floors, with oriental rugs in reads, blues, greens, and tans.
The kitchen is beige, with matching tile flooring, with a black table and chairs, and maple cabinets, with a dark brown "granite" (really Silestone) countertop.
I don't like clutter, nor many knick-knacks. I like my house to look spacious, though it's really not. Clutter breeds germs/dust, and is just one more thing to move so I can clean--which, with 7 fur-monsters, I have to do a LOT. Four are Maine Coons, so you can imagine the fur! I vacuum up a large cat every week!
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My Mum would love you!Originally Posted by Rosiemac
I have a routineAs soon as i get our of bed i fluff up the duvet on the bed and straighten it out before i hit the bathroom, and before i go to work and after i've ate at night, i wash up and put them away
Dog pictures and human pictures hanging on the wall along with family paintings
Not a lot of clutter though, we try to be minimalists, but that is not exactly happening either. We plan to have a garage sell soon, which will really help in that respect, we have so many things in boxes and in a spare bedroom just waiting.
Originally Posted by Arlyn
Contemporary clutter
Ours is "early marriage hodgepodge." We were just thinking about it last weekend. Our living room furniture we bought in about 1984, for $500. We have two waterbeds, one that we bought in 1978 and one that we bought used in 1990 or so. Our dining room table we bought at "Nafa's Nude Furniture in about 1978. We made the benches to match it. Our kitchen table and chairs we bought about 10 years ago in a Wal-Mart parking lot "scratch and dent" sale. Need I go on?
And the cats don't scratch any of it. Wouldn't you just know it?
And the cats don't scratch any of it. Wouldn't you just know it?
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Cat & dog hair is my decorating style. Also decorate with cats & dogs on the furniture. There's sheets covering all the furniture. Cats beds on the counters, along with kitty food & the fountain. Generally speaking, it's a mess.
ETA: I also apparently decorate with magnets on the floor. Eden has taught Margo to yank them off.
ETA: I also apparently decorate with magnets on the floor. Eden has taught Margo to yank them off.
I was never like that when i lived with my parentsOriginally Posted by MargeCat
My Mum would love you!
No one was more shocked than them when i became domesticated in my own house when i got married
my mum is like that too and travis' father still does everyone's ironing, i have to wash my own clothes and quickly remove them off the line chuck them in my bedroom before he makes any of my blacks go gray againOriginally Posted by Rosiemac
I was never like that when i lived with my parentsMy mum did everything for me, make my bed, do my ironing etc...
No one was more shocked than them when i became domesticated in my own house when i got married
When we get our approval and finally start building and finish it, ill show you all pictures of our house
blue. really - my whole house is done in shades of blue, w/black & white accents.
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LOL that gives me great hopes!!! I am messy now that i'm in school and live w/ parents- I just feel like how am I going to spend time making my bed when my HW isn't done and I have a test I still haven't studied for? I do everything the very last minute so I just can't afford to spend my last precious moments on cleaning up ...But I hope I improve when I start working...Originally Posted by Rosiemac
I was never like that when i lived with my parentsMy mum did everything for me, make my bed, do my ironing etc...
No one was more shocked than them when i became domesticated in my own house when i got married
Somehow, my home has become a combination of blue and orange, two of my least favorite colors
The curtains (oh, sorry..they are now called "window treatments) came with the house, and dark blue is about the only color that would go with orange and the pet hair! MIL says they are brown, but they are definitely orange. It works though since most of our house is now dark laminate wood flooring and we have a HUGE stone fireplace so it all pulls together.
Originally Posted by Arlyn
Contemporary clutter
Originally Posted by AlleyGirl
Mine is a subtle blending of dorm room and garage sale, with cat hair for accent.
I love this thread!
I am definately country. Wood furniture, but not bulky looking. Feminine.
Flowers, but not the 80's bug gaudy flowers. Delicate, feminine.
See a pattern....
I have somehow managed to combine blues, greens, pinks, browns, mauves and every other color in between. I LOVE color. So it's hard for me to decide on a single color scheme. they have the same TONE so it works.
I have braided area rugs in the foyer and kitchen. Fluffy chair pads of a pink gingham that is reversable to a flower pattern. Matches my curtains.
I have these lamps that are MY FAVORITE!! They are stitched with flowers and birds in colorful threading. They are so whimsical!
Wood floors of a buttery color. They are in a geometric pattern too which adds some interest to the rooms.
My bathroom's main color is periwinkle with very light walls, not white but a very light creamy color. That color is throughout the house and makes it WARM while not overpowering the decor.
I am definately country. Wood furniture, but not bulky looking. Feminine.
I have somehow managed to combine blues, greens, pinks, browns, mauves and every other color in between. I LOVE color. So it's hard for me to decide on a single color scheme. they have the same TONE so it works.
I have braided area rugs in the foyer and kitchen. Fluffy chair pads of a pink gingham that is reversable to a flower pattern. Matches my curtains.
I have these lamps that are MY FAVORITE!! They are stitched with flowers and birds in colorful threading. They are so whimsical!
Wood floors of a buttery color. They are in a geometric pattern too which adds some interest to the rooms.
My bathroom's main color is periwinkle with very light walls, not white but a very light creamy color. That color is throughout the house and makes it WARM while not overpowering the decor.
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It's interesting to see what everyone's style of decorating is. In the original post, I forgot to mention the heavy brown velvet drapes in the bedroom. They are "black out curtains". I don't really have much in the way of curtains in the rest of my house, but these were a necessity since I like to sleep in total darkness. However, since Daisy arrrived on the scene, she insists I keep the bedroom door open. So light pours in from everywhere, even in the middle of the night! She also likes to stand on the nightstand and look out the window thru those very drapes. I did have them taped to the wall so no light could come in, but that's a thing of the past.
My house is decorated in reds and golds and heavy dark furniture, with lots of pictures of family all over
Our house was built in the 1960's and I don't think it ever left!
Lots of brown carpet, ugly wall paper and hideous light shades! Since it's Mum, 4 boarders and I it's pretty minimal but wait until you hit my bedroom. I think I would have the messiest bedroom ever!
Traditional Country Garden.
Lot`s of white with punches of cobalt blue and dark, real red.
Lot`s of white with punches of cobalt blue and dark, real red.
I guess you would call my place modern, the kitchen table is glass and the living room is your modern day furniture very fluffy sofa and love seat with a recliner. Wood coffee table and end tables. I kinda like it.
