Whats your home decorating style?

I was just doing a little re-decorating and shopping online for some stuff and I was wondering - what is your home decorating style?

In my living room I have this:


(Pic was taken when I first moved in)

But the style in there is the dark furnature with the Paris/winery theme, very casual/comfy. Of course with my palm tree pillows, which I love I finally have wall hangings and all that good stuff! Just no updated pics yet!

My bathroom is Palm Tree's - I just love all the cute stuff you can find at Target and such for all that decorating stuff.

My bedroom is the Jungle theme - Leopard print on the bed, with wild animal prints on the walls (elephants, tigers, lions, ect.) I love it - there is also a lot of fun stuff that I've found for that too.

When Harley lays on our bed, he blends in!

So whats your style? I love hearing about other people's decorating styles and such - gives me good ideas!

Oh gosh....my style is so wacky sometimes. I love designing interiors.

DH is very modern, clean lines, no fussy messyness. His study is gray, silver and black.

My livingroom and kitchen connect, so they are the same colors, but I have managed to subtly change styels. My kitchen I guess I would describe as country but the living room is a bit more elegant. Or was till Mooch and Noodles moved in. My 'theme' for the kithcen is chili peppers and tomatos. The walls are a brown with a green boarder around the top that has a yellow checkerboard type pattern with red squares randomly mixed in too. Then just below there is a red stripe. All hand painted, which I just finished recently. I also added the chili peppers to it. I'm working on accents and my curtains for there still too. I went and bought fabrics that won't work together so I'm revamping that idea still.

The living room is the same brown as the kitchen but my accents are cranberry red and ivory sheers with roses. I have both black and gold accents at the moment.

Our bedroom is just us. Almost the same color as the living room (a taupe/brown) with white background lilac bedding. It's a small room that drives me nuts. I have no headboard and my curtains on my one window are still the yucky blue ones from dh's single days!

You can't see much of my study so I call that 'eclectic!'

Our bathroom is green purple roses and ivory accents.

The cat's bathroom is a pretty blue with white accents.

Modern clutter
Now if I had the money, it'd be all 1900-1920's (repros of course) art decco.

My style is currently a mess!

My old house was very country. We had the big black iron woodstove and the wood beams, etc.

We have been in our new house a little over a year, and needless to say most of my things do not go in this house. We have done over a few rooms. My Bedroom is now a periwinkle blue. The bedding and curtains have a quilt pattern of periwinkle blue, beige, pale yellow and light green. I am in the office and we painted that a color called "Cinnamon Toast". It's a warm light brown. I have plaid valances that are the same brown as the walls with cranberry and green in them also. Those are the only rooms that are done upstairs.

We did the downstairs bathroom a few months back. The color is called Russian Blue and we put in brushed nickel lights and fixtures. My shower curtain and valance are white, lavender, salmon and blue stripes.

Here are a few pics I have in photobucket that I have posted before:

my kitchen - still needs to be painted





my breezeway




We still have the spare bedroom, the upstairs bathroom, the living room and the dining room to do. Those will be ongoing projects for a VERY long time.

Karen, your kitchen is awesome, I love it!

It looks so fresh and inviting!

Thanks! We are thinking of a very pale yellow for the walls, some year when we get to it!

I can't wait till I have a 'real' house to decorate! (Still I prefer my trailer to an apartment so I really shouldn't complain!)

Originally Posted by MoochNNoodles

I can't wait till I have a 'real' house to decorate! (Still I prefer my trailer to an apartment so I really shouldn't complain!)

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Me too! I love our little apartment, but I really want a "real house" so I can paint, tear up carpet and do what I want, without worrying about a landlord!

I want to paint in here SO bad, the bland white walls are getting to me!

Karen, I think that yellow would look really great in there, I love your kitchen!

Uh, is "cat hair" a decorating theme?

Our house was built in '99, so its pretty updated. Stainless steel appliances/granite in the kitchen. Here's a few pictures from right after we moved in, so there's still stuff all over the place, but gives you some idea:

http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62922

Originally Posted by OllyExtra05

Our house was built in '99, so its pretty updated. Stainless steel appliances/granite in the kitchen.

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nice bathtub and kitchen

Originally Posted by babyharley

Me too! I love our little apartment, but I really want a "real house" so I can paint, tear up carpet and do what I want, without worrying about a landlord!

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Save up as much $$ as you can now. Houses really are a huge money pit!

Originally Posted by OllyExtra05

Uh, is "cat hair" a decorating theme?

Our house was built in '99, so its pretty updated. Stainless steel appliances/granite in the kitchen. Here's a few pictures from right after we moved in, so there's still stuff all over the place, but gives you some idea:

http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62922

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Wow! I love the coloring in your house, espeically in the kitchen, I love those dark colours!

When we get our own place, thats the colours I want! I'm jeleous!

Very nice!

Originally Posted by AbbysMom

Save up as much $$ as you can now. Houses really are a huge money pit!

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I know - thats the only bad thing!

Renting just sucks! I can't do any of the fun decorating stuff that I'd really love to do!

Originally Posted by AbbysMom

nice bathtub and kitchen

Save up as much $$ as you can now. Houses really are a huge money pit!

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Thank you!
Houses sure are a money pit. We have to re-do our deck in the spring because the idiots who lived here before us never had it sealed. D'oh!
These are also the same people who lived here for 6 years and never cleaned out the dryer vent, never had the carpets deep cleaned and were stealing gas from the city the whole time they lived here!

We bought our house from 2 Botanists that spent all their time in the yard, and did some strange things in the hosue. My husband was moving a phone jack and found out that instead of electrical tape, they had used scotch tape. Needless to say, we ae going through everything.

Originally Posted by AbbysMom

We bought our house from 2 Botanists that spent all their time in the yard, and did some strange things in the hosue. My husband was moving a phone jack and found out that instead of electrical tape, they had used scotch tape. Needless to say, we ae going through everything.

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Oh my goodness what a mess, how long have you lived there now?

A little over a year. We moved in on December 23rd, 2004.

Originally Posted by AbbysMom

A little over a year. We moved in on December 23rd, 2004.

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Oh wow, right before Christmas, I bet that was fun!

My style is modern...lots of chrome and birch...and IKEA-tastic!!!!

And we left for Ireland on the 26th - I am still digging out.

back on topic - I am sure we have some fantastic decorators on the site! Let's hear about your rooms!

Originally Posted by lionessrampant

My style is modern...lots of chrome and birch...and IKEA-tastic!!!!

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Oh I love IKEA! I bet you have a lot of great stuff in your house from there!