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Thanks! We were prepared to let go of the Taj Mahal if we couldn’t find a coordinating floor tile, but luckily we did. We’re putting the pickets on the shower walls, in a horizontal pattern instead of the vertical as shown in my photo. Our shower enclosure is quite tall but it lacks width, so we thought placing the pickets horizontally may help it appear wider. Plus, we want to keep things as traditional-looking as possible. I was a little sad not to find a subway tile in the color I needed, but the husband and I both liked these pickets, so it should be fine. Penny tiles are going in the shower floor. I hope it comes together as I have it in my mind. I’ll share photos once we’re done. We are still quite a way from the finish line.
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Here’s few photos. It’s not completely done but you can see what it looks like. I will have a makeup area with chair
People baffle me.
When I went to my last formal class reunion (2004) there were probably 120 women there. I was literally the only one there who was dressed in something bright and happy. Almost all the women wore a little black dress. A few were there in pants suits.
I wore an A line floral print dress similar to this:
I stuck out like a sore thumb, but I loved that dress and it made me happy and I look and feel better when I am wearing bright colors and bold patterns. I had a wonderful night. I danced and talked and caught up with old friends and was completely comfortable and at ease.
Were all those other women truly as comfortable wearing that little black dress as I was with my floral print? If they walked into Bergdorf's, Saks or Neiman Marcus and didn't have the preconceived notion that they should wear a little black dress and were left to pick anything that made them feel like a 10 I wonder how many would come out with a little black dress.
Why are so many so afraid of just loving what they love and not needing to be told what they should love?
I have a sister-in-law that has beautiful light blond hair and big blue eyes, skin that tans in a minute and bright white smile. She loves icy bright blues and looks great in clear pastels. She is renovating her home and picked Revere Pewter as the main paint color. Don't get me wrong, I love Revere Pewter. It is the main neutral that I picked for my niece's home, but she loves muted greens and fall colors. My SIL loves spring colors. All her art and décor and everything that she is naturally drawn to is light clear colors. Why did she pick Revere Pewter. Because that is what is popular (small rural town, 5-10 years behind the metro trends). Her friends and the "design consultant" at the renovation center all rallied for Revere Pewter. It is a forgiving color. Her pastel art will be fine on the Revere Pewter walls. It won't make them sing, but it will work.
Come to think of it, she graduated with me and was at the same class reunion. She wore a little black dress.
I get the sense that the OP was concerned less about what anyone actually decides to do in their own homes and more about boredom with ubiquitous designs in design magazines--sort of like how bored I am of seeing the same hairdo everywhere I go on all women, no matter the texture/color of their natural hair, or their age or body shape,etc. Sure there are the outliers, but the "current" hairdo (no matter what the new name for it is) has been pretty much the same for decades now as what Jennifer Aniston was wearing 20 years ago...
I want to flip through magazines and see something new, in kitchens and clothes and hair. That doesn't mean I am going to run out and copy it.
When we decided our kitchen for our new home, I looked at inspo pictures and it was hard to see variation. Gray was dominating-and I don't like it, no matter how available it was. The design I fell in love with was already more than 5 years old, and is obviously even older now since our home took so long to build. I'd understand that it might bore visitors/designers if their kitchen and everyone else's was the same. I'd still love it.
Re: the Billy Baldwin apartment, I always appreciate and admire the design history and perspective that palimpsest (best user name ever) brings to the conversation.