Decorating trends that were gone b4 I had time to consider
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Comments (26)walkin, I would guess so, but the over-55 subdivisions around here are, like most ordinary subdivisions, waaaaaay out on the outskirts of towns - the downtown areas are already too built-up. The pricier ones have communal amenities like a swimming pool, gathering hall, playground for the grandkids, that kind of thing, but that's true for the regular subdivisions too. They're pretty much never within walking distance of anything though. May be different in other areas, of course. Over-55-restricted development in-town is usually apartment buildings (rentals or condos), which sometimes have some pretty impressive amenities and sometimes not, depending on how much money you have to throw around - just like any other apartment building, really. I love copper and collect early 20th century copperware, but I don't think it's well suited to all homes when used in quantity. Can't go wrong with a rack of well-used (not all polished up to that weird bright orange-pink color) copper pots and pans in my book though. I worked in a couple of restaurants with zinc-covered bars. I think they are unpopular here because Americans in general are not comfortable with extensive patination and then the wear on the patina (they do scratch and spot and blotch something fierce; even water and skin oils mark them up), heat marks, dents, seams, and other "defects", just like copper countertops which I've also worked around. If you wax the counter to keep a consistent appearance the wax layer is somewhat delicate and needs to be refreshed often to maintain its integrity in the face of scraping, scratching, and scrubbing. Having counters that are all spotty and beringed and worn-looking runs up headfirst against the whole Madison-Avenue-engendered American obsession with cleanliness, perfection, and having everything always looking "new". Some people do enjoy the "well-worn" look, but they're the relatively unusual ones, I think. While you can polish the tarnish off with a buffer and mildly abrasive metal polish and sand out the scratches with steel wool to get a uniformly shiny surface, zinc is quite soft and since it's only a thin sheet of metal bonded to a substrate, much like laminate countertop material, it can wear through if you're too hard on it. It's also wowzer expensive - $130-175 per square foot, and can go even higher if you want goodies like integral backsplashes or sinks, fancy edges, a seamless appearance on long lengths or corners, etc. - which isn't quite so bad if you're going to do your kitchen once and let it be for decades (or you just have pots of cash, of course, or perhaps a very, very small kitchen? LOL), but Americans usually remodel and do major redecorations more often than Europeans....See MoreDecorating the Christmas tree by trend or tradition?
Comments (41)I always decorated our tree in a theme. Always had it planned well in advance. Then we started having kids. I still tried to decorate the tree in a theme. It worked for awhile. Then the kids started going to preschool and bringing home all of their crafts. Each one I cherish and keep. They started putting them on the Christmas tree. I moved them to other places. They kept bringing home more. And more. And more. Year after year. And year after year I kept giving each one a special ornament that they might like on Christmas Day. I never really thought about why. It just seemed like what you do. Their 'bought' ornaments would go on their trees in their rooms the following year - preserving my perfect tree. So we found a work around. We would decorate the tree my way and as each day went by they would add their stuff until Christmas Day our tree would be an explosion of kid craft. Well our kids are now 11, 8 & 6 and last Christmas while we were decorating the tree it finally hit me. I watched as they pulled their ornaments out of boxes and recounted the stories of how and when they got them to each other and to me. It was perfect for me. We saved all of the Christmas craft ornaments for the end. I take a few pictures and then they put all of their stuff from years past on the tree. And It Really Is Perfectly Perfect ! A perfect mess of all of our likes and memories....See MoreHome decor trends: top down or bottom up
Comments (26)I am not trying to say that Paul Evans in particular is an example of what is considered the taste, or good taste at the very top of the market. Just that it is something that's currently collected at the top of a market and a good example of something that will not trickle down into the middle. And, it not only won't trickle down now that the studio pieces are rare semi-antiques, it never trickled down much when he was custom making it for people 40 years ago because it was too taste-specific even then. I know Lane made some knock off brutalist style pieces, but I don't know that was ever particularly popular. To me, like cheap Spanish-Mediterranean, this smacks of porn movies shot in the San Fernando Valley in the late 70s and early 80s: yuck. Evans I think, has a particular appeal to those with an affection for une jolie laide, so to speak, or the beautifully ugly. But the knockoffs fail to capture whatever it is that is compelling about the ugliness of the original. But I think there is another high end that is not particularly driven by anything other than quality, and there is a high end that is also driven by discretion so we won't ever see what their houses look like to emulate in any fashion, anyway. I went to grad school with a woman who had two pieces of Nakashima furniture in her apartment, one of which was a long-arm chaise. The value of these is currently in the stratosphere, back then it wasn't. She also had a number of other pieces of good antique furniture (mostly Biedermeier). The Nakashima had been bought new by her parents at a time when it was comparable to any other hand made or studio made furniture (maybe like Thos. Moser today)--not the stuff of museums. The reason she had it at the time was that her parents were doing a major renovation and these pieces were safer in her apartment than they were either in the house being renovated or in storage somewhere. But anyway, I can remember people commenting at the time about her weird and ugly furniture. They had no idea what it was, they had no interest in what it was either. It was never going to have an effect on the middle. Now, there is a fair amount of furniture that is heavily influenced by Nakashima, for example and while you may see some influences in the organic modernism of stuff at WestElm which is "low" in terms of budget and maybe a little higher in terms of design-intellect, and you see a more direct influences of both Nakashima and Evans at the "high" budget end from firms like BDDW--we aren't ever going to see this in the middle....See MoreIt's that time again - 2019 trends
Comments (16)"I know everything" (c, Sandy Pruel's tatoo, "Golden Chain") no, really, I read too much of these articles, and I usually know ahead too, because of high end magazines etc. Complaints already began,and subway tile is going bye bye, and wood stain is back-but pretty, new wood (sorry Becky.,still taken with your different,new brass))..well nice wood is always nice, whenever if you ask me, and I have favorite wood stains that I prefer-which in darker camp would be walnut and teak, and in lighter camp, unstained cherry, maple and white oak (quarter sawn) They show quite a bit of plywood used lately-and I agree sometimes the beauty of material is being exactly what it is ,not trying to mimic anything. I'd love to have stained kitchen, and would have it under different circumstances. I also adore combo of wood plus color. I'm like that since I was 25 and saw it for the first time at some friends' house. was something made in Spain. I got hooked ever since. I have it too, just not in the kitchen. Kitchen was too small to be visually chopped too much. So the wood is floors. Of course I wanted to do butcherblock too. Didn't happen. And my tiles were supposed to be patterned but didn't happen. Well I have there plants and ceramics and whatnot so still it's a warm kitchen. The tones and colors will get richer-they already did. White already's out of big favor, but I love white anyway, when it's applied right, well I love all the colors-for me they just need to be on the warmer side, mostly. So no matter how many people will love navy and all sorts of blues-I'll admire it in other people's houses, but will keep my own blues to small quantities. Unless I find myself in a very cool teal house. Or something. I don't change whatever works, never ever-I adjust. If something beautiful and works with the house-it stays. Greige will still be in-how else folks will bridge between old and new? Most people simply can't afford it. Will be warmer greige. (thanks for that because all the listing with Tuscan tiles and cool gray walls seem so, so very sad. House looks like it's been beaten..against its will) Luckily for me because as you all know I'm a big lover of greige and taupe..they make me special calm kind of happy, they always did. I probably prefer all things a bit muddier and murkier. Though I do love scarlet, and cobalt, and emerald..but so much depends on the surface. Jewel tones beg for depth and richness. As if they were jewels. So yes, velvet..and glass..and very good paint..plants of course! ok I overexcited myself lol. Of course jewel tones are in. Again, for several years already. I love so many colors and have them all too, and the more colors one's got, the easier it is to sneak another one, so all their corals and terracottas and marigolds and greens-I have them all, and more. I do love certain pastels(pink!!), and I love red..I guess because they become me and uplift me-I color my hair red for the past ten years..and I love black and white,..and I like plants and books..and fabrics and prints..and wallpaper already is in again for years and they already say "no, actually we love wall murals better" like it can't be that person loves all of it. You can love everything-and it will whether work in your place or it won't. It's okay, one can love at a distance too. Or if to listen to them-one just has to choose between gallery wall and big art, like it's impossible to like every art in many forms..or one has to choose which plant to love-fig tree out, succulents out, some pampas grass in, like pampas grass is "fresher"-no, I love plants, they're living things, our contract with them is different, and it sounds mighty stupid to me when some are "in" and others are "out"..if it grows in my house under my care it's in. Same with art-I don't buy anything that I want to get rid of. And it takes me years to collect it. As for different tiles-I'm a huge tile lover, I'm a tile junkie you might say. Tile junkies have to pay..like, a lot. So it is what it is. Can't splurge everywhere. Even my compromises were costly enough. And I like handmade tiles. And backyard hardscaping still awaits me. Will be thousands even if I severely restrict myself. It also depends on a house of course, and ours is styled Spanish Ranch, so I have this element of "noblesse oblige" when I decide on tiles. Would it be mcm-I'd choose different tiles-and have huge fun too. In short, everything that they say is now in-it's already in, and it's been in, it's just they didn't proclaim it before, and not everybody's paying close attention, or looks everywhere for inspiration, etc. Terazzo is in(thanks goodness. even though I've nowhere to apply it. brings back happy memories), and many cool things. I swear that was supposed to be a very short post..don't know what happenned. Maybe coffee. Ah. I love coffee color too. I drink mine with cream. Lots of it. So that's a happy color to me. A result of strong coffee plus lots of cream. Maybe it's tan?...See Moredeegw
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