S/O Your decorating style

[raangoli]

I know we have a whole board for this over on H&G, but I thought it would be something to talk about here given the post on Fixer Upper.

What is your decorating style? Traditional, modern, mid-century modern, rustic, shabby chic...or whatever was given to me, etc?

Feel free to PIP space you love or even your own space if you're so inclined. 

[raangoli]

To answer my own question, I think I lean more transitional (which is an option I didn't even mention, hah!)

I did a Google search and I like these rooms:

[Deleted]

A mix of industrial and rustic, lots of bare wood, brick, and metal.

[preppy]

Coastal. Lots of blues and whites, we have nautical charts hung in our living room and fish prints. I like navy stripes, and am looking for navy striped curtains right now for our living room.

[followyourarrow]

I'm not sure my style has a name. I decorate with whatever makes me happy. Furniture tends to be simple, clean lines, lots of dark wood. Several antiques. Then fun pops of color in pink, yellow, and turquoise. I get a lot of compliments on it, so I guess it works.

[winnied]

I didn't know Transitional was a style but I'd say that's mine.

Otherwise, IKEA? Is that considered a style?

[Susie]

Traditional/transitional, and as much coastal as I can get away with, no longer living in an actual coastal area.  I use a lot of muddy blues and greens.

I used to keep a house blog from when I was more active on H&G but it's gotten woefully out of date.  

[mbcdefg]

Rustic, I guess? Or "affordable as we can be without looking like crap"?

Lots of grays, browns, greens, and blues for the rugs and wall paint, curtains, and the bathroom towels. 

Most of the wall art is framed vacation/scenery photos and family pics. A few travel-centric thrift store finds, too. Some handmade wooden items. 

Our dining room set is an antique store find. Couches and bedroom furniture are from a chain furniture store. Coffee table and side tables are Pier 1. Armchair and another side table are refinished from thrift stores/the curb. Entryway table is handmade. Guest room bed's headboard is a refinished garage door. 

We also have a brick fireplace. 

A lot of our smaller decor pieces incorporate nature - vines, leaves, trees. 

We like things to be simple, clean, basic. Don't like loud pops of color, busy patterns, trendy decor, words on the wall, etc. We like things to look adult and sophisticated, without looking too stuffy or fancy, or like you can't just be comfortable there. 

I like this style, which is labeled "Relaxed contemporary." 




This is also nice and reminds me of a lodge or a home in the woods or something:






These stone walls are nice:

  

I had to Google "transitional," and it looks like what I like:




I'd love to have a Shore house someday and do a light, airy coastal theme.

  

  

[Deleted]

I pretty much love every picture Susie posted and would love any of those in my post-child-raising home except for white couches, they give me stain anxiety.

With a houseful of kids my style leans more towards "Crap my kids can't break". I enjoy my home and I like the look of the decorating that has been done but I definitely plan to up my game in a few years when I don't have kids that are quite so young.

[raangoli]

@kirkette, chilerellanos, I go between not really caring and then thinking maybe I should care more. My house will never be magazine spread beautiful, but it's nice enough to me. It's a mix of hand me down (the dining table and chairs are from my parent's house and what I ate on growing up and my coffee table is a thrift store purchase my brother made when he graduated collage) and new purchases (new sofa, chairs, rug, media stand).

[Pom]

I would and have called our current style "Joanna Gaines would throw out all of the comfortable furniture in this place".

Our new house is French Acadian, built by a builder out of Baton Rouge. Since our last house was a lakefront house, all that stuff migrated here of course. So eclectic-French-lake house? LOL. We still live in a lakeside community now, just not on the lake. I love all the photos mbcdefg posted, but white is not an option, since I have a husband, cats and anxiety.

I like various woods, brick exposed walls, distressed whites, airy, comfort, no clutter.

[liveintheville]

Modern. Except for chandeliers. So modern tacky.

[ellipses84]

My style is transitional. I love modern and mid-century modern. DH and I have very different tastes, he wants comfortable and traditional, so I have compromised a lot with him, plus we don't have money for the kind of furniture I want, haha. I'm a designer, so I get to do amazing projects at work. My house is embarrassing in comparison. I tell people the cobbler's children have no shoes. I was finally getting it where I wanted it to be, and we were living in a fantastic mid-century modern house, but it flooded. Now all of our furniture is hand-me-downs and we have an orange couch and plaid chairs, but I'm thankful to have a place to sit. I think we'll only live in this city a few more years, and I have 3 boys, so it may be best to wait a while to buy nice things again!

[ellipses84]

Aug 19, 2016 8:52:24 GMT -5 followyourarrow said:

I'm not sure my style has a name. I decorate with whatever makes me happy. Furniture tends to be simple, clean lines, lots of dark wood. Several antiques. Then fun pops of color in pink, yellow, and turquoise. I get a lot of compliments on it, so I guess it works.

Eclectic style!

[mbcdefg]

Aug 19, 2016 10:48:14 GMT -5 Pom said:

I love all the photos mbcdefg posted, but white is not an option, since I have a husband, cats and anxiety.

We have two black cats and a gray tabby, plus we eat a lot of food on the couch, so white is a no-go for us as well. lol 

[operagirl]

raangoli , I've named my style French Country Went to Town:  Low end antiques mixed with comfortable furniture and nice collections. No roosters or farm animals, but a relaxed french look. My family room (converted garage) is more casual than the living room, but I spend 80% of the time in the LR. 

[operagirl]

Aug 19, 2016 11:15:54 GMT -5 @sfgal530 said:

I'm in the transitional camp as well. Neutral larger pieces, tons of color. I consider myself fortunate to have been able to hire a designer as I don't have enough eye for design on my own. it is amazing to me how much happiness I get in having a nicely decorated house - I never cared before (and wouldn't know the difference if I'd done it on my own), but now that I have it I find it makes me smile.

Your house and furnishings are gorgeous! Is it on Houzz yet?

[SJ]

I know it when I see it.

Not modern. Not Victorian. Not country.

A little bit traditional with a big dose of craftsman/prairie style.

I love benches and built-ins and wood and fireplaces and crown molding and tin ceilings and nooks & crannies.

DH is the real decorator in our house though.

[mbcdefg]

Aug 19, 2016 12:32:34 GMT -5 Stan said:

I have a flag that beans got me from Senator Gillibrand's office that is going to be the focal point of my living room whenever I settle down and get a giant frame made for it.

So is it possible for AMERICA to be a decorating style? That's mine.

Isn't Americana a style? My mom used to decorate her living room like that.


  

[raangoli]

Aug 19, 2016 12:32:34 GMT -5 Stan said:

I have a flag that beans got me from Senator Gillibrand's office that is going to be the focal point of my living room whenever I settle down and get a giant frame made for it.

So is it possible for AMERICA to be a decorating style? That's mine.

I ordered a flag to be flown over the Capitol for our 5th anniversary last year and I totally intend on incorporating it into our home office decor. 

[raangoli]

@sfgal530, is the nursery done? I'd love to see if you're willing to share.

[mbcdefg]

The first time MH and I went to a B&B together (back when we were dating), we had a suite that had a pineapple pillow and other pineapple elements around the room. And we were all, "WTF? Who the hell makes 'pineapples' a decorating theme?"

Then we found out later that pineapples are a symbol of welcome and hospitality. lol. We just thought the innkeeper was really into pineapples.

Made sense that my grandma had a brass pineapple door knocker back in the day. Again, I was thinking to myself, "Pineapples, Gram? Really?" She always struck me as more of a cranberry person for some reason (she made really good cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving).

Wow, that was a long ramble. 

[ssmjlm]

I call it coastal negotiated. DH has so many dang opinions that I'll never get it where I want it.

His current style is "gray."

[drloretta]

Traditional and eclectic

ETA inspiration pix. Except the bookcase would be filled with DH's DVDs and fantasy books, the picture above the fireplace would be a Thomas Kincade (God help me), and the kitchen would have a Minnie Mouse lunchbox somewhere

[juliej]

Transitional, probably. "Industrial mid-century in a Victorian house." Our favorite places to shop: Room & Board, World Market, IKEA, West Elm, CB2.

[drloretta]

Aug 19, 2016 13:41:23 GMT -5 ssmjlm said:

I call it coastal negotiated. DH has so many dang opinions that I'll never get it where I want it.

His current style is "gray."

This was my DH when we met. Gray cat, gray furniture, gray carpet, gray clothes. He has softened a bit after 10+ years of marriage

[Wanderista]

Aug 19, 2016 12:43:46 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

The first time MH and I went to a B&B together (back when we were dating), we had a suite that had a pineapple pillow and other pineapple elements around the room. And we were all, "WTF? Who the hell makes 'pineapples' a decorating theme?"

Then we found out later that pineapples are a symbol of welcome and hospitality. lol. We just thought the innkeeper was really into pineapples.

Made sense that my grandma had a brass pineapple door knocker back in the day. Again, I was thinking to myself, "Pineapples, Gram? Really?" She always struck me as more of a cranberry person for some reason (she made really good cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving).

Wow, that was a long ramble. 

Yep, pineapples were a colonial era symbol of hospitality so having a brass pineapple door knocker or a pineapple on a post goes back a long way. You can see them if you visit historic colonial towns such as Williamsburg, VA.

[just]

Open the most recent Ikea catalog.

Not joking, in our fully furnished 3 bedroom house there are 2 pieces that weren't bought at ikea (our dining table and light fixture in that room). Everything else is Ikea - including most of our soft furnishings, kitchen things, storage boxes.

I'm European so I love Ikea, and it has a better reputation there than here. I like the minimalist look, and you can't beat the prices even of the higher end stuff. I will defend my Big Yellow habit until my dying day.

[Wanderista]

I am going to spend part of my weekend fixing somebody else's shit show at work so I need a subject like this. 

My style is pretty flexible and dependent on where I am. Others mentioned liking to be consistent with a location, style and space and this probably also applies to me. I have a general love of architecture as a form of art and I also love history and culture. I guess you could say that I like "character" in various forms. I know when I'm in a space that I like but I'm flexible about what that is. I skew towards traditional but I can be convinced by other influences. 

I like elegant and I like some neutrals. I don't like something to be too "loud". My sister is the opposite of me. I know if I like something when I see it. I also pick up things while traveling. Nice souvenirs show up a lot in my decor.

Boyfriend's taste is very classic and traditional. He goes a lot more reliably towards traditional than I do. We have a really comfortable chocolate brown sofa that suits us both. We are currently living with a whole lot of beige. He gets gifted a lot of hand-me-down furniture. I like his relatives and they are nice but they really like to pass down old furniture of varying taste and quality. (Think crap from the 80s). They have a hard time taking no for an answer. Heirlooms are great and some of the stuff has been nice. Some of it is stuff that neither of us actually want. (An example is a loud, rainbow-colored salad bowl that some relative of his used at some point. It is gathering perpetual dust.)

They keep trying to give us a dining table. The first suggestion wouldn't fit in our space so they are now saying that they will give us a different table. No idea what this table will look like. No photo of said table accompanies the discussion. It is really nice of them though. It's just a little bit like being peer-pressured with used furniture. This is not stuff that is of significance to him.

[operagirl]

Aug 19, 2016 13:48:31 GMT -5 drloretta said:

Traditional and eclectic

ETA inspiration pix. Except the bookcase would be filled with DH's DVDs and fantasy books, the picture above the fireplace would be a Thomas Kincade (God help me), and the kitchen would have a Minnie Mouse lunchbox somewhere....



drloretta, if you really want a Thomas Kincade, I have two I'd be willing to sell.