artbabe
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Post by artbabe on Jun 15, 2024 16:52:25 GMT
This board is going slow so I thought I'd add a couple of threads. When you decorate your house, do certain rooms have themes? I have several themes in my house. My bathroom is decorated like the beach- nautical stuff, shells, towel rack that says "beach", and lots of photos of my nephews on our beach vacations. My bedroom is Alice in Wonderland. Not the Disney stuff, the old John Tenniel drawings. Lots of rabbits, tea pots, statues, clocks, etc. My office is The Office. The black potty people sign on door, Pam's watercolor, a framed Scranton tourist poster, lots of Office toys- Funko Pops, Little People, Lego.... My living room is succulents. Actual plants and paintings of succulents. My pillows on my couch are even shaped like succulents. Does anyone else do this? Or are you more tasteful than I am?
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Tearisci
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Post by Tearisci on Jun 15, 2024 16:56:25 GMT
My guest bathroom is Paris themed, but I don't really have any other themes other than that. I would like to decorate more seasonally but I tend to start that in the fall. leannec's summer thread has me inspired though so maybe I'll start there.
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pantsonfire
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Post by pantsonfire on Jun 15, 2024 16:56:33 GMT
Nope. I just decorate areas with seasonal decor.
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Post by cmpeter on Jun 15, 2024 16:56:35 GMT
No themes here. Yours sounds super cute though.
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Post by lainey on Jun 15, 2024 16:57:15 GMT
No, themes are not my style at all. I find them a bit tacky tbh.
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Post by ntsf on Jun 15, 2024 16:57:49 GMT
no I don't decorate for anything, except a christmas tree.
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Post by Zee on Jun 15, 2024 16:58:41 GMT
I don't have themes like that, but everything must be coordinated in some way, by color or style or whatever.
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Post by MichyM on Jun 15, 2024 17:10:13 GMT
No themes for me.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Jun 15, 2024 17:16:13 GMT
I don’t really have any themes except for holidays. My mom has a huge of house and some of her rooms kind of have themes. For example, she calls one bedroom the “little girls room” because she has a few of her and my old folks, an antique high chair, some vintage kids books, etc. It’s not tacky like it maybe sounds. Probably like a very simple little girls room from a vintage era. One of her other bedrooms has my stepdads memorabilia from throughout his life, and another room has a few pictures of each of their families when they were kids.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Jun 15, 2024 17:21:14 GMT
I am very matchy-match, so I like matching and continuity throughout. Same color scheme throughout.
I wouldn't say I have a "theme", it's more of a style. Not sure what my style is actually called though. I know what I envision and have been aiming for....I think my overall decor aim is >> romantic, cute, cozy, quaint, slightly distessed, slightly shabby chic, has a sidewalk cafe-ish type vibe....if that makes sense.
My decor consists of >> candles, photographs in frames (I have a gallery wall), cute signs of various sizes and styles, flowers, a small chest, a couple hat box type boxes that hold sentimental stuff, cake type stands & boards with decor on them, decorative pillows, cute canister and bottle type jars, etc... I have a two seat bistro table(with a couple saddle stools that can be added). I want a small love seat(future purchase). I want a skinny, taller.... pantry type cabinet with a couple drawers. Preferably with a beadboard aesthetic. I would love a brick wall or a wall of shiplap type boards....that were slightly distressed and in the colors that match my decor. It's a work in progress....I'm getting there.
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bklyngal62
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Post by bklyngal62 on Jun 15, 2024 17:23:42 GMT
I don't have themes but each room does have a different color decor. Guest room and 2nd bathroom are blues and grays, living room is black, grays and silver, kitchen is red, black and grays, our bedroom and bath are teal and grays and our texas room is a combination of black, red, gray and teal.
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Post by leannec on Jun 15, 2024 17:31:13 GMT
Despite the fact that some might find it tacky ... My entire condo is decorated in a "Paris/France" theme ... it is NOT tacky The basis is the fabric of an armchair in my living room ... I have very nice art, shower curtain, bedding and various objects that carry the theme ... I also decorate based on the seasons ... I just changed over to Summer ... I posted photos on today's "What's For Dinner?" thread if you want to take a look!
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Post by mich5481 on Jun 15, 2024 17:32:37 GMT
I'm drawn to the grandmillenial style, but I have too much stuff right now. Especially since I sold my house and moved in to take care of my mother.
I do like the idea of your Office themed office. I want to create a gallery wall with artwork from my travels and sneak in Pam's painting. 🤣
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Post by kate on Jun 15, 2024 18:02:18 GMT
I'm so jealous of you who have planned/decorated homes - theme or no theme!
My house is best described as "yard sale" - as in the yard sale itself, not chic little treasures culled from other people's sales. LOL We have a couple of nice pieces of furniture, and a whole lotta IKEA (often in the same room).
We decorate for Christmas, but I would LOVE to have other seasonal décor that rotated - I'm just not good at it.
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Post by disneypal on Jun 15, 2024 18:04:36 GMT
I used to but not so much anymore, although my bathroom does kind of have some "sea" items (seahorses, mermaids, sandcastle) but now, I mostly decorate by color. Like my kitchen has Tiffany Blue decor items, my living room is plums, my bedroom is pinks, my guest room is blues, that kind of thing.
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Post by ~summer~ on Jun 15, 2024 18:06:05 GMT
No themes but yours sounds fun.
We rented a house in Oregon last year that was very nice and was completely over the top with themes - like a Peter Pan bathroom etc. I’ll have to find photos.
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Post by lisae on Jun 15, 2024 18:37:31 GMT
No themes. When I built my house, I was really into antiques. That was good because no one else wanted my grandmother's stuff. It wasn't valuable but it was old and most importantly, free! I still have a few pieces.
Having a good color scheme is important to me. Also, I want accessories that I really love and have a significance in my life.
The only holiday I decorate for is Christmas and I've done less and less as I get older and just don't want to be bothered.
I do love fresh flowers in the house. From May through frost, I typically have flowers from my garden. There are 4 arrangements in the house right now which is a bit of an overload. My hydrangeas are blooming and some other things are starting to come in as well.
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Post by peano on Jun 15, 2024 18:44:46 GMT
The only theme room is DS's bathroom from when he was little. My inspiration was 60s Beach Boys. Madras plaid patchwork shower curtain, thick pale blue and white cabana stripes on the wall, wicker vanity accessories, a photographic print of an elephant sitting in a Karman Ghia on the beach, a couple of beach signs.
After staying in many beach rental houses with tacky decor (I've seen it done much better--less theme-y)beach houses over the years, I'm over themed rooms.
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Post by katiekaty on Jun 15, 2024 20:38:19 GMT
Not really a theme but a decorating style, I suppose. Having grown up in Louisiana, there is definitely French influences to what we have done inside. It’s been call French provincial several times and I suppose it it’s definitely not modern, contemporary or anything like that.
As for holiday or seasonal decorations, I do add that around the house but it’s usually limited to family, formal dining and kitchen areas. Christmas has the most decorations.
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Post by scraphappy0501 on Jun 15, 2024 20:57:07 GMT
The only themed room in my house is my office/craft room. I'm a huge Disney fan and that room is where I keep all my Disney memorabilia from trips. I have Disney art on the walls and a Mickey Mouse head-shaped clock one of my DD's gave me for Christmas several years ago. It's the only room in the house that is "mine" so I figure I can decorate it in whatever way makes me happy
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 15, 2024 21:07:33 GMT
If DH had his way, our home and cabin would look like a Cabela’s store threw up in them, LOL. Deer heads and stuffed fish; plus deer, hunting dogs and pheasant framed prints from Ducks Unlimited banquets in every room.
Our lake cabin has a definite cabin vibe and is more themed. The upstairs bath has some pine/ northwoods type decals on the wall and a cabin-y color scheme. The downstairs bath has a fishing theme with a bright funky shower curtain with colorful fishing lures printed on it and colorful painted wood cutout lures with hooks for towel hangers in there. The guest room has an under the sea type theme with seashells on the bedding and oversized seahorse wall art. The other two bedrooms aren’t really themed, there is no decor in my bedroom at all. The great room has a mounted deer head and a huge rack of elk horns from the old cabin on the wall, some carved and painted wooden fish and a big laser cut wooden map of our lake. We used rowboat oars for the handrails going down to the basement. We’re still working on the common areas in the basement and haven’t decided what to do in those rooms, but DH saved the original windows from the old cabin to use somewhere down there as picture frames with family photos through the years. His family has been on the lake in the same place for over 50 years.
At home I guess you could say our family room has a cozy north woods thing kind of going on. We’ve got the obligatory mounted deer head over the fireplace and the mantel has a collection of small pine trees, a carved wooden bear that was a gift from a friend years ago, and a collection of folk art vintage type snowmen that stay up year round. My studio is colorful and fun. Since I have always been into animation and Disney, I have the giant Minnie Mouse that I rescued from DD’s room when she was done with her, some Minion decals, a big Tinkerbell and a giant Muppets decal and a Hello Kitty chalkboard wall decal that I haven’t found spots for yet. I put colorful polka dots on one wall. It’s a fun, happy space.
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Post by hutchfan on Jun 15, 2024 21:56:57 GMT
I decorate Americana, primitive, antique style. So I have lots of crocks, quilts, mortar and pestle, buttermolds, redware through out my home. Lots of rooms have Uncle Sam dolls, Lady Liberty dolls and flags. I have one room that features Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and George Washington. My scrapbook room has movie posters, music memorabilia from concerts and tags and pictures from some scrapbook personalities that I won or was given to me. My grandson room is decorated in a nautical theme. My husband main room features The Cincinnati Bengals and Cincinnati Reds. And my personal room is filled with my books, pictures and toys from my childhood, my daughter's favorite toys, and my grandson favorite toys.
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Post by paget on Jun 15, 2024 22:31:22 GMT
I wouldn’t say themes really, but overall vibe/style for rooms- yes. And this is created with color, patterns, decor, furniture choice, etc. we just moved into our new house and I’m going for a coastal cottage industrial farmhouse vibe (we have a barn and are on the coast so it works lol- it leans more coastalCottage than farmhouse ). Within that, some rooms are different color schemes but it all works together (I do not like matchy matchy so it’s fun for me to collect random things and make it all interestingly harmonious.
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Post by melanell on Jun 15, 2024 22:33:46 GMT
I don't have a theme. Every room of my home is pieced together by a mix of stuff of different ages, and different styles, from different people or places, and it's not because I'm going for an eclectic look, but because I like houses to feel like they have had the same family living in them for a long time, and it's a family that only replaces things if they have to, so they wind up with dribs and drabs that have accumulated over decades. I do very much love nautical things, and if I owned a house near a beach and could find that kind of thing on a regular basis, I'd go for that look there for sure. But I'd still want older & newer things, and actual nautical items mixed with purely decorative items, etc. And I'd definitely still mix in a bunch of non-nautical things, too. All of that aside, your themes sound super fun! I never would have thought of a succulent theme. That sounds really lovely. And the Alice in Wonderland one sounds great. I like that you went a different route and opted out of the Disney version.
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Post by sweetpeasmom on Jun 15, 2024 23:15:00 GMT
No. I'm not a very good decorator. We have lived in our house 9 years this week. I just last weekend got our main wall decorated. It is a large wall. Our tv has sat against it for about 4 years. Prior to that it was in the corner of that wall. I started collecting things last year and got them put up last weekend. My son was shocked!
Our bedroom will be next. We just don't have a bedroom suite. It's a hodge podge of things. I think we will be redoing our closet using the trending Target shelving that is going around TT. If we do it the way I am hoping, we might be able to get rid of at least my dresser. I'll want to get 2 side tables for the bed. Right now my side has an old sewing machine (one of those old ones that fold into it). DH's side has a cube shelf thing that I bought years ago for the kid's toys. His dresser currently is what our kids used as their baby dresser.
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Post by Gennifer on Jun 15, 2024 23:21:13 GMT
No, themes is not my thing when it comes to decorating. (Except for some of my Christmas trees.)
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Post by ddly on Jun 15, 2024 23:24:46 GMT
I decorate for holidays and seasons. I’m digging out my 4th of July stuff tomorrow. My bathroom is octopus/nautical themed but that’s my only theme. Everything goes in each room but it’s not themed.
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Post by whipea on Jun 16, 2024 0:58:53 GMT
No real themes, just what I like. But my guest room could be considered having a theme. It has my childhood furniture, kind of dark wood with nautical maps on the backs of the shelves and some rope trim. Kind of went with that but limited. That is about as theme as I get.
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Post by JoP on Jun 16, 2024 10:50:47 GMT
No themes for us either. I only decorate at Christmas 🎄
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Jun 16, 2024 12:07:57 GMT
I did some themed rooms in the past. It was popular at one point and later made sense in young children’s bedrooms.
No themes in my house now for quite a while - well, last three houses anyway.
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