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| hapyhrt |
Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 12:52:38 PM
Sorry, not sure if this is the right place to post this question? I'm curious as to how you each decorate your homes? Country, Primitive,Farmhouse style, Rustic, French Country. etc? Do you make most of the decor items yourselves, find them at auction or sale barns or shop at speciality catalog stores? Share with us a bit about your decorating talents, please!
Also, what type of window treatments do you use in your living room or parlor?
I decorate country primitive meaning a mixture of both! Right now there are scalloped edged lace curtains in our living room windows but come colder weather I was thinking of adding a heavier drape over the lace but is that at all country or primitive? I think not! LOL
Okay, your turn to share, if you please! Thanks! Ü
"Think HAPPY Thoughts...any others aren't worth your time!" Ü |
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| sqrl |
Posted - Aug 29 2005 : 12:20:14 PM
Thanks Bramble, that song has been sung to me a few times throughout life. I love the Allman Bros. they're great.
Blessed Be
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| AuntieJen |
Posted - Aug 29 2005 : 08:06:56 AM
Hippie chic refined, I like that:) |
| bramble |
Posted - Aug 28 2005 : 2:09:35 PM
In 1970 (I was 10), the paisley was on my bell bottoms and I was doing macrame for the 4-H fair! How's that for a blast from the past!
And I seem to remember an Allman Bros song "sweet Melissa, that's for you SQRL! Everyone's house is a mirror of who they are and I am a treasure hunting clutter bug married to a shaker loving plain decorating man. I should have been born a Victorian, him a little earlier! Somehow we make it work!And our son swears he likes MODERN!
Though he did make tye dyed shirts this week with his friends so...maybe there's hope!
with a happy heart |
| Kathigene |
Posted - Aug 28 2005 : 1:11:21 PM
Grace, No macrame hammock but there are some other macrame projects. If I ever find a pattern for a hammock I will be sure to let you know. There is a knotted hammock in MaryJane's book. Have you seen that? I have the hips for crafts too Grace. Are you old enough to remember how skinny everyone tried to be in the 60's. I've always been shaped like a woman - well since about the time I turned twelve. I bloomed early.
Kathy
Dogs make such good friends because they wag their tails rather then their tongues. |
| MeadowLark |
Posted - Aug 28 2005 : 10:58:50 AM
Hi Auntie Jen, Sounds like your home is hippie chic refined! I love the sound of it! I was 14 in 1970 and a hippie wannabe...had the suede fringed vest that my mother hated, HUGE tye dyed bellbottoms and peace choker necklace and homemade bead necklaces and the Peter Max posters and plastic pillows. I was groovin'. I love it that this stuff is coming back and your generation is reinventing those times.
Being is what it is. Jean Paul Sartre |
| AuntieJen |
Posted - Aug 28 2005 : 10:38:43 AM
Funny how some of the things that you say people liked in the hippie days are really just quality, classic things that evoke interest and warm feelings no matter what era it is....my dad says I should've been a hippie, but I wasn't even conceived until 1970....I missed it.....but I do have paisley curtains in my kitchen and an oriental rug in there, so it has a certain hippie vibe. We have a 1924 craftsman that we are slowly renovating. I guess my style (now) would be farmhouse with some natural accents thrown in - a bird nest under glass with a few real bird egg halves in it, a log candle holder, bird houses, china, tarnished silver, natural bamboo shades, a wind-up weiner dog that barks (okay, that's just a quirky extra that I got at Goodwill. He makes me smile.) A few years ago I found an old butter box from my hometown of Enumclaw, WA and that sits proudly on the top of my kitchen window trim. And my bedroom is all Shabby Chic, pale blue and green. Very restful. |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - Aug 28 2005 : 08:29:02 AM
Clare- tie dyed curtains - that is the answer! The muslin will work!
byHzgrace - Williamsburg is a small town in Virginia that was an early colony of the USA. The houses and buildings have a distinct look - both brick and wood, they look traditional with shutters, dormers, windows with many panes, and paneled doors. I like the look because it can be very minimalist. Wood floors, walls with chair railings, simple candle type light fixtures, brick fireplaces with nice molding surrounds. Add a braided rug and rustic furniture and it looks nice. Or it can be fancy english china and mohagony furniture - it has many looks but is quite American (brought from England). Does that supply more of a visual?
When the hippie days were here, we loved quilts, oil lamps, baskets, pottery, organic gardens all things natural. Still love those things!!! :)
jpbluesky |
| ByHzGrace |
Posted - Aug 28 2005 : 08:08:50 AM
Meadowlark howabout a ramblin woman:
http://www.musicalwomen.com/Pages/sveamp3.html
Kathy I got the hips for crafts! LOL does the book have a macrame hammock?
Now you gone and added Willamsburg to what I don't know? Is that like a the colony log cabin? |
| Kathigene |
Posted - Aug 25 2005 : 08:13:34 AM
About a year or more ago I spotted a book in a book store called Hippie Crafts. Well of course I had to look at it but as I pulled it down from the shelf I promised myself I would not buy it. The book brought back so many memories. It wasn't just the crafts but also pictures from the 60's. I had to buy it and I've already made two projects from it and it and I'm sure I'll make more. I think there is a pattern in it for a halter top like jpbluesky mentioned above and of course lots of tie dye. So if you're looking to recreate your hippie days!!!
Kathy
Dogs make such good friends because they wag their tails rather then their tongues. |
| Clare |
Posted - Aug 25 2005 : 06:23:30 AM
Ahh, jpbluesky, just hang some tie dye near your front door, and that'll explain everything to everyone! 
**** Love is the great work - though every heart is first an apprentice. - Hafiz
Set a high value on spontaneous kindness. - Samuel Johnson****
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Aug 25 2005 : 06:09:44 AM
Meadowlark - yes! You know, I had forgotten that...
Grace - I still have some of that leather! I have a fringed buckskin jacket that I have been thinking of selling as vintage. It is so heavy! And, I seem to remember a halter top that was chamois with fringe....in those younger days.....
To get back on topic, by looking at my house, which is Williamsburg, one would never know that there were hippie days in my past! :)
jpbluesky
heartland girl
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| MeadowLark |
Posted - Aug 24 2005 : 8:15:53 PM
Was Greg Allman an Allman brother? He was the blonde guy married to Cher? Lord I was born a ramblin man... tryin to make a livin doin the best I can...
Being is what it is. Jean Paul Sartre |
| ByHzGrace |
Posted - Aug 24 2005 : 7:53:07 PM
I'm reading and y'all are better homes and gardens!So many beautiful homes.I'd like an artists studio. Wow.
I don't have a clue to this here stylin and decorating. They all look and sound like mansions.
Really, I want to know what makes it rustic or primitive or country and is it color or style or furniture? My colors are red and yellow of cypress. I have no style, maybe *early college* cuz that's how old my handmedowns are?!
hey sistah bluesky!
you like allman bro me too! I play soul, country, gut-wrenching blues guitar, and for a girl wail on slide skydoglike. do you remember the fringe leathers from back then? I still have my mini suede skirt. It could be a small pillow LOL. |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - Aug 22 2005 : 1:20:57 PM
byhzgraze - you know, the Allman Brothers are homeboys, right? One of them started a still existing recording studio right here in my area. I know this is the wrong place to post this but, .....
There are many reasons why bluesky is my name, but the lyrics of that song sum them all up.
"Walk along the river, sweet lullaby, it just keeps on flowing,
It don't worry bout where it's going, no, no.
Don;t fly, mister blue bird, I'm just walking down the road,
Early morning sunshine tell me all I need to know.
"You're my blue sky, you're my sunny day.
Lord, you know it makes me high when you turn your love my way,
Turn your love my way, yeah.
"Good old Sunday morning, bells are ringing everywhere
Goin to Carolina, it won't be long and I'll be there."
jpbluesky
heartland girl |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - Aug 22 2005 : 1:17:43 PM
sqrl - that is because your home IS an artist's studio/nest! It sounds so full of love, too.
jpbluesky
heartland girl |
| sqrl |
Posted - Aug 22 2005 : 10:17:10 AM
Well since we live in a apartment and we know we will be moving around still for a couple of year before we settle, things aren't exactly how I would like them to be, but we make due. Much of our furniture can be taken a part so we can travel with it. I'm a big fan of real wood. We have a two bedroom apt. one bedroom is my husbands workshop and the other is our cozy bedroom, Andrew(husband) built the bed and we painted it with this sage green milk paint, and since I always wanted a headbord he made one and cut a crescent moon out of it like a stencil. Blankets are colorful, but an autumn colorful not a bright summer colorful and sheer sage(same as bed) curtains floor length. The kitchen is full of my handmade pottery with all kinds of differnt ecletic pictures and pots hanging, a lot of my Moms stiched picture (love them). Living room has my workshop in the one corner which is always bursting with paint, fabric, paper, you names it's there. Besides that corner which I try to control there are lots of plants and old red oxide colored metal trunk that we use as coffee table, two handmade wooden book shelves, trinkets everywhere and natural linen curtains. All the walls are covered in our own art mix with my Moms and Andrew's Moms art. Our kitchen table (borrowed from friends) is always colorful with with a set of candle sticks. I would say our home looks like an artists studio if I had to give a name.
Blessed Be
www.sqrlbee.com/artisan
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| ByHzGrace |
Posted - Aug 21 2005 : 12:59:03 PM
I forgot to say my girlfriend said to say it is shacky chic. |
| ByHzGrace |
Posted - Aug 21 2005 : 12:55:49 PM
Clare and JPbluesky
Bless your hearts, sweetpeas!
JPbluesky is the bluesky from the allman's brothers?
We be islanders since 1989. Take the sand+pineneedle drive by the big sawtooth palm and honeysuckle. The mailbox has passionflower vine wrapped on it.You pick mango sign hammered into the tree.
Clare Looky here I found a cracker picture book.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/156164014X/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-0041122-8923044#reader-page
My porch is deeper and the tin shiny.We lost the old that looked like this before Hurricane Charley,Frances and Jeanne.Anybody else have tin? When you get rain, Our Lord is hammering! We still are clearing prairie and runnin canals for the groves.
Clare not the little house on the prairie west kind, us crackers say prairie for what you say swamp?
What makes country cottage primitive rustic french farmhome?The colors you pick? Wood finish? Fabrics?
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Aug 20 2005 : 12:07:35 PM
byhzgrace - I love reading about your place! Your style of writing and descriptions is, simultaneously, simple and quite sophisticated. Your homeplace sounds fascinating - how long have you and your family lived on that land? I want to hear more!
In fact I really enjoy reading about all of your houses - and you all are funny too! Pottery Barn collided with Grannies Attic - LOL! Taking something new and making it a fixer upper! :) You guys are hiarious! But your homes all sound like they have something in common - they are loved and lived in and cared for!
jpbluesky
heartland girl |
| Clare |
Posted - Aug 20 2005 : 10:11:53 AM
ByHzGrace: Don't feel bad or out of place. If anything it's my language linguistic ability that is not as well versed as it could be. I'll catch up. 
**** Love is the great work - though every heart is first an apprentice. - Hafiz
Set a high value on spontaneous kindness. - Samuel Johnson****
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| ByHzGrace |
Posted - Aug 20 2005 : 08:19:16 AM
Hi JPbluesky and Clare,
Trying to understand what was "not to insult"???
You want me tell what my place translate into??? boy howdy kinda feel all over again like when I'm  nerdy freshmen and I'm all alone at the seniors class party!?!
When I hear the word Primitive it takes me back to this drawing art class.The boy next to me is drawing stick people and we had a beautiful girl sitting naked modeling. The teacher said "look we got a primitive." So you betcha I do live in the sticks.
We call her papaya place. We have over 10acre under grove, plus the 3 in hammocks behind us to lagoon. This is citrus off season. My mango and papayas have had me truckin to market...75cents you pick along with orchid selling at the show.
Tacky cracker comes from my tin roof and cypress big overhangshack. We have a two chimmey freestanding fireplace in the center of our one room. No central heat/ac.
 We believe cool comes eating some salted watermelon with our afternoon thunderboomer blowing in from the lagoon.
We got 2 bedrooms one for us one for the boys who go figure beat the drum to get out of here fast and on to college!
Reading my prattling and it sounds more primevial?  |
| hapyhrt |
Posted - Aug 20 2005 : 04:08:15 AM
Wow! The response to my question of how you decorate has been fantastic! Thank you all so much for sharing! Your home descriptions are so filled with warmth and love, that it just gives my heart a smile reading these posts, it's great! Through your descriptions I have learned that this saying is so true "Be it ever so humble, there's no place like H O M E!!!" 
I almost feel sorry for the richest of this land who live in huge mansions filled with gold and finery. In my humble opinion I'd much rather walk on wooden floors worn from years of love shared by family and friends footsteps than the purest white marble in all the world that can never hold the warmth left by the heart and paths of those we hold most dear.
~ "May the Blessings of Home, Love, Happiness, Health and Peace forever reside at each hearth and in our hearts for always"! ~
"Think HAPPY Thoughts...any others aren't worth your time!" Ü |
| Fabulous Farm Femmes |
Posted - Aug 20 2005 : 01:54:27 AM
My hubby says our home looks like Pottery Barn collided with Granny's attic...I am always trying to style it more modern... but darn it I like the old & cutesy stuff!
We too are trying to make our new house look old. Our last house was an Arts and Crafts Bungalow that we totally restored.Don't know which way takes more work honestly.Where we moved to was pretty much all raw land, very few old homes, so we started with a new manufactured home that we customized as much as we could and are still working on it.
My mother says I am the only one who can buy a brand new house and remodel it right into a fixer-upper!! |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Aug 19 2005 : 5:54:14 PM
Now your house sounds like one I would just love!!!!
Jenny in Utah
The best things in life arn't things |
| primjillie |
Posted - Aug 19 2005 : 3:20:47 PM
I love to talk decorating! My house is very primitive ~ a little bit colonial and a little bit farmhouse. I love braided rugs, quilts, yellowware, old wooden bowls, enamelware, stitcheries, lots of textiles ~ I could go on and on! We live in an 11 year old house that we are trying to make look old. We are replacing the carpet with wide pine flooring and painting the oak cupboards in colors like mustard, black, dark blue, etc. We are also tearing down the ugly light fixtures and putting up tin or wooden chandeliers. We took down all the blinds and put up homespun curtains and ticking valances. Most of my furniture is antique or antique reproductions that have been distressed. I have lots of peg racks with old aprons and bonnets hanging on them. I have also spread my primitives to the outside. I have a peely, distressed farm table on my back porch with benches and old metal chairs. Our garden has an old picket fence around it and I have lots of old "garden art" - ladders, chicken feeders, old farm tools and birdhouses. My mom says my house reminds her of her old farm and I take that as a compliment! (She didn't mean it that way, since she hates old things!) |
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