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Stitching & Crafting Room:  How do you decorate your home?????  |
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hapyhrt
True Blue Farmgirl
129 Posts
USA
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 Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 12:52:38 PM
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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
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ArmyWifey
True Blue Farmgirl
712 Posts
Holly
Abilene
KS
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Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 1:58:12 PM
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Sort of a cross between country/ranch house/simple. I have some things I've made, things I've collected from Floh markts in Germany, Antique stores, here and there and heirlooms.
LR right now has no treatments. We have recessed windows with vertical blinds.........I plan though to put pegboards above the windows and then gauzy white curtains, probably one per window pulled back to the side with raffia tie.
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Whimsy_girl
True Blue Farmgirl
576 Posts
USA
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Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 2:23:25 PM
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Comfortable but ecclectic.
We have only been in the house for a few months now but right now we just have plain cream colored walls with some art hanging on them. I have a print of a field of sunflowers that everyone thinks is supposed to be a magic eye poster but it's not... and I also have a large embroidered and framed piece that says "Raise your children with two things, one is roots and the other wings" with butterflies and sunflowers all around it. I haven't got them up yet but I also have 9 framed pictures by that guy who makes animals and people out of fruit and veggies.. That will go in our dining room once we get some batteries for the laser level :)
Our bedroom looks very modern.. it reminds me of a grayscale photograph. Our bedframe and shelf is black metal. Our bedspread, curtains and dresser drawers are all silver. the dresser tops are white, the walls are white and hanging on the walls on one side over the dresser is a large silver framed mirror and on the otherside is a primarily black photo of the earth from space at night.
My favorite room in the house is the girls room. We kept the original wallpaper and it is the one room in this house that no one smoked in ever so we were able to go without repainting the ceiling so we got to keep those pretty ceiling sparkles that were so popular about 15 years ago :) The wall paper is a cream base with purple blooming flowers all over the place.
I am in the process of refinishing their dressers and nightstands in the same shade of purple with matching flowers as the drawer pulls.
Our living room furniture is pretty basic.. it's just that ultra suede stuff because with toddlers in the house they were wrecking my special furniture (I have an antique 1940's scalloped back loveseat and ottomen that had spent it's whole life covered so it's absolutly beautiful, but sticky little fingers were hurting it so it lives downstairs in the computer room for the time being.) we also have my husbands beloved bean bag chair in front of the T.V. because he loves to play his video games after the kids go to bed at night.. it looks like a dead jelly fish in the middle of the room like that but it's his favorite spot in the house.. plus it doesn't look half bad when he's in it... He gives it some sex appeal 
We have plants everywhere! Mostly aloe vera because our big one keeps having babies (offshoots) and we are running out of people to give them to so we have our huge one and 3 or 4 little ones scattered all over the place. Then we have the rubber tree, another one thats some sort of a tree we think but we got it for a wedding present and we call it the love plant.. it's getting huge.
We just have plain slat style blinds on the windows. We had some handmade pretty blue curtains in our old house but they wont fit the windows here so we haven't decided what we want to do in that area yet...
ramble ramble ramble.. ok time to move on to the next post :)
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ThymeForEweFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
705 Posts
Robin
An organic farm in the forest in
Maine
USA
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Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 3:18:15 PM
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My house is mixed. The kitchen is Tuscany. Taylor is going to be an Italian chef. I let her choose the decor. The walls are a light shade of dark yellow (how's that for obscure) with forest green sponged over. She'd love to have traditional looking walls but the kitchen is in the original farmhouse and not possible. You can see a little of the diningroom from the kitchen, and the bathroom, but nothing else. The rest of the house is lodge style. The diningroom, family room/office and livingroom are one open 50' room. I have antique wooden snow skis, a snowshoe, painted saw blade, outdoorsy signs and photographs on the walls. One wall has a lodge theme wall hanging. A packbasket sits to the right of the entertainment center. It is filled with my husband's grandfather's old wooden ice fishing tilts. They each have a metal tag with his name engraved. The bathroom has outhouse curtain hooks and lodge style shower curtain and rug with moose, evergreen trees, snowshoes, canoes and pinecones.
I have a lot of antiques throughout the house. Working radios, a great wheel (huge spinning wheel), chests, family photos, an old crank telephone, Secretary, cupboards, crocks and such. They're all either family pieces or were given to me by family. I have the telegram to my great grandfather telling him that his son had been killed in World War II. There are letters written by Uncle Fred to Grampa John. I'd like to have them printed and aged and some how work them into the decor.
Robin
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 3:19:58 PM
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Country/farmhouse witha little primitive and garden style thrown in. Our living room has lots of baskets and warm tones with green. Lots of wood. Wood floor with big braided rug and did I mention lots of baskets??? The family room is much more comfortable and kinda ugly. It has some cute things about it..woodstove..franklin type that is nice and brick wall behind it..and one wall has cute shutters and a window frame up as art that I love..there are old built in cabinets where there are lots of family pictures...BUT>still has the orange shag carpet in there that the house came with in that room. Yikes. Beanbag chairs all over for the kids and the computer..lego table, old yucky recliner and like that..but it works. Our bedroom is done with alot of willow stuff and has an old wallpaper with offwhite background and leaves on it..that i SORT OF like..but wont' keep forever. I love my little kitchen..for sure farm style needs work but I love it. My John Deere collectibles and more baskets live in there as well as the dishes I collect and alot of stuff from my grandma..it is my favorite room! The kids rooms..well, they are decorated right now with BArbie and Spiderman. lovely.
I love that our old house has the chubby baseboards and big wide mouldings and stuff in the oldest part of the house and neat windows that pull in in the kitchen ...a row of three of them..it would look funny decorated any other way!!
Jenny in Utah
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mollymae
True Blue Farmgirl
694 Posts
Molly
Visalia
California
USA
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Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 3:58:48 PM
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Fun subject! Mine is country/cottage. I have quilts hanging all over the place, cottage-style slipcovers, white lace curtains. My kitchen is more in a "farmhouse" style, red gingham valances (homemade), huge red painted wooden peg shelf to hold my spices and potholders, framed black and white pictures of some of my ancestors!
Cead Mile Failte,
Molly
"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."~Rumi
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hapyhrt
True Blue Farmgirl
129 Posts
USA
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Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 4:34:43 PM
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Wow! This is such fun getting to know your styles and the delightful descriptions of your wonderful homes makes it easy to picture how comfy, cozy and special your homes are!
Our house is a small 2 bedroom ranch, yellow with hunter green shutters and last summer I painted the front door a burgendy color to give it some character. Ü
The living room has many of my country primitive crafts and special items shared by family and friends. I just sewed new fitted covers for our old couch, loveseat and matching chair in a sort of olive green plaid fabric. On the walls are a patchwork rag quilt, feed scope candle scones, family pics, and country decor peg shelf. Mom gave us the brick faux fireplace when she moved to a smaller home. Hubby and I designed and built the entertainment center which has beadboard doors that I just love! The kitchen is done in an old fashioned grandma's baking theme, wallborder with blue/white gingham, baking equipment, recipes, fruit, milk pitcher and accented in a mauve color. I found the border very cheaply online. The curtains are a blue/white gingham that I made and we have a hutch hubby built for me as an anniversary gift for our 3rd anniversary, that hutch is now 22 years old! It's been honey pine, then painted white with blue trim, blue with white speckles and now a deep mauve color! Yep, i change things frequently! LOL
Anyway, this has been a fun thread, thanks so much for sharing, I appreciate it very much! They say "Home is where you hang your heart" I can see by the great responses that this saying is indeed true!
Blessings on all our homes wherever and whatever they may be! (((Hugs))) Ü
"Think HAPPY Thoughts...any others aren't worth your time!" Ü |
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
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Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 5:33:40 PM
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My house is old Kansas farmhouse meets French Country/Clutter. I have dark wood work, some bartered stone we put in our entryway that is so cold in the summer to walk on, earth tones on walls, except in the kitchen and its a washed terra cotta finish and a grapes border. I made lots of pottery in a class that sits around in the kitchen. There are lots of kids artwork I framed cheap hanging on walls, and a huge cork bulletin board on the stair landing for more art work, and other stuff, family photos ect. I have an old sideboard in the dining room with an antique picture of Mary and the Christ child and it serves as my home shrine, a candle burns often there for prayers. My home is a hodge podge of family history and dirty upholstery, dog hair, girl stuff, my husband's big Cowboy Boots by the back door, garden tools, hats, dust, and an occasional dead cricket this time of year. it's HOME.  
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BlueEggBabe
True Blue Farmgirl
417 Posts
Susan
PA
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Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 7:05:31 PM
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We live in an old stone farmhouse with a wrap around porch.
On the porch is a huge picnic table, benches, rockers, an array of plants, muddy boots and garden tools, an egg basket, water buckets and a tiny fridge for eggs. A real fine party place!
Our landlady likes white walls and white woodwork everywhere.
But,after 10 years, some of the walls have quietly morphed into very pale sky blue kids rooms, pale buttercream yellow in the kitchen, pale sage green in the LR. We may have to paint over some day but,
Oh well. I am happy to have many deep window sills and all hardwood floors and staircases, except old linoleum in the kitchens and baths.We have 2 woodstoves (one in kitchen, one in LR)and corresponding stacks of wood.
I guess our style is antiquey farmhouse/natural fiber/eclectic/flea market/yardsale shabby.Whew!
I think my most expensive purchase ever was an antique long harvest table for my kitchen because I always envisioned lots of people eating around my table. My dad made me a walnut pie safe (to hide our TV in)and I punched the 10 tin panels in it with a hammer and nail. He also made a pine corner cupboard which I severely distressed (much to his horror!) and painted with milkpaint. They are very special to me.
On the walls are mostly our own various makings of paint or photos or fabric or old memorablia of some sort. I have baskets, enamelware,
quilts/fabric pcs, bookcases, plants and candles or oil lamps in just about every room.Various mix of yard sale white curtains throughout, some lace ( made out of old table cloths).
Our house is usually cluttered with different creative projects and this time of year: harvest of veggies, fruit, herbs in various stages of preservation.
Everything I decorate with is something we can use, for the most part.
I always look for beauty and usefulness when I am shopping.
I don't like to buy anything that just gathers dust.If I cant use it, it doesnt earn a place in my house!
Sue
"If more of us valued good food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 7:11:58 PM
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We live in a small smooth stucco cottage ( think Irish cottage houses) with a low roof and nine over nine divided light windows. It is painted a buttery lemon yellow with white trim and blue green shutters, door and I have the same scalloped lace valance and tier in every window for a little privacy and exterior unity. Inside each room has it's own sort of personality. Our living room is done wiith lg blue checked fishtail swags , white matelasse slipcovers with lots of squishy pillows in blue and white ticking, yellow and red. There is an ancient oriental carpet on medium golden pine floors. The furniture is old, older and antique! We have a big painted armoire that we hide the tv, video and gaming stuff in and I would love if it stayed closed forever! Our style is mostly English country cottage I think but these are things you will find throughout our home: samplers, handmade baskets, lightship baskets, pack baskets, crocks, spongeware and yellow ware, a little redware too!, paintings, quilts,
framed photos of friends, family and ancient ancestors(as my son likes to call them!), vintage hatboxes, suitcases and trunks,vintage dishes , glassware and pottery, vintage linens and lace, mantel and steeple clocks, floor to ceiling bookcases filled to the brim with a wide assortment of readng, and one dedicated just to a very eclectic collection of music.We have never bought furniture in a furniture store (yes, never!) we have acquired old, gently loved and antique things throught the years that you can live with, put your feet up on and not feel like there is a warrant out for your arrest.They have come to us through family , friends, flea markets and the occasional drive by acquisition. It's home to us wherever we are because we take home with us! The light is always on and welcome mat out , pull up a porch rocker and tell me about yourself! Would you care for some peach cider to cool off?
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PJJ
True Blue Farmgirl
95 Posts
Paula
Bristow
OK
USA
95 Posts |
Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 7:36:29 PM
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Yumm, peach cider?
Tell me more ...
Paula J.
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Originally posted by bramble
Would you care for some peach cider to cool off?
with a happy heart
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lonestargal
True Blue Farmgirl
607 Posts
Kristi
Texas
607 Posts |
Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 7:36:54 PM
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ThymeForEweFarm--You are soooo lucky to have an Italian chef with you!!! I make a lot of Italian food, it's my favorite.
Our house is a cross between southwestern/ranch-cowboy. We have a lot of items made from horseshoes and our couches have horses all over them. Our coffee table is Amish made with wagon wheels as the legs and horseshoes in the tabletop. But then I also have American Indian decorations too. |
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PJJ
True Blue Farmgirl
95 Posts
Paula
Bristow
OK
USA
95 Posts |
Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 7:48:15 PM
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For 20+ years our home was a combination southwest/Texas/West, with a little bit of cottage style thrown in -- for me. Now, I honestly cannot bear to live with these items anymore. Too many memories -- and ex and the gf are doing everything in southwest to remind them of their growing-up years in New Mexico. Needless to say, I want *none* of it. Sadly, I still have some very nice pieces -- artwork and rugs -- which I inherited. I certainly wasn't going to leave them, so now they're stored in my home until I find a new "home" for them.
Our new/old home is a small ranch style, red brick with white shutters and trim. Nothing out-of-the-ordinary. Inside the carpet is "yukky" and I plan to pull it up ASAP. We're painting with taupes (several shades) and doing glazes and faux finishes on the walls. I will put either bamboo on the floors or stained concrete with rugs. My bedroom is several shades of sage and mossy green. All the colors are meant to be restful, serene, and healing -- what the kids and I need right now.
The furniture is a combination of leather (sofa), Arts & Crafts style, and big comfy cottage chairs. The dining room table came from Mexico. The chairs are crackle painted with b/w cow leather seats. They'll be going soon, to be replaced with seagrass chairs.
The look I'm going for is kind of a Tuscan cottage feel. I plan to replace the dishes with mismatched china. Nothing expensive and okay if it breaks.
My daughter (10 next week) is doing a "surfer girl" bedroom. Bright lime greens, orange body pillow, bright blue bedspread. We're painting surfboards on each of the four panels on her bi-fold closet doors. My son's is more a sci-fi/fantasy/sports look, with some camoflauge colors on the walls, but nothing too dark or oppressive.
Furniture placement was all done by a good friend who's an interior designer and feng shui specialist. Now I just need to do some of the "cures" she recommended for certain rooms. And get the finances in order so I can do a little more nesting!
I just don't want anything to remind me of 26 years of "another life." And it is honestly pretty fun to begin again and know I can do it the way *I* want to this time around -- a luxury I never had before.
Paula J.
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
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Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 8:08:04 PM
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You know what, girls? I think any of us would feel right at home in each other's places!! They all sound so inviting. My place is a cottage if we're putting it in realtor terms... otherwise it's just a small old house... but it IS my house! I'm very similar to BlueEggBabe in that it's a mixture of farm meets country, invites cottage to join in, and all be comfortable yard sale! Nothing is out of the ordinary. About 15 years ago I "inherited" olive green 1970's carpet that mom was replacing. Yuck! but it was actually much better than what was there, which was a multi-shade brown shag... of which my office still maintains (but lots of area rugs hide most of it.) And wouldn't ya know olive green is making a comeback. I would prefer wood floors, and that's what I'm working toward. People who come here say that my little oasis is inviting and comfortable. I think that is the most important thing. I don't have to worry about any tv shows or magazines doing a showcase !! 
**** 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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Susie Q
True Blue Farmgirl
122 Posts
Susan
So. California
USA
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Posted - Aug 12 2005 : 1:44:16 PM
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I call mine Coastal Country Cottage. With country influences from France, England, Greece, Morocco, Sweden and the oceans that link them all together.
My base colors are white and cobalt blue, I will accent with creams and pinks in warmer months and add more burgundy in the cooler ones with snatches of other colors when the mood strikes. I use darker woods to tone down the pinks along with iron, wicker, terracotta. The fabrics range from simple bleached cotton to a few rich silk pillows that compliment each other. It has more of a French Country feel than anything.
I keep modern appliances... coffee maker, microwave, and TV stuff and such hidden. I leave out the urn filled with wooden spoons, the cast iron from the sheep camps, the french press pot, the tea ketle, and the simple daily items from other countries, throw's, my moms cut crystal items, my dads lariat from his rodeo days in school, shells and drift wood, the basket that holds my curent handwork project. I keep one modern phone for the computer, the rest are the old rotary dial ones.
The house is just under 1,000 sq. ft., 3 bedrooms, one bath. One of the bedrooms I converted into a library. It's small but it's home. I just wish it had a wrap around porch.
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PJJ
True Blue Farmgirl
95 Posts
Paula
Bristow
OK
USA
95 Posts |
Posted - Aug 12 2005 : 2:42:45 PM
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It sounds absolutely wonderful! I think I could live there anytime.
When I was reading, your description evoked the feeling I want to feel about the house the kids and I now have. I want to bring in more of the Mediterranean aspects, rather than the southwestern. But they're not so different in many ways. I found a set of pen and ink prints a cousin of my dad's brought back from Lebanon decades ago. I'm going to have them framed in simple black photo frames and use them in the living room. It will create a nice tie to our past (my family is Lebanese).
I agree with the comment of feeling at home in any one of the homes described here. But I'm still waiting for that explanation of peach cider!
Paula J.
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Originally posted by Susie Q
I call mine Coastal Country Cottage. With country influences from France, England, Greece, Morocco, Sweden and the oceans that link them all together.
My base colors are white and cobalt blue, I will accent with creams and pinks in warmer months and add more burgundy in the cooler ones with snatches of other colors when the mood strikes. I use darker woods to tone down the pinks along with iron, wicker, terracotta. The fabrics range from simple bleached cotton to a few rich silk pillows that compliment each other. It has more of a French Country feel than anything.
I keep modern appliances... coffee maker, microwave, and TV stuff and such hidden. I leave out the urn filled with wooden spoons, the cast iron from the sheep camps, the french press pot, the tea ketle, and the simple daily items from other countries, throw's, my moms cut crystal items, my dads lariat from his rodeo days in school, shells and drift wood, the basket that holds my curent handwork project. I keep one modern phone for the computer, the rest are the old rotary dial ones.
The house is just under 1,000 sq. ft., 3 bedrooms, one bath. One of the bedrooms I converted into a library. It's small but it's home. I just wish it had a wrap around porch.
Paula J., with Ty, Cara, Brody, Blue, and Fidget |
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Fabulous Farm Femmes
True Blue Farmgirl
792 Posts
Diane
Lakebay, Tacoma
WA
792 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2005 : 01:22:12 AM
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| I bought Peach Cider when we were in South Carolina...yumm! |
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hapyhrt
True Blue Farmgirl
129 Posts
USA
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Posted - Aug 13 2005 : 04:20:14 AM
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M-mm! Peach Cider sounds tasty! Never had it before but would sure be willing to give it a swig and try!
It's such fun to read about your homes, please keep sharing with us if you haven't already, ok!
Don't remember reading (memory isn't what it used to be!  )if anyone decorates in "Primitive" style? Using pip berries, fixin's of rose hips,cinnamon sticks, etc., gruby candles and tea stained raggedy dolls, quilts and such? I find something comforting in the simplicity of Primitive decorating though family would tend to disagree! Still they have come to accept my love of such things, rusty stars, homespun, handmade stitcheries and to help them along I refer to it as "Country primitive". My dear friend Sherry aka The Farmers Daughter has such a wonderful talent for decorating with simplicity and I oohh and aahh whenever she shares pics with me.
Now, next question...would you rather have one of those brand new huge "farmhouse" style homes that are popping up all over the country, you know the ones with the fancy faux paned windows, chandeliers showing from an upstairs arch window and professional landscaping or whould you be just as happy (or happier) in a smaller older home that shows it's character in warm wood moldings, nooks and crannies, worn flooring and where every room is not painted the same contractors shade of white? The big fancy house have lots of "style but no substance" in my humble opinion, so give me an older home anyday that has stories to tell of happy family's it's sheltered. Our home isn't old but I sure do wish it was and spend alot of time trying to come up with ideas to age it with a friendly country style that's achieved mostly by handmade items inside and out along with "make do" items, trash to treasure, hand me downs and all that good stuff ya can't find in stores anymore!
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mollymae
True Blue Farmgirl
694 Posts
Molly
Visalia
California
USA
694 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2005 : 06:47:48 AM
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"The big fancy house have lots of "style but no substance" in my humble opinion, so give me an older home anyday that has stories to tell of happy family's it's sheltered."
My favorite home is a farmhouse that belongs to a friend of mine here in the area. It's 2-story, at least 100 years old, slight country decorating, but mainly just clutter from having 10 kids and homeschooling. Not a lot of style (but she's slowly working on it), but sooo much substance! You can just feel the love when you walk through those doors. They live out on 4 acres and their home is such a haven, and everyone that visits there has a hard time leaving the cocoon of that wonderful place.
Cead Mile Failte,
Molly
"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."~Rumi
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PJJ
True Blue Farmgirl
95 Posts
Paula
Bristow
OK
USA
95 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2005 : 06:58:02 AM
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Umm, that would be the exact kind of house my "ex" moved us into a year ago last March -- he and his girlfriend live there now.
I hated that house. It was really huge, but no "soul." Loved the big porches front and back, and the window seats in the kids' rooms, but that was about it.
They're welcome to it!
Paula J.
[quote]Originally posted by hapyhrt
Now, next question...would you rather have one of those brand new huge "farmhouse" style homes that are popping up all over the country, you know the ones with the fancy faux paned windows, chandeliers showing from an upstairs arch window
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quiltedess
True Blue Farmgirl
296 Posts
Nancy
Priest River
ID
USA
296 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2005 : 07:40:22 AM
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Wow, what an interesting subject. I'm blown away by the descriptions of your homes. They all sound fabulous. I'm with you all on the "big, fancy houses". Around here they all seem to have brick facade's that arch around the entry, yes, and the chandelier. My house is a kind of cottage. It was originally built in 1932 but we have added on/remodeled over the last 26 years. Most of the time we lived here it had no floors, just particle board, some exposed insulation and wiring, etc. At the time we adopted our daughter we had torn off about 1/3 of the house at the back and were living in the one room that had walls and insulation, we had no hot water, and it was January. It looked like this picture starting in 1997. My hubby, who is an architect, designed the remodel. Now we are getting it prepared for sale and have packed up almost all of our clutter/pictures/decorating and are getting ready to repaint the inside a neutral color and replace carpets and vinyl flooring. I would have LOVED wood floors, but they were too expensive. I'm not very good at decorating. From your descriptions I would be happy to let any one of you decorate for me.
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After we sell, I'm moving to a trailer on my parent's property in North Idaho for a couple of years and be as frugal as possible. We want to save as much as we can. Hubby will find as small an apartment as possible in Seattle and keep his current job. We will take turns commuting across WA on weekends. Really not looking forward to it, but the end result, we hope, is to build on our newly purchased 10 acre dream property. My husband, the architect, and me the farm girl have very different ideas on what kind of house we'd like to build . . . but we've both decided we like this house . . .
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Designed by architect Donald Powers and featured in Fine Homebuilding magazine's annual issue titled HOUSES. So far I'm having difficulty imagining the interior decorating. But I'm very much looking forward to the "dilemma".
Sorry to run on so . . . you all are so easy to "talk" to.
Nancy
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PJJ
True Blue Farmgirl
95 Posts
Paula
Bristow
OK
USA
95 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2005 : 07:52:56 AM
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Wow, Nancy, both are beautiful!
Paula J.
Paula J., with Ty, Cara, Brody, Blue, and Fidget |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Aug 13 2005 : 10:43:41 AM
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in answer Paula...I would prefer a beat up old farmhouse over ANY new house any day. I do have alot of primitive stuff in my decorating..especially in the living room..that is my only sort of Kid Free zone..not that they arn't ever in there..they just arn't allowed to help decorate (with spiderman and beanbag chairs, barbies and hot wheels cars especially!) They never bring toys in there period...it is sort of my sanctuary!! The family room is another story...still country, but more eclectic for sure! My living room has some willow peices, a very old trunk and primitive artwork and lots of baskets...I love baskets! There are hand hooked rugs and braided rugs (I made the hooked ones) and quilts and nothing fancy or modern for sure. Give me an old house any day of the week!!!
Nancy your house pictures are beautiful!! I like the grey with white trim. We need to paint our house in the next year or so..and i am trying to decide the colors. Right now it is sort of peach with off white trim. I love a white farmhouse too though, so I don't know. My grandma's house was always white and she changed the trim color every few years. One time she did bright turquiose!! YIKES! it was her favorite color but looked ghastly and it only stayed that way for about 6 months. It was dark green trim most of the time and that was my favorite. I am loving hearing about your houses!!
Jenny in Utah
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
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Posted - Aug 13 2005 : 11:29:34 AM
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Our house was designed by a retired Williamsburg architect. It is white, with three dormer windows across the front, a brown roof and a red door. It is two-story and the upper rooms have sloping ceilings. The floors are antique heart pine that came off an old movie theatre ceiling that was torn down in a small town near here. You can see the nail holes and places where some tar still stains the wood. It is my kitchen floor, too, and I love wood floors in a kitchen. We have a big porch across the back of the house. The center hall is shotgun style, with the front door at one end and the back door at the other end opening onto the porch. There are lots of chair rails and crown molding and a "real" fireplace that is brick from top to bottom and fairly deep. So with all that said, I was kind of forced into a tradiontal style of decorating, but have chosen to keep it simple and a little rustic so that it looks more casual, and not fussy. Our windows are nine over six and long. There is lots of antique brick on the outside foundation. If you look at houses in Williamsburg, you are looking at my house, and I still love it after twenty years. It is so homey and I never get tired of being in it. We are not fussy people, and I do not collect many knick knacks, and stuff to dust. I just like simple and functional and old.
Nancy, your home is wonderfully done! Love the front door. Thanks for the photo!
By the way, any of you can come and visit me anytime!
jpbluesky
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
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Posted - Aug 13 2005 : 12:11:10 PM
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Wow I would love to visit all of you for coffee and conversation...a home that has a sense of place is always more appealing to me than brand spanking new...it takes time and the elements and many people, children, grandchildren, rowdy teenagers to give that home its "place". Imperfections are always interesting me. After rereading my post you guys probably think I am a real slob... Yuk, dirty upholstery and dog hair and dead crickets. Well, to clarify this I have an off white slipcovered couch that always seems to be in the need of laundering, and there are a few stains I could not remove thus the imperfections. My dogs come in once and while but they do not have the run of the house...but always seem to leave a little of their presence behind, as well as our Manx cat. Try as I might a cricket will slip in...and I have a hard time doing them in so I try to coax them outside by the back door. JP, I love the sound of your house. Your wood floors sound amazing. I have 2 upstairs dormer windows in the girls bedroom. When the girls were babies, the tiniest room became their nursery. It has a dormer and I put an old recovered loveseat in the space and loved sitting there nursing my girls looking out on the farmfields. It was a peace I cannot describe, pure happiness. The walls were painted a cream/pink and I put an angel cherub wallpaper border up. It is still my favorite room, but now it is used for storage. All of your homes sound so warm and cozy and full of love.
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Lazycreek
Farmgirl in Training
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Charlee
Mt Ida
AR
USA
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Posted - Aug 13 2005 : 12:33:43 PM
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Our house is still a work in progress. Dh is still working on making the red oak floors and in the mean time, I have the subfloor painted a med tan. I think my style is closest to the "pottery barn" look. I have a big overstuffed off white sofa that is slipcovered and goes in the washer and denim covered chairs. The black and white art is my Dh's black and white photography. I have my pottery all over. Dh has done a couple of stained glass panels that we incorporated in the house. No window treatments as we are so secluded in the forest, no need. I will probably add some panels at some point just for color. Walls are a navaho white. If I like it and/or Dh likes it, we figure out a way to incorporate it in the decor regardless of what the decorating rules are. Big deal with me is how easy it is to wash and keep clean.
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Stitching & Crafting Room: How do you decorate your home????? |
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How do you decorate your home?????
