Your Interior Decorating Style...

[The_Ida]

careful it doesn't tip if you decorate it!

It's sturdy I'm not planning on loading a bunch of crap on it anyway BTW I have been finding so many great things at Søstrene Grene, a cheap Danish store with lots of fun little things. I got the cutest little olive oil dispensers/drizzlers, chili oil and sweet preserved ginger. Love that store! They have a lot of cute stuff for the home, and it's cheaper than Ikea

 

[fashionista-ta]

pix = my own.

A little sneak peak at my 1 bdrm apartment. This is the living room. : )

I need to go back to Ikea and pick up some vases and plants. Unfortunately, with the bf in tow, it's usually a quick dash in, dash out visit!

I love your cubbies ... they would totally solve the storage problem I have in my home office. Do you mind sharing details?

 

[Guessgirl96]

here is a tiny little sneak peak into my apt... It's a long work in progress, the living room and den are beginning to come together but the bedroom is very bare. pics from our thanksgiving dinner. I am behind the flowers and the couple is my newly wed brother and his wife I dont have a dining room (1000 sq ft apt) so I put a fold out table over my 400 lb coffee table. The wingchairs are usually off to one side and the TV is over the fireplace which you cant see.

My apt is very colorful - the living room is turquoise and deep purple with grey, pink and yellow kitchen, green and brown bedroom. the little ledges you see are for the cats, they love climbing on them. The top one is long so they can sleep on it.

 

[ellesea]

I love your cubbies ... they would totally solve the storage problem I have in my home office. Do you mind sharing details?

they are actually cheap Ikea "Expedit" bookcases. The smaller one was I believe $99CDN and the larger $149CDN. VERY useful for rental because they can be used as a room divider in a small space but still allow for light. I definitely DEFINITELY recommend them! The white ones have been used in many decorating magazines.

 

[kismine]

this thread is amazing...

i'm actually looking for decorating ideas for my first apartment (i move in at the beginning of january). so far, i really like the combination of jewel tones with simple furniture like these shots from domino magazine

source:dominomag.com

 

[fashionista-ta]

csnchairs.com

^ Love the white + texture, GG, in the chandelier & vase You are tantalizing us, you need to take some pix specifically of your interiors

I am working out of my home office now, so I had to order a real office chair. I'm getting a Humanscale Freedom Chair with headrest, titanium finish, in Flamingo Sensuede, which is a warm hot pink. Sensuede is like Ultrasuede, except green--it's at least 50% recycled. The chair has a lot of recycled content too.

It's the most amazing chair ... you sit down and it hugs you, and when you lean back, the headrest does the same for your head, and the whole chair automatically reconfigures. It hadn't been adjusted for me (but apparently for someone close to the same size), but when I got up, it was like I'd been to the chiropractor--my neck popped a few times, in a good way.

I think this picture is showing the titanium finish, but my armrests will be upholstered.

 

[fashionista-ta]

^ kismine, I know some people really like to live with the bright colors ... I really like color, but I stick with one eyepopping color per room, at most I have plum and purple in the living room, and then touches of soft green and rose. In the kitchen, red + jadite green. In the bedroom, tomato red is the accent color, but it's mostly tan/white/sage. My office is white + ivory so needs some color, thus the hot pink. YMMV though

 

[Belowen]

I got this lamp for Christmas...

ikea

So my list for our room now consists of...

> new curtains
> new bed frame & mattress
> new pillows / doona / sheets
> new bed side table
> new chest of drawers
> jewellery stand
> drawer organisers
> single line bookcase (possibly)

& then on to the bathroom!

 

[Belowen]

So my list for our room now consists of...

> new curtains
> new bed frame & mattress
> 2 new pillows / doona / sheets
> new bed side table
> new chest of drawers
> jewellery stand
> drawer organisers
> single line bookcase (possibly)

We went to Ikea this afternoon & I picked up some sheer white curtains for the bedroom, which is what I was after... We're setting up a shade along that side of the house to block some of the sunlight/heat (as it's becoming slightly unbearable as the weather warms up) so I just wanted a little coverage for the inside... They're very pretty.

I think this will be the bed we'll end up buying...

And while we were out I fell in love with a cream coloured vintage alarm clock and a mirrored photo frame that I regret not buying! I'll have to go back and pick those up...

(ikea)

 

[fashionista-ta]

1stdibs

Here's what I got to solve the storage problem in my office ... it's a 1940s Belgian school desk. And the mirror is what I didn't get It was not going to solve any problems, it was just going to sit around & look beautiful--and that, of course, is my job

 

[Belowen]

My last purchase (a rather selfish one, lol) was this earring stand from a place called French Vanilla that sells a lot of French provincial style pieces... I love it.

my own pic

 

[ellesea]

^ that's beautiful! love it!

 

[cherryblossoms]

Belowen
your earring stand is so pretty!

 

[JessicaYorkin]

My rooms is all white-sleek and sophisticated yet very creative
I love my art I have some very special glass sculptures

Here is my favorite

 

[adorefaith]

that's lovely belowen

 

[fashionista-ta]

My new/old desk came today (the Fed Ex guy goes, what is this?! ), and I unpacked it & rearranged my office this morning. I'm so excited, it really works

The desk I sit at is at an angle, with my back to one corner of the room. The new piece is to my right, running from the corner to the window that's next to my desk. (I didn't realize it would be, but it's almost exactly the same height as my desk, even though it was originally made for children.) On it I have a file stand (is that what you call them?? it's a wire rack that holds file folders) with pretty folders in various black and white prints. Next to that, a stack of big notepads (made of sugarcane fiber ), box of tissue, basket of binder clips, small notepads, and my leather portfolios. Underneath are two galvanized metal bins, my laptop bag, and a basket of CDs. Above is my Georgia O'Keeffe calendar (this month coordinating very nicely with my color scheme--The Black Iris in shades of grey and black).

I had dragged an extra chair in to put things on (now it's back where it belongs), and I've just really been struggling because I didn't have enough space ... it's a beautiful thing when a plan comes together

 

[risska]

Oh, I will have to take some pictures of my room. I'm really proud of what I've done with it. I'm 16 now and when my room was painted I was 6. What color does every 6 year old girl love? Pink. So I have all these different pinks and then I got one wall painted dark blue. Basically my room was HORRID.

I've total changed it and now I love it. The best thing is that the only cost was the paint yet I have made it a whole new room. The walls are now painted a nice light green with the corners in a dark green. I have a whole bunch of french antique hand made furniture. I got rid of my really big ugly black computer desk by getting my dad to mount a slab of wood (cut from trees that were on out property) then I good an old bookshelf and put it on top of it. It all works really well.

I also have thing scattered everywhere, creates that messy effect but the good kind.
I really love being in my room now, it makes me feel so clam and nice, I used to hate it. All the hard working of doing most of this myself has really been worth it.

I can't wait untill I'm older and get to do with a house of my own.

 

[joie]

Great thread.

Have recently changed my style a little. I grew up in old houses - one from the 1920s and one from the 1880s - and my parents were always into antiques so all my furniture was lovely antique stuff. When I moved out of home as a student I never had the money to replace anything and at that time I didn't want to. Now I am a full time worker, living in a modern apartment, and now my furniture is a mix of Victorian/Edwardian (balloon back chairs with velvet cushions, rosewood dining table, old piano my dad bought me and my grandpa french polished, inlaid wood cabinet currently used as tv cabinet), art deco (round mirror, club lounge suite), Scandinavian (teak side tables, smoked glass coffee table) and a bit of modern-on-the-cheap (Ikea sideboard and bookshelves). Somehow it seems to work fairly well together! I've recently done a big cleanup so I'll take some pics maybe tomorrow.

I do have an attachment to old houses though, as great and easy to clean and care for as my apartment is, and think that when (if?) I end up buying my own place I'd like a little old terrace house.

 

[The_Ida]

^Please post pictures, your apartment sounds lovely! Sounds a bit like mine, even though most of it is Ikea...I only have a few thing from the early 1900s

 

[fashionista-ta]

^ I old houses too ... mine is from the 20s. Can't imagine living in any other kind ... McMansions don't love you back