And a Pinteresting we go! Interior/Exterior design id thread

Oh I really meant more just find a hall colour that complements both the teal and whatever you end up doing in the kitchen, not that the kitchen and the living room  have to complement each other. Although I suppose that would be a by-product.

ugh I hate the idea of refinishing anything ANYTHING.
But the bannister sounds like it could be awesome.

I definitely want to see pics - that rug is so great.

ok WELL the biggest part is done. I didn’t do the bedroom doors or the windowsills or the phone nook because I haz a tired but i can still decorate & do that stuff when i’m off work for winter break and am bored.next up, stuff on the walls, and waiting impatiently for my pillow covers to arrive from Redbubble!

No, I would advise against them. Roman shades, accordion blinds, or just regular curtains are more practical and less dated. 

Are window treatments even a requirement?  My personal preference is nothing at all -- I'm a bare-windows kinda gal.  And I figure the neighbors are welcome to watch me sitting around my living room, if that's how they get their kicks.  Heh.  But we do have some glare issues from a couple of south-facing windows in the "public" rooms of the house, and went with those low-profile honeycomb blinds.  They're easy to operate, retract to nearly nothing so there's very little window being covered up when they're not in use, and are not a danger our string-eating cat (who managed to eat all the cords out of the existing window treatments in our previous house).

As I peruse pinterest, waiting for xmas festivities (brother's fam sitch means holidays in general at my mom's are a late-in-the-day affair), it occurs to me that I can't wait for "farmhouse" to no longer be a thing.

Fucking rustic-ass shit. I blame those homophobic Chip and Joanna Gaines fucks.

I'll pile on in the loathing of the farmhouse thing!  Fucking shiplap, fucking everywhere.  Ugh.  And all the bland white surfaces.

Oh, and I have an HGTV complaint to make.  One of our annual traditions is to watch the HGTV Dream Home special on New Year's Day and joke about moving there.  The hour-long special is always hilariously short on content, and you can tivo it and then zap through it in about 8 minutes.  During which they just show, over and over and over again, all the same shots of the interior.  But this year?  Stupid HGTV and all their dumb renovation design shows!  The whole thing was about the renovation of the house, so they had a lame House Hunters sort of intro bit, where the perky blonde designer and the derpy bespectacled decorator staged walkthroughs of the two finalist properties.  And then the bulk of the show was segments showing the perky blonde designer doing a couple of minutes of some kind of renovation activity.  Like the part where we watched her and a contractor building a staircase, in which they explained they were putting in treads and risers.  (Commentary from the peanut gallery: "Wait, treads and risers?  This house has it all!")  We kept zapping... and zapping... and zapping... until LITERALLY the 56 minute mark, at which point they gave us the hastiest and briefest imaginable tour of the finished property.  WHAT THE FUCK?  They didn't even do the traditional lifestyle featurette on the region/town the house is in!  HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO SNARK ABOUT OUR NEW DREAM HOME IF THE SHOW WON'T EVEN FEATURE IT?  HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO ARGUE ABOUT WHO GETS WHICH BEDROOM?  I don't care about the renovation!  If you want a renovation show, then make a renovation show!  But goddammit, the HGTV Dream Home show is supposed to be all about revealing all the stupid decor and boring open floorplan crap that we bitch about or grudgingly admit looks really nice, depending on how it turns out.  I FEEL ROBBED.

Also, I don't even know who those two people are. I'm assuming they have a show somewhere but maybe not. Also, also, a Honda Accord? Really? I wonder if they are having problems with getting sponsors for this now.

Interesting observation. I wonder if the revelation that HGTV shows are super fake, along with the tabloid exposure of Flip or Flop and the over-saturation of stars like the Property Brothers and Gaines family is affecting ratings. I know I'm not watching like I used to, back in the glory days of Love It or List It. 

I loved both Decorating Cents and Room by Room. I still wish we had some shows like that. And I really miss HGTV playing a variety of shows. I really don't like the block programming all the channels are doing now. If we had some variety, it wouldn't be so bad when you don't like a particular show. 

I'm no fan of the modern farmhouse-style kitchen, but it might be more appropriate for our Delaware vernacular Victorian than the midcenturymexiterranean and brushed stainless horrorshow the POs cobbled together.

I am green with envy right now. A koi pond and a waterfall in the front yard. I am crazy about water features.

We have a "sun room" sort of haphazardly slapped onto the back of our house (it's a poorly-built addition), and we use it as a bit of a catch-all room.  There are nice sliding doors out to the deck, and one big windowed wall, but the other walls are unfinished (bare sheet rock) and the floor is pretty sad-looking cement.  It's connected to the dining room, which doesn't get a lot of everyday use, so we don't mind that you can see the horrible mess through the windowed French doors.  Because it's not heated, it's a great spot for cool storage in the wintertime, and otherwise it's full of food preservation tools (the dehydrator, a heap of pickling jars), the stand-up freezer, seedling-starting supplies, gardening and CSA containers, and the shelf rack of grow lights.  

But because of its "utility room" function, it also ends up suffering from clutter creep.  There's a steady build-up of "not quite garage material" stuff in there, and detritus as the summers go along of farm and garden stuff.  Garlic and onions get cured wherever they can be spread out in there, and trugs of fruit from our trees pile up.  Every few years it reaches critical mass and we have to dedicate a day to cleaning it back out.  

This past weekend had that day in it.  YOU GUYS, THE SUN ROOM IS SO MUCH NICER WHEN IT'S CLEANED OUT!  Honestly, I feel like my whole life is full of endless possibility now that that room's been de-cluttered and organized again.  We rearranged some of the appliances (there is also a large mini-fridge that we used during our kitchen remodel; it's handy now for summertime overflow and year-round soda storage), swept up all of last summer's onion skins, and tossed or relocated the last of the junk that had been moved in there during the garage renovation last winter.  And now we have room for a second set of grow lights.

Not a great view of the room itself, but seriously, I am beyond giddy with excitement about this:

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