pinkie

I'm a painter. I always paint my walls a color. I have a Japanese/eclectic thing going on in the living space, with sort of an Art Nouveau/romantic bedroom. If we had a study, it'd be black. I like having a room in the house that has black walls...

What about you?

Konichiwaneko

right now going generic cafe creme walls with sand trim. I'm going industrial japanese. I'll take pictures when I'm done ^^ Cute ava pinkie.

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gar1976

I'm married. The decision on how to decorate has been taken out of my hands long ago.

And as long as lace doesn't show up anywhere, I'm happy.

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Blistex, in regards to crappy games -

They made pong look like a story driven RPG with a dynamic campaign.

pinkie

Thank you.

I love the simpicity of Japanese design... I look forward to your pictures. I did a Japanese symbol painting for our livingroom. The room is a muted jade, with simple black and white framed black and white photos. Less is more...

gar, hahaha... I hear ya.

Konichiwaneko

oh I forgot to mention that when I refi my house soon I was going to remove the carpet and do a fusion of "Untreated color" wood flooring mixxed with black and beige carpet. Picture wise I will have japanese scrolls with the kanji for Sky Honor and Respect around the house with hopefully hand welded glass and metal frames. Also your random Ansel Adams and Esher drawings along with world maps ( I love maps, I love travel, and I love culture)

I plan to do focused lighting, and use a couple feng shui guidelines, but what I'm trying to hit with my house is rhytm. I love flow in design and I want to come to me house and see that via the colors of my home. Reason I say color is it's the factor that's the closest to being consistently permanent as my home also is a place for comfort and not just a show piece, so furniture and details can move ^^.

Like gardening I honestly feel that decorating ones home is very healthy hobby that promotes good health.

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pinkie

I love gardening, and I totally agree with you about decorating.

energus

we kept it simple (both of us are students so it is not as much a choice as a necessity) the living room and computer room light yellow, the bedroom light green and the hall, kitchen and shower red and blue.

As for the decoration "hand me downs" meets IKEA supplemented with designer lights and nice bourgondy red curtains in the living room (yes that is where the money went). It is not much, but it is home

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Master_Shake

I painted my bathroom black in college. There was a great big poster of the eyeball from 2001, black lights and a tape player hooked up that played Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon when the light switch was hit. Pretty groovy.

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You know something, I don't think the sun even... exists... in this place. 'Cause I've been up for hours, and hours, and hours, and the night never ends here.

lurkette

I like warm, bold colors. Our kitchen is terracotta orange with white cabinets and black counters. Our bedroom, well, you've seen it in the exhibition thread - it's dark purple walls with a silk asian bedspread, black velvet curtains, and a red beaded mosquito net canopy. I like things to be dramatic and vivid.

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pinkie

My kitchen is terracotta too!

Konichiwaneko

I respect that. Home is beyond how much money you can put into it. Home is solace and haven, and I feel people who are comfortable and have good memories of their home to be happier in life.


Concerning painting a room black, the only problem is it severly shrinks the mental size of the room. Lighter rooms always look bigger to me. Nothing wrong with it though, but I like dark/black furniture with light walls then they look like little islands ^^

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MSD

Some day, I really want to have a plexiglass floor with a huge zen garden under it for one room in my house. For now, my room has a green theme going, with a bunch of model ships, a lighthouse, and a random suit of armor (miniature)

pinkie

I was going to mention that black lights are awesome in black rooms. We had glow-in-the-dark bubbles that were so fun, and one of those really cool blown glass laser lamps which glowed chartreuse, the color of Mountain Dew...

We painted each other with glow-in-the-dark paint in there before too.

Imagine a bathtub full of glow-in-the-dark bubbles!! That would be the coolest!!

Charlatan

OUr house is in perpetual transition... my wife cannot decide on a colour so we are living in white primer for now... The bedroom is a soothingly warm green... I am almost always relaxed in bed.

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Rodney

I was all for white walls, but then I started watching "Trading Spaces" with the wife and changed my mind. Now things are a bit... bolder. Our downstairs is a living room/dining room/kitchen combination. The ceiling overall is a mellow gold with small metallic gold tiles glued to it at random intervals; nice effect, actually. As you come in the front entryway, the walls are aqua. Then you walk into the living/dining area. The living area to the left has deep purple/blue walls. To the right is the dining area, which is a warm but not too bright orange; round the corner from the dining room into the kitch and you've got spring green walls (the color of avocado flesh) with yellow cabinets, and each of the cabinet doors is decorated with a tile mosaic. The "room divider" between the living room and dining room is a low, two-sided buffet; hanging down from the ceiling overhead to complete the "wall" are two large pieces of stained glass that I did years ago. The major living room furniture is mild yellow, similar to the ceiling.

Upstairs is still a work in progress, but we've carried the downstairs upstairs by painting one wall blue, one wall orange (with the railing on the blue wall being orange, and the railing and bannisters on the orange wall being kitchen green) and the upstairs hall as aqua. We've tried to have a smooth continuum of the colors throughout the house, so that no matter where you stand, you can see most of them.

It's lively, that's for sure. On the one hand, it was mainly my wife's idea. On the other hand, I picked the colors.

clavus

The colors of the walls constantly change. Mrs. Clavus is never quite satisfied with the color she painted a week earlier. There is a similar thing going on with the window treatments. Any suggestions I make are treated as background noise, so I gave up caring about it. I mean really, my wife is totally kickass in every other possible way. And I live in a house that is always changing color.

We have a lot of photos were shot by friends and family - one is a huge abstract, multiple exposure of my crashed car. The hood ornament (which we plucked out of the tree) is matted with the photo. A few others are trippy pictures of people, places and plants. In our bedroom we had some beautiful nudes from my wife's brief modeling gig, but she took them down every time her parents came over. I relocated them to my office.

We have a lot of cacti growing in pots that I threw.

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maleficent

That sounds like a neat house to live in... I rent - -White walls - only white walls -- horribly boring white walls. With baby shit brown carpeting, to go with the white walls.

From my travels though, I've picked up some interesting posters, that I've framed which are nice reminders from places I've been but other than that, my place is decorated in early american clutter.

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Psycho Dad

You'll find eventually that you won't even give two shits about the lace as long as you don't have to move the damn furniture every other weekend.

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gar1976

I'll second this. Jesus H. Christ, can't you women leave furniture alone long enough to let the dust bunnies grow nice and big?

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Blistex, in regards to crappy games -

They made pong look like a story driven RPG with a dynamic campaign.

Sbudda

Black actually makes the room bigger if you choose the right paint. There is a blackboard black paint that you can use. You can then write on the walls with chalk. Very handy in our office.

Woah. Psycho Dad. I haven't thought about Al Bundy's favorite show in years. Thanks man!

Catmandu

gar1976 hit it. The decisions were taken out of my hands long ago. It seems that I am allowed veto power, however overuse of that power will cost me in the only room that counts.

cataklysm

I have a wall in my room that's kinda like a personal scrapbook. I put up pictures, ticket stubs, bumber stickers, on it etc... to kinda commemorate things I enjoyed.

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