To ask your interior design loves

I know what you mean and think I agree with you. I live in an old farmhouse in France and, although I did plan to get curtains when I first came here seven years ago, I never got around to it. Now, I realise they would just make the rooms darker because the houses in this part of France tend to have fairly smallish windows to keep the sun from heating the house up too much. We do have outside shutters, which we sometimes have to keep closed in the summer to keep the heat out.

This! Perfection!

The McMansion phenomenon is rife round here. Bloated high white rendered houses with ubiquitous grey window frames, black 'modern' door all butted against endless grey paving with a minimum of three cars parked all over it. Sadly these renovations are usually at the expense of a heritage facade and mature front garden 😞

I also dislike the interior crital/glass wall/room divider look. Clinical and office like.

Huge white marble kitchen islands...autopsy anyone?

Not all grey just when it's grey EVERYTHING, horrible shades of grey, and grey window frames (see above).

Massive fridges for a family of four.

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My house is tiny with a collapsing kichen btw😂

Soft white walls, wood floors, light colours, open fires, baskets and throws, clean, clutter free and smelling beautiful.

@Shillyshall I love your front room - that rug! Funnily enough when I read your post, before I saw the photo, I was going to say mid century. The proportions of the furniture work better with lower ceilings. I would also think about how to use colour on the walls, as white in mid century homes can look quite boxy. Not over the top, but some zoning with mid century colours (putty pink, olive, toffee?) could look quite striking?

New England/Scandi vibe.
White clapboard houses with shutters.
Lots of white with pops of colour.
Dark wood floors and also white / distressed look floorboards.

Ahem....excuse my fat fingers there.

Basically my house is somewhere that you can come in an feel relaxed, comfortable and cosy. But it's tricky to keep the balance between cosy and cluttered. I love all things maximally and rich, texture and colour and odd pieces of artwork that is unique to the owner and fits with their personality.

My DH on the other hand just says my taste is odd. Wait until he sees the new tortoise lamp and the monkey lamp for our bedroom! And the hanging monkey ceiling light for the landing....

According to my (lovely and kind) friend, my house reminds her of Mrs Weasley's house. Everything is mismatched and odd, there are throws and cushions everywhere

Books - we have thousands so our front reception room is now a library.

Pictures - we have loads of photos in the back reception room and hallway. In the front room we have more some animal sketches from a local artist and some space images we got resized so they fit above each book shelf (we have Saturn, Pluto, the WOW signal, the pillars of creation, the Earth and a hand drawn picture of the Laniakea / Perseus-Pisces galaxy superclusters)

Rugs - those huge vintage patterned ones. Love them. Got mine off of Ebay for £10

I like blankets and throws too. Would love one of those old Navajo style ones but my god they're expensive.

Overall I just like a house to look lived in.

This is the living room .

You all have such wonderful ideas.
I too love period homes and we used to have a stunning one .
Have since moved to a more expensive area and or budget would not stretch to this as the now local terraces are very large and 200k or so over budget.
We chose a 1948 ex council house with a good garden and in walking distance to the sea.

love the house.. but dont understand it . The shapes are totally different to tall ceilings , tall windows, period fireplaces .
Any ideas!?
We have put wood burners in kitchen and living room .
unsure how to transfer my taste to new home. ..

Wooden floors, books, white walls, original artwork, the odd piano, silver candlesticks. Must have separate dining-room definitely not open plan.
Open fire or wood burner a plus.

Omg they are gorgeous I'm swaying between hooper, puck and jewel beetle and the wallpapers oh the wallpapers!!😍😍😍

@Puddinandpie is Dark Brunswick Green by Little Greene

@Giggorata I love taxidermy, its amazing how beautiful it is, I have a boris the boar and Stanley the stag in my living room, I wish I had more 😍

Our hallway

@Davethecat2000 I love that green colour it's beautiful can I ask what paint it is, I'm looking for a green for my boys bedroom a really deep lush green😍
We've done everything ourselves in our house and boy it's bloody hard work, but very rewarding, we laid our floor tiles in our hallway and that was a killer, but we got there in the end it's all a labour of love!

My home is almost but not quite minimalist (white walls, floorboards, earthy colours) which I like.

Though like you OP, I love the quirky look, ever so slightly cluttered, but neat. Clashing patterns and textures that together, seem to ‘work’. It’s not for me in my own home, but I do like it.

We've recently finished our bathroom.. it's taken months as we did it all ourselves ( apart from laying the floor).

I can remember the first time that I saw a colourful property with an out door bathroom without a roof on it. I think it was in Costa Rica. I thought how amazing !

I have since travelled to some hot countries & experienced outside bathrooms & they make perfect sense in a hot, humid climate.

I follow lots of architecture & interior websites

Loving the pics, ladies!

Modern, clean lines, textures but muted colours, lots of glass and natural light.

Wood or tiled floors, wood panelling, huge fireplaces and exposed beams.

On a more achievable level for those of us who don't inherit an old pile, I like signs of life and personality in a home. Weaponry on the walls - historic bows on hangers on the wall, swords and armour work for me, but I like to see other people's hobbies, skills and interests reflected in their home too.

Old furniture, inherited or acquired second hand, that doesn't match anything else, but has a new life instead of landfill. Books everywhere. Art - not popular prints chosen to match the decor, but art - prints, originals, home made, whatever - that the owner just loves, even if it doesn't mean anything to me. Old maps on the walls.

I don't like disposable trends of fashion or changing stuff to "keep up" with that year's look.

The POW's carved peacock, mentioned early in the thread is fabulous.

Just round the corner from me, she's a friend of a friend. You can stay in the flat in the basement, which is equally lovely although not quite as grand!

Oh, almost forgot and box in the bloody boiler!