Is this bad taste?

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Hi

I love the Georgian period interiors but I don’t have a Georgian house...would it be distasteful to decorate my non Georgian house in Georgian style?

Yes I am being distasteful?
No it’s fine and not poor taste

Thanks

Are you worried about offending actual Georgian houses? Do you think that people who live in Georgian houses only use period furniture? Decorate your house whatever way you like!

What do you mean by Georgian style?

A few bits of good furniture and deep colours - great.

Cheap mock plaster ceilings - not great.

Unless your house is open for public tours surely you decorate it however you wish for your own pleasure. Why do you mind what the internet thinks?

Georgian style is fairly uncomfortable, stiff and formal. But you're the one living with it so go ahead. I wouldn't describe it as bad taste.

Thanks, I’m not worried about what internet thinks.

But more worried that I’ll be ruining the “context” and original heritage of the house.

Like using Georgian style paneling or mouldings in a Victorian house.

Or decorating an obviously 1930’s house as a Georgian home.

Not distasteful but it might look odd.

I also love Georgian style but my 90s house would look utterly ridiculous.

A few accents, good furniture pieces etc might look lovely. Full on decor and Soft furnishings Might be a bit much...

What period is your house?

A few pieces of furniture and period appropriate colour schemes - fine.
Mouldings or paneling - nope.

I'm a fan of Georgian style too OP but unfortunately my current abode is a mere 12 years old. I think a full-on period approach would look a little naff so aimed for an eclectic look of antique pieces with modern, including artwork, keeping everything relatively pared back & unfussy.

Yes this is my concern...

It’s like a seeing a new build with regency interiors... and I’m just worried it just looks distasteful. But I absolutely adore this period and have grown up in a Georgian house, so am attracted to this aesthetic.

My house is 1960s

To me "distasteful" means some kind of moral or distressing unpleasantness, like making sexist or racist jokes. Your house may look ugly to other people but really what matters is whether you like it. You are decorating for you, not for some unspecified audience. Do what you like with your own house!

Aah, I see our defintions of decorating aren't the same, to me that means paint or wallpaper and maybe how you dress the room.

I wouldn't include mouldings or panelling in that, I thought you were asking about colour schemes etc not changes to the structure of the house

Ah yes...Regency interiors in new builds - the love of a good swag curtain & oversized furniture

Honestly OP, I think if you keep it simple then it can absolutely work. I'm not hugely familiar with 60's builds but they tend to have low-ceilings and metal windows, don't they? (probably wrong on this!) Have you tried searching for renovated 60s houses on Pinterest or Instagram? Maybe try some of the interiors magazines accounts?

Your home is your Georgian castle!
If there's one thing I think, it's we should live how we like to live if it's harming no others.
Enjoy decorating, and living in it (plus it will be a LOT warmer than Georgian!).

I’d probably stick to some of the colours and some decent furniture (£££), just a touch of the Jane Austens. I’d avoid getting a fake Georgian fire surround and getting carried away with the swags and bows as this easily tips into suburban 1970s brothel territory rather than Pemberley. But actually, it’s your home so do what makes you happy.

You’re crackers!
Do what you want. You live there!

It could potentially look a bit ridiculous in a small modern semi. Georgian decor needs high ceilings and fairly large rooms to work, I'd have thought. But it's your house, so do what makes you happy.

My house looked stupid when I moved in. It's a small 2 bed semi, built in the 80s, and had textured wallpaper, dado rails, gold borders and stenciling round the top of the walls, and huge swagged curtains. In my opinion it looked silly and made the rooms feel five times smaller. But the person before me loved it.

Can you persuade yourself to get into mid 20th century design? I love Georgian too, but our featureless Victorian abode is decked out in G-plan as an alternative... or is it Georgian or bust!?

Thanks, I’m not worried about what internet thinks.

Ha hahahahhahahaha why the flip are you asking on here then?

YABU for that comment alone - do what you want.

I think it's easier and more sensible to work with the house you have, rather than the house you hanker for.
I live in a mid century house and have embraced the vive, looking around at the huge windows and boxy feel I just can't imagine trying to inject a sense of Georgian decor in here.

I’m just worried it just looks distasteful

Look distasteful to whom? And will that person be living with it?

Unless you're planning to move in the near future there is no point decorating your house with a view to a future sale or worrying about what anyone else thinks. Decorate for you to live in and be happy.

Bearing in mind that there are people who turn their homes into year-round Christmas grottos or shrines to Elvis, because it makes them happy...

Distasteful? It's not as though you're planning to graffiti cocks on your lounge wall...are you?

Do whatever you like to your home (within building regs obviously) as you're the one that's going to live there. As long as whatever you do can be altered if you find you don't like it after all then there's no problem I reckon.

My house is 1960s (semi on an estate of similar). It's far too small and low-ceilinged for the full-blown Georgian treatment BUT in the small dining room we have a dado rail (at back-of-chair height) with a rich raspberry below it and cream with paired green vertical stripes above it. It's just a hint of 18th century and I think it works.

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gah!