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Dandyarseholes · 14/11/2022 10:49

To balance out the 'hates' tgread currently running.

What do you like/love that makes your home a happy place?

Lots of colour
Books
Artwork
Wood flooring (downstairs)
Carpet in bedroom
Blankets

My house is quite quirky!

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HintofVintagePink · 16/11/2022 23:35

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

Majesticalling · 12/02/2024 22:29

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.

...

My house is tiny with a collapsing kichen btw😂

antikkiti · 13/02/2024 00:53

stuntbubbles · 14/11/2022 17:19

Waxed wooden floorboards with gaps.
High ceilings. (Combined, clearly what I love is “draughts”.)
Stark but moody minimalism – empty Georgian rooms in earthy paint colours.
But also eclectic colour and pattern mixing.
Bloomsbury Group painterly decor.
English roll-arm sofas.
Floor-length curtains.
Linen bedding.
Patchwork quilts.
Sink skirts.
Welsh dressers with a proper, lifetime’s worth of collected crockery and clutter – not overly styled, job-lot stuff.
Unlacquered brass.
Moss and olive green paint colours.
Stained glass.
Vases with a single type of cut flower.
Threadbare Persian rugs.
In-frame kitchens.

This! Perfection!

antikkiti · 13/02/2024 01:06

littlepeas · 14/11/2022 19:16

Also - a strange one that many won’t agree with - I like completely bare windows (no curtains or blinds at all). Discovered this when we rented for a while and the curtains were so grim I took them all down - the space and light this created was amazing. House is still cosy (lots of lamps and soft furnishings). We are not overlooked either, which appreciate makes a difference too.

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.

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