What's your flavor?
 

When it comes to your personal tastes, what's your favorite flavor?
Do you surround yourself in chrome and glass?
Do you prefer all white minimalist rooms?
Are you awash in deep colors and plush fabrics?

What's your style?

When I was first married it was all chrome and glass soon changed that when I found it needed cleaning :rolleyes:, then when we moved to this house after years of military houseing we had pinks and greens. We are now slowly going round the house painting light colours and clearing the rubbish so it is more minimalist. It was difficult getting hubby to clear his things so he now has the cabin in the garden as his playroom:)

That's a hard question for me Tink. It all depends on my mood, if I see something different I like. It's never the same thing.

It changed over the years...


I basically like traditional furniture, though at one point I went in for the modern look. I feel traditonal woods always stay in style.
Far as painting of rooms I have off white , but now I am into color
so it varies and depending on what mood I am in.

before marrying my hubby EVERYTHING was black. I had black & leopard in the bedroom, black & burgundy in the kitchen, black & chrome in the living room, black & cats in one bathroom & one room other than the kids that wasn't black. The second bathroom was celestrial.
Since getting married my hubby said my house looked like a dungeon. We really don't have money to decorate make for now but my living room is earthy tones with a splash of blue. I have an Ashley slate table I LOVE!!! I also have some tranquil pictures of seascapes & land scapes. I really want a light tan microsuede sectional but that has to wait until the bills are paid off.
In the kitchen I would love to have all chrome appliances but that will have to wait until I move out of an apartment. I have burgandy & wine bottle decor in there.
My downstairs bathroom is sage, ivory, hunter & supposed to be dragonflies but they seems to be very hard to find. So if anyone knows where to get dragonfly art pleeeeeeeeaaaassseee share.

The upstairs bathroom is the kids. It's ducks, fish & frogs.

My bedroom is oriental. My youngest daughter's is fairies. My oldest daughter's is dolphins & beach like. My youngest son's in racing. Finally the oldest son's is black & music.

I vary between country, cottagey, and shabby chic. I'm not into modern or formal looks at all. I like comfy, cozy, relaxed spaces with colorful accents.
If you find a white wall in my house, you can be sure it was painted before I moved in. ;)

I decorate with antiques and I like to think that my home has a comfortable feel to it. I have lots of medium oak trim and my furniture is oak with my walls mostly painted an off white. I've been thinking of painting a wall barn red but can't figure out which wall to paint. I tend to buy things that I really and I make them go with what I already have. I'm going to post some pictures soon of my house on one of the threads (I've already posted a few of my living room.)

http://www.4womentalk.com/forums/sho...ht=living+room

as a broke recent grad, i get what i can as long as it's cute to me, and the right price. although i tend to lean towards neutral and earthy colors with more bright accessories.

I'm with you there, only I'm not even a grad yet. lol! I agree. I really like neutral and earth tones with more vivid accents, but I also really like the sophisticated black and white look (with a few bright accents), though it has to be just the perfect balance. Too much black is dark and dreary and makes me feel a little depressed and too much white is plain and unexciting. I think the color is what brings it all together. Maybe someday I'll have enough money to do that. lol

:( are you saying my old house made you depressed? :p

lol, no, but if it were my house I would be. For some reason I get really depressed if there isn't enough light and color and I have to be there for long periods of time. You can ask Brendon. We even bought another lamp for the living room because I always complained about how dark it was.

I like deep colors and plush fabrics.

When I first married (in 1977) I was colonial...you know the plaid brown and gold...about 5 yrs later I got into country...I love antiques, alot of wood and warm colors. I remarried in 1999 to a man that calls my taste curb side country!! Because when I buy a piece of antique furniture I don't refinish it...I leave it with all it's "character"..I find country very warm, cozy and inviting.

Traci, I really like that slate topped table by Ashley. It is sooo pretty and incredibly versitile. We used the coffee and end tables with black leather couch and chair in a family/media room of a show home and it looked super. We got lots of nice comments.

I'm into natural earthy tones, golds, yellows, lighter tranquill greens, soft medium browns, creams, oil rubbed bronze, copper, stone. There is no true white in our home. Even the trim that looks white is actually cream.

It's funny to see you all mentioning Ashley furniture. Long ago hubby and I both worked there, as their original factory is less than 20 miles from us. Right now hubby hauls their furniture to stores in Kansas City and Michigan. With Ashley furniture factories in 3 small towns in our area, they also have stores and an odds and ends outlet where we can buy the pieces at reduced prices. They are by far the largest employer in our area.

We have several pieces and will most likely buy more in the future. The living room set I want is from there and in the showroom is paired up with the slate topped table set. The set is brown leather that looks soft and weathered.

My favorite cousin EVER works for Ashley Furniture in Florida. Kind of. :)

I like marble, glass, and hardwood, with natural colors, with a touch of warmth, for example, one wall painted a plum color, the rest of the walls a sand. With lamps shades to match the darker wall.

Mandy that sounds beautiful. I can't wait to paint a dark wall in a dining room. I want to do a brick red wall & a taupe on the rest of the walls but I had not thought of plum I may have to reconsider now. :D

I love the look of Ashley but my slate table is the only piece I have so far. Someday my whole house will probably be Ashley. since you have worked for them & seem to know about the furniture & company, how is the quality? I am dying to get an Ashley microsuede sectional but anything we get in the near future needs to be sturdy. 4 kids aren't easy on furniture.

They call their faux suede "Durapella". They claim it's highly scrubbable and they've been able to clean most anything from it with very little effort. So I wouldn't worry about the fabric even with kids.

I had a leather couch from Ashley that was totally abused by teens and it held up very well. It was a dog chewing the cushions apart that finally did it in. I also had a large overstuffed chair that I was very satisfied with.

Thank you so much Tink. I know Ashley has very reasonable prices but anything we get makes our budget very tight. So we have to think about any purchase carefully before we do it & everything must last. I guess I will start saving for our new sofa & checking out the price at our Ashley homestore :D

I didn't even know we had one here until I looked it up after reading this thread yesterday! Crazy! We're buying a few new pieces for the townhouse so Brendon and I will definitely have to go by there.

You didn't listen very well when you brought Don to see me at work--He was saying he had been to see the store and I was telling him the warehouse was right down the road from work

There is one in my town & yours :)

Oh cool. I definitely want to go sometime! :)

me too. We will have to get together on schedules.

Alright, just let me know. ;)