Decorating the New England Home

[mainewannabe]

I LOVE IT !!!!

Originally Posted by Bydand

Your house is your decorating palette. Really there is a very wide mix of different styles from house to house and nobody I know visits each others paint and furniture .

If you want a true Northern Maine house decorating scheme, you need to get a few broken down vehicles (cars in town, pick-ups - fringe, Potato trucks - county) and place them along the back of your property like you really do intend to use them again, even though the tree growing in the bed of the pick-up gives away the real decorating aspect of that particular vehicle. A ratty old couch on the porch helps bring the outside close to the house and can be an excellent tie-in to a well done interior. A slightly better set of mis-matched color and style chairs and a sofa or two cement the living room. For the dining room you need to really go all out and try to find one of those dining tables from the 60's with the chrome accents surrounded by padded chairs from a Service Merchandise sale 25 years ago (a few with torn plastic seats, really sets apart the professional from an amaturistic copy.)

Just kidding of course on most of this. Really there are plenty of "Old World" style interiors around. My best friend and his wife have done this in their home and it looks really nice. Like I said before, here, friends don't visit to see the house, they visit to see you. Here there are real friends, who don't care if you have every room perfect, or if every room is in disarray, but the company is good and the conversation warm is what counts. Do the new house so it is your home. Everybody will love it!

[Maine Writer]

I like the colors of the walls. It all looks very homey and comfortable. Cute kids too!