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I don't understand. The link takes you to an article published by the St. Louis Post Dispatch. I made it a tiny URL so it wouldn't be so long. Why won't you click on it? I use tiny url all the time with no problems.
YOU know it goes to the St Louis Dispatch, but no one else does.
Often they link to porn sites, or to viruses.... no way for the person clicking to know in advance WHERE the link is actually taking them.
I disagree with all absolutes. I think people should design their rooms according to what makes them happy.
#7 especially I disagree with:
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If the colors are completely different or the tones are completely different, such as having one room done in pastels and another in bold colors, it is disharmonious to the eye. The same goes for having different flooring in every room, such as a different colored carpet, or different types flooring. It chops up the space.
BOR-ing!
This made me laugh:
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In reality, it looks better to hang window treatment up to a foot above the trim.
My living room curtains would have to be hung upstairs and descend through the floor! LOL
Stuff like that makes me wonder if people who write these things ever enter real houses.
I disagree with all absolutes. I think people should design their rooms according to what makes them happy.
Stuff like that makes me wonder if people who write these things ever enter real houses.
I agree with you.
I have had friends or family who asked for my help because they admit not to know much on the subject. Since I have so much fun arranging things and decorating I am happy to help, with them being an active participant. It is their space after all!
One day a friend and I went to another friend's new apartment to check it out. We immediately noticed her artwork in the LR was hung way too high - seriously, not too far down from the 8 ft. ceiling. After we finished the first bottle of wine we all had a good laugh about it and proceeded to lower the artwork (which was nice stuff she picked up while stationed in Spain). I was pleased to see that a couple weeks later the artwork was still in it's new position and the owner liked it.
Another friend had so many decorative throw pillows on her couch I asked how a person was supposed to even sit on the couch (close enough friends that the bluntness was o.k.). She laughed and said to just put them on the floor. My too-many-pillow question is, WHY BOTHER if they need to be removed to use the furniture?
Like you said though, people should design their rooms according to what makes them happy even it is with a hundred pillows!
Like you, I also wonder if people who write these things ever enter real houses. There was very little I liked about those staged photographs. They were just too staged for me.
Great article, I agree with them all. I dislike when rooms are all different, and still within sight from each other. Especially when carpet is different colors but seamed together. What are they thinking? That each room is a bubble unto itself.
YOU know it goes to the St Louis Dispatch, but no one else does.
Often they link to porn sites, or to viruses.... no way for the person clicking to know in advance WHERE the link is actually taking them.
I have had friends or family who asked for my help because they admit not to know much on the subject. Since I have so much fun arranging things and decorating I am happy to help, with them being an active participant. It is their space after all!
One day a friend and I went to another friend's new apartment to check it out. We immediately noticed her artwork in the LR was hung way too high - seriously, not too far down from the 8 ft. ceiling. After we finished the first bottle of wine we all had a good laugh about it and proceeded to lower the artwork (which was nice stuff she picked up while stationed in Spain). I was pleased to see that a couple weeks later the artwork was still in it's new position and the owner liked it.
Another friend had so many decorative throw pillows on her couch I asked how a person was supposed to even sit on the couch (close enough friends that the bluntness was o.k.). She laughed and said to just put them on the floor. My too-many-pillow question is, WHY BOTHER if they need to be removed to use the furniture?
Like you said though, people should design their rooms according to what makes them happy even it is with a hundred pillows!
Like you, I also wonder if people who write these things ever enter real houses. There was very little I liked about those staged photographs. They were just too staged for me.
I agree that the photos were not great examples. I did not care for most of them either. But as general guidelines, I think the rules are good. All rules are made to be broken, sometimes! As to the pics, If you do an art wall, or if you decide to stack pics in a vertical row, then obviously you will hang some of them higher than the norm. Or, I should say, probably you would. If you hang a piece of art over something-- fireplace, mirror, china cabinet, then it will be higher than eye level.
I do totally agree with not putting a piece of art on every wall though. I've seen rooms where a pic was on every wall, and it bothered me.
Great article, I agree with them all. I dislike when rooms are all different, and still within sight from each other. Especially when carpet is different colors but seamed together. What are they thinking? That each room is a bubble unto itself.
Yes! You used to see that with bedrooms, especially. But I don't encounter that much any more. Somewhere between painting all walls in a home the same off white, and painting every room its own unique color, there has to be a happy medium.
If the room is open, the colors need to be the same or at least compliment each other but I don't think you have to keep the flow through the entire house, especially in closed off rooms like bathrooms or bedrooms. If you have a space that is a living room, dining room and kitchen that is all open to each other, putting carpet in one, wood in the other and tile in the 3rd does tend to make it look choppy
The guideline about how high to hang art kind of annoys me, especially when it's presented as an absolute.
My brother is 6'5" and his wife is 6' tall. I think they should hang their art work at a level that is comfortable and visually pleasing to them, rather than for a hypothetical average 5'6" person.
My ceilings are 14' high - If I hang my art too low, the proportions of the room look ridiculous. I also have to hang my paintings a bit higher because my cat will try to climb them if they're too low.
Some of the 'mistakes' or rules about furniture being too large for the room are really hard to work with if you buy furniture for a specific room and then you move to a new house. I ran into this problem myself when I bought my current house. Fortunately, I was able to sell the too-large sofa and too-big dining table and buy a more suitable replacement, but not everyone is able to do so.
I've been toying with the idea of rearranging my living room to 'float' the furniture more but I don't want to do so at the expense of ruining my lovely view.
I also have to hang my paintings a bit higher because my cat will try to climb them if they're too low.
*chuckle* Now I know what's missing from that list -- decorating when you have pets!
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I think people should design their rooms according to what makes them happy. 
