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I recently purchased my first home and despite the owner advertising it as "turn-key ready", it was a fixer upper. I've done most of the work myself and yes I'll take inspiration from HGTV among every other source I can find. But there are some things I'm tired of seeing already.
- shiplap (i'm looking at you chip and joanna)
- Repurposed barnwood or pallets. Why does everyone suddenly want their home to look like a barn? Yuck!
- I'm not opposed to subway tile if done right, but it reminds me of the house I grew up in.
- I want to burn anything that says live laugh love, including if its a tattoo on someone.
- fake wood anything
- shaker cabinets and white kitchens. God I hate white kitchens.
- plain, boring, dull ikea furniture. Yes I currently have an ikea desk, it was cheap and I needed something until I can craft my own from walnut.
I love antiques, but you won't really find any in my house as I'm self-aware enough to know they won't look right mixed in with random modern pieces. Nor do I want my house to look like an antique store off the highway. When I bought my house, I intended to style it with a more modern design but keep some classical elements to it so it doesn't look so boring and cookie-cutter. I did my kitchen with a cherry raised panel cabinets and granite counter, stainless steel appliances with a single basin sink. I finally have a dishwasher, so I don't see a need for the 50/50 split sink. Kitchen walls are green, which I've received mixed opinions from people on that one.
I just can't wait 'til spring when I can start landscaping, the fun stuff! First thing I'll do is remove the evergreen bush. So 80s.
I recently purchased my first home and despite the owner advertising it as "turn-key ready", it was a fixer upper. I've done most of the work myself and yes I'll take inspiration from HGTV among every other source I can find. But there are some things I'm tired of seeing already.
- shiplap (i'm looking at you chip and joanna)
- Repurposed barnwood or pallets. Why does everyone suddenly want their home to look like a barn? Yuck!
- I'm not opposed to subway tile if done right, but it reminds me of the house I grew up in.
- I want to burn anything that says live laugh love, including if its a tattoo on someone.
- fake wood anything
- shaker cabinets and white kitchens. God I hate white kitchens.
- plain, boring, dull ikea furniture. Yes I currently have an ikea desk, it was cheap and I needed something until I can craft my own from walnut.
I love antiques, but you won't really find any in my house as I'm self-aware enough to know they won't look right mixed in with random modern pieces. Nor do I want my house to look like an antique store off the highway. When I bought my house, I intended to style it with a more modern design but keep some classical elements to it so it doesn't look so boring and cookie-cutter. I did my kitchen with a cherry raised panel cabinets and granite counter, stainless steel appliances with a single basin sink. I finally have a dishwasher, so I don't see a need for the 50/50 split sink. Kitchen walls are green, which I've received mixed opinions from people on that one.
I just can't wait 'til spring when I can start landscaping, the full bn stuff! First thing I'll do is remove the evergreen bush. So 80s.
I despise barn wood, barn doors, and any other attempts to make the inside of a home look like a barn.
There are thousands of different sizes colors and textures of “ subway tile”. Not sure how anyone could classify all of that as “one look”. Subway is simply rectangular in shape. That’s it.
I am not a fan of antiques. I don’t want “modern”, but I sure don’t want a home that looks like my great aunt’s home.
I prefer white kitchens. Light, bright, airy. Love love love. Shaker cabs too.
I have a dishwasher, and my desire and preference for a double sink (55/45) has no bearing on that.
I have sage-gray walls in my kitchen/dining room and love it. Everyone else does too.
I recently purchased my first home and despite the owner advertising it as "turn-key ready", it was a fixer upper. I've done most of the work myself and yes I'll take inspiration from HGTV among every other source I can find. But there are some things I'm tired of seeing already.
- shiplap (i'm looking at you chip and joanna)
- Repurposed barnwood or pallets. Why does everyone suddenly want their home to look like a barn? Yuck!
- I'm not opposed to subway tile if done right, but it reminds me of the house I grew up in.
- I want to burn anything that says live laugh love, including if its a tattoo on someone.
- fake wood anything - shaker cabinets and white kitchens. God I hate white kitchens.
- plain, boring, dull ikea furniture. Yes I currently have an ikea desk, it was cheap and I needed something until I can craft my own from walnut.
I love antiques, but you won't really find any in my house as I'm self-aware enough to know they won't look right mixed in with random modern pieces. Nor do I want my house to look like an antique store off the highway. When I bought my house, I intended to style it with a more modern design but keep some classical elements to it so it doesn't look so boring and cookie-cutter. I did my kitchen with a cherry raised panel cabinets and granite counter, stainless steel appliances with a single basin sink. I finally have a dishwasher, so I don't see a need for the 50/50 split sink. Kitchen walls are green, which I've received mixed opinions from people on that one.
I just can't wait 'til spring when I can start landscaping, the fun stuff! First thing I'll do is remove the evergreen bush. So 80s.
I don't agree with a lot of your opinions, but I certainly agree that I hate white kitchens, too. I just don't get it. Literally ANY other color is more interesting...
I don't have a white kitchen, but I don't need my kitchen cabinets to be an interesting color. I prefer a neutral color for cabinets, and I add interest with accessories and decor which can be easily changed when desired. Even the countertops feel like a place to add interest more than cabinetry to me.
We all have different tastes. And yes, if I moved into a kitchen with stainless steel appliances and granite counters, if I had the money, I'd rip it all out and replace it with some vintage appliances and tile counters as soon as I could.
I think the thing is, though, I wouldn't declare to a viewing nation that I absolutely couldn't cook in a kitchen that wasn't decorated exactly the way I wanted it to be and you wouldn't either.
Actually, I'm so eager to get a home of my own I'd cook in a cardboard box if it came with a roof and its own lawn. LOL
I didn’t cook in a cardboard box but I did on that vintage stove in a shed while we were building. I don’t think I mentioned that we built the cabin ourselves with our own hands.
I also had a Sun Oven...Essentially a black box with shiny aluminum wings to reflect the sun into the box, and I made roasts, cakes and the best bread in that. I’ve baked cakes on a grill and I have a woodcookstove as well.
I like white kitchens...sort of. I don't like stark white everything with any kind of streamlined modern look. That feels too cold and clinical to me. I do like ivory or off white. I had always wanted to do a kitchen in blue and white and then I thought about blue and yellow, soft colors, not in-your-face bright blue and lemon yellow, like in the first picture. But I saw a picture of a kitchen in green tiled counters and while the only shade of green I've ever liked was moss green and never in a kitchen, this one is growing on me. That's pic 2.
I'm also a nut about tile - I love it. I know everyone doesn't like it. I also like brick, even though it makes a kitchen seem darker, and one day I hope to have butter yellow appliances, although not with white subway tile. And while small, I want to have a a more dated kitchen with at least one shelf in it instead of a cabinet. I know most people don't like those either, though.
I like white kitchens...sort of. I don't like stark white everything with any kind of streamlined modern look. That feels too cold and clinical to me. I do like ivory or off white. I had always wanted to do a kitchen in blue and white and then I thought about blue and yellow, soft colors, not in-your-face bright blue and lemon yellow, like in the first picture. But I saw a picture of a kitchen in green tiled counters and while the only shade of green I've ever liked was moss green and never in a kitchen, this one is growing on me. That's pic 2.
I'm also a nut about tile - I love it. I know everyone doesn't like it. I also like brick, even though it makes a kitchen seem darker, and one day I hope to have butter yellow appliances, although not with white subway tile. And while small, I want to have a a more dated kitchen with at least one shelf in it instead of a cabinet. I know most people don't like those either, though.
I personally can't stand tile - had it in my last kitchen and ended up hating it with a passion - although it was convenient to be able to set a hot pot or casserole directly on the counter! But I will never have a tile kitchen again. Tile backsplash maybe, but definitely not counters or floors.
However, I can look at most of those photos and think they are pretty, even if not for me. A couple were just too much for me to even think that, but mostly they are all pretty nice.
My last kitchen had yellow walls and I used yellow and blue accents, with a yellowy-beige tile. I do still love the yellow/blue French Provencal color combo even if I don't want to live with it again.
Medium grey or darker as the color of the current trend. Even if you live in the Sunbelt, it take a lot of work to make the rest of the room look not gloomy. A year or two back, I was in, I think, a Restoration Hardware store where it was all grey and poorly lit, and going through the store was like being in a crypt.
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