What is it about your home that draws you in and embraces you? What do you love that makes you smile...or makes you feel comfortable? Is your home cozy and does it reflect who you are?

I love the colors of my walls, my trees, and the fabrics on my furniture. My art collection gives me smiles. Warm colors...all reds and compliments of green.

What makes your little ADD soul thrive :D ?

Let's visit each other's homes!

~gourmet~

the furniture is what i lovingly call early salvation army and the wood floors need (really need) refinishing; BUT! the stuff on the walls and the hungarian embroidered pillows and table cloths and my books make it homey.

i have a poster done by the hildebrandt brothers (signed!) of a unicorn and a lady in a meadow that my husband got me when we first started going out.

one wall is covered in photos, and arranged sort of like a family tree (my parents on one side, hubby's on the other, us underneath and kids under that)

i have some brass plates we got in egypt. i have a map of old hungary, i have my "blessed be" thingie hanging above my desk.

his desk has three stooges stuff and a reproduction of the poor poet by spitzweg hanging above it. we also have some prints we bought at the remington museum in ft worth that i just framed and hung....definitely an "eclectic" mix.

and when the house is clean and decluttered, it looks very homey, distressed wooden floors and chipping paint and all.

Pembroke, sounds like I could move right in! :)
I adore the salvation army thrift store,
dahling.

Gotta tell you....I bought a french buffet in perfect condition except a little discoloration on the top for 50 bucks. I was learning faux finishing and decided to do marble on the surface. Wish you could see it. What a steal. That thing is a heavy sucker, too. It took all the big men to get it in the house.

We have a 1910 - Arts and Crafts style home with hardwood floors, all oak trim, foyer with oak pillars, a very large window seat in the living room. I love the colors my wife chose for the walls, which iare terra cotta in the living room, and mustard yellow in our dining room. All variations of Arts and Crafts colors. Our formal dining room has a plate rail about 3/4 the way up with oak panels down to the floor and built-in cabinet and drawers. All of the oak wood makes it very warm feeling.

I just love this style of home. It's a great example of hand made craftsmanship. A lot of the builder's time and personality went into this house, which makes it very unique.

What is it about your home that draws you in and embraces you? What do you love that makes you smile...or makes you feel comfortable? Is your home cozy and does it reflect who you are?


My place doesn't yet reflect who I am, I just haven't got around to getting into decorating, which I love to do !

My furniture is not my style(yet) we mostly have stuff from our other place that was more workable than my style. Because we rent not much I can do about the colors of the walls and such.

A lot of people don't like to display family photos. I'm from a very large, close family and photos of all my "famiiars" reflect who I am.

I like to frame candid shots and I have them in every room....even the kitchen and bathroom. My husband says he doesn't like people watching him while he's doing business so I have to be careful how I place them :D

I like other art and objects with eyes too.....so we are always being watched!
Shakespeare and a Madonna and Child check me out while I'm cookin'.

FTM...I could send you a photo of me and you can hang it on your kitchen wall. I can "watch" you cook ;)


Tim, I would love your home too...your wife chose my colors...mustard and terra cotta..and I like the color cranberry. Warm colors...warm people. Cool colors....really cool people.

My house reflects who I am but it is not a place where I like to be. It reflects disorder and incomplete ideas and simply put my house like myself, is a mess. Sometimes I hate to go home. I hope that one day, it gets better and then I will know that I am getting better.

FTM...I could send you a photo of me and you can hang it on your kitchen wall. I can "watch" you cook ;)

Noooooooooooo ;)

Hey Draven....check out flylady.net
It might sound a little corny to you at first but the program works!
Perfect for ADDers. :)

One of the assignments I remember was to turn your bathroom in to a luxury hotel bathroom/spa. I couldn't afford to do it all at once but along and along I managed to collect all the works..new towels, specialty soaps, a white terry robe....candles., etc. etc. Fresh paint, new shower curtain...Tossed out all that old eyshadow and crap I was saving...:D

I liked flyladies also. I liked "keeping my kitchen sink clean"

Wow, I really would like to visit some of these places -- especially Tim's craftsman-style house.

Like Draven, my house reflects the totally overwhelmed, disorganized slob "me." It's hard to feel really comfortable when everything that needs to be done is not only staring me in the face, it's taking over the house.

But, that said, I've chosen colors that are really soothing to me, regardless of whether they're in fashion or not. My office is purple, as are the dining room and master bath. Master bedroom and sitting room are shades of blue. The living room and kitchen are shades of greenish blue. All soft, cool colors.

My tastes are pretty eclectic -- I have lots of family photos, too, and wall art ranges from watercolors done by a good friend to abstract art to old masters. I'm drawn more to stuff that has meaning for me in some way.

About the only thing I can say I'm not fond of is country decor (yet I like some rustic things quite a lot) -- or predominantly antique furnishings (I'm afraid I'd just break them!) If given half the chance (and a winning lottery ticket), I'd replace every stick of furniture with the exception of my grandmother's buffet and an old library table I have that needs to be refinished.

I live in a little studio apartment that I don't care for - but it's home, a cozy, messy, cluttery home!

I collect broadway posters from almost all the musicals I've ever been to, so they are all over my living room/bedroom walls.
I have a black futon, coffee table and end table (black with glass tops); accessories are various shades of red (lamp, duvet cover, candles, etc). I have some cute pics of the family and friends all around. I have the best clock on the wall! It's huge - and can be written on with chalk (LOL got it at IKEA in the kids section).

Boards and black bricks hold up my TV, VCR, DVD player and tons of movies, CDs and a stereo.

My guitar is perched against cool silver wire basket drawers and close by are some in-wall shelves that hold games and my craft projects.

My kitchen isn't as cute, nor the teeny tiny bathroom (which is black, charcoal and light blue), but I don't spend much time in those areas.

Everything in the living room/bedroom screams "courtney" It will tell you most everything you need to know about me.

My home doesn't reflect who I am but the stuff in it does...

We have some nice comfy couches my favorite color burgandy.....I have all sorts of family pictures on the walls in my living room and bed room...NONE in the bathroom (privacy) and none in the kitchen Gary cooks!!!!

I don't have just those portrate kind I have are mostly ones that I took with regular camera and edited, cropped ect and had reproduced, then framed. I like my crafts stuff that hang in my bedroom. I have taken things like old pallets that are small and made plaques with little sayings, verses, wood burned into the wood pallet, then stained a pretty color and covered with clear coating ........it's amazing what can be done with an old pallet!!!! I have my home made jewlery hanging next to it. My late to be husbands tapestry hangs in the livingroom.

What I do like about my home is the land and trees. We are on an acher slightly over although Gary has filled up the front and sides with junk he doesn't have the attention span to carry it all the way to the back sooo the back is still nice!!!!!

The second favorite thing about living here is I can have my baby 65 pound Lady dog and Mr. Mischeif appropiatly named resident feline!!!!

Oh yea I also like the rural setting as we live kind of at the edge of town and work commuting consist of walking around to the back (the front 1/3 work area the rest of the back yard is my sancturary.Tress and much folage divides out land from the neighbors so it is still pretty privite...we we have never been caught oops.

Perfect locations as Driving to the local Wal-Mart five minutes no stop lights nearest neighbor 150 yards......

It sounds like all of you have your thumbprints on your dwellings. Accept maybe fasttalkingmom....I'm going to her house tomorrow to put my thumbprints all over her bathroom mirror!

~gourmet~

My house kind of reflects my state of mind -- cluttered! The furniture is cheap and the books are expensive. Books literally overflowing from every crevice and corner and sometimes even stacked on the floor for lack of room. Dog fur and bird feathers flying into the air on a regular basis -- air cleaners be damned ;-) Because anything worth doing is worth overdoing, I have over 400 videogames spread over many systems spread all over the house {although, after hooking up with the fly lady, I managed to confine them to two rooms -- so proud :-)

I used to have hand drawn wall size posters everywhere, but now there's only the tape marks where they used to be. Mostly, it's just a rundown old house that looks even more rundown than it really is because I'm incapable of really taking care of it well. Well, that's okay, because it's good enough for me -- I live here in the physical sense, not the mental one. The house of my mind changes on a regular basis and is infinitely cheaper than changing my physical house on a regular basis ;-)

My house is not neat by any stretch of the imagination. It's more like cluttered, but I love the colors In my bedroom, kitchen and livingroom. My living room is rich earthtones that I find very soothing with a reclining couch and mathcing brocade recliner for my husband. I also have some antique chairs that I love. My bedroom is pretty much the same but with burgandy as the main color.
My kitchen is my "happy place" with it's chick yellow and spinach green cabinets with cobalt glass accents pretty much wherever I can put them that the kids won't break.

Our house is a historical 1880's house that's been added to, and there are still some rooms that need a overhaul because they are hideously outdated, but somehow those projects just seem too big, right now. I'm one of those "if your going to do it, do it right" people.