Very pretty but way too much white for me! I would be adding alot more blue somehow. Love the blue vases on the table though.
I donāt get wire cage lighting fixtures. It really doesnāt do any good preventing glare. I keep asking myself why is the light in a cage.
Add me to those disliking subway tiles. And industrial looking light fixtures- with āEdison bulbsā as well.
Howcum house shoppers on TV want ācharacterā in a house then declare so much to be āoutdatedā? I see the character, personality coming from the stuff added- not the junky stuff built.
In my bathroom, is a white porcelain vessel sink in a 19th c Sheraton washstand, similar to this:
https://www.rubylane.com/item/357005-RL130134/19th-Century-Maine-Grain-Painted-Stenciled
It matches my collection of antique reverse painted Sheraton mirrors hanging above an antique claw foot tub.
All rooms have antique brass lighting fixtures, changed from gas to electric, with original etched glass globes.
White subway tile in kitchen, because thatās what many 19th c kitchens had.
Not feeling too trendy. ?. Certainly embracing outdated. Like to think my decor is timeless. But styles in period decorating come and go as well.
Funny that you mentioned blue @ChaosParent23. My sister painted her ceiling blue. My sisterās new kitchen is prettier than most kitchens Iāve seen in magazines and on Pinterest. Itās really spectacular. She has a way with decorating.
I donāt lol!
@alh, so pretty! I really like your descriptions of your house.
I donāt care for open floor plans. Friends of ours designed their house that way. The living room is open to the dining room and kitchen. Off of that is a large foyer. They said it was fine when they first had children because they could keep an eye on them while they prepared dinner, etc. But as the kids got older the lack of privacy was annoying. And the large foyer is space thatās rarely used so they regret devoting so much space to it.
I donāt like wood paneling on the walls either. My in-laws have a small den with wall to wall paneling. For years it was stained a deep maple color which made the room dark and dreary. My MIL finally convinced my FIL to have it painted a cream color a couple of years ago. It really brightens up the room and makes it feel so much more open.
@deb922 Funny!! I made my DH paint the tray ceiling in our bedroomā¦ I thought it might end in divorce before he was done. But it looks amazing! :lol:
Iām not a fan of open plans either. Unfortunately thatās all we could find! The floor plan we picked is the least open of the available plans in our neighborhood though. I also had them put in the huge floor to ceiling french doors on my library, so itās more closed off.
I also donāt like any sort of light fixture that I can see the actual light. The glare gives me a headache. Any idea how hard it is to find mini pendant lights that donāt show a bare bulb? Nearly impossible!
Lived in NYC area for over 20 years, dealt with the subways and I like subway tile as kitchen backdrops and bathrooms. I donāt care for the square tiles much.
I like having a biggish house, with nice combination of open spaces (kitchen/familyroom & livingroom/diningroom) & private spaces (den, 3 bedrooms) & & unfinished basemet with shop & small but private backyard. Someday we will need to downsize, and at that point weāll need to decide our priorities.
This house is in Atlanta, but is very similar to what we are seeing here in North Texas high end new construction. I kind of like the black windows.
https://www.secondshelters.com/2020/08/06/brilliant-in-buckhead-by-stokesman-luxury-homes/
@austinmshauri and @ChaosParent23 Iām glad there are people like you who donāt like open plans. In my house the living room, dining room and kitchen are separate rooms with doorways (no doors) between them. You make me think there will be buyers when we decide to sell.
Iām not a fan of brass or bronze or copper, whether bright or brushed, and even less a fan of gold. With oil rubbed bronze I can pretend itās just antique black. Iām fine with black, nickel, chrome, etc.
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Personally, I think open floor plans are loud and more difficult to keep clean.
I grew up in Ohio where everyone had medium sized to large beautiful 100 year old homes. Very traditional floor plans. So thatās what I prefer.
I have one of those nearly 100 year old homes in Ohio. 
95 years to be exact. While it is not open concept (which is something overall I dislike) it FEELS open to me - high ceilings, wide tall archways between rooms, lots of window and light.
The most āclosedā main floor room is the kitchen - and being honest I like having the kitchen not open to everything else thatās going on!
We went from open concept in our last house to a more partitioned century home. The open concept was great when D was little but I like the current house better. Still plenty of space to gather (when we get back to entertaining!)
Iām the opposite. I would not buy a home that didnāt have an open feel.
In the past few days, Iāve seen a fair amount of the satin brass finishes. I actually do think they can be pretty, though they are not for me.
In our old house, only the bedrooms and bathrooms had doors. We had a loft upstairs which overlooked the living room. Our tvās were in those two rooms, which for me meant they could not both be on at the same time (this did not bother husband). In this house, we still have an open plan for the living room, dining room, and kitchen, but we have a sitting area in the main bedroom with room for one tv. Iām fine with the open plan, but also delighted that we can close a door to one tv.
I did love the wall of windows in the loft in our old house, which looked over the local village park, all the way to the elementary school. I could watch our son walk all the way home from school. It faced west, so great sunsets. The developer who bought the house built a huge McMansion, with the garage in front. There is a tall cupola on the garage, which almost completely blocks the view to the front.
I now dislike square white subway tile, or whatever it should be called, because it was used on both the bathroom and kitchen counters. Itās a major cleaning pain in the kitchen. We really should redo our kitchen but weāve gotten used to it. And I donāt think our marriage would survive. We just replaced an 8ā fry pan, and the amount of research and discussion just for thatā¦
I have literally spent 6 hours the past two days looking at cabinet knobs and pulls for our remodel. I have a headache from it. When I sent my choices for the master bath, my builder called me and said āI hate to do this to you, but past clients who have chosen those kinds of pulls have had terrible problems with them breaking. I donāt recommend them.ā I went online to find reviews, and yepā¦they break.
So Iām back to square zero. This is a beating, just a beating.
I want to go have drink with you! Kindred spirits. I did everything exactly right in picking paint color and it still went wrong. Not lucky in these things
@Nrdsb4 , I feel your pain. When we built our house a few years ago, I opened all the kitchen cabinets and drawers with tabs of tape for at least the first 9 months while I searched for the perfect hardware. There was no way I was going to let them drill holes in all that perfect new cabinetry until I had what I wanted! It was absolutely maddening trying to coordinate knobs, pulls and refrigerator/door hardware. I would find knobs and pulls I like and they didnāt make the right size refrigerator handle, or I found all the right sizes but they didnāt make it in the finish I needed. Seems there was always a problem with something.
@Nrdsb4, you reminded me of when I redid my bathroom. I picked the āexpensiveā drawer pulls in about 5 seconds. Saw them, I liked them, and I didnāt need that many. The tile for the shower was also fairly quick. But I spent HOURS looking at various tile shops for the perfect accent tile, and in the end it was only used for 2 niches. (And I paid for 7 sheets of that expensive stuff. They only used 2 and I only have 2 leftā¦ hmā¦