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[missjean]

Pinterest can be fun. It's great for recipes - I might not ever try any of them, but boy, they look good! I do window treatment design for a decorator on occasion and have found the decorating ideas inspiring.

Somewhere I remember reading “don’t have anything in your home that isn’t beautiful, or you don’t love.” You can’t always do that, but it’s something to keep in mind when you think about how you want your house to look.

In my former job I use to go to huge, professionally decorated houses and most of the time they were kind of..…flat. That’s the best word I can come up with. All colors were coordinated, the furniture was expensive, and the accessories accented it all just right, but it all lacked character and personality.

The most lovely houses I went to usually were smaller, often with interesting architecture, but not always, and the owners personality always shown through.
There is one house I remember very well. From the outside it was nothing special, but it over looked a pond and woods. When you went inside, it was so bright & comfortable, I just wanted to sit at the table and drink tea and talk.
The folks that owned it were retired; she painted, so there were paintings every where. Books were everywhere. The furniture was older, but clean and comfortable, with bright pillows to lean against; and there were oriental rugs on the floor. There were hangings and prints of all the places they had been and plants in front of the windows. I wanted to move in! It all probably cost 1/100th of what the big houses cost, but it was 1000x nicer.