Home Where the Heart Is
This week let's talk about home or the house in which you grew up.
1. What do you think of this picture.. the staircase. Do you like how it looks? Does it say "home" to you?
Would you like something that looks like this?
I love the cosiness of the lighting and colors. Our staircase does not have that same feeling.. but I do enjoy our stairs!
2. Did you love growing up in your family home?
I did love growing up in the 50's in our family home.. it was rather a sweet simple white clad cottage with red roses growing up the trellis on the porch!
Here is our house from around 1968 to see the type of home I grew up in.. my mother was quite a decorator.. and she loved early American decor. She inherited several antiques from the dairy farm she grew up on and dad did, as well. We had an extension added on the back including a gorgeous colonial fireplace with all the trimmings. Our home was very cosy and enjoyable to live in. Mom had a flair for gardening and we had fresh cut flower arrangements in several rooms all through the warm seasons.
Could you live in a house like that today? No, there were things about the home that I didn't like, like the puny locks on the doors, no room for a dryer.. had to hang clothes on the line which was nice but quite a chore! And it wasn't my style... at all!
3. What did your bedroom look like when you were a teen?My bedroom as a young child was the third bedroom which was rather narrow but deep. I slept on a twin bed and had a desk for homework and a small chest of drawers. I had no say in the decor or color.. it was mostly white and a bit frilly. Not my style. But by the time I was ten I got to move to the second bedroom much larger with a double bed. but it was, also, the guest room. We didn't have that many guests but I wasn't allowed to add anything of mine in the room. The room was rather fancy .. again early American with beautiful drapes with Dolly Madison in sweet oval frames amid the Madison Plantation printed on them. The main color was an avocado green so the bedspread was a beautiful avocado damask.. not great for a 10 year old girl. By the time I was in the 8th grade I was really into interior design and as a school project, I moved back into the small room and was completely given permission and the funds to redo the room for a teenager but with style! That is one of my most favorite memories of that home!!!
4. What kind of vibes or atmosphere do you like to foster in your home today? Sophisticated, homey? I like to try to do a combination of both styles. A few years ago the living room was very different.. I was in an Olde English mood and I had several very interesting decor items that fostered the look along with deep colors of maroon/red, navy and golden corn painted walls,
But after going to Scotland and touring Inverary Castle, I fell in love with some of the color pallets there...
Not a great example but the room in good light was a lovely fair blue! I was charmed and so I came back to redo our home!
I would have to say I am somewhat of maximalist!
