Is it necessary to decorate your home with themes?
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 at
2:31 pm
cottonlily84 asked:
Perhaps I’m just way burnt out from the DIY shows or the people who unsuccessfully try to copy the DIY shows but I’m really over the whole “theme” of decorating. Why do rooms have to have themes? I had a friend who did a theme for every room. The kitchen was grapes, the bathroom was rubber duckies, the kid’s room was john deere. It was as if the ABC catalog exploded in her house and every imaginable item associate with that particular theme landed in the rooms. What’s wrong with just collecting things you love and tastefully arranging them?
Perhaps I’m just way burnt out from the DIY shows or the people who unsuccessfully try to copy the DIY shows but I’m really over the whole “theme” of decorating. Why do rooms have to have themes? I had a friend who did a theme for every room. The kitchen was grapes, the bathroom was rubber duckies, the kid’s room was john deere. It was as if the ABC catalog exploded in her house and every imaginable item associate with that particular theme landed in the rooms. What’s wrong with just collecting things you love and tastefully arranging them?
Tagged with: Collecting Things • Grapes • Themes
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NO! Themes are not necessary and often come across as tacky, actually.
Nothing is wrong with collecting things you love and tastefully arranging them. Just try not to overdo it with thing because then your rooms will look cluttered. It’s your house – do what you want
themes can be a starting point but if u don’t need one then don’t feel obligated, but if it makes your friend happy then thats what is right for her
As long as the room’s cohesive, it should work without the typical theme based on fruit or animals or an ethnic culture or a “thing” of some sort. Different things — even different styles can be brought together by a color scheme, textures, materials, and the way they are arranged in the room — can really show an eclectic, unique flair that’s not “catalog” or showroom looking.
My decorating theme for my whole house is: Early American Yard Sale.
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Seriously, you are doing the right thing by collecting the things you love and tastefully arranging them. I hate houses in new developments that look all the same, and they’re all decorated the same from catalog stuff because the owners have no imagination.
My favorite houses of my friends to visit are the ones that are proud to have their collected beach glass in a glass on the windowsill, and family photos, and a piece of family-inherited furniture that doesn’t quite match the other stuff. That kind of house is much more welcoming, trust me. Good luck.
Themes.
Big Fat Hairy Deal.
Decorate to please YOU, not some ‘expert’.
This has been a public service announcement.
I am not a big “fan” of theme rooms. Grouping together items that have something in common and things that we love is a great way to decorate…… theme rooms are a way of “over-decorating.” I always felt theme rooms were strictly for kids bedrooms and family/recreation rooms and way to restricting. I am much more comfortable in a room that is themed “me.”