JudithKD

would help a lot. Another problem I have when I look at magazines, etc. is that the pictures all look like someone has decorated the space with the idea that the place is on the market: there’s very little stuff there.

My dad’s house had a LOT of books (no surprise) and we have some of his bookcases and more of our own but that isn’t entirely the issue.

I guess it’s the “fall in love” with things. Both DH and I do this. There’s just too much stuff I like and too much he likes. I have some boxes of stuff tucked away in the attic, party dishes and decorative stuff that seemed to be overkill…maybe I need to pack up some more things like that and keep paring the “stuff” down until we like it?

I don’t know.

My impulse is to say that I never had a home before. But the closest I probably got was the apartment I had before the house where I got the uninvited roommate (DH).

I’d been working in a cafeteria and took the commercial crates home. I’d gotten fiberglass tops made, but needed to get them made of glass instead as the fiberglass scratched.

But aside from that and the visual gag I talked about elsewhere, and various sayings I had posted about, that’s it.

That apartment was weird, it was in a former whorehouse….

The house was going to be my first real attempt at a home.

I acquired a dog, 2 cats and was going to have a library. I had a loveseat (covered in flowered fabric I’d gotten cheap at a used furniture place)some fabric for a wall hanging (behind me in the pic from this year)and had the various wooden crates that I used for tables.

jkd

I have posted this elsewhere, but I AM looking for answers. Comments would be most appreciated! jkd

What would you do?

DH and I are contemplating decorating the house. The problems are: too much stuff (I’m working on that one) but especially books & photo stuff. The fact that we both find pieces we love and buy them, whether we have any idea where it will go and/or fit into any decorating scheme or not. And finally, there’s a conflict of styles.

The house is a log home, finished on the inside to look like vertical paneling. DH prefers mid-century modern/playing with space stuff and I prefer shabby chic (but not cutesy!) and junky.

Trying to find a style that will not look weird in this house AND fit both our styles is something we agree we need to do, but we have no idea how to accomplish it.

The things we have which work for both of us are mostly from my retailing past, commercial fixtures and the like.

For reasons of our own, doing one room to suit one of us doesn’t appeal except in our dedicated rooms: offices mostly.

I like enamel pans, stars, wire baskets. DH likes Eames, some Deco, etc.

I have been reading old home ec books to find clues that will help and have found some, but nothing specific.

moving stuff around, is how many boxes of unfiled papers we have.

So, this morning, I upended the “to be filed” jar on the built-in kitchen desk and opened a new packet of notebook paper. I’m determined to get either to the end of the paper or the end of the receipts to be filed. There’s 150 sheets in the paper packet, we’ll see what happens first!

jkd

I used all the paper, so 150 reciepts (or more) got filed!