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My decor

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Is a very weird combination of Japanese, post-Hippie East Indian, Danish Modern, and LARGE HUNKS OF OAK.

Odd.

Oddest is that it kind of works. This not-really-batiked bedspread is way to purple for a window treatment in this living room, though. Gray purples look good with all the green, but this is hippie bedspread purple.

NB: Shiva makes a good ring tree.

At least it's not neo-dormitory. Although I'm kind of locked into the blond wood and melamite thing, because it's what the ex-boyfriend with whom I shared my first grown up apartment liked (our secondhand furniture creedo: strip it, sand it down, give it a Danish oil finish, and if that doesn't work, paint it white), and then I inherited ALL THIS OAK with white ceramic bits.

At least it makes a pretty neutral base to build on.

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menin_aeide
Feb. 25th, 2006 07:17 pm (UTC)
What is a ring tree, if I may ask?
menin_aeide
Feb. 25th, 2006 07:20 pm (UTC)
Oh, I see. Silly me: google before you ask.
matociquala
Feb. 25th, 2006 07:31 pm (UTC)
Just so. *g* He's very good at it.
suricattus
Feb. 26th, 2006 12:44 am (UTC)
Can't wait to see it!


(I have no idea what my decor will end up looking like. Rosewood Gypsy Wanderlust, I suspect...)
matociquala
Feb. 26th, 2006 12:57 am (UTC)
Oo, sounds nice.
suricattus
Feb. 26th, 2006 01:07 am (UTC)
Sounds like a slightly off-kilter Thoroughbred mare, to me (and I am corrected -- it's more cherry than rosewood).

Whatever it is, it's getting packed, box by box and bit by bit. Wheee?
matociquala
Feb. 26th, 2006 01:12 am (UTC)
whee. dammit.
lnhammer
Feb. 26th, 2006 04:20 am (UTC)
Our decor only recently grew out of that period known as Late Grad Student.

---L.
almeda
Feb. 26th, 2006 03:16 pm (UTC)
My now-husband's-and-my first grown-up apartment had, I kid you not, six DIFFERENT shades of bad fake-wood 'rec room' paneling. Plus a fake-marble slick particleboard paneling in the bathroom.

Every time we saw something in a horrid fake wood-grain, we would turn to each other and deadpan, "Well, it goes with our decor ..."
allaboutm_e
Feb. 26th, 2006 04:43 pm (UTC)
I have long ago given up on wondering if my decor works for anyone but me. All I ask for are sturdy bookshelves. Hence the office themes of Western / Mermaid / Faeries / Anime Witches / Kim Possible...
:)
matociquala
Feb. 26th, 2006 04:44 pm (UTC)
;-)
mevennen
Feb. 26th, 2006 09:06 pm (UTC)
We are gradually attaining mutual coherence due to T having to build a shitload of bookcases, and in any case possessing much more furniture than I do.
matociquala
Feb. 26th, 2006 09:17 pm (UTC)
Nothing wrong with marrying a man for his bookcases.
mevennen
Feb. 26th, 2006 09:19 pm (UTC)
No, no, no, I would never be so cynical or self seeking.

It's his ability to MAKE bookcases that is so...strangely attractive....
shewhomust
Feb. 27th, 2006 09:51 am (UTC)
This is why reconstructed period rooms in museums always ring false: they're so... coherent.

(Ring trees: I used to have a stag with damn fine antlers. I wonder where that's gone?)
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