Describe Your Day-Cor
 

What's the vibe in your abode? English cottage? Cool modern? Shabby Chic? Suburban Classy, Country, Kistchy, Desperate Serial Killer, Bi-Polar Nut, Eclectic, Dungeon, SEXual Dungeon or Graduate Student?

I always imagine the living situations of everyone here...coz I'm nosey. :)

Plus, I'm FBI.

Let's hear what you're imagining first.

Well, I'd like to but I can't.

I'm F. B. I.

Post modern clutter, with some daycare thrown in. We did the kitchen in 50s retro.
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Of those choices, the closest one is Graduate Student.

We have a pretty spartan place. A few nice things, but most are beat up old IKEA style. Lots of kids toys lying about. Don't step on those LEGOs in bare feet. The house itself is nothing like the house I imagined myself in when I was a kid. Kind of run down without much character. But it's home and it keeps us warm and dry.

It looks a lot different in the pictures... it is much roomier in life, warmer colors. There are a lot of things from around the world and the US all over. A lot of antique furniture that I refinished back when I could. Some I left as it was.

Well you've seen the apartment, mostly, if you looked at my dodads...

My room?
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Desk is covered in crap - empty tea bottles, cracker packets, soda cans....
Floor also covered in crap - towels, clothes, books, whatever
Guitar stand right next to my bed (the box next to the bed it is my nightstand)
Keyboard next to the desk, against the wall/window
Basses reside in one half of the closet
Clothes go in the other - it has shelves
I leave my bed to get food and go to school.

Walls covered in posters - Sex Pistols, Einstein, Bush Quotes, The Wall (heh).
Door:

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It's a poster of Zimmy and a DSOTM banner.

No clear horizontal surfaces.

Retro Crapo
 

Retro. All the crap I've been collecting for years.

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I'm big into vintage HI-FI stuff. That's a Grundig Magestic Console.

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I love the vintage kitchen appliances too. They all work.

Hmmm, nice stuff Pangloss62. Look at those items lined up in exact rows and at right angles. Very tidy ;)

Stormie

Ooohhhh... I need to take more close-up pics of my kitchen. Lots of retro in mine. Love the 50s in there. Though much of it is FL specific.
As for the rest, in the past we have owned mucho retro furniture... love it.
Major kudos to you and your place!

50's
 

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This is another wall in my apartment. That's a 1954 Motorola TV. In the foreground is a Braun Hi-Fi console.

I appreciate your aprreciation. And I do arrange those things in rows like that. I think there must be a little gay interior decorator in me.

Is crap laying everywhere, wallpaper ripped off, belongings in boxes and house partially painted considered decor?

Yes, that would be a post-Griff design.

In that case I think I have an Elspodian post-griff vibe happening. (My wife is after me to buy furniture that, in her words, doesn't look like it's from a college dorm.)

:lol: Is that a nice way of saying, "grow up", Steve?

If it is she's SOL. Furniture isn't going to help that.

It appears that several people should be making regular postings in Dodads ...

I specialize in fascinating clutter. I can usually find what I'm looking for, so I can claim that it's not totally out of control.

There can be a fine line between accumulating and collecting; but, what do I know: I live in a poncho hooch in Central Park. [shhhhhh, UT, shhhhhh].

My room is a COMPLETE wreck, yet i can find any item I want in it in mere moments.

lots of oak furniture, lots of shaker style woodwork - plane faced with dark handles. Tooooons of antiques (my wife is a collector, as are her parents).

And now, picture all of that covered with baby-proofing and plastic "Baby Einstein" toys.

Did it... posted the cow cabnet.

Dodads like that need to be featured properly ... isolation shots. You have piqued our curiosity.

My living room, although I have a different sofa now, a dark green one. And since this was taken in february, just after I had moved there, it's clutter free. Not any more now, if I look around me I see study books on the floor, a few newspapers I need to throw away, a dog toy, shoes, you know, stuff.

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You mean now it looks like somebody actually lives there instead of a real estate or furniture ad. :D

Exactly. :D

Hmmm - mixed bag here.

I have some antique furniture, crystal cabinet, sideboard etc etc from my grandparents. Mixed in my band spanking modern appliances and gadgets...I like gadgets and appliances.

This is a 100+ year old sheep homestead, so its got 15 foot ceilings and polished original floorboards.

We also have a ghost, I had to move some furniture coz she didnt like her rocking chair hitting my bookcase.

So a mix of Modern, Antique and as my friends call "Homey clutter".

These are from October and November '05

my house....

contains a primary-school teacher permantly locked in squirrel mode and a 24-year old stepdaughter still locked in teenangst mode...... wtf do you think my house looks like...

place under construction is mocha stained hickory flooring, with flecked tan carpet, natural hickory cabinets, deep olive solid granite counters, wildcat frazee paint interior, with tuscan artwork throughout. 46" flatscreen with prewired flushmount speakers throught.

80' pebbletec lagoon style pool, tuff turf lawn, cobblestone driveway.

completely devoid of the female touch that is so necessary to make a house into a home. *sigh*

*can't even explain how much i want to hand someone the checkbook and say "make it your own". but i don't think i'll ever be that trusting again.*

mmmmm... man cave.

Okay, my house is post and beam pretty much all done by me. Cherry cabinets with bright blue accents done by me. Most of the paint is cream done by Pete. The unfinished bits have not been done ...by me. The dog hair tumble weeds are mostly done by Bessie with some little assistance from Merlin. Piles of art supplies and projects done by lil Pete and lil Griff.

I'll be right over. Start by buying bookshelves and a gun safe and we can work the rest out later.

My shop is my man-cave... will take some pics someday.

ok Bri, We want to see YOUR day -cor too! Where is that purple wall. I wanna see it:)

:) I don't have a camera (none. Not even a non-digital type one!) but when my sis comes up, I'll have her take some pics with hers and then have her show me how to put them on here. I am so very hopelessly uncomputer savvy. The digital/computer age passed me by. I think I was out hoe-ing the tomatoes when it went by! I'd love to post pics...hopefully I will get to soon.

I see a red door and I want to paint it black.

yay! don't feel bad. I want a good camera too and cannot afford one yet. I am envious about being able to grow tomatoes anyway. Having a camera is nothing compared to some nice soft earth to plant in. :) imo

I have the camera but don't know how to stick pictures in here, I know, it's a bit sad but I don't care. I live on the second floor of a Victorian building converted from a hotel into flats just before the last war, and we also have a ghost! She (the ghost) is thirtyish with blonde curly hair and just sort of stands about the place smiling and lowering the temperature. She seems to be dressed in between the wars style, I'm guessing mid twenties and dowdy.

She visits mosts of the flats in the building but seems to spend the majority of her hanging about time in the basement kitchen.

Apart from her, I have tried to furnish and decorate in a style sympathetic to the building, so real and repro Victoriana is my style. The high ceilings and plaster moulding (molding?) is all in place and authentic as are doors and windows etc., and as the building is listed and in a conservation area we cannot change anything without permission. It is difficult to heat effectively of course so I close the main living room in winter, once the west wind starts to blow, and because the main bedroom is huge it doubles as a sort of bedsitter until the days get warm again. All of the rooms have working fireplaces which are cosy in winter but seabirds drop stuff down the chimneys. There's always something lying in the grate...

Mine is Displaced Homemaker-1980s California Comtemporary (medium oak solid wood) meets Cat Lady/Hoarder. Add too many plants. I would take a picture but the camera is in one of these piles and I haven't found it for a while :ivy:

imagine your local hardware store/ building supply place after is has been crashed into by a runaway dumptruck and then picked over for a while before it began raining.

Something like that.