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[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]

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[A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett]

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[Smallville]

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[Good Mythical Morning]

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[Stefan/Klaus from TVD, Ross/Phoebe from Friends, and Ron/Draco as compared to Wincest, Sheldon/Penny from The Big Bang Theory, and either Harry/Draco or Draco/Hermione]

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[Princess Eugenie of York]

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[Bill Skarsgard, Alida Morberg]

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When I was a kid, the hallways in my house were green - sort of dark (for an indoor wall), bright green, like the standard "green" in a Crayola crayon box. The doorframes and trim was dark yellow, like the color of sunflower petals. Apparently the bedroom had been red at one point, but was repainted white by the time I was born. At some point the hallways were also repainted, also white of course.

I've noticed now if you look at any home decor book/magazine, everything is white and gray and beige and very neutral and colorless. Sometimes they'll add like a blue pillow or something for a "pop" of color (I dislike that phrase).

I understand people not wanting dark colors in their house. And red bedroom would be too much for me. I kind of liked the green hallways, though. And I wouldn't want everything to be "neutral" or white. I'd probably use some color, not just a "pop" of it.

How would you all decorate your houses/apartments, if you had unlimited money and control (so no partner/spouse/roommate whose input needs to be considered) over it? Would you want to use a lot of color, or a moderate amount, or do you like neutrals mostly?

The neutral trend bores me to tears, and there's no way I could live like that. I'm definitely a maximalist at heart with strong kitsch undercurrents.

I love it when nothing matches, and my favorite color combo is red and turquoise. I love Christmas lights, patchwork, bunting, stuffed animals, crazy art and collage, maps on the wall of places I want to visit.

We live in an apartment and can't paint the walls, but I absolutely will when we get our own house. I might even hand paint some leopard print trim. :D

My aesthetic is beachy-boho so I'd want soft white walls in every room, large windows in every room (for lots of natural light), and dark hardwood floors in every room but the bathrooms. I want a couple of skylights, and a few strategically placed stained glass windows with poppies as the subject (I love poppies). I'd want a gas fireplace in my living room with natural stone mantle and cladding. I'd have kilim rugs on my floors in many colors but each room would have a predominant color, and in the rooms with stained glass windows the colors would coordinate with the colors of the poppies. Furniture would be simple, I like the look of recycled wood furniture so probably that. I want a built-in bookcase for all my books, a walk-in closet for my clothes, a big shower stall with natural limestone and two shower heads so I can shower with my fwbs! My decor would be masks from all over the world, paintings of California landscapes (I love California, I live there), a few select pieces of art glass jellyfish, and the many random plates and platters I've picked up over the years.

Man, i agree. Neutral colors are so boring sometimes. Oh, man...decorate how? A living room out of Alphonse Mucha's portfolio, to start. Art nouveau! Carved wood, drapery in rich, jewel colors, huge, squashy couches and pillows in greens and bitter-sweet and deep reds, dark, polished wood, stained glass fanlights and decorative trims on all the windows.

A kitchen of greens and coppers with those recycled glass counters that look like frozen ocean water, all turquoise and azure, a bedroom that's Wedgewood blue and white and lots more Art nouveau tapestry stuff and cushions.....

Hardwood floors, huge windows, wide sills, art on all the walls, barrister bookshelves for all the books.

And a magic spell to keep all the cat hair off everything. :D

If I had unlimited money that I couldn’t spend on helping people, or my hobbies or bills or whatever, it’d be a tossup between having a brightly colored Queen Anne Victorian with mostly antique furniture and stained glass windows and lampshades, or I’d just go nuts and have a more modern house with, say, murals and mosaics of dragons and griffons and fantasy landscapes everywhere, and carved wood chairs with weird details like branches with eyes peering out, or that look like thrones, and that chandelier that throws forest shadows everywhere and those light fixtures that look like clouds during a thunderstorm.

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And when I was little my mom painted a mural of tropical plants and a cloudy blue sky in my bedroom and a big spreading ficus-like tree in her room; I wish I had pictures and the talent to replicate them.

I guess if I were picking colors I'm more into neutral ones for the walls, though I also live in an apartment and can't paint. I'd like colors for the furniture though. Right now I have so many anime wall scrolls and Die Ärzte posters on my walls that it's definitely a lot of color. And I like it that way. I'm very happy with how my apartment looks, even though I can't paint it. It's no magazine showplace but it's me.

Same re: neutral colors for the walls. Out-there/intense colors may look nice in photos, but when you're actually living in them, they get pretty old pretty fast and they can make it really tough to coordinate furniture. I'd rather use mostly neutral colors for the walls and then have fun with the furniture and the rugs and the decor because that's all easy to replace if you get tired of it.

When I moved into the house I'm currently living in, all the walls were a tan/light brown. Ugh. Hubby and I eventually hired some painters so the main room in my house is a beautiful sky blue. The kitchen is a reddish-orange color, hubby's game room is XBox green, the upstairs is a darker blue-purplish color (same as our powder room downstairs) and one of the spare rooms is maroon. Fuck drab/boring neutral colors.

I'm not a fond of the whole painting everything white or gray trend, either. It just doesn't look homey, you know? I don't want a house that looks like an architectural magazine cover, I want a home that looks comfortable and restful. For me, that means a lot of natural colors, blues and greens and lots of wood and stone, tons of plants, colorful carpets, cozy furniture with big, fluffy pillows.

Oh, tons of color!

Mint, gold, terra cotta, all kinds of colors,and each room would have a running theme, so while the colors would differ, there would be some mind of unity. I love colors. But I would also likely have some walls that are an ivory off white color.

Tacky and ugly stuff I liked.

Definitely a black marble hallway with golden accents somewhere.

I have natural woodwork in my house and need to consider how a color will go with that. It's that mid-century orangey color of wood, so when I painted a room dark blue, that looked good, but I wouldn't choose a red shade, which is what some previous owners had painted the kitchen at one point. Yikes! My parents house was built in 1906 and has a different shade to their woodwork (more neutral) so they can, and do, get away with dark red and a "pumpkin spice" color in a couple of rooms. The house I grew up in was built in the teens and had very dark Craftsman style woodwork, so we kept the walls light and neutral to draw attention to it.

The woodwork in my house is pretty banged up and previous owners have been sloppy with cutting in their paint jobs, so if I had the money and no other concerns to spend it on, I'd have all the trim removed and replaced. I don't think the baseboards are original, anyway. They look too 1950s for this 1940s house. I'd also have all the stupid, clearly-not-original, hollow-core doors replaced with paneled doors and get a pocket door put in the kitchen doorway. I'd also replace the laminate kitchen counter with something nicer, even though it's clearly pretty new. Honestly, everything else I like, or is a super-easy paint/replace knobs job, or is not a decor issue but a this-needs-to-be-fixed issue.

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