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One of the things I like best about Apartment Therapy is it is really helping me define my own preferred "style". While this bedroom is pretty I can't imagine living in it - but viva la difference!

Wow. So formal. So feminine. So old fashioned. So Grandma.

Reminds of something Daisy in the Great Gatsby might have had her interior decorator do circa 1929.

Still, I agree. It's nice AT offers other perspectives and looks than mid-century modern.

I love that shade of blue - it's so refined and comforting.

I love old-style rooms and opulence, but something about this design bothers me, and I think it's the scalloped valances over the windows. They give the room a dowdy air. I'd like it better if they were straight-bottomed, like the ones over the bed.

Also, it might be the photography, but the painted furniture looks creamy white rather than white. In the seventies, it was popular to do a fake French antiquing finish with white paint and a gold/brown glaze. It was awful, and that's what this furniture reminds me of.

Do like the vanity table, chair and lamps, though.

Yeah, it's a bit too much, but that is my dream color combination.

Where is that Lucite piece from??? And do they make dining tables???

Love the color. Love the lucite vanity table. Love that they ran with a theme. And love that AT is branching out a bit from mc modern. But can we all agree that valences in general must be stopped?

Pretty but yes...very grandma.

Ha! I had some of that fake French antique furniture in my childhood bedroom.

This is very grandma, but so calm and pretty. I have to agree that the valences have got to go.

Very Upper East Side. I don't know how you can think this is "grandma," unless your grandma has a triplex on Fifth.

Tricia Nixon! I love your bedroom!

"Tricia Nixon! I love your bedroom!" Wahhhhh! Hilarious! Best comment of the day BrooklynRob!

nixon :) when i saw the pic I thought it was a before of malia or sasha's room that was going to be renovated! but the colors are pretty - it's like a historic B&B. where do you think the desk comes from? i would like something like that for my ongoing desk search ...

Oh, I was thinking Mamie Eisenhower, but Trish Nixon will do...

Far too formal for me.

Looks like a wonderful place to stay for a few days. I like the blue walls. Not so much for my everyday lifestyle.

I thought I was the only one feeling that something about the room made me feel I could never relax in it.

While the colors are very serene, the idea it conveys as a whole is of stern formalism. Like the room itself will judge you should you act in any form or manner human.

This is such a lovely room! To me it could be the text book for "put together"! It is relaxing and also traditional, I think this mix gives it some depth and character.

I liked the room. No doubt about that.

Still, I think it is a shame that a bedroom made in the year
2008 reflects its times so little.

This is not interior design/interior decoration in the year 2008.

This is theatre setting/movie set/theme park art.

Does anyone know where the bedding is from? Its beautiful.

I absolutely love this room! I love the colors. I happen to enjoy rooms like this very much but I also appreciate a variety of styles.

I think this room is pretty classic. It reflects historic fashions as well as current ones with the vanity and scalloped valences. also, I am the type to say "use fine china every day and if it breaks who cares? it's only stuff" formal rooms can't scare me away from using them!