Defining your style. This month we are focusing on all the little and big ways we add pizzazz and style to our homes. We're looking particularly at high style items like painting with color, wallpaper, artwork and bold accessories that do a lot with a little. We're also interested in your style.
Over at ATLA, Laure put up this great style survey and we're following suit. When it comes to the final touches, who are you?
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Comments (15)
All of the above?
Hello...Spartan is Greek, not Italian!
i'm more hollywood regency...
donald trump?
If I had the wallet for it and got rid of my cats (and maybe my husband) my place would be French art deco.
my style is confused and indecisive!
how about eclectic eccentric ethnic modern? I like jetson's-y retro mod and my husband likes tapestries. And we're on a budget.
I'm currently rocking a modern, retro, WASPy, Italianate, Danish mod, Mackenzie-Childs, Lucite, Japanese, Amazon.com thing right now.
But it's getting better....
I aspire to a Hollywood regency meets industrial whimsy aesthetic but at the moment it's closer to magpie bookworm.
modern-trash
Where do Ikea, West Elm and CB2 fit in? These categories are not particularly inclusive...
the term i actually like for my current home style is "ethnic technicolor baroque." it's a lil bit hollywood regency, a lil of my nigerian heritage, w/strategic uses of high color....
No surprizes there...I would have had another category..."Me Too Mid-Century"....and technically, in the trade, West Elm, CB2, and IKEA would be termed "transitional".
Well, if I remember my design history classes from university correctly, there are only four "styles": historic, traditional, contemporary, and eclectic.
Depending upon my mood, I refer to my eclectic interior as either vest-pocket exotic or boho aristo.
Well, I think that since almost nothing is "pure" the temptation to choose "ecelctic" might be hitting some folks whose stuff is actually more focused than they think.
Meanwhile, I don't think that the word Spartan was meant to mean "from Sparta", it kind of meant sleek and spare.