Over the years we have learned many timeless decorative hours from our grandmothers: fresh flowers are essential; Color is a good idea forever; And you can always find space for a cheeky needle point pillow. But while we made many notes from our family matriarchs about trends that are worth repeating, there is a short list of your ideas that we prefer to leave behind. Here is a decorative movement from Grandma's house that we hope that he will never come back: the room without special consumption.
James Ransom; Styling: Alya Hameedi
The decoration movement of the old school that we cancel
I have good memories of weekends that were spent with my cousins at the home of my grandparents. We had more or less free lines over the house, thought, fishing the freezer out and dig through chest of drawers and the jewelry box. But there was an area that we knew it was completely undisturbed, unless it was Christmas or a special occasion: the formal dining room and living room.
Marked by the change in the flooring, where a sea of terracotta color tiles made the plush white carpet space, and these rooms were no zones. The sofa pillow stood perfectly in the living room, and there was no water ring on one of the polished furniture. And while the wooden chairs in the breakfast corner were lovingly worn out, the pastors hardly encouraged in the dining room. Everything felt so tender and impressive that even if we was Invited to these formal spaces, we never had the feeling of being places that we could really sit back and relax.
Why we leave this decoration trend in the past
I have a great appreciation for formal rooms (especially since my own home only has a living area, and it is the only testimony of daily ke-and-tear), but I am not so enthusiastic about the old-fashioned, special approach for the decoration.
Similar to the relapse trend, covering its most beautiful furniture in glorified plastic film, this idea seems to be that certain rooms should be “saved” for a handful of moments in the course of the year, far from the hospitality that our grandmothers had given in so many species.
The determination of the formal rooms as processes is similar to how the fine china is used out of sight and not used. Why do you have you if you don't want to enjoy you? Our houses are to be lived in family evening, which end with sticky little fingerprints on the whole table and the holiday celebrations, which inevitably see a buried glass of wine on the carpet.
After all, it is not the perfectly primed salon of my grandparents that I remember the most. When I think of your house, I find the wood in which my grandfather settled in his Nubby old couch and the stories about the good night told me a opportunity that was much more common than our Christmas celebrations in the formal living room and even more memorable.