Climbee
2020-09-04 08:50:29
- #1
With furniture like sideboards or TV stands, I can easily warm up to bold colors or "special" colors. If you don’t like it anymore, you just replace it: put the old furniture on eBay Classifieds, buy new furniture.
With things like kitchen fronts, built-in cupboards, etc., I’m not so daring – for me, it stays neutral, natural, white, black. So a green entrance area is out of the question because tastes, including mine, do change after all.
I think of the 70s with their screaming colorful bathroom tiles (my parents have orange, small, round tiles – which was still subtle back then!), the 80s then with the almost mandatory colorful borders in the bathroom at about eye level. I really liked that back then! In every hardware store, I looked at what kind of decorative tiles I would choose if I had the chance to design my bathroom.
I believe the 80s already had a retro phase again. Sarah Key and Laura Ashley, all with ruffles, lace, and nicely old-fashioned. Old rose, beige, and brown were the preferred colors.
On the other hand, the cool kids with royal blue, emerald green, pink, and huge shoulder pads.
Then came the pastel phase: pink, light blue, mint, and lemon yellow. Today I say *uuuahhhh*, but back then I also had sweaters that combined all the colors!
I wonder, if I had built back then, I would now have a nice colorful border in an otherwise white and ceiling-high tiled bathroom...
So, in short: when I look back at how my taste has constantly changed and each time I was convinced that this is so beautiful now, I would find it beautiful forever (which, of course, it was not), it strengthened me to keep the basics in our house as neutral as possible. I have always liked wood, slate too, white is always bearable, and color is welcome sometimes, but in a way that I can also change it.
So I admit: I have become a coward in that regard.
That’s why I admire the consistency of Rick and his wife, who show so much courage in this. As I said, the combination of colors is not really my thing, but if someone sticks with it like that, I find that pretty great.
With things like kitchen fronts, built-in cupboards, etc., I’m not so daring – for me, it stays neutral, natural, white, black. So a green entrance area is out of the question because tastes, including mine, do change after all.
I think of the 70s with their screaming colorful bathroom tiles (my parents have orange, small, round tiles – which was still subtle back then!), the 80s then with the almost mandatory colorful borders in the bathroom at about eye level. I really liked that back then! In every hardware store, I looked at what kind of decorative tiles I would choose if I had the chance to design my bathroom.
I believe the 80s already had a retro phase again. Sarah Key and Laura Ashley, all with ruffles, lace, and nicely old-fashioned. Old rose, beige, and brown were the preferred colors.
On the other hand, the cool kids with royal blue, emerald green, pink, and huge shoulder pads.
Then came the pastel phase: pink, light blue, mint, and lemon yellow. Today I say *uuuahhhh*, but back then I also had sweaters that combined all the colors!
I wonder, if I had built back then, I would now have a nice colorful border in an otherwise white and ceiling-high tiled bathroom...
So, in short: when I look back at how my taste has constantly changed and each time I was convinced that this is so beautiful now, I would find it beautiful forever (which, of course, it was not), it strengthened me to keep the basics in our house as neutral as possible. I have always liked wood, slate too, white is always bearable, and color is welcome sometimes, but in a way that I can also change it.
So I admit: I have become a coward in that regard.
That’s why I admire the consistency of Rick and his wife, who show so much courage in this. As I said, the combination of colors is not really my thing, but if someone sticks with it like that, I find that pretty great.