If so, how are they decorated? Are you following a sunflower scheme or a farm motif or are you into the primitive stuff? Or maybe you have a mixture of several themes. Tell us what you have and how it came to be.
OK, so sue me.. I'm a guy and I have a big yellow rubber duck sitting on the back of the toilet.. sometimes I wonder about me. Everything else is blue..
My bathroom and bedroom theme is nautical. I love the ocean, so I needed to have it in my house. My other bedroom has no real theme, just my artwork on the walls and my pig collection in the corner. It was going to be a tropical jungle theme at one time because I like leopards and parrots.
My kitchen and livingroom are Southwest theme. Not that much in the kitchen just because there isn't much wall space to hang things. I was always going to paint a desert scene above the cupboards, in fact I even started it once and hated it. I painted over it deciding to go with something else next time. I never got around to it. I hated standing on the counter with my neck bent, too. Just like I never got around to the coral reef I wanted to paint on my bathroom wall and the big lighthouse I wanted to paint on the bedroom wall. Now if I could have a bed shaped like a boat, that would be awesome.
My downstairs is going to be an oldies room with old '50s diner and car items. I have boxes of stuff saved up for it. We just have to get the rooms finished first. I wish we would have never decided this was going to be our DIY level of the house. I'd rather have SEDI (someone else do it LOL).
I came up with the idea way back in high school to have theme rooms. Even before I had a house, I was buying things for my theme rooms.
OK, so sue me.. I'm a guy and I have a big yellow rubber duck sitting on the back of the toilet.. sometimes I wonder about me. Everything else is blue..
Ohhh...how cute Dave! Do you take your rubber ducky in the bathtub with you too? LOL
My kitchen is decorated with apples....everywhere. I have so much apple stuff that I have a box full that I didn't have room for. I got started on the apple theme when a lady I did daycare for gave me some craft things she made that had apples on them...and it just blossomed from there. All of my small appliances are candy apple red, too.
Both of my bathrooms are done in light houses. I had so much over flow of light house stuff from my upstairs bath that it kind of migrated into the downstairs one. Boy, tell someone in my family that you are collecting something and you end up with tons of the stuff. I guess it's because they don't know what else to get you?
My bedroom is decorated in the Americana style. Everything is red, white and blue. Again, there was overkill on the gifts received, so I change the items out once in awhile for a slightly new look.
My son's bedroom is mostly racing stuff since he was into cars in middle school, but later got into his dragon phase. So there is a weird mixture of swords and Jeff Gordon collectibles. LOL
The living room is kind of a floral motif. The furniture is burgundy and I have lots of Home and Garden pictures and flower garlands...I love those.
The family room is a combination of music, with the piano being the focal point, my Barbie dolls that my mom crocheted the dresses for, and of course all the family photos.
We also started to redo part of the basement and make it into a 70's room. I have lots of "Smiley Face" stuff and "Love Is..." collectibles from way back then. Of course, we can't forget the black light and posters! Groovy Man! LOL
You know, when I lived in NY, I had one of those big cast iron tubs that a grown man could actually fit in for a relaxing visit with Mr. Bubbles once in awhile.
Here, taking a bath would be more like taking a high dive into a shot glass the tub is so small. Consequently, I'm forced to take showers.
Nah, my yellow rubber duckie is really big tho I do have a small black rubber duckie with sunglasses and devil's horns that sits on the bathroom sink.
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Ohhh...how cute Dave! Do you take your rubber ducky in the bathtub with you too? LOL
I wouldn't say my place has any real theme.. I have all the junk I've been collecting and to be honest, I think it ended up looking kinda girly, whatever that is.
I have some small framed art and a wood spice rack above the kitchen sink.. at the far end of the kitchen is the only bare wall and I have some plaques & decorations at that end, then sime more decorations on the wall to the right of the stove. The top of the refrigerator and the countertops are covered with more stuff I've picked up here and there, like cookie jars, etc...
Almost all my furniture was either given to me or bought at a flea market.. likewise any accessories or decorations.. the first two years I lived here I did no decorating.. the last year and a half I've added enough so that the first thing people usually say when they come in is "wow, you've gotta alot of stuff!"..
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Originally Posted by Blue Baboon
My kitchen and livingroom are Southwest theme. Not that much in the kitchen just because there isn't much wall space to hang things. I was always going to paint a desert scene above the cupboards, in fact I even started it once and hated it. I painted over it deciding to go with something else next time. I never got around to it. I hated standing on the counter with my neck bent, too. Just like I never got around to the coral reef I wanted to paint on my bathroom wall and the big lighthouse I wanted to paint on the bedroom wall. Now if I could have a bed shaped like a boat, that would be awesome.
I wouldn't say my place has any real theme.. I have all the junk I've been collecting and to be honest, I think it ended up looking kinda girly, whatever that is.
That made me giggle lol
My kitchen isn't a theme really... it's all open & overlooks the living & dining rooms, so i kept the hunter green, burgundy & gold color running through all 3 rooms, wall hangings, towels, table cloth, table streamers, dishes etc... to match my living room furniture & rugs throught all 3 rooms.
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