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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rustic French country, unless it's authentically done with real pieces. So many people do this weird generic American version where all the furniture is way too large and it's very fake and cheesy to me.

80s modern with the black leather and the glass. Impractical, ugly, tacky. Hate hate hate.

The faux farmhouse aesthetic popularized by Joanna Gaines with the stupid wooden signs and the big clocks and fake shiplap etc. etc. So ubiquitous. So unstylish.

I don't have the same hate for midcentury modern as some on this thread but I think it's overdone and also a lot of individual MCM pieces are objectively ugly and don't get more attractive just because they once lived in an office in the 60s. However I really love true Danish modern and other Scandinavian offshoots, for their clean lines and use of color.

I also have a real fondness for maximalism done well, and my sense is that DCUM absolutely hates that kind of thing. I'm talking about patterned wallpaper with contrasting furniture and pillows and baroque frames in mismatched finishes and heavy curtains hung from the top of the wall to the floor, layered rugs, etc. Wild color combos incorporating bright pinks and yellows and oranges. It can easily go wrong but when well executed, I absolutely love it. I love color so much, I wish people weren't so afraid of it in home design.[/quote]

Do you like this?

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I’m not the PP, though I agree with the PP.

I don’t love that picture, but I also don’t like the cold gray living room of a few pages ago either.

If the black cabinets in the room were removed, and some of the art, I’d like it a lot better. I don’t like the heavy black though. [/quote]

I think half of the pattern could be removed and it would be much better. If you removed the yellow and just continued with aqua or green, it would be an improvement.[/quote]

I think the contrasting colors/patterns would work much better if the neutrals were consistent. The two large pieces of black furniture flanking a white table and chairs just doesn't make sense. It makes it all look incongruous and when you then through the different patterns and the slightly clashing colors on top of that, it doesn't work. But I think you could get away with all the patterns if the wood was all the same neutrals or at least complementary instead of high contrast. I also think in a maximalist space, that much solid black/white/gray is wasted opportunity. Paint that table and chairs green, do the trim in yellow, paint the chest of drawers dark green, paint the break front a pale pink and then do patterned inserts on the solid doors, that kind of thing. I don't think the art on the facing wall is going to work no matter what, but the basic frame isn't helping -- you need something with color or pattern or interest there.[/quote]

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