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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The best way to not make your house look “dated” is to start with the house itself. What does it look like? What is the architectural style? You certainly don’t need to “match” that or make it a period home but if your house IS a mid-century modern house, that style will continue to look at home there.

Imo the most “timeless” style is Rich People Vaguely English Country which is “timeless” mostly because a lot of those English houses stay the same for many decades and because rich Americans never tire of imitating them. So it’s more about staying power than “timelessness.” And because to do it well, you’re going to have antiques and such from several periods and so things are “dated” to many periods and you have a nice mix. Whether the Chippendale is from Great-grandmother or last week at Christie’s. Southerners do the more fun version of this but I think Connecticut has the best ones.

I highly recommend NOT looking at design blogs and sites. They’re often terrible. People make fun of the haughty magazine editor stereotype but those betches were saving us from ourselves. So look at magazines, old magazines. [/quote]

Agreed on all accounts. [b]Rich People Vaguely English Country[/b] is a much more flexible style than many think. It can age gracefully and be updated for each generation. It can be formal and informal, often in the same room.

I have respect for MCM and admire aspects of it, but it's hard to argue that it's timeless given that before, say, 2005, it was considered very ugly and dated and old fashioned. No one was talking MCM in the 1980s and 1990s. No one. I repeat, no one. However, many of its simple  pieces are almost classical in form and will have a place in the future.

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This is hilarious.  I get what you are saying.  Also, I think that style is kind of ugly and would never in a million years do it.  And WHO CARES.  That is my personal preference.  You go rich people english country all day, every day.

I wish more people had a more confident point of view.  Why is it so many people's goal to just do something that wouldn't possibly offend anyone's taste?

I just think this board gives kind of terrible advice most of the time.[/quote]

Yeah most of the advice here is very fear-based. The "what will my neighbor think if I get this couch" sort of thing.

You should see the fashion board...[/quote]

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