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[quote=Anonymous]I also don't like the staged matchy-matchy page 29 of xyz catalogue look, and am working on my house bit by bit.  We have too much stuff (both DH and I are packrats) and can't afford to upgrade or replace all of our old furniture just yet.  But I have a master vision that I'm slowly working toward and the furniture we do have is arranged in a pleasing and inviting way.  I do have a good eye for space and color, as well as a decent ability to mix and match pieces from different decades or origins and have it look comfortable but not eccentric (if I do say so myself).  I am soothed by the aesthetics and have a strong desire to have beauty and visual order around me (I am the person who notices if the molding around the window is slightly off-level, for example, and my eye will go right to it every time).  In addition, I grew up in a dysfucntional and cluttered home, so while I struggle with that myself I still have a strong drive toward order.  We make incremental improvements (new shelves for closets, better storage system for crafts, more fluid arrangement of furniture after we paint a room) and do as much as we can ourselves.

I absolutely agree that paint and new fixtures can make a world of difference; our bathrooms and baby's room look fresh and crisp after spending less than $100 on each room and doing the fixing up ourselves.  (Of course, you can spend more than that but even a contemporary $30 fixture from Ikea really changed the feeling of the room.)  I heartily recommend color in a home, and I also recommend going room by room and living with each new color for a while before choosing the next.  That way each step will build on something that you've already integrated into your lives and you'll naturally tend toward a balance between warmer and cooler colors and a coherent feeling in each of the rooms.  That's not to say that you won't know already that you want a green dining room, a blue kitchen, and/or a yellow bedroom, but once you pick a certain blue you might be moved toward a slightly different green than you first imagined.

Anyway, I also would never hire a decorator because my home is the only "art" project I can afford at the moment![/quote]

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