KIS. Keep It Simple.

This season we find ourselves attracted to all white and silver schemes for holiday decorating.  I was once a devotee of Country Living in its earliest incarnations.  I shied away when the walls and ceilings became too cluttered.  For many years I attended monthly lessons from Victoria where lots of thing were clustered in vignettes but with a perhaps more genteel hand.  I eventually took a Masters from Southern Accents leading to special studies in Veranda.

What's the point?  Not much except I like cleaner interiors now.   Each year I seem to want less and less in the way of Christmas clutter.  Is that age and the unwillingness to do the work?  I'm not sure.

  Wouldn't anyone enjoy receiving this simply wrapped gift?  

Beautifully simple decor.  I'm going to do this tomorrow.  I have the pine cones all gathered and more than my share of bell jars.  Snow on top or a white ribbon?  

Although I have a plaid dust ruffle I think I can accomplish this look in my bedroom.  I like the several shades of white against pine.   

Simple.  

I must admit that there is red in other rooms.  After all, it isn't Christmas without the man in red....or how about a a little red on the bed.  

Isn't it rich?  

Or...back to white.

With touches of Christmas to wish you goodnight!!

In full disclosure, I have done lessons in AD, Elle, Atlanta Homes and quite a few others.  Those mentioned fitted more into the plot line of this story.

Happy Holidays!!

 

 

PS. I've corrected the mistake from above.  I had written Victoria's Secret instead of Victoria. 

I've never had any lessons from Victoria's Secret!

Lost in a sea of fluff and white!

I am so lost!  Lost in an overabundance of throw pillows and fluff and white! 

This morning I took at look an article titled 'Living Rooms You Will Love' on the Country Living site.  I didn't.  Take this, for example.  Or just take it away.  The late Victorians did take it away with the Arts & Crafts and Art Deco movements.  I really hope it isn't coming back.   

Fluff.

White. 

I know it is a trend but I hope it ends soon.  I've seen far too many pieces of good old wood furniture indiscriminately painted white and lost forever to their proper place among antiquity.  What is the purpose of the washbasin in the floor?  I do like the weathered column standing to the side.  In the article this one was called Carpenter Gothic.  It fits.  Why stop now when you have one more piece of gingerbread to put somewhere?

Tolerable White.

 Better, but I wanted to see more.  The room all had descriptive tags and I forgot to notice the one for this one.  I wish I had since I had trouble defining this room.  Country French Traditional?  In addition to my other 'plaints, I'm a bit resistant to drum shades.  I've noticed this before in other design pages - the oversized look of the drum shade.  The originally appeared on taller lamps.  That may be what seems wrong to me.  Size and proportion.  Basic elements of style. 

White Out!

This pleasant country room displays a handsome pottery collection but does not appear cluttered.   This time of the year seasonal touches seem most appropriate in country rooms.

Maybe I can compromise.

Country and white and a minimum of throw pillows. 

Denoument?  I don't have one.  I disliked more of the rooms I was supposed to like than I liked.  That could be the fault of Country Living or my resistance to current trends.  

 If by these words I have offended 

I hope next time we meet

It will be mended.

Happy Monday.  It is another gorgeous day here in my little corner of North Carolina.