How Do You Reconcile Different Design?
sheilatorres
| Posted in General Discussion on
Hello IH Readers and House Chatters,
We’d like to know: You love a traditional look, your housemate tends toward a contemporary style. How have you reconciled different design approaches?
Send in an idea that’s worked for you and if we publish it in the magazine, we’ll send you a copy of John Connell’s Creating the Inspired House (Taunton 2004)
Please reply to this forum posting or e-mail your response to [email protected]
Look forward to your input!
Sheila Torres
Editorial Assistant
Edited 6/23/2005 9:22 am ET by sheilatorres
Edited 6/24/2005 10:29 am ET by sheilatorres
Edited 7/6/2005 2:35 pm ET by sheilatorres
Replies
Can you post what Jan said so we know what you are asking?
Hi WayneL5,
The question in red is the one that IH editor Jan Senn put at the bottom of her August editorial letter to solicit input from readers. We are also posting it here for input from discussion participants.
Edited 6/23/2005 9:26 am ET by sheilatorres
Sorry, I still don't get the context of the question. Differences between what or whom? Two clients with clashing tastes that a designer has to reconcile? Furnishings of one style in a room of another? Two adjacent rooms that are different styles? Design you like but that does not go with the architecture? Design that you thought you liked on paper but turned out differently than you pictured?
Hi WayneL5,
Thank you for your input. I have now included the full text from the note at the bottom of the editor's letter on page 8. Let me know whether this helps to put the question in context.
Thanks again,
Sheila.
Thanks, that clears it up nicely.
I live alone, so don't have an answer, though.
My wife and I usually arm wrestle, but she always wins. We gave up dueling pistols at twenty paces because we were ruining the plaster. Generally we compromise and I'm an artist, so I'm more accepting of brighter and bolder colors than many men (wife loves fuchsia, for instance, and we have burgundy carpet in LR/DR and I rag rolled burgundy paint over silver gray on DR walls--actually talked wife into this because she thought it would be too bold). Bedroom has wallpaper with big pastel flowers. I told her I'd have my eyes closed most of the time in there. Also, after the grocery bag colored wall paper and walnut trim and smokey quartz wall sconces and bare underlayment that was there before, I would have even gone with a "Hello Kitty" theme. (Her ex- was a "manly man" and loved dark walnut, ochre, charcoal gray, slate gray, gray, etc.)
Tell me it wasn't real walnut but what passes for a walnut stain?
Right, not real walnut, but pine and whatever stained nearly black. I like real walnut (have a gunstock I made out of it), but am not wild about pine stained "walnut".