-Your Worst Decorating Mistakes- 1. Painting anything yellow. 2. Furniture that wouldn’t fit through doorways. 3. Leaving town while someone worked on your home. 4. Painting anything yellow. Once my color-blind husband picked the color to paint our traditional home. He said it was tan. I came home to a lavender house. I once painted my kitchen a lemongrass green. Everyone, no matter the skin tone, looked ill or jaundiced under the cast of this awful color I put up with for six years. Whenever I place an indoor plant in my shopping cart, I try to resist the urge to yell, “Dead plant rolling!” on my way to the checkout counter. Having a larger glass top made with beveled edges for a coffee table base. The corners weren’t rounded, and it seemed that everyone who came to visit gashed their leg on it, even when warned. Still I kept it, until the family started calling it “the table of death.” I gold-leafed the ceiling once. When one of my friends came to see it, after warning me not to do that, she just nodded and said, “Just like I expected — it looks like a whorehouse.” After that, anytime I had guests over they would focus on the ceiling. I just knew they were thinking what my friend had said. I moved into a rental and hated all the plastic blinds on the windows. I spent my own money on beautiful woven roll-up blinds. Love! I noticed, though, that all the cords were too long. I cut them all to a more manageable length … then I tried to roll the blinds down. The too-short cords disappeared up into the blind, never to be seen again. My husband came in and asked me why I didn’t cut them with the blinds already down. Well, no s**t, Sherlock! There they stayed in their crooked, diagonal, half-up/half-down state while I: 1. Cried 2. Got Tourette’s 3. Went broke replacing my replacement blinds. houzz/ideabooks/26845925/list/From-Queasy-Colors-to-Killer-Tables--Your-Worst-Decorating-Mistakes
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 05:24:08 +0000
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