posted July 01, 2003 05:34 AM              

Tuesday started a topic about clothing, I would like to follow her footsteps and ask you:" how do you like to decorate your house?" What colours, designs, modern, classic etc..
I was always very much into decorating myself and very English orientated (past lifes).
Today I was just replying on the Venus in Leo thread in the Free astrology course how I would like my new home decorated simple and empty (minimalism). Only natural products like definitely a wooden floor and concrete and aluminum ascesoires. I lóve metal and aluminum. It must be like you come home and you come in a peaceful inviroment. You sit on the couch and you feel yourself BEing and totally come at ease. There is nothing that distracts you. You can totally relax.
I cannnot wait and move into a new home again. I love moving!
The basic colours (if I may choose) would be beige/white/brown and this way you can add colours whenever. If the mood says BLUE you can add some blue if it says purple then purple it is! But, I'd rather not have too many colours. I would really like it to be simplistic!
My current home has a lot of purple in it. For instance I have a velvet purple (very Leo) couch and a fourties sideboard. It looks very tasteful but I wouldn't even mind to give it all away! I am never at home anymore and I am so glad I found out I ám sort of a nomad. I guess I already knew that as I sort of started over twice. Sold all my stuff and moved to Finland for instance.
And then...they say I am a Cancer ! Ok, ok my IC is in Sag!

posted July 01, 2003 07:51 AM              

I'm a double Cap with a Scorpio moon. My place is mainly cream colored with lots of gold. The theme is celestial and Egypt. I have the sun, moon and stars on all kinds of things. I collect pyramids and have some beautiful paintings of the pyramids and the Egyptian gods/godesses.

I also have a huge collection of metaphysical books. I collect really old astrology books.

I guess my place goes well with the traditional Capricorn love of old things and ancient cultures.

Love and Light,

Heidi

posted July 01, 2003 09:22 AM              

i have been thinking about this for awhile. as a libra, i feel just ugly when im in ugly surroundings. its awful! feel sorry for me

right now my place doesnt look like i want it to look, and and i cant run out and buy anything to change it. i dont bother to decorate because i dont know if i will stay here, i dont know if this is 'home' yet. i dont want to stay here, cause i live in a bad building in a bad neighbourhood.

anyway though, i love lots of different things. i love antique wood furniture, i love WATER!! and fish, i would love to have an indoor fountain! a real one, not a store bought one! i love wooden floors with nice soft area rugs, some rooms would be light colours, others would be more vibrant but always blue, green, burgundy, more like jewel tones. i would have lots of things hanging, lots of plants, heavy curtains to keep the baddies out of my business, and no brash colours like orange! not much brown either, enough of that with the furniture.

there would be lots of twinkling lights, and fresh flowers all the time... ooh id have some temple bells hanging somewhere, and all the clutter would be away behind pretty furniture! i actually drew a house plan of my ultimate dream house. id have theme rooms, just cause im crazy like that! you could come stay in the Egyptian bedroom, and we could eat in the ancient Greece dining room, built in honor of poseidon, sit in the victorian library, and have a drink in the old west bar!

posted July 01, 2003 09:37 AM              

Wood shutters or sheers on the walls. A garden outside the window. Lots of music. I would like one room in pale icy blue with silver accents but haven't gotten around to it.

posted July 01, 2003 10:44 AM              

Anafaery! Move your @zz and start making that money ! Yeah, it's always so nice to have the wildest ideas but then the money ship never arrives !
Do you know those big windows with see through white curtains? Next to the sea? Aaaaw!! Then the wind (my favourite element) blows the curtains softly and breezes in the room touches your face while you sit on a soft and hairy white carpet (dressed in white too)!
And I forgot ONE big thing. I really would like to have a (how do you call them??) living kitchen! Know theM? They are awesome! Then áll the friends we have (gosh I am hilarious ) can come by and drink a cup of something in the kitchen until darkness shows and I lit a few candles and the fireplace which is situated in the middle!

Anafaery! I have my kitchen walls orange....you like???! I used to have a lot of colours in my house and I wanted to make theme rooms as well and a fluffy hugwall (yammie). Now....all I want is minimalism and no extra stuff! Just the necessary tools to work with; A spoon, a bed, a kitchen and a couch!

Heidi? Did you ever experiment with pyramids? I mean laying a piece of food under it to see if it stays longer fresh? Would be cool! But then the messurements have to be exact!
1Scorp? What in Gods name is a stressed item? I know it in words but in items?? And oak floors are super!
Sthenri, Art deco can be wonderful! I used to be attracted (and still am) to 40's style!

posted July 01, 2003 01:06 PM              

Most important...lots of light everywhere. I have many windows with only a minimum of treatments; sheer or lace-type valances to allow the maximum of sunlight in. My house is filled with soft pastels...blues, greens, pinks. I like crafting, so there are floral wreaths, needlepoint, hooked rugs, crocheted or knitted afghans and throws scattered throughout. My bedroom has white "Christmas lights" interspersed among the two bookshelves, where I keep all my metaphysical books (well, I have books everywhere, lol) and I have a growing collection of celestial objects there too.

I like to decorate "seasonally" in my living room and kitchen, so in the fall I accessorize with fall colors, winter the hunter greens, spring and summer light yellows, sky blues, various shades of pink and green, etc.

Bottom line...I like my home to have the look and feel of nature brought inside year-round. Light and airy is the rule, with just enough deeper color and texture to add warmth, interest and grounding. Oh! And lots of scented candles and plants everywhere!

posted July 02, 2003 02:11 PM            

My bedroom is kind of shown in the pictures of me on the lindaland photo page. I like big comfortable beds with quilts and beautiful pictures / paintings. My living room is more Southwest, with Navajo Sandpaintings, Katsina dolls (or Kachina), a large handmade Mandala over the fireplace and two large bookcases and I have a large desert landscape painting over my sofa.

I love dark wood tables which is what my dining room table / china cabinet is like and in that room I have more Indian paintings and a painting my wonderful Aquarian artist friend made of a cello player in Austria.

My Bedroom is full of dark wood and rich mauves / blues and gold. Same with my bathroom. I love maroon and have to have a bedroom that feels comfortable and queenly.

My spare bedroom has a guest bed, more of an Indian / Cowboy motiff and my office is in there as well. The bathroom is a seascape with shells, paintings and other things to remind me of the ocean.

I also have many plants (fake - because my cats think they are salads) and silk flowers that I arrange in vases with seashells and colored glass beads. It is very homey, yet elegant.

posted July 02, 2003 04:24 PM              

I would like to live in a converted warehouse. A huge open space and a whole wall of windows. I'd like to have a ceiling projector so the whole floor converts into a home theater. A gourmet kitchen with stainless steel, professional grade goodies. The roof, I'd like to be the Hanging Gardens of Babylon---one King Nebuchadnezzar would be proud of.

posted July 02, 2003 05:09 PM            

That sounds beautiful, especially the space and lighting. I remember in Flashdance that she had converted a warehouse into a place to live and I thought it was pretty awesome.

posted July 04, 2003 12:51 PM              

I love the jungle motif too.

posted July 04, 2003 05:17 PM              

this topic was made for me, I'm currently dong a cosmetic rehab on the 1920's rowhouse I just bought in Baltimore City!!!

I have a mixture of plaster and sheetrock walls throughout the whole house..I really really like the look of plaster. I'm painting the walls a color called "vanilla custard", the trim color is called "pot of cream", the house has the wide molding at the floor and the original woodwork around the kitchen door that will also be painted in "pot of cream". I have a Duncan Phiphe circa 1940's dinning room set...the table has 2 pedastals that come down and branch out into 3 feet on each side (hard to explain) I like the shabby chic look.

I plan on getting a red couch and chair in a somewhat contemporary style...an antique floor lamp..one end table and table lamp and a coffee table. I don't like clutter but I like style and I like to play with color.

I painted my family room tape on 2 conecting walls and a color called "calk" on the oposing 2 connecting walls...going to get a nice berber installed called mushroom brown...it has a diamond pattern and deep eggplant knots at the points of each diamond....a sofa bed and entertainment center at ikea...simple contempo style. I have a bunch of other antique furniture...2 antique cedar chests and an antique cedar wardrobe.

My bedroom is going to be a color called "chamembert" which is an off white with a deep red trim called "red red wine"...I have a cherry wardrobe and langerie chest and I'm going to buy a rought iron bed frame at ikea...bed linens and comforter will all be white, throws will be red, white and cream....with cream colored plush carpet.

The main bathroom has stroped wallpaper in deep tones of green and burgundy with a chell patteren around the middle...there's a skylight in the bathroom so it lets in a lot of light during the day. i'll probably remodel this at some point since I'm not a fan of wall paper and I want to take advantage of all the natural light and paint the bathroom in maybe a blue tone with a contrasting blue trim..I want to search the antique stores in town for a smaller chest of droors that the top could be but off of or a hole cut into to drop a sink in there...I eventually want to put a polished marble floor in there too.

posted July 04, 2003 08:49 PM              

Right now the apartment is a total discombobulated MESS. My husband is a packrat and won't throw anything away *shhhh*

The *PLAN* is to decorate the living room with an Asian theme but that's because that's all we could agree on. If it were just me... the whole apartment would be a Celtic fairy wonderland

The bedroom now is decorated in blues and golds with an astral, sun, moon, star theme. My bathroom is a cherub/angel theme with lots of purple

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hello my love, here's to your heart ..release that dream into the world ..join in the air race, leaving tonite ..how does it feel to follow the light? beautiful dreamer, it's up to you if we glide through the glamour of love ..we believe in our dreams reaching out for love

posted July 04, 2003 09:37 PM              

Natasha

posted July 05, 2003 01:26 PM              

but I do really have a split personality that's hard to come to grips with sometimes. I don't know where that shows up in my chart... there's the part that loves the celestial/cherub/farie stuff. And then there's the part that wants to make everything black with skulls and candleabras everywhere, black velvet pillows, Giger paintings on the walls...