What does "too taste-specific" mean?
A client came to me yesterday with a photograph very similar to this one as one of his few inspiration images. The image is from Graham and Brown, the British wallpaper people . Further, the pattern is one by Umbra for Graham and Brown. The guy didn't know where to start other than he wanted the feeling of that image interpreted and extrapolated over his entire open floor plan condominium. Perfect, this is just the kind of challenge I love. I asked him what was it about the photograph he liked so much and without hesitation, he said it was the wallpaper.
So I started talking about wallpaper and how cool it is and how my great friend Given Campbell has some patterns he ought to see. He stopped me and said, "Oh I can't use wallpaper."
I reminded him that it turned into wallpaper that commenced our conversation and it turned into wallpaper that was so attractive to him. He went on to give an explanation for that he can't use wallpaper in his home as it's too "flavor precise." Mind you, that is a man who'd also told me he had no goal of selling any time soon and he became interested in making his residence in reality his.
So whilst did creating a home "taste precise" to the man who owns it end up a terrible factor? Isn't my complete life spent assisting other humans make their houses taste-particular to them?
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It strikes a chord in my memory of a communique I had with a female approximately a year in the past, I think I wrote about it in reality. Anyhow, she wanted to understand if it is OK to cling family snap shots within the "public" areas of her home. I defined to her that accommodations have public regions however houses don't. She checked out me as if I were speakme Russian.
I hear things like that with shocking regularity. "I can't do what I want because it's what I like and nobody else will." Or "I can't leave to personal an impression in my living room." Or "I drip a little vanilla extract on a light bulb every night, how do I keep it from leaving a stain?" How about "I want to paint my dining room a bright color but I'm worried about resale." Has everyone become a home stager all of the sudden?
I recognize in which all of this crap's coming from. It's that outstanding Satan HGTV. I swear, they may be the Fox News of the layout press. Turn it off please. And go away it off.
Your home is your private home and with the aid of virtue of the truth which you're an grownup, you get to do something inside of it you want to do. Even if it's stuff I discover repugnant, who cares? I'm a few man with a big mouth in Florida, now not a few very last arbiter and neither is everybody else. So move ahead, paint your partitions with chalkboard paint, placed a damn fowl coop inside the returned backyard, hang interesting wallpaper and for the affection of God, forestall asking for permission to position images of your children at the mantle.
If you're going to put your house on the market sometime down the road, deal with it then but you can't live your life for a potential buyer. And seriously, when is the last time you walked out of a house tour because someone had a perfectly painted red dining room? People walk out of house tours because the place is falling down. Gah!
Don't be a Mr. Or Ms. Cellophane. Hey! That makes me want to sing a few Kander and Ebb!
Life's over faster than absolutely everyone desires to admit. Leave a mark already.