• 50s dining room – decorating gone haywire

    Mary-Frances has respectfully requested some 50s rooms that I ‘hate.’ While I will stop short of expressing this intense of an emotion, I have to admit, I’m pretty close on this one. Here are some things to like:

    1. Black-painted furniture is great, and I like how the color modernizes the lines of the Federal-style furniture
    2. Floor is wonderful.
    3. I like how the ceiling is painted to contrast the walls.

    On the other hand, the negatives drown out the positives:

    1. This curtain look is just not my favorite, except for maybe in a girl’s bedroom.
    2. Wallpaper – scale too big and the colors too stark.
    3. Red satin on the chairs – bordello. Black/pink/red color combo – same.
    4. Eagle – holey moley.

    Overall, I find the room ‘screeches’, rather than ‘sings.’

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