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[beach-mom]

@Oznell - Thank you for sharing another beautiful home! I love blue and green together. The kitchen and the living room are just perfect. And oh, those kitties!

I'm not crazy about the apartment she did. I don't like the huge modernistic picture, and IMO it looks very out of place. It seems like the room doesn't know who it is supposed to be.  

[spiderw]

There is very little I do not like in these photos.  As someone who enjoys decorating for the four seasons I appreciate all the displays shown.  I love the kitten cookie jars, so pretty! The blue and green sofas are lovely !!  I decorate with faux flowers and like how the flora's in the photos are displayed.  All in all very appealing touches for spring!

[DREAMON]

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@Oznell wrote:

@DREAMON ,  the green chaise longue must have been ravishing.  You were a very astute decorating-minded child to have been so taken with it-- I can imagine how it must have caught the imagination...

I used to have a deep green velvet couch, my favorite of any upholstered furniture I've had.  Have considered getting another.  A side benefit, is that kitties' claws have a hard time getting a purchase on velvet, so they can't wreck it as much as other, looser-weave fabrics! 

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@Oznell , 

I too have been thinking about something in deep green. 

My Moms dream was to work in Interior Design but kids and her large family came first so it never happened.

She did help others decorating their homes and we always had a beautiful home. It was small but lovely.

[AuntG]

Thanks for brightening my day. Those kittens are adorable.

[Sooner]

The beautiful flatware looks a lot like Oneida Affection silverplate from the 1960's but I don't think that is it.  Anyone know what the pattern might be?

One thing that bothers me is that everything looks so carefully placed, lined up and rigid.  Now that is coming from someone who has to be careful to keep from that myself.  But that's just a thought.  Something makes these rooms look a little stiff--and is that why?  Or is it just me (highly possible )? Be  honest. . . 

[wagirl]

Very pretty and cheerful and I LOVE the table cloth in the first photo!! Seems very familiar to me--I just found a few old time tablecloths and runners from when I was a kid, from my mom and even from my MIL!!! So pretty and all hand embroidered.

[Oznell]

@Sooner ,  I wasn't sure if you meant the flatware in the first picture, or the flatware in the Wedgwood table?  Will assume the latter, since the first picture doesn't show the silverware very well.

The Wedgwood table has "Faneuil 1908" by 1847 Rogers Bros. silverplate.    

It's graceful-- I really like it too.

As far as stiffness, I don't know.  Think the very first image with the chairs pulled in close to the table might be a bit stiff.  I always like it better if chairs are somewhat pulled out and "conversational"...   But there might be space limitations there.

As to stiffness in other photos, I actually thought the Wedgwood table was rather relaxed, in a way, with all the pretty movement in the tablecloth print.  The napkins are just casually folded and plopped on plates, not tortured into fanciful shapes or anything.  And creamware or Queensware is rather simple earthenware.

When designers style rooms for photography like the living rooms shown, they do tend to go for a "spit and polish" look, with things in their place. 

I can like both ends of the spectrum-- sometimes I like a bit of ordered formality, and sometimes a more broken-in, lived in look, ha....

Hope this addressed your comments adequately.  I love that you wanted to discuss!

[Sooner]

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@Oznell wrote:

@Sooner ,  I wasn't sure if you meant the flatware in the first picture, or the flatware in the Wedgwood table?  Will assume the latter, since the first picture doesn't show the silverware very well.

The Wedgwood table has "Faneuil 1908" by 1847 Rogers Bros. silverplate.    

It's graceful-- I really like it too.

As far as stiffness, I don't know.  Think the very first image with the chairs pulled in close to the table might be a bit stiff.  I always like it better if chairs are somewhat pulled out and "conversational"...   But there might be space limitations there.

As to stiffness in other photos, I actually thought the Wedgwood table was rather relaxed, in a way, with all the pretty movement in the tablecloth print.  The napkins are just casually folded and plopped on plates, not tortured into fanciful shapes or anything.  And creamware or Queensware is rather simple earthenware.

When designers style rooms for photography like the living rooms shown, they do tend to go for a "spit and polish" look, with things in their place. 

I can like both ends of the spectrum-- sometimes I like a bit of ordered formality, and sometimes a more broken-in, lived in look, ha....

Hope this addressed your comments adequately.  I love that you wanted to discuss!

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@Oznell I love your as-always thoughtful reply.  What struck me was the lines of the rooms were sometimes almost on a grid to me.  Anyhow, the table was beautiful and thanks for the flatware pattern i.d.!!!  It truly is beautiful and could pass for a sterling design.  Sort of in the "lines" of Queen Elizabeth and similar patterns.  

[Sooner]

@Oznell I have figured out what bothers me about these rooms!  There are too many pieces of furniture and stuff, some that are too delicate and too many.

The furniture is of differing weights and crowded together, giving not much walking space and no breathing room.  They are crowded and cluttered.  Also the mix of too many sofas of varying colors, styles and weights doesn't work for me. 

A decorator once told me not to buy a light colored painted piece of furniture for a kitchen that was all dark cabinetry and brick on the other walls at the far end.  She said I needed something dark "to hold down that end of the room." That is wise advice.  

So that is what bothers me.  "Too many notes!"  As they say!  

[stevieb]

Some nice elements throughout. For me, I especially like the dining room and table settings as well as the blue and green apartment living room shots.