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[Azcowgirl]

Every cleaning day, I ask myself what things I may be willing to remove from the room to make dusting and vacuuming easier, but I love my rooms the way I have them 

so I just keep dusting and vacuuming! 😳

Time will tell how long I keep this going however!

[KentuckyWoman]

Less is more.  I do have a few items sitting out otherwise I think it looks too bare and stark.  I decorate for fall and harvest, Christmas and winter.  Once the winter decor is tucked away, that's it for seasonal decorating.  Twice a year, I go through my decorating items and donate what I no longer want to Goodwill or ReStore.  I just don't have the energy or desire to clean all that stuff every week.

[homedecor1]

I absolutely love her sets on Q (obviously Q2 decorators need a lesson) and I aspire to have the same look yet I then come back to "reality" and realize 1)I don't have that size room(s) and 2) it's a lot of things to achieve the look!!

I'm happy to downsize my decor now to fit my lifestyle!  The family is gone and making their own traditions, it's only us! 

Funny thing I'm liking the few things I put out now for seasonal decor.  It's easy and achieves the same festive look!🙂

[chrystaltree]

I know that it would cost  fortune to decorate a real home the way she does the sets.  Yes, with all that "stuff" jammed in everwhere, it would indeed take an extraordinary amount of cleaning and dusting.  I never thought of that relating to VPH but I thought of that when we bought and decorated this condo.  I lived in big over decorated colonial for most of marriage.  That was my aesthetic back then and I loved it.  I was younger, healthier and I could clean a 9 rooms on 3 floors.  My aesthetic now is bright, light and uncluttered.  I love looking at VPH and decorator magazines sites but I don't want that for my home.

[CANDLEQUEEN]

My sister in law and brother live in an English Tudor style home, it is very beautiful, and my sister in law decorates a lot like Valerie, but not with nearly as much. She used to years ago though, and at that time she said it took her a whole day to clean..Now she still loves to decorate and does it but not even close to that extreme. 

She is older now, and does not want all of that dusting and cleaning anymore..I can't imagine having that much stuff to clean and dust. I love a lot of Valerie's items, but buy very little as I have enough and it gets to a point of where the heck are you going to store all of that when you are not using it?

[software]

I don't clean everything every cleaning day.    

I do it in zones.

One week I'll do shelves & such in one room.

The next week I'll do another room.

It was easier when the kids were home, they would help.

My house doesn't get that dirty in a week.

I like my stuff.

[GingerPeach]

@Mominohio

Yup!

It used to annoy me no end when my mother used to always carp about not wanting things out that she needed to dust but, while I understand and understood it to a certain extent, I think that having things that you love makes it worth the trouble it takes to clean them.

I'm not saying go full-blown VPH or whatever style is similar, just that however many pieces one loves are worth the time depending on one's own particular situation.  

Although, on the other hand, I do think they overfill the display areas when selling just so we are more and more tempted with all the eye candy.  And we know how we kids are with candy!

[BeccaLou]

I could do all that when I was younger and had the room.

[Chicagosuburbangirl]

My mom did Christmas that would rival VPH.

All of the ornaments were Christopher Radko.

There was not one open spot left on the tree.

Another smaller tree was all Boyd's bears.

These ornaments are all in the basement at my dads ( mom has passed).

Thinking about caring for and using these ornaments literally keeps me awake some nights.

My tree is much less fancy.

[DecorDiva]

My oldest sister, in her 70's, has a friend in her 80's whose seasonal decorating consists of putting a wreath on the door.  We just couldn't imagine that - but now that we are both getting older, we understand!