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Re: Vignettes from an Oxfordshire Country Home...

I get Victoria mag, too.  Love it.

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Re: Vignettes from an Oxfordshire Country Home...

Beautiful house, but the furnishings aren't to my taste.  Too cluttered and too many different colors.  Is the color palette a box of 64 Crayola Crayons?

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Re: Vignettes from an Oxfordshire Country Home...

I like it all except for the guard around the fireplace, but I bet the cats would love it.

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Re: Vignettes from an Oxfordshire Country Home...

I love the outside of it but the inside is not my style.  I'm sure they are quite comfy but I'm way more country cottage style.  

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Re: Vignettes from an Oxfordshire Country Home...

 

 

Not my style, but I have enjoyed really looking at this place.  Too busy, would make me nervous and yet it is so very quaint and I like qualnt.  But, I especially like the two paintings, in particular the one above the fireplace.

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Re: Vignettes from an Oxfordshire Country Home...

Too formal and too cluttered for me, too much stuff. The last room is ok -minus the two chairs in front of the fireplace. I never understood putting furniture in front of the fireplace, isn't that supposed to be the focal point?

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Re: Vignettes from an Oxfordshire Country Home...

@stevieb wrote:

From Victoria Magazine...

 

An English-Country style living room, with a fireplace, cozy armchairs, and big windows.

 

Really like the beige picture frame with the gilt edging (referring to the frame only, not the painting) - it relates well to similarly colored items in the room, such as the curtains, the touches of beige and gold showing through the dark blue fireplace surround, and some of the metals.  Also like the beige curtains with the blue lining.  And the sheep.

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Re: Vignettes from an Oxfordshire Country Home...

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I like the house from the outside and the bucolic setting.  But the inside?  Sensory overload!

 

So much furniture and other "stuff".  I mean how many bouquets of flowers and plants do you need in one room?  And it's almost as if they couldn't decide on what colors or patterns they liked, so just threw in a bit of everything.

 

The small table with yet another vase of flowers on the stairway landing is an accident waiting to happen, IMO.

 

And they must like BIG pictures because there's one in both the first and last photos.

 

The final room shown at least looks like somewhere I could breathe.  Woman Frustrated

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Re: Vignettes from an Oxfordshire Country Home...

I love, love, love this and could move in and feel that it was where I should be.

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Re: Vignettes from an Oxfordshire Country Home...

I like it.  It's quirky; I'm quirky.  Perfect.

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