Things I Don’t Want In My Home….

@AbbeyRhode This boy just flops down hard on chairs etc He would break antique furniture. Had a neighbor in the 70’s that had those vintage kitchen chairs that would come with a chrome top table. Someone gave them to her. A guy who was large and tall rented a little rent house next door and they told him he could eat dinner with them as part of the deal. One by one he broke all of those chairs. I want things that are sturdy

@cherokeepatti

Exactly. Girlfriend put an antique rocking chair in the living room all nice looking and decorated and guess what? Yep, someone sat in it and sure enough it broke. She screamed to high heaven all surprised 😳 shocking! Not doing that again.

@PatKirby yep I don’t need the stress of that.

@4meAndyou I don’t mind some small things but not a lot. I have been in homes with quite a bit of antiques for decor and it was an early American home, really beautiful the way that lady had it decorated with all sorts of things. Her home was much larger so she had space for all of that. But not for me

@cherokeepatti I tend to feel depressed in rooms with lots of dark colors, and antique furniture is made of wood, which is typically dark, or darker in shade than I can deal with on a day to day basis. I don't even like my dark TV screen.

@4meAndyou I am the same way. I don’t like a dark home. If given the choice of dark colors on walls I’d rather have white walls. I also would love to have a Solar Tube in the living room, those are really bright and I believe you can close them with a wall switch if it’s too bright or too hot in the summer. We visited an old friend in California and his bathrooms had those Solar Tubes. Brighter during the daytime than any type of lighting that I’ve seen in any home.

@FloorGenAdm yeah those who signals that it’s an open marriage and invitation to those who want to stop by and have some activities.

#MinimalismForTheWin

@cherokeepatti nah, they planned to retire at that time. They bought a decent sized spread there and have forgotten the rest of the world. He has no great love for CNN though

Cost of living is far less there. I'll definitely be visiting

@sladejr It’d be worth the visit just to watch the wild birds. They have some of the most colorful birds in the world there.

@cherokeepatti oh yeah. He sends me some great photos of them

And the Metizo girls!

@PoetryNEmotion Not fancy, no interior decorators involved or fancy stuff etc. A few pictures some hand-painted and framed. I don’t care for portraits all over the walls either.

@Heartlander Well that’s given. I am talking about objects

@Elanor Oh yeah the butt warmers. I don’t like those soft-padded toilet seats either. My sister put them in her new home like they were a luxury. When I’d go to use the bathroom I felt like I was doing something wrong sitting on something that soft while using the bathroom.

@Flenflyys In the 60’s they sold these air fresheners that sat on the back of a toilet and they were called Airwicks. They had a thick wick on a wire in them and you pulled them up and the bottom of the wick sat in scented liquid. My aunt got the rose-scented ones and they were nice. Probably not healthy, I don’t know. What I really hated back then was the Gardenia-scented air-fresheners. And I like a natural lemon or orange fragrance. I have some orange-oil spray I like to use but mostly use it for getting labels off of containers (the best thing I have found for it) and spraying on bugs inside the house or mailbox etc. Not toxic.

@cherokeepatti yea I do some oil diffusers but a lot of those air fresheners are full of chemicals. And oddly enough gardenia is one of my favourite scents lol

@FreestyleArt I worked in a coed dorm and the coordinator put those oil-plug ins in every lounge, the hallways and bathrooms. He was going to pottery barn and getting the expensive ones too. When he put them in for at least two weeks the air was so overpowered with the odors that I could taste them. Tried to tell him that they were unhealthy due to messing with hormones but he continued. And some of the athletes were complaining about gaining weight.

@Blondily I like them but I want my home to be livable. I hate to tell anyone that they can’t sit in a chair because it’s antique and more fragile than the other furniture.

@meggie Yeah wallpaper in general. I have it in both bathrooms and would love to have it removed. Wouldn’t mind beaded wainscoting on the lower half and painted walls on the top.

@Azlotto yeah, especially MSG. After I got sensitive to it I went through my spice drawer and packets of seasonings and threw everything out that had MSG in it. We had a stock of Indian curry boxes for various types of curry and they all had it in it. Makes me think that’s why our friend from India who loved here got Lou Gehrig’s disease, it killed it rather fast. He was married to an American and maybe she used those to cook with or maybe he did when he was single here.