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[conuly]

On open plan houses. My mother has watched entirely too much HGTV and when she does, she sometimes rails against the stupidity of the open plan house. (Me, I rail against stainless steel kitchens. I can't decide if it's more ugly or boring. I keep waiting for the fad to die out, but it hasn't yet.)

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Comments

[stardreamer]

I'm fond of a contemporary look myself, but there are various ways to soften it. In that condo, I had kitchen wallpaper that was mostly white with cheerful diagonal slashes in bright red, yellow, blue, and green -- they didn't quite make a diamond pattern, but suggested it -- and bottles of brightly-colored transparent marbles in the window box (because I can't do plants), so it wasn't all neutrals.

By "midcentury colors" do you mean things like Pepto-Bismol pink and institutional green and pastel turquoise? I don't think I could live with those.

[conuly]

Well, I do like turquoise, but I mean less midcentury, things like harvest and avocado. *shrug* But with rounded edges!

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

We had an avocado oven door and an a clothes dryer, but the harvest gold I ever saw looked pretty bad, but that could have been age and/or grime.

I'm rather fond of enamel. 'Soon' I will get the pastry table and the other Surface (it lost its furniture, I will have to build it a new body) into the kitchen.