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Backyard (DC Metro)

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Patio Concrete Pavers

With no cover, a medium-sized elegant backyard concrete paver patio

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Patio Concrete Pavers With no cover, a medium-sized elegant backyard concrete paver patio

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Farmhouse Pool Example of a large farmhouse backyard concrete and rectangular infinity hot tub design

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Family Room in Philadelphia

Inspiration for a timeless enclosed light wood floor family room remodel with blue walls, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace and a wall-mounted tv

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Transitional Kids in Toronto

Little girl's transitional room with pink walls and a medium tone wood floor

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Craftsman Landscape in Minneapolis An example of a large craftsman shade front yard stone landscaping.

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Library Home Office in Burlington Home office library - mid-sized rustic freestanding desk medium tone wood floor and brown floor home office library idea with beige walls, a standard fireplace and a wood fireplace surround

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Natural Stone Pavers in Minneapolis This is an illustration of a front yard stone landscaping with a large craftsman shade.

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Front Yard Austin An example of a mid-sized southwestern concrete front porch design with a roof extension.

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Enclosed Living Room Idea for a mid-sized, rustic, enclosed living room with a medium-tone wood floor and beige walls. It has a standard fireplace and a stone fireplace but no television.

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Traditional Sunroom Example of a medium-sized traditional sunroom with travertine floors and beige walls, a hanging fireplace, a stone fireplace, and a regular ceiling.

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Midcentury Living Room

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Living Room in Sacramento

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St Louis Fountain Pool

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Sometimes I get defensive about those house decor posts I see going around where people say that the neutral colors/black & white sleek look is "soulless" and they want to bite, kill, rend, and destroy for getting rid of the color in their homes. Setting aside that people should be allowed to do whatever they want in their own homes, let me tell you what "color" means to me: Everything in my life was a different color. Every room had every color crammed into it. Which sounds like, oh, that must have been a pretty rainbow effect! It wasn't, none of these colors were meant to go together, it's a hot pink plastic shoebox set on top of a dark brown folding table holding three wildly different shades of brown hand towels, some cornflower blue notebooks, and orange pens. It's burnt orange shag carpeting in the living room and hallway, with slate blue chairs, and a white tv tray loaded up with bright yellow pill and cornflower blue bottles and pale wood bookshelf next to dark brown folding table next to pine-colored dresser next to medium dark wood nightstand, all of those that fake material with the sticker made to look like wood, not actual wood. It's lime green countertops and dark beige flooring with one faded yellow wall, one off-white wall, and one faded mint green wall. It's a pine wood mimicking kitchen table with gold trim that's a sticker not actual wood, combined with one black rolling chair, one maroon and oak chair (not actual wood), and one gray upholstered chair. It's a robin's egg blue frayed blanket tossed over the red-and-black walker in the corner, which is also loaded up with the dark green and dark blue exercise bands. It's white and beige pieces of paper plopped everywhere. And all of these colors are faded so they're not really even pretty on their own, it's just a mishmash everywhere. All of this together in one house and that's just a fraction of it, it's a constant clashing of colors and, if there was a foot of space against the wall available, it had another dresser, nightstand, or bookshelf shoved into it. I look at some of these colorful homes that people love and I think they're beautiful and I get so much joy out of people in their homes loving their surroundings! But I will never be able to live in that kind of color for myself again without being heartsore about it. I've gone for a neutral palette now that I'm making the design decisions, I'm choosing white walls (admittedly with a little bit of a blue undertone that you only notice when it's picking up other things' colors), black trim, and gray/white/black/brown reclaimed wood flooring. I picked out a gray/white/black comforter to throw over the bed with a black headboard and black + gray pillows. I'm getting some subtle green accents to put in the room, the guest room has been going with a pale yellow theme (to accent the black/white/gray/grown colors), I'm not eschewing color all together, but those bright, overwhelming colors are not what makes my soul sing. Neutral colors are not a soulless choice on my part, it's the first time in my life that I feel like it's finally clean, that I can breathe properly. You could scrub down a room with seafoam and forest green colors and have it so clean you could lick the walls and I would still have to go outside and take a moment to gather myself together if I had to live in it, because for me "color" means messy and I've had an entire lifetime of mess. I love when people put bright orange or bright green on their walls, that rocks and I will come over and genuinely tell you how beautiful it is, because I understand that it makes your soul sing. But understand that, in turn, having sleek, subtle colors makes my soul sing in a way that's just as genuine.