https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/home-decor-reflecting-my-personal-style Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:54:08 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/home-decor-reflecting-my-personal-style#post-877977 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:19:28 +0000 cheryl 877977@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Great space. Thanks for sharing </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/home-decor-reflecting-my-personal-style#post-877873 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:08:22 +0000 Kalli 877873@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Everyone's home is their castle and yours is so colorful and pretty. Thanks for giving us an intimate look and inviting us in. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/home-decor-reflecting-my-personal-style#post-877670 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 06:41:10 +0000 vaeryoi 877670@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It is interesting how decorating a home is so similar to decorating our bodies. Both my clothes and home reflect a llittle bit of modern country or modern farmhouse style.<br /> to read more article :- <a href="http://www.rugsandblinds.com/rugs/eco-friendly-rug" rel="nofollow">http://www.rugsandblinds.com/rugs/eco-friendly-rug</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/home-decor-reflecting-my-personal-style#post-821352 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:54:56 +0000 Lisa 821352@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lovely rooms! Our house is just as classic as my style, but there is always one statement piece in each room, just like I enjoy wearing a simple outfit with a printed scarf as my statement item in an outfit. I do think personal style carries over to home style. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/home-decor-reflecting-my-personal-style#post-821302 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:05:45 +0000 texstyle 821302@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for sharing Kari - and I can definitely see you and your style in your home and it is beautiful. </p> <p>I feel the same way about my own home - the colors, style, how things are arranged, even the location all speak about my own personal style preferences. </p> <p>I've learned that I like certain things to have an aged patina in my wardrobe much like in my home. Handbags, shoes, belts and jeans for example where as in my home furnishings like wood floors and dining tables and chairs that are meant to be used and enjoyed I like to have an aged look and feel. Both my clothes and home reflect a llittle bit of modern country or modern farmhouse style. I love to display useful art such as large fruit drying baskets or interesting old bottles. I also love natural fabrics both in clothing and in my home such as washable cotton drapes and wool carpets. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/home-decor-reflecting-my-personal-style#post-821258 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:18:00 +0000 Beth Ann 821258@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Love the warmth in your home, Kari. There is a richness of texture, color and pattern, but enough open space and clean lines to keep it chic and simple. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/home-decor-reflecting-my-personal-style#post-821205 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:13:48 +0000 kimlee 821205@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Kari, you terrific taste is reflected in your home decor as well as your fashion sense. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/home-decor-reflecting-my-personal-style#post-821165 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:47:22 +0000 Raisin 821165@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I can definitely see your style in you home. Such great pics! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/home-decor-reflecting-my-personal-style#post-821145 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:20:16 +0000 Astrid 821145@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It is lovely and I can definitely see your style reflected in these pics! Thanks for letting us peek into your home again. I'll try to take some pics myself when I'm finished with my project. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/home-decor-reflecting-my-personal-style#post-821079 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:44:59 +0000 ManidipaM 821079@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I adore your Austen and your 'office chair' especially --- very, very Kari! As are the creative scatters of colour everywhere. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/home-decor-reflecting-my-personal-style#post-821056 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:47:50 +0000 rute 821056@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>So gorgeous! My home decor is extremly minimal! I will try to find photos to show you! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/home-decor-reflecting-my-personal-style#post-821050 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 07:46:42 +0000 Hil 821050@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think your home looks so fun! I've never thought of my home reflecting my personal clothing style... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/home-decor-reflecting-my-personal-style#post-821047 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 07:24:22 +0000 Asingh 821047@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Kari, I absolutely love the way you've done up your house. And I like how you describe it as "careful, organized clutter". I love the use of colour and the pictures bring out a sense of warmth in the place. Cozy and fun. And it's interesting to read how your sense of style/clothing is reflected in your home. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/home-decor-reflecting-my-personal-style#post-821030 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 05:54:29 +0000 Carole 821030@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What fun to peek into your home, Kari. Thanks for sharing these pictures with us. I can see your "Kari" touches and color coming through. It is interesting how decorating a home is so similar to decorating our bodies and the preferences translate quite easily with regard to color, textures, accessories and mood. Your home looks like a lovely place to visit, just like you would be so fun to meet. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/home-decor-reflecting-my-personal-style#post-821024 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 05:41:59 +0000 Kari 821024@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>A few days ago Astrid started this post on the forum about home decor and her move toward minimalism, which got me thinking about how my own style journey has developed hand in hand with my interior-design-in-an-apartment-on-a-budget style. Here is the original thread:</p> <p><a href="http://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/home-decor-and-steps-towards-minimalism" rel="nofollow">http://youlookfab.com/welookfa.....minimalism</a></p> <p>My response was long enough that I decided I wanted to preserve it in my blog for posterity: </p> <p>"My personal style and my home decor preferences developed hand in hand, I think. And part of that reason is that around the time I was reading YLF, I had recently graduated from college. However, I lived at home with my parents for several years, so while I was starting to explore and then hone my wardrobe, ideas about how I wanted my own physical space to look were marinating in my mind for years before I finally moved out on my own. By that time I knew just how I wanted my tiny apartment to be decorated, and I loved it.</p> <p>"My home style and my wardrobe style are similar, but there are differences. For example, I have a lot of chocolate brown wood and suede furniture in my home - not a color that I wear very often. Some of the bright colors in my home - spiced orange, apple green, pale turquoise - are lighter and less saturated or rich than the colors I typically wear.</p> <p>"But I still would bet that you could step into my home and see how my preferences for decor translate into what I wear. I try to bring light in where I can - small mirrors on the walls, flameless candles that I can turn on with the click of a button, fabric-covered lamps that give out a soft and warm light. You'll see my love for patterns (though they tend to be more organic than geometric) and there is definitely a large dollop of whimsy in what I accessorize with. The colors are bright and cheerful. I like to display knicknacks that I find beautiful or that are sentimental, but I've learned to be more sparse and choosy in what I display. I want my belongings to look like they harmonize and belong together, but I don't want them to look stiff or merely display-like. I actually use those teacups, the Gurgle Pot, the high-heel-shaped tape dispenser, and those Vera Bradley pencils over my desk. I reference those cookbooks that flank the picture frames in my dining room. I try to build in little alcoves for some of my prettier hardcover books - on my desk, under the TV, on a small shelf behind the couch with the curly bamboo plants on the top shelf. I want my space to look approachable and lived-in, but cultured and not messy or stuffed to the brim. It's kind of a careful, organized clutter, if that makes sense!"</p> <p>I've included a couple detail shots of my favorite alcoves at home that I think illustrates my point. Based on my clothing style, I think you'll see me in the details here. </p> <p>#1: My desk, with colorful glass items up on top, and a carefully arranged miscellaneous collection of teacups, candles, frames, boxes, patterned pencils, a tape dispenser shaped like a bright red high heeled Mary Jane, and other doodads that I decided I'd most enjoy looking at while typing. My Griffin and Sabine books are on the bottom shelf to the right of my monitor. Just out of the right hand frame of my photo on the floor by my desk is a tall glass vase filled with pebbles and tall twisted wicker branches. When I look to the right of my desk I see our large floor length windows overlooking the courtyard and this small mirror with a tea candle sconce. </p> <p>#2: My reading nook behind the couch (the short bookcase houses some of my collection) with my sister's and grandmother's artwork on the wall. Out in the hallway across from our bedroom we have two tall bookshelves housing most of my collection, flanked by picture frames or little objects. My favorite: a framed, letter pressed "birthday card" from my sister (I blurred my last name on purpose) and in front, dueling action figures. We have my Jane Austen, quill in hand, fending off B's Penny Arcade action figure that I will call the "FF2K: Pulp" figure (he has another official, ruder name that a bit of Googling easily reveals.) I also tucked away some colorful boxes and a bowl with nice hardcover books under our TV in the entertainment unit. </p> <p>You can see a larger view of some of the rooms in our home here, shortly after we had just unpacked. It still looks pretty similar today, with the addition of some new furniture (including a better, bigger couch that is still chocolate brown suede.)</p> <p><a href="http://pencilskirtlife.lookfab.com/post/relaxed-holiday-and-decorating-the-new-space" rel="nofollow">http://pencilskirtlife.lookfab.....-new-space</a> </p>