a bad case of the stripes in a showhouse

u have to click on the images to make them bigger 2 truly see this. r designer showhouses really getting this lame?

fail: stripes upon stripes upon stripes. fail: fugly coffee table and stool. fail: tiny couch with big arms - for f'sake the fugly coffee table is as big as the couch. fail: fugly drapes with tape edge, and fugly dated rod. fail: hideous painting trying to be a clever reference 2....STRIPES.

fail: more friggin stripes & another fugly stool. fail: cheap looking side table with more metal leg action...stools, coffee, side table all have gold metal legs. fail: fugly bust that looks like it's gonna fail over. fail: space 2 small for the couch 2 b there. fail: scale of the whole space plan.

fail: tape edge furniture condom. fail: penis art in a red frame no less. fail: more stripes AND a greek border. fail: boring lamps throughout the whole design.

fail: more stripes & cheap looking ballard design type print on cubes. fail: 2 many matchy matchy chino light fixtures. possible fail: red, white. & blue color scheme, unless there's some patriotic theme going on & in that case gwd will take ralph lauren any day over this. fail: over use of popular patterns, stripes, greek key, geometric. was there a super sale at fabric.com?


student work? hell no! this is a DESIGNER SHOWHOUSE done by a very popular designer who could & should do alot better.

if this was done on a budget, budget decorating does not equal crap. even u bloggers do better than this. really. if this were a home decorator it would b cute. but a showhouse? no can b. or maybe the concept of the showhouse is over & out.

what decorno has been doing

"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in."
like michael corleone, decorno has been pulled back in. sort of.
she shows us what she's been doing here

1. this fugly chair

2. this fugly stool.

& they weren't even diy. she paid someone to do them.
let's see, she quit in april & it took her until august 2 do a comeback post from "hibernation".
& do these two projects.
u can't go back darling decorno. & u can't decorate either. go back 2 sleep.

the girly domino lonny backlash

lately many bloggers r bitching about the overly saturated girly decor, as in it's everywhere & been done by everybody, the look domino lived & died by & lonny regifts, & the look once loved by girls everywhere, and girly guys 2.

house beautiful had a girly may issue cover & alot of us didn't dig it.

is it finally over & out, r the girly domino lonny clones on the ropes? can anyone with small talent & a blog polyvore shopping list put together a look that was once so fresh & exciting & then get it published on the f-ing cover of HB?

r we ready 4 more grown up well designed, non gender specific spaces?

the nominations for 2009

things to leave in 2009.
what would u add to the list of nominations.

african headdresses r the new foo dog

why r we like sheep? or maybe a pack of foo dogs.

using this type of african headdress became a decorating darling maybe two years ago.

colorful and affordable and exotic oh my!

so plentiful u think they're sold at target now.

or maybe they come in a four-pack at wal mart.

so played out. ditto stripe rugs and white leather. time to move on.

what's next

i can tell u what's out. how many of these once hot things do u have?


1. out - blackboard paint
2. out - zebra pillows, really zebra anything

3. out - ikat

4. out - horns
5. poor kelly w. is totally out
6. big lanterns on their way out but still in

7. ghost chairs - out & saarinen tables 2


8. out - suzani
9. out sectionals - especially the ones with a chaise & anything lucite also out


10. out brown and blue
11. still out - ghost chairs, & really the ghost chair cozie have never been in

12. out fucking foo dogs

13. out - witty damask print

14. eew - out out out cord covers & drum shades over chandeliers

15. out capiz


16. double play out - black chandelier and capiz

17. murals never should have been in again & cowhide rugs r out
18. fake french & mirror furniture is over & out ditto that trellis print on anything

19. black chandeliers so out
21. vessel sinks over & out - granite get out 2

22. asian, zen, any theme room is out & always has been out
23. these garden stools are out


anything retro is out. jonathan adler is out. the domino look is out. if it's in target it's out. pottery barn is out. restoration hardware out. ikea is out.

we need to evolve, move on, even if we still like this stuff.

u can add 2 the list.

so tell me what's next?

ceiling fans making a comeback

no thank u

crazy mothers

tots & tiaras, a train wreck on tlc.
did ur mother ever drag u into something u hated

cord covers are out

free your chains