My style of decorating tends to lean towards “Pottery Barn” or “Target,” and less “floral” or “old lady” or “kuntry.”
I also don’t care for “clashing” or “1987.”
Anyway, I think the photos of the decor in our temporary house can speak for themselves. If it gets to be too much for your eyes to handle, place a cold compress over the affected area and accept my deepest apologies. In the event that you like what you see, I’ll get you in touch with the decorator, Ethel. You have to call her before she goes out for dinner at 3 PM. She’s very easy to reach around 4 AM before her water aerobics class.
Note how I have the curtains held back with the blinds. This is a new trend in home decorating that I’m revealing here for the first time!
Um? Ew. Nice touch, though, that they added the “We Appreciate You!” That makes the fact that they mentioned condoms *shudder* so much better.
Those flowers? Yeah, they’re PLASTIC. And yes those PLASTIC flowers are planted in the ground.
I know, WOW, right??!!??
Ouch, my eyes! I think I need that cold compress now. Hubby’s grandmother “plants” plastic flowers too.
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My Eyes! MY EYES!
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OMG! I think an old folks home threw up in your temp house!
Please, do not flush your condoms. he he.
I’m most disturbed by the fake flowers planted in the ground. Seriously? I guess they are low maintenance!
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Jennifer, I just want you to know that -We Appreciate You-. We really do.
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Um…WOW…that’s um…just wow.
Jennifer I’m at a loss for words here. Are you sure Ethel didn’t hit her head in her water aerobics class before she decorated??
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O.M.G. It looks like some kind of nightmare Tampa beach condo in 1983. Horrendous! And the calligraphy sign is unbelievable! It’s ginormous! Honestly, the bark chips are nearly as bad as the plastic flowers…nearly. How long do you have to be in this place…?
oh my. that’s special.
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I grew up in a house of Blue carpet and country florals, everywhere, in every room, and with wallpaper. I have no floral in my house now, I do have some paisly and a bit of nuetral foilage, but no floral. I blame my mom, the early 90′s and MAUVE
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ha ha. Love that the sign was done in such nice calligraphy. Nice contrast to the stark words!
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how are you not leaking spinal fluid after living in that?
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I had no idea that many floral prints existed in the universe.
I do love the calligraphy – nice touch for any and all condom warnings.
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Ok, seriously?
It looks like my stepmonster threw up in that house. She’s all about the flowers, borders, and wallpaper.
I’m so sorry you have to live like that.
You should totally take a better picture of that sign and send it into this site. That’s a riot!
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Oh wow, there are just no words. I feel for you!
YIKES!
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Wow the wall paper was actually painful. I give you kudos, you are a brave brave woman.
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I’m so sorry, honey. So sorry.
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I am embarassed to admit that our neighbors across the street have planted fake flowers. But what makes them really classy are the weeds that grow around them.
The couch sent it over the edge long before flushing condoms. I hope temporary housing is VERY temporary for you.
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wow. its like a bad hotel room. or… i dont even know. maybe you will be blessed w/ temporary blindness?
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I thought my neighbors were the only ones who planted plastic flowers!
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That is just wrong! I don’t think even a cold compress will help…
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Good Gawd almighty. My eyes, they burn.
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I could vomit. It reminds me of a cheap hotel. What about the rugs (esp. the one in the bathroom) — any ’70s shag?
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ROFL *praying you get a new house soon*
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Uh. Too many flowers. Wow. HAHAHA on the planted fakes.
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The wallpaper did it in for me, along with everything else. GAH!
I’m really curious how your “housing situation” works as far as just buying a house just over a year ago and then having to turn around and sell it. Does your hubs company some how take care of all that too? This day in age selling a house is pretty tough. I’m probably being way to nosey, but I was just curious.
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I have stayed in a timeshare that looked JUST like this. There must be some How to Decorate your Rental Home in the Tackiest Way Possible book series out there.
LOVE the new header!
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Oh wow! I will have to say I recognize one of the bedspreads from my grandmother’s house. My mother in law has plastic flowers planted, and plastic ferns hanging on her front porch.. yes really.
How long will you be there?
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Yup WOW.
Either Ethel is a crazy old lady or a cutting-edge avant-garde genius.
I can’t decide which.
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WOW!! Just WOW!!! How many freakin flowers can you have on shit in one house??
I have never seen plastic flowers planted before.
I am embarassed to live in Tennessee now.
I WAS going to say, “Well, at least the walls are white”, until I saw the bathroom shots. Mein Gott!!
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Oh. Oh my.
I am sending you the bill for the retinal scraping I now have to undergo.
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@katia, luckily there’s no shag carpeting. Just lovely gray carpeting that’s stained and dirty.
@Jean, most likely Tate’s company will buy our house from us. Before agreeing to move we made them promise they’d at least pay us what we paid for the house only 7 months ago. And yes, we got that in writing.
Hopefully the appraisal of our house will come back at a price higher than we paid!
@Rachel, where is TN do you live….email me. Maybe we live close to each other!
Lord honey, I’m sorry. You’re in Tennessee alright.
When we were house hunting I thought I would just give the hell up if I saw one more hunter green living room or bathroom with cabbage rose wallpaper.
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@Shanna Probably until the middle of December, though I hope we can move before Thanksgiving. Doubtful.
Wow… now THAT is classy. Plastic flowers. Teehee.
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I think I’m having heart palpitations.
Thank goodness you warned me to be ready to protect my eyes. And those plastic flowers in the yard? Excuse me?
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Aww, it’s nice to see my 1980s Laura Ashley dresses again!
ohmygod.
you could have at least gone onto pinik and added vignettes or something in an attempt to hide some of teh floral nightmare.
oh well…we appreciate you!!
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Oh sweetie, just spare yourself and come back to Indiana.
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I don’t even know where to begin
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The floral, the patterns, I would go insane!
And the note about condoms… yeah, that’s a nice touch!
Is this someone’s real home or is it just a house that is always rented out as temporary housing? They need to hire a new decorator!!! (like you didn’t already know that!)
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I love that they framed the note in the bathroom, nice touch.
I have a lady who lives around the corner from me who plants fake flowers. With dew dropped roses and all. And this in no small garden either. I will have to take pics and post them for you to see.
Moving sucks! Thankfully with the market as it is Tate’s company will buy the house from you.
Here’s to feeling more normal.
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@Krista It’s a house that gets rented out, usually for people’s vacations.
I’m sure that at some time someone owned this as their home and purposely decorated it this way. That had to be waaaay back in the 80′s!
Boy, Ethel leaves no stone unturned in her attempts to floralize the universe.
I’m weeping for you. Feel free to head down to Bham and take in my giraffe print carpet – it’ll cheer you right up.
Seriously, that’s an assload of flowers.
egads!
plastic flowers have been planted??
our wallpaper in the bathrooms are also garish- the whole house hasn’t been touched save for 2 rooms since we moved in….. 6 YEARS AGO….
seeing your pictures have reminded me that i have a lot of work to do. too bad i have a 3month old now.
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For a minute there I thought you were posting pictures of my Meemaw’s house. Floral is very hip with the 75+ crowd.
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