I had happened an unexpected thing on Facebook a few days ago. Some of them may not know that I have an addictive Facebook page with addictive decoration, on which I usually only share my latest blog posts, but I also try to add a few additional posts throughout the week. It can be a relapse to an old project, a random picture of a room in our house or something else. (You can find me here if you want to participate.)
I haven’t spent much time on Facebook in recent years, especially because I just don’t have time and the payment for the time on this Facebook page was not very high. I read all the comments and make the goal of interacting with regular readers, especially if you ask questions. I do my best to answer all questions that people have, be it here on the blog, on Facebook or on Instagram. I probably don’t catch 100% of them, but I’m trying my best.
About two weeks ago I posted this picture and asked: “Who did better, I or chatt?
Most people preferred mine. Some preferred the chatt version. A few people didn’t like one. Not a big deal. It was just a funny, meaningless contribution.
But a comment attracted my attention because the woman said that she didn’t like my version of the living room because it was not “coherent”. I thought, wait. You can say many things about my house. I understand that my colors are not for everyone. I tend to colors that most people in their houses would be afraid of (or so I thought), and I understand that. But, non -coherent? I definitely think the colors in our house are coherent. I worked very hard to make them coherent.
And then I realized that she saw (for the first time) one Image of one Room from one Angle, and that’s it. She probably only happened by chance in this post in her Facebook feed and has never seen another part of our house. This one photo is everything she has ever seen. And from this point of view you cannot really see the details of this room I find Make it together.
So I have put together another post and this time took 17 pictures of different rooms in our house. The post looks like this in a Facebook feed, and of course you can click on a picture on Facebook and then click through all 17 pictures to see them much larger.
The point of the post was not that everyone has to love my house. I really understand that many people would not want these colors in their home. People don’t have to like my house.
The jumping point of the post was that sometimes you have to see a room from different angles and in the larger context of the rest of the house to see that it is coherent. That’s it. That was my only point. And when I have seen different perspectives and in a larger context, I still claim that our house is very coherent, even if I have decorated our home in colors that they loathe.
Well, my goodness, I had no idea that this post would accept a life of its own. It has been years since I was something close to “viral” on Facebook (and really that things are not as “viral” today as they did a decade ago, so that’s probably not even a good word), but this post has grown and ran. To this morning, it had been viewed 1,457,545 times. It had received 13,698 reactions, comments and stocks. And it had received 249,619 clicks. If you keep pace with all the comments (again because I would like to try to answer as many questions as possible that the comments have to read through) felt like a full -time job.
The main thing that shocked me about the answer to this post was that the comments are mostly positive. I would say that about 99.9% of the comments were people who put their love for what I had done in our house. The original shocked me. I mean, we have lived for a decade of neutral farmhouse style, which dominates every medium -sized means, from television to Instagram to magazines and much more. I expected the reaction to our house at least 50/50 preferences and dislikes. But that was not the case at all.
I was also very shocked that the vast majority of the comments came from people who liked them My specific color palette I used that in our house. I mean it is one thing to like color in general, but it is something completely different from the very specific color palette that I used in our house. Here, too, I really would never have expected it to appeal to such a large part of people.
But do you know what that tells me? I think people are starving. And it is obvious that all of these comments will be read through. People are literally starved. We have pushed all of these neutral interiors for so long, combined with the fact that so many people are only afraid of adding color to their houses because they are afraid of being a clown house, or fear that a future purchase would think or fear for a day in the future if they could actually apply to only deal with neutral to deal with neutral.
Some people really love a neutral environment, and I totally understand that. I don’t doubt for a second There are actually people who need a completely neutral environment in their house. And I definitely understand that there are people who can appreciate photos of a house from a color lover like me, but nothing but fear every day if they actually had to live in my house. We are all different. We are all wired differently. These different personalities and different temperaments require a different environment so that we feel calm, peaceful, safe and relaxed.
But I am 100% convinced that there are far too many people who have convinced that they are “neutral” people if they are not. For these people, this decision to surround themselves with neutral colors is not a real inner need for peace. Fear is driven. And that makes me sad.
Color is life, all of you! Therefore, nature is fulfilled! And if you bring color to your home, breathe life into him. It does not have to be flooded with color as it is my home. And you certainly don’t have to decorate with the colors I chose. The colors I used speak me. These colors that speak me can be repulsive to you. But I am still convinced that most people with very few exceptions (and I realize that there are exceptions) actually have no neutral colors that speak to them. Colors you see and so that you feel that you just want to drink it. You should fill these colors that you feel like this. These are the colors with which you should surround yourself. These are the colors to which you should come home at the end of a long working day. These are the colors that should fill this refuge “at home” – this break, which we all need from a crazy and chaotic world outside of these protective walls.
Decorating your house is so much more than just filling with the latest trends and the latest “color of the year”. This is not a way to decorate a home. While the entire neutral farmhouse trend raged in the past decade, I was here in my own home and did my own thing. And regardless of trends, regardless of which colors are classified as “popular” from one year to the next, I ignored all of this and created a house that causes me to breathe it every time I go through the door.
I wish everyone had that. I want that for everyone. But that takes courage and requires this fear away. Find these colors that do this for you And fill your home with it. I promise you that it is more than just decorating. It is more than just doing things pretty. It goes far beyond that even the most brilliant scientists, brain specialists or psychologists cannot even fully explain. But just trust me. Do it and you will see for yourself how the quality of life changes.
It starts with finding your Colors. Not my colors. Not the “color of the year” by Benjamin Moore or Sherwin Williams. Not the colors that Southern Living or Architectural Digest tell them that they are the “IT” colors for the year. But your Colors. This color that they were put on by their whole life. This color you see and you just want it. This color that makes it drink. That is their color. Find it, go with it and fill your home with it. Don’t worry about what others think about it. You don’t live there. Your home is for you.
