{"id":30,"date":"2007-08-14T10:09:13","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T09:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2007-08-14T10:09:13","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T09:09:13","slug":"remaining-neutral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Remaining Neutral"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The better half and I have been on a bit of a decorating frenzy since we moved into our house\u00a0last year,\u00a0liberating\u00a0it of its drab 1970’s decor and attempting to turn it\u00a0into a palace of peace and tranquility…… with a\u00a0touch of\u00a0class.<\/p>\n

I think as ‘moving in together’ goes, I have been very lucky that the better half has fairly compatible tastes\u00a0with my own, and despite making the odd compromise over curtain material and the odd fixture or fitting (admittedly on his part…), it can be almost guaranteed that let loose in the same homeware store, we’d walk out with an almost identical basket.<\/p>\n

Our ‘taste’ on the whole is uncluttered, clean and fresh. We like to\u00a0use natural materials wherever we can and subscribe to using ‘proper wood’ wherever possible. These are all\u00a0happy admissions, however when people\u00a0ask me the colours we have chosen, I always feel slightly embarrassed to say “its all mostly neutrals”….<\/p>\n

I’m not sure why I find this particularly bothers me, especially as I have\u00a0recently arrived at a very liberating place in life where I have stopped apologising for who I am – which is maybe why in fact, I am afraid of being regarded as ‘neutral’…<\/p>\n

You see, as anyone\u00a0who has\u00a0spent as long as me glued to ‘UK bright Ideas’ or\u00a0queues at\u00a0the newsagent\u00a0on the 3rd of every month to pick up their copy of\u00a0‘Living Etc.’ will know,\u00a0‘neutrals’\u00a0are generally associated as being the ‘safe option’ –\u00a0they\u00a0are used to make somewhere universally appealing to everyone,\u00a0most show homes are drenched in them as generally they\u00a0don’t offend anyone and\u00a0will go with everything. That’s why when people ask me what colour we have painted our rooms, often\u00a0a reply\u00a0will follow “Oh, are you looking to sell when you finish?”<\/p>\n

No.<\/p>\n

Well not straight away…<\/p>\n

Interior design magazines\u00a0are currently\u00a0filled to the brim of smug home owners showing off their designer flocked wallpaper, intricately designed table lamps, tartan carpets and red perspex coffee tables. The homes of people I know even contain black gloss skirting boards, purple living rooms and ‘accent walls in’ green and gold’ – the reason for this –\u00a0they “like them” and represent a little bit of their individual personality.<\/p>\n

So what does that make me? Am I the unimaginitive Mrs Beige therefore? Does my love of ‘soft chalk’ and pale voile curtains make me the human equivalent of a white clad Kingsoak ‘Show Flat’ –\u00a0one amongst the masses and largely unforgettable?<\/p>\n

Having never really thought about this before\u00a0(though to be quite frank it is probably not something that would ever bother ordinary people), I pondered as to what the answer was.\u00a0And I came up with this:<\/p>\n

Modest that I am, \u00a0I\u00a0would like think my life consists of many colours,\u00a0but it is the\u00a0home the better half and I are making that reflects how I\u00a0strive to feel\u00a0permanently\u00a0inside and how I think\u00a0we are; united, together and calm. I don’t want drama, I don’t want fuss and I don’t want anything that is going to cause an arguement with my senses and\u00a0give me a headache.<\/p>\n

Plus I just like soothing colours. They look nice.<\/p>\n

So…\u00a0with this post I\u00a0will hereby make a\u00a0bold\u00a0step out of the interior design closet and admit to something that ‘Ideal Homes’ would regard as strictly\u00a0faux pas:-<\/p>\n

I’m remaning neutral.<\/p>\n

So sue me.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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