Last week I told you that I'm hooked on houses. I spend a lot of time surfing the online house listings, and now and then I come across rooms that make me stop and do a double-take.
Take this house, for example, on the market for a reasonable $155,000. It offers original woodwork and
hardwood floors, charming arched doorways, and an updated kitchen.
But all I could think about when I saw the interior photos was that
size matters when you're decorating your home. Proportion and scale are important in a room. Take a look and you'll see what I mean!
Here we have a table and light fixture that are so small they get lost in this large dining room:
In the living room, the artwork is too big to be hung over the clock like that, and the rug is too small to float in the center of the floor:
On the other side of the room, the TV cabinet is way too wide for the wall:
Even the bedroom has a problem with size–the comforter is too small!
All this home needs is a little "redesign" to bring everything into balance and it would show so much better, don't you think? What would you change first?
Julia can be found blogging about unusual rooms she finds on the MLS at Hooked on Houses.Two of her most popular posts this month have involved toilet doilies and too much purple. Follow her on Twitter @hookedonhouses.
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I think this is so true~!
What a charming house; I cannot even believe that people that own that house own that TV monstrosity. Just a bit of tweaking and that house would show fabulously.
Janet