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Home Decorating Taste/Style Workshops

Workshop 1. Do you have several home decorating magazines? Preferably a few different titles or styles.  If you don’t you can buy them at used bookstores and sometimes the library for less than a dollar each. New ones are available online with big monthly savings here. Home & Garden

Have a pencil/pen and post it notes ready.  

Step 1.  Take 5 pictures of different decor style rooms from your magazines.  Each decorating style  must be different.  You can like the rooms or not.  Don’t spend a lot of time finding these pictures. Just have 5 pictures with different decorating styles.  

Use the Descriptive Words below.   You will select from these words to express what you see.

Can you get out of your head?  Go to your feelings and emotions.  Have some drama.! Make daring and dramatic choices when selecting your words to express your emotional response to what you see.

You will be referring to these Descriptive Words in this workshop:


Impersonal

Classic

Spacious

Crowded

Formal

Aggressive

Casual

Theatrical

Palatial

Traditional

Exotic

Calm

Busy 

Comfortable

Sedate

Extravagant

Utilitarian

Poetic

Open

Simple 

Sleek

Grand

Austere

Crowded

Lavish

Spars

Opulent

Lavish

Forbidding

Friendly

Antiseptic

Hospitable

Romantic

Bold

Unpretentious

Flamboyant

Gaudy

Whimsical

Elegant

Charming

Sweet

Uncontrived

Impressive

Stark

Busy

Sleek

Bare

Friendly

Pretentious

Cluttered

Picturesque

Cozy

Commonplace

Intimate

Stylized

Eclectic

Sanitized

Impersonal

Spacious

Formal

Regimented

Overwhelming

Sporty

Grandiose

Serious

Airy

Welcoming

Fanciful

Simple

Chic

Spacious

Predictable

Bizarre

Bland

Thematic

Orderly

Empty

Modest

Informal

Plain

Inviting

Stately

Sophisticated

Airy

Plain

Refined

Severe

Homey

Dreamy

Dramatic

Soothing

Playful


Step 2. Take one of your decorating style pictures.  Look at it.  Find three words on the list that best express your reaction to that picture.  Write the three words on a post it and put it on the picture.  Do this for each of your pictures.  

Step 3. Evaluate.  Did you express your feelings simply and directly?  Do you trust your responses; your instincts and impressions?  

Did you find attitudes and reactions surfacing that you never knew you had?  An awareness of  your emotions and feelings is important and useful when decorating in your own style.  

This exercise will help you use  words to express your emotional reaction to your impressions in all four decorating style exercises.  

Your words are going to be different from your friend’s, your neighbor’s, even your spouse’s.  They are supposed to be.  Each of you has your own instinctive taste.   

Workshops Two, Three and Four are to help you discover and create your own decorating style 

“I like it” – “Not for me!” evaluation sheets and a new confidence in you own decorating style are part of the four workshops.  Click Here for your twenty page workbook. Discover and create your own decorating style – Here

"The Home Decorating TasteStyle Workshop is the best thing I could have done to know what I am doing is O.K.  Before I would think I knew how I was going to decorate.  I would go to the store to buy things and come home with something completely different or didn't work with what I already had.

Decorating can be confusing and frustrating until you know what you really want.  In Out Decor's Taste/Style Workshops have helped give me confidence and save money on mistakes."

Debbie Evans,  Gilbert, Arizona. 

 

You can complete all four workshops with instructions, evaluation sheets and stunning results with your own decorating style and confidence.

Click Here for your twenty page workbook complete with four workshops, “I like it!” –“Not for me!” evaluation sheets and a new confidence in your own decorating style.

Write me and let me know about your great discoveries!

mailto:inoutdecor@msn.com

Other decorating challenges, decorating with style articles and workshops:

Do them in order, do them as you like.  Be inspired and enjoy.

 

Decorating Challenge # 1 - Discovering Your Decorating Style.

Decorating Challenge # 2 - Decorating with Color.

Decorating Challenge # 3 - Decorating with Texture

Decorating Challenge # 4 - Decorating with Accessories.

 

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A Note From Vickie Thank you for visiting InOutDecor. I hope you find the outdoor and interior decorating ideas and tips useful, fun and help with your decor challenges. 

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Please keep this in mind when you are ready to do your decorating shopping online and return each time to InOutDecor for your decor shopping directory.  Please stay around and come back soon for more great decorating tips and ideas.

Thanks for your support!         Vickie

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