Free free free (craigslist) but WHERE does this stuff come from??

You know, even if I had nothing and needed free stuff I would still think it was ugly and wonder why people had ever been possessed to make something that looked like that. Not just the fabric choices but sometimes the whole frame of a piece of furniture...

Now if I found a nice leather sectional for free, I'd snap that up in a heartbeat lol!

To each his own, Mommyboo. I find this very funny because Leather furniture is the one kind that I wouldn't snap up on......not even for free! Well, unless I could resell it of course.:)

Well... I am not antiquey. I'm not what you'd consider knick knacky or country or frilly either. My taste in spaces and decorating is kind of.... elegant minimalist. I like things that are very fuss free, very form follows function, things that are both beautiful AND comfortable, and durable. Because of that, I don't like a mish mash of prints and colors, I like monochrome things with colors for accents, like a dark brown leather sofa with maybe.... red throw pillows or an off white blanket tossed over the side.

I think my eyes get spasms when I see too many different patterns in one place, I don't like wall paper either lol.

The things you describe are beautiful in their own way and I can see them in a sitting room, lol, I mean don't get me wrong I do enjoy a nice put together plain colored sofa with a pillow or throw of a different color for flair, maybe a nice curl type swirl in the middle of said pillow, or cover.... I'm just also much into antiques, though I don't understand their value etc like antiquers.

If it were inexpensive to reupholster, I would do it myself, but it seems to cost the same as replacing furniture . As it is, I don't know how to do things like that myself anyway, so trying it would probably be a disaster.

Most of the people I know have very tasteful decorating, so I have mostly been around very mellow tasteful decorating lol. Some of the things I see on craigslist are very tacky, and look like they haven't been taken care of either. Not everything, but a lot of the free or lower priced items.

What makes me laugh is the trends! I mean when I was little... I'm talking like 3 or 4 years old, my parents had this nice canopy bed - well the frame was dark finished wood... like mahogany or something - and stained dark too so it was almost black. My dad had made a dresser and night stands and a little table and chairs for me that was also the same color wood. They had a white comforter (I don't know who does this with kids but perhaps I was never allowed in their room lol) and a bunch of dark orange, olive green, and butterscotch yellow throw pillows and a canopy cover/curtain thing that was white and had some sort of pattern on it in orange, olive green, and butterscotch. What can I say, it was 1977 or 78. I think they had olive green shag carpeting and dark polished wood floors... like REAL wood, and I think the half paneling where it is wood on the wall up to a chair rail and then regular wall from there up to the ceiling. I don't remember it all that clearly but I think about it now and I would not be comfortable with the decorating. I'd feel like I was in a 1970s museum.

I guess I'm just trying to figure out how the trends got crazy, I mean wouldn't people think hmmmm... solid colors are a good idea... and things like... neutrals, NOT ORANGE SOFAS? I mean even when people build a wardrobe, it makes sense to buy pieces you can make 4 outfits out of, and bottoms in neutral colors rather than prints you have to match.

I think I'm very plain actually.... I like furniture without embellishment, and I prefer ones where the cushions don't come off. I like them to be overstuffed and for the fabric to be leather or some type that is soft and not scratchy, and neutral colored. Antiquey stuff to me has never been very comfortable, and I always look at things I get from the point of view of being both kid-friendly and kid-safe, so most of my taste is very modern and includes stain-guard lol.

Some antiques are very beautiful, but a lot of them are also quite 'fussy'...

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea that things like that were ever in fashion enough to be CREATED and then put up for sale in a STORE in the first place....maybe this is stuff that was passed down 3 generations?