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A very prevailing style trend in new homes is the updated arts and crafts with a little more color. I really like the new homes with it. And I like to see the old homes with it updated too. My husband and I both grew up in an Arts and Crafts style house.

updated arts and crafts home exterior - Bing images

I love the coastal blue on your walls and the way you carry the blue throughout your furnishings. Your home is really pretty.

Most of the Villages home colors are very muted. Look at so much of Florida’s Art Deco style and you see rich, bold and vibrant colors. Much of it almost joyous and celebratory. Enjoy!

I love the newer colors! Nothing is more boring that a neighborhood of designer homes in shades of beige. Finally, paint colors that reflect our fun loving, active lifestyles.

See now JohnW, this is where it's all a matter of taste. I would personally never choose to paint my walls such a delicate pastel color, and then pair it with an oriental screen and big bulky cream-colored leather upholstery. To me, it's just a huge clash of drab with a splash of exotic that should be a feature, but is instead nothing more than an aside.

I like color. In fact I love color. Our house is light blue, and our furnishings are mostly dark wood in one room with a big oriental-style rug in shades of burgundies and dark blues, along with a genuine Persian rug in similar colors in front of a cherokee-patterned futon. All darks, blues, reds, bigs, all coordinating but none of it matching.

My bathroom, on the other hand, is day-glow rainbow colors. Turquoise trim, I hand-painted all the picture frames a splotchy mess of purple and the same turquoise, with a bath rug that is, literally, a rainbow, in fuscia, turquoise, sunny yellow, and acid green. My towels all coordinate - hand towels have rainbow motif to match the rug, wash cloths and bath towels are all solids in the same hues plus tangerine orange, and I have them stacked on the shelves so you can see all those colors in the mirror. I even did up the trim around the ceiling lights with the purple/turquoise. And - I found a soap at one of the stores in Sumter Landing square that was all of these colors, on clearance for 50 cents. So I grabbed that and it's also a decorative touch on the sink.

My next project will be to paint the walls in the bathroom a crisp, sharp white to really show off the contrast with the other colors. Right now they - and all the other walls in the house - are a depressing, neutral, dingy looking cream.

Actually beautiful home decor is a lot of things, not the least being keeping up with the current trends and colors within ANY STYLE. Mid Century Modern is the most popular now in many new model homes across the country. Updated Farmhouse is also very popular. I enjoyed seeing that done well on HGTV's popular show; "Fixer Upper". Chic Manhattan apartments are almost always done in clean lines and a very narrow color palate. Home decor done well usually requires being very aware of the color wheel and the use of accent color at least three times. It is my opinion that most people err by having TOO much STUFF. A room can be highly personal yet please the eye of most people if the design rules are followed. Then it becomes more than a room. It becomes a painting, a beautiful thing to behold and all the more so because it is highly personal. Not many can pull that off. A lot of people don't care and a lot of people don't see that their efforts don't work.

But as long as they are happy I guess. I am not critical of others efforts, but I so enjoy others educated victories. It is their home, their castle, their choice. But there is an art to it.

I had to chuckle a bit after reading the “Better Together” article in the VHA Voice magazine included in today’s paper. The VHA states a position that “ If each numbered District made independent decisions around today’s common services and infrastructure, there would probably be visuals differences as you traveled between CDD’s that would dramatically affect the long-term value of properties throughout The Villages”. Does this mean that the VHA is upset that the developer is going with bright and different house colors in the new Villages south of 44? :icon_wink:

Colors and decorating are so subjective. One man’s tasteful is another man’s tacky. I think of pastels, palm tree prints, and flamingos as a Florida cliche, but some can make that look work.

I am partial to earthy jewel tones, dark woods, and stained glass that are hallmarks of the prairie and mission style for which my hometown is known. I’ve incorporated bold accent walls, abstract prints, and art glass into my decor in an eclectic fusion of styles.

Our exterior paint is a “builder beige” sand color, but I freshened the look with a bright red front door.

I’m sure my decorating choices would make some people clutch their pearls, but we like it. To each their own.

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The colors are not ass shocking as the prices.

I want to paint our door a bright red as well. Did you have to get that ok'ed ?

I like the colors.

It looks like a golf cart garage or perhaps for a smart car in back of the car port or what they refer to as the "porte cochere".

Show us. I bet we will like it.

I KNOW you didn't mean to spell it that way.

Plus all over the country the prices of homes are going up. up. up. Including the one you are now living in. And mine too.