is it just me?

[swingchickie]

okay, guys on my FL -- go take a look at this post and then tell me, as a guy, if you would not totally run screaming from this apartment if you were on a first date with this person.

i kinda get the "shabby chic" decorating style, it's not my style but when i see those kinds of bedspreads and stuff in target i'm like, "ok, fine". but something about this apartment screams "dollhouse". like, if i were a guy having to be there, my nards would shrivel up in my body and i would run for the hills. yes, it's all coordinated and goes with the theme and all, but just having to sit on all those pink pillows, leaning on pink tablecloths, with floral-y stuff everywhere is just all kinds of whoa. to me, this is the equivalent of a guy decorating his apartment with all kinds of beer signs. yeah, it all coordinates, but it's overload and makes anyone of the opposite sex completely uncomfortable being there. or is it just me?

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[boutell.livejournal.com]

YES. For the first few pics I was all "oh give her a break" but... the effect is cumulative. Way too many fussy little things. I'd break them. Maybe on purpose?

Might be fun to desecrate her altar... (hey, she's not reading this, it's OK to be the mean kind of funny, right?)

(And I'm not exactly butchy mcsportopants, so if I'm reacting this way...)

[dear-amaranth.livejournal.com]

Not a guy, but of course I had to visit.

I've never been big on shabby chic. The colors are washed out and the designs seem overdone, somehow. This sort of made me wrinkle my nose. The only spots of real color were the deep green of all those fake flowers, and to me that just calls attention to... fake flowers. Which I find tacky in almost every circumstance.

I think the dog on the bed completed the picture. And then the pink dog bowls with the name "Princess." Of COURSE her name is Princess. :P

I did love the bedspread though.

[thetech.livejournal.com]

One of the comments hit the nail on the head for me...

"HOLY PINK BATMAN!" :)

As far as her ability to create/compose the theme or layout or style or whatever, she seems quite capable. She obviously knows how to keep a place tidy *hides the mess in his house* I admit, I laughed when I saw the stairs leading up to the bed - a symbolic statement, or is she really short? LOL [based on the pic of her and her BF, I'd say "short" plays a significant part in it... hehe]

You are right, though, it's very dollhouse-y. Would I run screaming? Well, she's kind of cute, so I think I'd be able to tough it out... for a while ;)

Strawberry Shortcake: The E True Hollywood Story

[steven.livejournal.com]

When casting directors decided not to renew her contract as she matured too much to be a credible child star, Strawberry Shortcake moved into a modest apartment, which she decorated mostly with gewgaws from Kirklands.

[opadit.livejournal.com]

Stairs to the bed would be for her dog.

[opadit.livejournal.com]

Looks like my grandmother's dream house!

The downstairs looked pretty reasonable. Very neat, picked up, clean, no clutter. A little too much tablecloth fussiness for me, making it look more like a hotel than a living space, but otherwise nice.

Upstairs needs help. The flowers on the loft railing just have to go. The teddy bear and other stuff in the bedroom scream out "middle school" to me. What really struck me, though, was that the rest of the apartment was picked up and neat, and she had two huge dressers in the bedroom -- but she had two stacks of clothes at the foot of her bed.

[swingchickie.livejournal.com]

i think those stairs are for her itty bitty dog, so it can get up into the bed. still funny as heck.

i just showed jack the pix... he saw the bathroom and was like, "hen i'm taking a s***, the last thing i'm thinking about is shoes. my a** would slam shut." *chuckle*

Re: Strawberry Shortcake: The E True Hollywood Story

[bohemianrapsody.livejournal.com]

LOL! I'm taking the liberty of adding "she went to the dark side as a meth addict, but is currently in recovery"

[bohemianrapsody.livejournal.com]

To her credit, she seems to have put a lot of effort into the place.
Gold and pink = headache. The mirror and those bland flower arrangemnts about the couch are way off scale-much to small for the wall space.
Like you, I understand what she was going for..but shabby chic furniture is more of a distressed white-not beige. And shabby chic does not involve neon pink. This just looks like it's from the 70's. And whats with all those Effiel towers? I'm so tired of the Effiel tower!! She must be very, very young. I took a gander at her LJ but it's FO. There was, however a "weightloss ticker" She actually looks very cute. Is it wrong to say I thought she would be a very very large girl with bad glasses and a denim vest with pink bows on it? ; )
If I was a guy..I don't think I would have the personality to be attracted to someone who decorates in that manner in the first place. I'd be going after the goth girls with the skulls and black candles in her place! Thank you for allowing my cattiness to come through. If feels good once in a while, doesn't it!

[blamedstarlie.livejournal.com]

Not a guy, but also thinking on the nards shriveling level. When I saw the doggie, in my mind I cackled "and your little dog too!!!" Also-I don't understand what the loft is for. Did I miss the pics for that?

I had a roomate that decorated like this when I was like 21-22. Hers was a *little* darker, she had all this intricate cherry wood furniture and I do recall a pink rug with tassels on each end that she HAD to obsessively spread straight out if they where to ever go awry. She was sexually abused as a child so I always thought it was her way of extending childhood a little and having control over it. She slept with no less than 3-5 men a night(going to their houses or them coming to hers) and in the end, she stole check from me and wrote them to a large grocery store that I had happened to be employed at-all while maintaining her creepy grandma-like existence. I moved to Portland shortly before that and once saw her at a show where we where BOTH selling our jewelry. She didn't have the balls to say anything to me, likely they shriveled up.

hey gramma, can I have some ginger ale?

[ms-violet.livejournal.com]

Hello. It's the complete opposite of my decorating style.

Speaking as a uh, how did beck say it? One Who Makes All The Lesbians Scream, if I walked into that apartment after an evening of The Olive Garden's Neverending Pasta Bowl and a John Cusack movie at the 8-plex,I would...

I'm not even sure if I can put it into words. I can show you the move I would do. I would get douche chills so hard that my shoulders would jerk up into my ears, my spine would end up hitting the top of my skull, and in my attempt to turn and run out the door I'd end up knocking over some pink and gold made in china tchotchke and breaking it... it'd all be a nightmare for people whose worst nightmare is the A.C. Moore being out of gold spray paint...

[ms-violet.livejournal.com]

The dog stairs would made all my sexual organs seal themselves shut and recoil up somewhere inside my viscera in order to allow maximum blood flow to my legs to get the hell out of there tout suite.

my gender studies hackles all went up.

[ms-violet.livejournal.com]

Now that I see the picture of her and her BF, I have to say that she needs to realize that if she has to be so firmly entrenched in the girly-femmie world, her BF must be so far in the butchy-macho world that he is completely gay. which makes me wish I could morph into Michael Ian Black for a day and give him the combination rigorous fisting/verbal tongue lashing and rejection he deserves, until he whines, "call me?"

seriously, I thought she had no boyfriend, weighed 400 lbs. and had nothing to put her energy into besides Princess and the decorating.

[shanabanana.livejournal.com]

Lack of taste is unfortunate. Lack of taste combined with obsession is tragic.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my eyes. Why did it not surprise me that she has that dog? When I saw a few of the first photos I started looking out for a while poodle. Not exactly, but pretty close.

I thought HER bedroom was a little girl's bedroom.

[dhpdesign.livejournal.com]

The only way to make tolerable that amount of pink strewn throughout one household? A Hello Kitty collection.

[notshakespeare.livejournal.com]

Would I run screaming if I was on a first date with this person?

Wait a minute! I'm on a date?