Tasteful Friends, Sean Pritchard Decorates Like You, But He Has A 17th Century Labourer’s Cottage

Cluttered and claustrophobia-inducing.

Hoarderish

Once you get passed the tat it's probably rather nice.

It’s festively temporary - a real Charlie Brown tree to display all the things plus ribbons, a bespoke lampshade perilously close to a lit candle, and oranges covered in cloves (one of my favorite Christmas memories was of second grade crafts in which we created a wall of cloved oranges that cancelled out the dour medicine scent of our Lutheran classroom.

It's homey and cozy. I guess purposely hanging most of the the pictures "wonkily" is his thing, just as others use a level to ensure they are hanging straight.

Like living in an unmade bed

[quote] Sean Pritchard Decorates Like You

How dare you!?

I like a little glitter and shine myself.

What's with the crooked pictures on the wall and hung in front of the bookshelves? I guess they think it appears whimsical and eccentric, but it's actually obnoxious. They are trying way too hard.

Oh dear @ "passed", R3.

Already covered within this thread.

Just looking at the pictures makes me sneeze.

I can't imagine trying to eat at that table with all the greenery in my face about to be set on fire by those candles

The crooked frames would drive me to kill.

who dusts?

Not a single space on any surface to lay anything.

It's forced and overdone. The crooked pictures are stupid - 'who says they have to hang evenly' - is just a weird contrarian take. Maybe so I don't have to crook my head to see what they hell I'm looking at or reading?

Who says floors have to be even either? Who says no holes in a mattress?

Clutter is not maximalist. This is just a collection of thrift store books and pictures and some shit he found in the garden. There are branches in wineglasses for fuck's sake.

Terrible to the point of being laughable. I hope he's dying of embarrassment cuz this is some bullshit nobody wants or is impressed by.

He has the right idea but he needs to follow the rule french women do regarding fashion: when you're about to go out, look in the mirror, and take one thing off.

I would say a couple of things off.

Also don't get why the frames/posters have to be crooked, and the tablecloth on the kitchen table so long, someone could trip on that thing.

Its all so veddy "whumsical".

That decor will give you AIDS.

Dusting, right. Our house has many, many surfaces with many, many rocks and sticks and dried stuff and organic tchotchkes. My partner is an hippie of sorts. There is a cluttered vibe not dissimilar to this house. Cleaning all the crap, dusting, is a fucking trial.

I’m sure he simply goes to the UK equivalent of Home Depot and hires a Welshman with a leaf blower attached to his back for the early early morning work..

Clutter is sad at any education, income, or taste level.

But since he likely never has company at least no one will be tripping over something and impaling himself on a set of pointy rusty bibelots with glitter glued to them.

Here he is on Youtube. I found him adorable and extremely cute. Leave him alone~

That room…I could never fully relax.

Droop is what the decor says to me.

Way, way, way too much going on. I feel like I want to sneeze!

R23, figures you'd like him. A glass of water has more taste than you.

He has a wonderful eternal for textures and balanced tones. The scattered baubles are lovely. But I would want more clean space, more room to breathe.

*eye

Firetrap

is the blue and white tablecloth hiding the corpse?

he’s trying to set a fire with the candle near the curtain.

Dining table is too narrow.

too much shit everywhere. I hope there’s not a cat, too.

Suffocating. And I say that as more or less a maximalist.

It's as though someone fell into a twee hole only to find that there is no escape, so deep and cluttered is the space with fussy little pointless shit piled atop other fussy little pointless shit, draped with Stevie Nicks scarves, with little origami bits and ruffled chintz bobs...

The teensy-tiny underscaled furniture, the teensy-tiny pictures, the 'The Holiday' cottage girliness of it all...

Surely he keeps a bag of dicks in there somewhere? The dicks emasculated from any man who dares call into the hole.

I'm fine with maximalism on two basic conditiions: have good or interesting stuff, and leave room for yourself (and maybe others) in the space, leave some fucking space between things (have a point to it, and have some relationships and contrasts between the stuff, not just tat upon tat until therer'ß no room for any more. Make some fucking decisions, have a focus.)

It’s a cheap imitation and signals a poor upbringing

[quote]Fairly quickly, the house 'revealed itself' to them.

MARY!

Endless layers of useless clutter! Stacked books and enough dried kindling-like crap to start a bonfire!

[quote]My partner is an hippie of sorts.

Is that "a hippie" or "an 'ippie," Lydy Mincebottom?

Looks like a whole lot of junk strewn all over the place. It needs a match.

This is so depressing.

I feel refreshed. It seems that DLers usually like this type of cluttered look. I hate it.

Firetrap

They shouldn't have called this maximalist - because it's not. Maximalist has bold colors and patterns with contrast - but isn't necessarily cluttered.

This is an English cottage themed abode that's been infested with junk shop books, pictures and what he thinks is a twee traditional 19th century type of Christmas decor.

What the fuck is this view all about - an abandoned water pump, an assortment of coffee cups, an old circus poster, and one of the 10-12 black and white farm sale posters he has strewn about the place?

I guess hoarders are just unappreciated maximalists?

You really are a bunch of wide-assed heifers. Just remember you’re allowed to sit anywhere there’s a bowl of chips. Those are the sturdy chairs. Also, you may wish to give the “I talk with my hands!” Bullshit a break. Tall freaks can crouch around the wood stove..

It’s not as if any of this will be up past Epiphany. It’s decorating for the holiday. It will go back to being shabby and comfy in the new year. Then, you get a month respite until Chinese New Year!

It's too cluttered for my taste, but everything looks great. Very relaxing color palette.

He repeatedly said its a fucking Workmans cottage (Workmans?) Leave him alone you fucking nasty cunts. It's a fucking weekend cottage. My god this place is depressing.

Listen to Miss Bossy Pants McClutter at r42!

There's a lot of stuff that I presume is there just for Christmas. Where does it go the other 11 months? You'd need a 45 X 45 storage unit to hold all of the "decorations" in the off season.

Having lived through a house fire, the lighting the candle right next to the curtain, sitting on a table filled with flammable stuff was very triggering to me.

Not a fan of the crooked pictures everywhere. If he lived in an earthquake-prone country, that would be whimsical and cute (acknowledging the futility of straightening them) - but I doubt that Somerset ever gets an earthquake.

I don't mind the vibrant and busy color palette - but it's too much for such a small house and small rooms.

What is depressing is some DLer staning for the attention-seeking OCD decorator of this cramped unwelcoming firetrap.

Where's that fucking gif of the Xmas tree slap scene?

R42 - are the books and excessive crap farm pictures also holiday decorations? The holiday decor is actually the last of it. We all know holiday decorating can push visual limits. That's not what we're talking about here.

Were you high when you wrote your post - because I don't understand your non-sequitur about the chairs, bowls of chips. and talking with your hands comment. If that was supposed to be a dig or an insult, you really fucked it up and failed.

It's a shit show - and the only people who would think this is good design and worthy of a mag write-up are the basic bitches who think a farmhouse sink is peak luxury and taste.

Oh, for the love of....what a bunch of boring old fusspots on here.

It's a photo shoot for a holiday spread in a home and garden magazine. It's been elaborately staged for the photo shoot...I'm guessing that if you dropped by this house right now, it would look very little like these staged photos.

And, quit obsessing over the bloody candle...again, it's a staged photo. Probably taken in August if the intent was to post the photos and story in time for the holidays.

Yes, the decor is on the busy side but...it's a decorator's house in a photo shoot. It's going to be a bit over the top.

If you think that color palette is "too busy" then I shudder to think how bland your own place is.

It's a cute cottage. Not specifically my taste but I'll never snark on there being "too many books" and "things". Love it.

I do hate the twee tilting of most of the art/photos on the walls. And, the art on the bookshelves blocking access to the actual books. That annoys me.

R50 has spoken. Final word on these matters.

Miss R50 lectures us all for snarking on the decor, and then proceeds to list all the things she doesn't like about said decor.

R49, setting the bowl of chips next to the sturdy chair is a Data Lounge trick for saving your furniture when your plus-sized friends visit - since at least 2005 and fuck you for forgetting, Lardass.

Also, there is a ton of fragile shit everywhere you sit. Don’t wave your hands around; you broke Bill’s bridal basket last time. Sit and relax. Give the hands and arms a rest.

R52 What the fuck are you talking about? At the very end of my post I mentioned two things I wasn't crazy about...the tilting of the art on the walls and the art on the bookshelves after mentioning the many things I liked. You seem to have reading comprehension problems. Like many DLers.

You seem to have anger issues dearie. Have a cocktail and calm down.

R55 only with idiots.

Insert pointed look.

Clearly the turtleneck has cut off circulation to the brain of this individual and a few more candles will have him suffocating.