i really do.
i like white.
how 'bout you?
but could i just add a little something in here for a second.........
i like all the whites and off whites that are making a splash across blogland in decorating posts
but come let us reason...how do these people that live with white painted FLOORS and/or CARPETS keep these areas clean?
i have darker colored floors and carpets...believe you me...they get dirty. dirty. dirty.
if my floors were white
the only cleaning i'd get done would be cleaning these white floors.
i'd be wiping floors, spot cleaning, scrubbing, vacuuming, sweeping.
how do people live with white floors?
they know something.
would like to hear your reply.
DECORATING TIP: white ceilings and white walls along with white accessories are safe to use when decorating any HOME.
My everyday dishes are white and I enjoy them to the fullest.
I have a love for decorating. So far I have never tired of seeing how others decorate their homes. Doesn't matter if it's a small trailer house, apartment, huge mansion or humble shed....i like seeing how others put it all together and make it HOME.
Second hand or forty, the things people use interest me.
It's a delight to see HOMES.
When I lived in Texas, we did have a white linoleum kitchen floor with three young children at HOME and a indoors dog. Amazingly enough I simply swept and spot cleaned when needed. Then there were the times I actually got on my hands and knees to scrub the floor. Trying to remember the floor......I swept everyday. She stayed cleaner than I would have thought possible.
In the light of things, clean white floors bring to mind the scripture that shares that God can wash us white as snow.
KING JAMES Version
Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are dark red, they will be as wool.
May you have a clean and refreshing day!
~Deanna~
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11 comments:
When John and I first got married there was white carpet in the living room and the bedrooms! I hated it! I was always having to clean it. But then when we moved to a new house that we built, so I had a dark carpet in the family and that showed up every piece of lint and dust from the garage and patio that got walked in. So now...I am more a fan of medium tones! Even though white is pretty when people do shabby chic and stuff!!!
My favorite floors now are my maple colored wood floors. They clean up so nice.
Love, Linda
I don't think the folks who have all white floors and furnishings have kids or pets. They probably have someone to do their cleaning for them, too.
I keep a clean house, but it's just me, and I pick up after myself and "spot" clean between my sessions with the cleaning lady. She comes about evey 3 weeks.
I have an old white matelasse coverlet on my day bed in the guest room, which the cats think is "their" room. Even though cats are supposed to be clean, and one of mine is strictly an indoor cat, that coverlet gets covered with cat hair and dirt and I have to wash it often. I have a light colored chair in my living room, and I have had to have it professionally cleaned already, after about a year. That's just normal wear and tear. I can't imagine having white furniture, and those floors in your pics - I'll bet the people don't wear shoes when walking on them!
I have oak laminate (kitchen, too) and some area rugs. Easy to clean and maintain which is what I love! ♥
Enjoy hearing from you!!!!
Linda, I am a fan of the medium tones as well. Think they're a good solution for actual living in a place.
Your floors sound great.
Joyce, Having a cleaning lady would be fantastic!!!! I'd get use to this. I have been thinking about a coverlet for my bed when I redo the master bedroom. I like them....think they're attractive.
So glad you came by.
God bless and happy decorating!
d
Home. That's where we live. I love the look in a magazine, but I don't live there. I'm happy with my multi-colored (mostly pastels) mismatched HOME. And I like clean, but am not your perfect,spotless homemaker. I always enjoy reading your thoughts. Have a good week. ♥♫
I follow a blog called paintmewhite and she has a lot of pretty stuff. :) I babysat at a home when I was a teenager where they had lighter colored carpet and they asked you to take your shoes off at the door.
Hi Deanna,
Love all the white photographs you have shown.
Yes, they must take their shoes off at the door, like the Japanese do.
Wonder if you have decided on a colour for your living room?
I am still procrastinating with my room.
Happy week
Hugs
Carolyn
Chuckle. Especially those GLOSSY white painted floors. In my house, not only would they be dirty, they would be scuffed and chipped and just all around beaten up.
I prefer variegated tones for carpets and natural wood for bare floors. They look great all the time, even if someone spills something.
But I do love my white dishes, they always look great. White crown molding and ceilings.
Thank you for a real post.
I like white... primarily on the ceilings! :) And I like white kitchen cabinets (reminds me of my grandmothers kitchen when I was young). But white floors, I just can get into that. Those who have painted white floors probably do not have kids, pets, shoes or a life, and they more than likely don't do the cleaning either. I remember delivering a white leather sofa to a rancher's wife when I worked at a furniture store in college. We had to wear clean cloth gloves to handle it, keep it wrapped in plastic until we sat it in her living room. Worrying about scuffing, marking, spotting the entire way (about a 2 hour drive from town). It was a beautiful sofa, but why have it if you can't sit on it?
My favorite floors were when we stripped the oak in our three bedrooms, stained them with Jacobean, and put down three coats of varnish! They were stunning. Put warm white walls with that, then you have something. They look warm and inviting. Those white floor look anemic and give me a you can look but don't took feeling. Definitely not for me.
Argh.... my typing today. Look but don't touch.
I think that white wood floors would be loverly!!!
Very refreshing...
I thought the room looked a good place for a massage where I would hardly notice the floors, but definitely not at home.
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