What’s your flavor of kitsch? [NOT 31/7/23]

31/7/23 brightersideoflife 12

Hi, friends!

I hoping the last day of July is treating you well.

I’ve been really enjoying the Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge on HGTV. Each week 2 of their channel stars get a room and compete to make the most Barbie-est interpretation of that room inspired by a specific model of the Barbie dreamhouse. Don’t get me wrong, it’s 100% cross-promotion marketing. It’s also a super fun show because it’s low stakes, nobody getting upset or hurt, and gaudy as fuck.

All that being said? I love it. I told a friend it’s a good thing I don’t have money because I certainly don’t have taste. So far the things I’d actually change from that tacky as fuck renovation is I’d ditch the splatterpaint walls in the living room and the idiot wallpaper backsplash in the kitchen.

Like a bathroom with pink glass shower walls? Count me in! Magenta front door and turquoise exterior accents? Fuck yeah.

Anyways, what is your kitcsh? What’s the thing that you accept would be considered gaudy or ridiculous or over-the-top where you live that you would absolutely rock in your house? Han Solo in carbonite door to your fridge? Hobbit house inspired living room? Star Trek crew quarters bedroom?

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  2. I finally got our dining room pendant light installed today! It is somewhere between magenta and fuchsia in color. For the record, I ordered it before Barbie’s publicity machine went into motion. But yes it would totally fit in Barbie’s dream home.

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    When I was a little kid, I wanted to have a home that looked like Moonbase Alpha.

    All plastic and concrete with blinking electronics and barely legible computer font everywhere. No wood, stone, wooden doors or apparently right angle corners.

    Mom was horrified and dad wasn’t ever going to pay for it. My tastes have evolved for the better (I think.)

    • I don’t know if you watch It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but the same actress who plays Charlie’s Mom also played Ms. Yvonne in Pee Wee’s Playhouse. And of course Phil Hartman was Captain Carl and Laurence Fishburne was Cowboy Curtis.

  6. My ideal design aesthetic would probably be best summed up by, “Victorian Bordello × Early 20th Century Hodgepodge × Magpie × Tiki Lounge”😉😆🤣

    Primarily “Cozy”–soft blankets & some good, sturdy pillows to cuddle up in/make yourself a Cozy nest out of…. but *also* a bit “Bent”😆

    Like the end-table lamp i made out of a lamp kit, and a pony-keg a few years ago…

    Unique & “one of a kind” things, mish-mashed into functional service, that’s also just a bit absurd & fun has always been my design M.O.

    I mean, I *am* the only girl I know, who has an exact copy of this tapestry–minus the tears along the edge… and I’d love to eventually have *either* a library or a game-room in a house someday (perhaps a library with a pool table?😍🤗), where I can hang it😁

    It *has* been on the living room wall, in a long-ago apartment, my college dorm room, and was one of our “garage wall hangings” in a former house, too.

    I’ve had it for 25+ years, and if the story is correct, my Great Aunt & Uncle** bought it while on vacation down in Mexico–adding to the (lack of!!!) classiness!😉😄🤣

    It hung in their basement Game Room–over the pool table which had been restored by her brother-in-law & sister (My Great Aunt–Grandma’s oldest sister & her husband), throughout my childhood–and after my great aunt & uncle passed away, I bought that wall hanging & her cookbooks, at the auction sale their kids held.

    It’s tacky AF, and I *adore* it!

    *Someday* when I have a place of my own, that tacky-ass tapestry *will* have a place of honor on my wall–because as tacky as it is, that picture is one that *all* my cousins & I have fond memories of, from hours spent playing pool in that basement😉

    (**My Grandma’s sister, who married my Grandpa’s Brother)

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