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DAT #9: Inspired By Your Closet

11 years ago

This week's Design Around This:

Design a room that reflects your own appearance, fashion preferences, and personal style. You can use a specific outfit, or just your general preferences.

Look in your closet: use the colors and patterns you typically wear. Is your style casual, traditional, artistic, minimalist, bohemian? Are you retro, classic, stylish, trendy? Lots of accessories, or none at all? Subtle or attention-getting? Perfectly planned and put-together, or thrown together at the last minute? Designer or thrift store? Cutting edge or stuck in a rut? Tailored or relaxed?

When you post your design, please explain how it corresponds to your personal style. This should be entertaining :-)

Comments (19)

  • 11 years ago

    Lol auntjen:-)

  • 11 years ago

    Awesome auntjen!

  • 11 years ago

    Very funny!

  • 11 years ago

    This is kind of a sad commentary on my wardrobe.

    Ethnic print skirt (Villa Lagoon tile). When I'm not wearing an ethnic skirt, I'm usually wearing a solid neutral jersey skirt, which would be even more boring).

    Comfortable black shoes (Logging Power Recliner with Heat and Massage--the heat and massage was just a bonus, but if I could get that in a shoe, I would)

    Solid color top to match the skirt, usually a T-shirt (Benjamin Moore Persian Violet)

    Silver hoop earrings (Crate and Barrel embossed numbers wall clock). I almost never change my earrings.


    I hope other folks are either more fashionable than I am or less literal in their interpretation of the theme.

  • 11 years ago


    Causal, very plain and not very stylish. A lot of blue (jeans) and black.

  • 11 years ago

    cawaps, I think I should have been less literal too! I struggled to fill the room even.

  • 11 years ago

    Come on now, you guys are killing me :-) So funny and true for me too!

    I'm still thinking about how to best convey my TJMaxx, Kohls, and clearance rack "style", ha ha.

    Maybe we should change this to rooms inspired by other people's style?(celebrities maybe?) Or our fashion/style in our younger years? Whatever is most fun, let's be creative :-)

  • 11 years ago
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    Someone needs to do an Audrey Hepburn room stat. Heck, a Katherine Hepburn room too! ;-)

  • 11 years ago

    Anyone want to guess the celebrity?


  • 11 years ago

    The denim sofa as I live in denim year round. The throw pillows are my tops which I try to add a little pattern or color to the stolid bottoms. The flesh colored floor because my preferred footwear is nothing. Yet all the shoes as I have way too many, and like much of my closet, most of it goes unworn. My tastes are largely classic, thus the black backdrop, the symmetry in design and the traditional side tables. Yet, like the side tables, once in awhile I like to show a little leg. The bling in the lamps and the fur on the floor, I occasionally like to get dressed up and feel a lady.

  • 11 years ago

    I'm not actually as well dressed as this room implies. I do wear a lot of patterned trousers, however, and much of my wardrobe is in the blue-lilac-indigo world. I did get a little too literal: eg., since my belt buckle is nickle-ish, I'll do a nickle-ish side table.


  • 11 years ago

    Here I am. The brick wall represents my red hair, which seems to be what most people notice about me. It is now starting to fade, just like this brick. I wear a lot of boring basic neutrals that I can mix and match. I don't like to stand out, and everything in my closet seems to be either black, gray, blue, turquoise, brown, cream, or green.

    I like sweaters and jeans, and love shoes and especially boots. I am not a fitted/tailored/formal/tucked in type of person. I much prefer relaxed fits. The only patterns I typically wear are ethnic type prints. I do have a little bit of hippie still alive in me :-)

    The chandeliers and silver/gold items represent my jewelry. I have a fairly big collection of silver jewelry, especially bracelets; some gold; a few nice pieces like my tennis bracelet and anniversary bands. I have a huge weakness for ethnic and estate jewelry. I love turquoise, antique beads, silver from India, Tibet, Mexico, and Art Deco/Art Nouveau pieces.

    I also have a thing for handbags, mostly ones that I can't afford, but my current bag is the exact color of leather as the ottoman in my design. Love it!

  • 11 years ago

    Crl-- Marilyn Monroe??

  • 11 years ago

    Yes! Wow, great guess!

  • 11 years ago

    Yay! I'm a winner, LOL. It was the curtains and all the white that finally nudged something in my brain-- her iconic white dress.

  • 11 years ago

    Oh I love this one based on your closet. Also a fun one... guess the celebrity. I love seeing what you all come up with on these DAT threads!

  • 11 years ago

    Today's outfit makes a more interesting design:

    The rug represents my skirt, which is a Pollockian mish-mosh of red, black, fuchsia, orange, pink and teal. The skirt morphs into a midnight blue near the hem, represented by the blue concrete floor (and the lamps).

    I'm wearing a turquose tee and a red jersey jacket.

    The wood of the coffee and side tables represents my blonde hair. The carved wood wall art represents my watch, which is wood with a metal overaly. And the mirror represents my earrings, again.

    The pillows are just there to reinforce the skirt colors.


  • 11 years ago

    My daughter had such an interesting outfit on yesterday, I had to try a design base on it. It was, let's say, a creative mix of prints.

    She had on black and white leggings with a pixillated abstract/zig-zag print, a black and white dress with a damask-like print, and a long flowy floral vest with a black background. She paired that with her gray leopard print sneakers. The wall color here doesn't show up much in her wardrobe (she's more blues and greens) but did show up in the floral print on the vest, and of all the things I tried, I liked it best with the bedding.