Decoration is subjective.

I remember a thread on this from long ago. I think one theory was that they overspent* on the house itself and had no money left for the interior.

*Preferred to spend their money on location and physical features of the house (overspent sounded judgy on second reading)

It's "different priorities" for us. We follow a strict budget and save like crazy. The only reason we finally have some decor is because it's what we budgeted for staging our last house.

It’s a lot of work to do it right, and it can be expensive. It makes me so happy, but I wasn’t always this way. It’s a matter of priorities (and taste)

Priorities. Maybe they purchased a really nice home in a great area but one child might have required special education. College savings fund? Numerous reasons.

While I really enjoy this forum, decorating is not the end all for lots of folks. I bet the majority of people on this forum are over 55 with kids out of the house/college with more disposable income.

Expanding on my earlier comment - what does OP "mean" by "decorating" in this post? Does it mean filling all available space with bric-a-brac, books, knickknacks, lamps, etc? Adding numerous, meaningless paintings just because they "match" the room? Piling pillow upon pillow upon pillow on a bed? Layering 17 shower curtains? Because if THAT is decorating, I want no part of it.

I'm very minimalist. My decor is understated, meaningful, and tasteful. I don't want to spend all my time dusting a bunch of crap, so the crap is kept to a distinct minimum.

Because it’s overwhelming!! We are towards the end of a complete home rebuild and I can tell you right now that I am so over researching and agonizing over every decision (and that’s with help!). It’s not my forte and although I’ve learned a ton along the way (from this site as well as our designer) it’s not my natural element... I know I better get most of it “done” by the time we move in because after this I may never want to touch anything else again :-).

@D Walker ain’t that the truth! I love all of it, but by the end of our whole house renovation/addition I was so exhausted by it I hired someone to do my living room because I just couldn’t do one.more.thing.

A gorgeous house on the outside does not mean that you have to decorate the inside. Not everyone is into decorating their homes.

After reading quite a few dilemmas. I can start with this list as to why:

- No interest

- No more money. We will take care of that in the future

- I need to go and see it in the stores and nothing is in the stores

- My job is getting in the way of my decorating

- No time to mess with all of that

- Life gets in the way

- It takes me a long time to get it together

- I don't have to keep up with the Jones

- No money for a designer. Too expensive

- I don't see anything that I like