Rules are comfortable sometimes. They made me feel confident when I was about to drop all my savings on an end table, but now I know that you can't have real style if you're following someone else's diagram.
This house of mine....I hope it feels like home soon...is slightly Spanish colonial, because of the wood molding, wrought iron, the natural finishes. It has Saltillo tile floors and quarried stone walls. So it is very Mexican, old Mexican because only expats are building them like this these days. Not many Mexicans, it seems, care for the style.
I love this house. But it isn't a home just yet...so the nesting and feathering.
I'm sewing for my bedroom now, making fat ruffles for the second of two bed skirts using this toile print you see here, a red and cream French toile. I love this fabric.
Of course, now you mix styles and periods, colors and patterns but there was a time, probably before you were born, when it wasn't done.
Oh, here's a rule. Buy the best quality you can, even if you have to save up for it. You will keep it forever and when you're gone, the kids will keep it for their own, because you raised them right.
Other than that, go for it. ~ Carolyn in Mexico
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