ode to The Brown Chairs
Brown chairs, brown chairs
where did you come from?
You mock me as I pass.
Brown chairs with the slick fabric,
Where are you going?
Do you need a sip of water?
You look parched.
Brown chairs where do you call home?
Crows fly above you
ants below.
You are the boulder in my soul.
Brown chairs of dirt,
the kidneys of the room,
keep searching for your
hellish domain.
----said (with bongos) by Claire
Bilhuber brown
Kenneth Brown
Oh my!
Oy vei!
Catalog brown
Country Living brown
I regret flamestitch.
ReplyDeleteYears ago.
In my parents home.
Oh...I'm sorry...water is coming out of my nose, as I took a sip before I read this poem!
ReplyDeleteRegret...are you kidding? So many...I thought it was called learning...or evolving....or something of the sort.
Pale blue walls. Tried it for a week. No go. Not here. Not me.
biggest regret---allowing, while I was in a weak moment, my partner to select...shudder... recliners as our "comfortable" chairs. Every time I see their bulk, I wonder what was I thinking....I think I need a drink
ReplyDeletelet's see....sherwin williams tatami tan walls- but the lay person would call it baby diarreah, periwinkle walls, the cabin look..to name but a few...
ReplyDeleteTen years ago purchasing an enormous cabinet for a TV. It is not coming on our next move. I have to laugh at these responses and the poem.
ReplyDeleteI regret sponge painting my room pink to look like adobe. But I forgive myself because I was in high school.
ReplyDeleteWhat I don't forgive myself for is allowing my then boyfriend (now husband) to talk me into trashing my vintage turquoise metal patio set when we first moved in together. We took it to the dump and I still remember looking out the back window as we drove away and seeing a family run to it. Now I sometimes see the same patio set at antique stores for $500/table, $400 for each chair. *sigh*
Biggest mistake? Painting a whole new house interior white! Thought I'd try it just once in my life, and it didn't even last a year!!!
ReplyDeleteI confess. I did once own a brown sofa. In fact I had a brown theme going on.
ReplyDeleteWe live and learn.
My latest regret is allowing myself to be pushed into making a hasty storage choice for our big screen t.v. two years ago (Mo, this was after you left. . . if only you'd been here to help me stand up to the pressure). The t.v. and cabinet were a gift from my mom to my husband. I can't remember anymore what the big rush was on the cabinet, it's all hazy to me now. . . . . but I'm stuck with an enormous piece of espresso colored furniture that looks like a black-hole-corner in my living room. All would be well if I could just paint it, but the hubs has an "allergy" against painting wood furniture. If I'm to approach him about this one, I must prepare for battle. And I will, when the time is right.
ReplyDeleteThank heaven for craigslist. It has proven to be a somewhat efficient way to eliminate regrets.
(I've decided not to regret any of my wall color mistakes. I'm a serial re-painter and paint is relatively easy and inexpensive to change. The wrong colors don't last long enough to regret)
p.s. Oh, Claire! Your poem is stunning! The drama of decorating regret is so real!
ReplyDeleteHaha! There have been many. One of my first was buying a cheaply made sofa. It took a long time to replace it. Definitely not worth recovering.
ReplyDeleteGreat to see this one..really amazing collections...keep going..tk...
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I like to paint a very bright room with some darker colors just to balance the colors of the room. These featured interior designs are just gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteFabulous interior design, I love the brown color very formal and stylish in a formal kind of way.
ReplyDeleteWow great interiors. I hope to find designs like this when I have my own house someday. Love the pics.
ReplyDeleteI have just finished finalizing plans for my house renovation. I will probably use similar designs for my living room.
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