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Answers to "What's My Style?" Questionaire

Your home and your decorating style is at its best a self-portrait. Your rooms reflect your individuality with the combination of colors, furniture, and accessories that you create.

The decorating help "What is My Style" questionaire is a fun way to explore your personal decorating style. After you have chosen your answers, count how many A, B, or C choices you have made.

The highest number reflects the decorating style that suits you best. Numbers very close to each other show a mix of taste, which can be combined artifully for a truely unique look.

Mostly "A's"

If most of your answers were in the A category, you like a sophisticated, elegantly simple look inspired by your interest in art and design. You carefully select furniture and accessories, choosing each, whether modern or traditional, for its distinctive lines and form. Even color selection is kept at a minimum, hues are drawn from the neutrals--especially black, white, and gray--often punched with a brilliant accent color.

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Mostly "B's"

If most of your answers were B's, you are drawn to formality and your home may be a melding of timeless, classic furnishings in symmetical groupings. Since this is a broad category you may choose from the French, 18th-century Chippendale or Queen Anne furnishings, as well as Oriental and formal modern pieces. You like to mix antiques, quality reproductions, and lovingly collected accessories. Colors you choose are often rich and mellow.

Mostly "C's"

If the majority of your answers were C's, you like a casual decorating style. You pick furniture with relaxed comfort in mind, and you prefer unfussy seating with carefree fabrics in earthy and neutral colors. Seating is arranged in informal groupings for easy conversation. Your favorite thins include lighthearted and whimsical accessories. Your home screams: Sit down, relax and enjoy.

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A Little of This and A Little of That

If your answers are spread over all three categories, you are confident about your personal style and want to combine the best from several design periods and decorating styles.

Most likely, your selections lean toward one of the main categories. The key is to understand your basic tendancy then combine intrinsic elements from the other styles into a harmonious whole.

Your fun challenge is to create beautiful, comfortable rooms that draw on the best resource of all--Your Personality and Style.

Answers to Style Questionaire