Decorating Help-"What's Your Style" Questionaire

1. For a special dinner party you adorn the dining table with:

A. Square white plates, colorful chopsticks, and daisies in a metal pitcher. B. Grandma's china, antique crystal, and a big bouquet of roses. C. Mismatched handcrafted pottery, stainless steel flatware, and wildflowers in a basket.

2. On a "do as you please" weekend, you:

A. Grab your camera and shoot some arty black and white photos for framing. B. Work on your "family tree" on the internet. C. Start that long list of do-it-yourself decorating projects around the house.

3. In your dream house, you picture yourself happily settled into a :

A. A gallery-style loft with skylights and skyline views in a renovated warehouse. B. An old restored Victorian with carriage house and garden. C. A log-cabin home with window walls, woods, and lakeview.

4. You never miss your favorite TV "home decorating" show:

A. Extreme Homes. B. This Old House. C. Trading Spaces.

5. Browsing your favorite bookstore, you can resist buying this title for your interior decorating library:

A. Bauhaus for Today. B. Romantic Style. C. Second Home:Finding your Niche.

6. Your sofa needs sprucing up, so you:

A. Add one or two exquisite hand-crafted pillows. B. Add matching accent pillows for each end. C. Add a large pillow at one end and two or three smaller ones in mixed fabrics, color, or patterns at the other.

7. The one out of three invitations you choose to attend is:

A. A lecture on Japanese pottery. B. An estate sale at an 1898 mansion. C. A street fair with local artists and craftsmen.

8. You have inherited an antique pine farm table for the dining room, for the seats you:

A. Pull up modern metal chairs. B. Search for chairs from the same time period. C. Paint mismatched chairs cottage style white.

9. The colors you love to live with can be found from:

A. The beach. B. The jewel box. C. The flower garden.

10. The perfect reading chair for you would be:

A. A steel and leather chaise with a pashmina throw. B. An antique wing chair, upholstered in toile. C. A down filled chair-and-a-half with ottoman, upholstered in chenille.

11. The best gift your home ever received is:

A. Iron finials you display as sculpture. B. Antique candlesticks you wired into lamps. C. A wicker trunk you use as a coffee table.

12. When the Antiques Roadshow comes to town, the treasure you bring for appraisal is:

A. Your childhood collection of Star War Action figures. B. Your Grandmother's Imari plate. C. The crazy quilt you found at a garage sale.

13. The Person you would love to invite to dinner would be:

A. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. B. English gardener Gertrude Jekyll C. Tom Hanks.

14. If you bought a new bed, it would be:

A. An upholstered platform bed. B. A carved mahogany four-poster. C. A pine frame and garden-gate headboard.

15. To reflect your personality and interests what mood do you want your home to convey?

A. A sophisticated love of design with restrained schemes and various vintage classics-editing is your forte, because you dislike clutter. B. Gracious ease with timeliss furniture nothing stuffy, but tradition in important. C. Confort first with relaxed furniture and natural textures in an un-self conscious mix.

16. For your living room windows, you choose:

A. The view, so you leave windows undressed. B. An english floral swag and jabot treatment. C. Roman shades in natural linen.

17. Your living room seating has been needing slipcovers so you decide:

A. Natural linen over all of them B. Damask for the sofa, velvet for chairs C. Cotton duck for the sofa, denim for the chairs.

18. On weekends, you are likely to wear:

A. jeans and a white silk shirt B. Khakis and a cashmere sweater. C. Jeans and a buffalo check shirt.

19. If you could find a special piece of art for that bare spot over the mantel, it would be:

A. An African cloth framed in black. B. A gilt framed period English landscape C. A folk art painting of children.

20. You are on that long awaited vacation to:

A. Visit the Napa Valley for a wine tasting tour. B. Tour the homes of Colonial Williamsburg C. Cruise the Mississippi river on a houseboat.

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