Your home is your palace
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Kitsch is all about having ideas above your station. True kitsch comes from the tiny council house adorned with dozens of china dolls, or a 2 bedroom bungalow with a set of huge ornamental gates.
Kitsch is when you try to decorate nicely, but it just doesn't suit the surroundings. We live in a small ex-holiday cottage down near the sea, in a little lane surrounded by bigger, grander houses. It's my dream home. Kitsch is tricky to do on a large scale. It's all about over decoration & clutter, and on a larger scale, like in hip clothing stores, it can look too over dressed. My dream of having, what most people would call a weird house, has always been around, but when I first moved out to flat share with @theronster, I could finally make a room my own. One of the first pieces I bought back then was a flamingo pink cuckoo clock from German eBay.
Usually I steer away from modern takes on kitsch, the urban outfitters approach to the genre, but I just WANTED this ugly little clock. From there the multicoloured, shiny, animal print nightmare began!
Kitsch is when you try to decorate nicely, but it just doesn't suit the surroundings. We live in a small ex-holiday cottage down near the sea, in a little lane surrounded by bigger, grander houses. It's my dream home. Kitsch is tricky to do on a large scale. It's all about over decoration & clutter, and on a larger scale, like in hip clothing stores, it can look too over dressed. My dream of having, what most people would call a weird house, has always been around, but when I first moved out to flat share with @theronster, I could finally make a room my own. One of the first pieces I bought back then was a flamingo pink cuckoo clock from German eBay.
Usually I steer away from modern takes on kitsch, the urban outfitters approach to the genre, but I just WANTED this ugly little clock. From there the multicoloured, shiny, animal print nightmare began!
Claire
