I’m really into the interior décor of houses, more so than the exterior. Sometimes I’ll look at the NY Times Real Estate online, and they’ll have a feature where they compare what you get for a certain price point in three different areas of the country. For example, what you get for 1.5 million in California, Rhode Island and Wisconsin or something like that. They’ll show three houses or properties (like a condo) currently up for sale, and you can view the interior and exterior photos. I love looking at how people decorate. I love looking at a cozy Vermont interior with a fire place and woolen plaid blanket on the couch, or a beautiful window with a great view of an ocean, or forest or something incredible.
I always loved looking at magazines, even though magazines are now not so popular, and seeing different types of interiors. Now it’s Instagram. On Instagram, you can view different designers, or different hashtags and see various types of wallpapers, paint colors, rooms, tableware, you name it.
When visiting friends whose furniture layout doesn’t quite “work,” I’ll envision how I’d decorate if it were my living room, or where I’d place their furniture if it were mine. Once, a friend told me, when I visited her apartment for the first time, that she knew that I was into decorating and she asked if I had any ideas about her living room furniture placement. We ended up moving furniture and she still keeps the furniture in the same place I suggested it over 20 years ago.
Right now I’m in the process of getting some major bathroom work done, and then will paint the dining room and living room and put in new furniture. First step, picking out vanity and tub tiles.