Okay, I’ll admit it. I was supposed to be Christmas shopping this morning. I didn’t mean to go wandering through those furniture shops imagining how fabulous all those lovely things would look in my house. Really, I didn’t. And I only ended up buying a table runner so the damage wasn’t too bad. I can always go Christmas shopping tomorrow.
But while I’m at it, I have a question. Can anyone tell me why nearly every homewares/furniture shop I went into was packed with decorator items of a French flavour? I’m talking chock-a-block full. Everywhere. I almost expected to hear ‘Non, Je Ne Regret Rien’ burst forth from the stores’ music speakers, it was so prevalent.
Nothing personal against the French of course, I love France and her people (especially my French friends!) but for the life of me, I can’t see why shops seem to think Australians want (or need) to fill their houses with metal replicas of the Eiffel Tower, framed prints of French cafe scenes, distressed French Provincial white furniture or fleur-de-lis print decorator pillows.
I mean, do we? I didn’t think so but now….
Is it because designers think we need to make ourselves feel sophisticated? Spend ‘X’ amount of dollars, whack a French print up on the wall and voila! Behold your instant chic! Surely we are a little more refined than that. (Ignores the invariable ‘Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi Oi Oi!’ chorus going on in the background, lol). Hmmm, who knows.
At any rate, I’ll stick with my (mostly) unbreakable metal sculpture pieces, picture frames and candles. In a house full of boys, that’s about as sophisticated as it gets around here.
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