Well just one pattern overdone in an oppressive way.

^^ Yes, you said it better, 3katz.

A rare miss — I’ve never seen any other design of hers I didn’t like. Oppressive is exactly the feeling I get from it.

This overall print was a thing at some point, maybe early 60’s. It is not my thing, but I wonder if adding by accessories to break up the pattern and maybe changing the tug will improve the look. Don’t move the bed over an inch :)

Nevertheless, the original photo is less pretty than these colors below. But doesn’t HC gravitate towards muddy colors?

The original looks like it could be in a coal- dusty welsh miner’s cottage.

oh my! I am not familiar with various designers by name or style, but I too thought wow this looks like straight out of whatever year this might have been ( the color palette as well).

I think it could have been later than early 60's? but whatever, it is strange to my 2024 eyes.

The colors may be very calm and soothing in person but what I see is dreary.

Excessive patterns (and clutter, for that matter) make me dizzy, and so I would not be comfortable in that room. Obviously most people do not have this reaction to it, but my eyes need blank spaces in order for me to clear my head and get my bearings. For this reason, I very much appreciate minimalism, and this did not happen until I was exposed to excessive use of patterns in my own bedroom. I also had a lot of mirrors, and that did not help.

That can't be a new design? I thought it was from a listing. Awful colors, awful nightstans, awful lighting. Can't be.

Wow, she even lined the headboard pattern up with the wallpaper. Talk about matchy matchy.

Here’s the whole IG post, with other rooms shown:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6vfdqnO5w2/?igsh=MWZzamxlajI2Z2xheA==

And this was from Pattern Room, not sure what it is:

If that is a current design of hers I'm honestly shocked - I always love her rooms.

It is current, but not finished yet. Her caption states her team is working on the install while she’s on the East Coast.

Sorry the whole place is awful. It looks like a "before" listing.

I think so, too.

I’ve seen some appealingly eclectic houses in Ojai, this is not one of them!

I think it can be done better

In some regards, I think this could turn out better than it looks right now--it was a bad call to show something like this without lamps, accessories, art and whatever else is going in the room to offset this a bit.

Right now it looks like a cleaned out real estate photo.

There would also be better Jacobean prints to do this with, too. It's bigger and has more background and isn't as muddy.

This is Brooke Astor's house, by Albert Hadley-It's Brunschwig La Portugaise. Obviously not used as an allover, but I think it would work better.

And out in the wild.

Wood paneling. Wallpaper that matches the couch upholstery. I'm not liking any of that. Pal...that designer is using solid colored walls. The books in their neat cases are very elegant. Nice!

I love that library above. Gorgeous and very inviting.

That first photo looks like the kids cleaned out grandma’s bedroom in order to sell. Those colors remind me of the eighties. My wedding in 1985 was mostly dusty rose.

Jana, mine was, too, a few years later. With ”country blue”. :D

I think it will look better once the room is finished. Enough for me/us to like? Doubtful. Just better than the photo above.

I'm not a fan of the look, but I did remember that Pal has previously posted examples of this. What I didn't remember was whether it's something you ( @palimpsest) like, or if it's an intellectual interest in a tight, highly structured design approach. (No judgement; people like what they like and I'm often the one who is out of step with the majority.)

I like allover pattern, but I don't like that one so much, the colors seem dingy.

Strangely, I’ve sort of been liking those colors recently although I don’t like the pattern. I love the bamboo side tables. I think the room will look inviting once the accessories are added. I would have preferred a different headboard, though. I don’t like the gathering on the headboard’s edge. That screams 1980’s more than anything else in the room to me.

ETA: I looked at the link Jilly posted. I don’t like anything about the other room shown.

Aack - too much, too much, too much!

And it's a pretty pattern, but the colors do look kind of dirty and dingy, I agree.

But to be fair, she does state it's in progress.

And I think those handles may be the closet...?

This made me think of Barbra Streisand's bedroom in the movie On A Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)

Hers was better, IMO

Reminds me of a motel Janet Leigh's character would stay in when running from birds or knives. :)

No. Just no. That’s all I’ve got.

I’m like the room - I have nothing new or fresh to say. My comments are as old and stale as the decor…no no no no. With a healthy dose of ”what was she thinking!?!?!”

I saw that this morning as well, and while I normally don't read the comments on IG I wanted to see if anyone was going to tell her, "you better get back to the west coast because your assistants are going to ruin your reputation." The living room pic, ummm, (long pause thinking of something nice to say.)

Oakley, thanks for brining up Janet Leigh, I nearly forgot it's Hitchcock month at the Stanford Theater and I'm going to try and make it to a few shows. Maybe I'll see that room in Psycho or The Birds.

“Thou shalt only use toile as an overall pattern.”

Decor Bible: the first commandment

Oakley, so funny. My first impression was of a crime scene photo!

It looks especially oppressive without a window in the shot.

I follow her, too, and she knows how to take patterns right to the edge. I think this room will look much more ”Heidi” when it’s completed.

But, Jilly, I just looked at her IG page and don’t see this photo?

Feathers, it’s in the third set of pics on her page — the first pic in the set is of the sectional sofa:

Thanks for the direction, Jilly!

FWIW, Tippi Hedren starred in The Birds