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Lillian’s Home in Vienna

decor8 is a design blog that I read religiously. My jaw dropped when I saw the home featured today. It’s a really cute apartment in Vienna that is decorated in much the same way I’ve been working on ours. It’s like I’ve had her apartment in my mind’s eye and now it’s on my screen. Very strange but so cool.

Decorating does not come naturally to me, my first roommate can attest to that! I have learned a lot on the internet though, mostly what I do and don’t like, and came up with a game plan for our place. Matt and I both want things to be simple, clean and practical. We don’t have a lot of freedom to customize our current rental but I’ve been working on ideas for superficial upgrades.

If I could have one house-related wish granted, I’d wish our carpet be gone. I don’t get carpet. Rugs are good but carpet? Ew. I pulled up a corner of the carpet in our livingroom the other day to see what I’d find. Grody carpet pad, nasty linoleum and gross nail strips. Yuck. I didn’t pull up any of that to see if there are hardwood floors underneath (it sounds like there are) because I wasn’t sure I could cover cover my tracks. Our landlady took pictures before we moved in and is very thorough. The last thing I want is for her to keep part of our deposit because the carpet in the corner looks rumply. There is one section in the bedroom that is loose, maybe I’ll take a peek under there some night when I’m brooding about the carpet. Haha!

Where do you find inspiration for your home? And what would you change in your current pad? I love seeing what people do with their homes!

[photos via decor8]

I absolutely love, love, love the decor of this house! And if this is what you’re doing to yours then it must be totally cute! I love hardwood floors too but having carpet when living in places where it gets cold is actually kind of nice. I was in a townhouse a couple years ago and there wasn’t central heating, just radiators ’cause the place was so old and I would run from room to room because my feet were always freezing and I just couldn’t get cozy and spread out on the floor like I can in our apartment now (which has carpet). But yeah, the next place we get, I’d love to have hardwood floors and lovely rugs. They’re so expensive though (at least to me–rugs, that is). Can’t wait to buy our own place and really decorate it ourselves…Thanks for this lovely eye-candy. It is so easy for me to get head over heels about furniture and interior design :)