It started out good

 With this all neutral house holding hot pink surprises in each room.

But then the March 2011 issue of House Beautiful got weird on me.

The kitchen of the month?

Themey country kitchen with 4 kinds of tile.

The bath of the month?

More themey weirdness including inlaid tile bath mats

that read monsieur and madame.

in Dallas.
very Real Housewives.

The kicker?

"You've done the living room in acres of salmon-pink [quilted!] chintz.

It strikes me as an endearingly nostalgic gesture.  Or is it just plain daring?"

or just plain fugly.

sorry no online photos of those nightmares.

but then it ended nicely again with a cute Ruthie Sommers house

what did you think?

I was confused.