Morticia
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have you replaced gramma's old furniture with clean lines and Pottery Barn-type styling? People want to visit museums, not stay in one.
As someone who lived thru the 60's (and remembers it), everything I see out there now for linens and bedding is from that era. So, I buy that TODAY and TOMORROW the target market has moved on to some other era. I can understand replacing broken, worn and shabby furnishings with clean, well-made furnishings, but tossing everything goes against the grain of this thrifty (not cheap) New Englander.
Guess what? People can see 'Pottery Barn' ANYWHERE. They go on vacation to see something they CAN'T see at home. If you wouldn't expect an adobe house in NM to be furnished by PB, don't expect it anywhere other than where it is at home!
Furnishings shouldn't be threadbare and hideous, but they should also not be from a kit that everyone buys so the whole country looks like a catalog.
Stepping off soapbox now...
have you replaced gramma's old furniture with clean lines and Pottery Barn-type styling? People want to visit museums, not stay in one.
As someone who lived thru the 60's (and remembers it), everything I see out there now for linens and bedding is from that era. So, I buy that TODAY and TOMORROW the target market has moved on to some other era. I can understand replacing broken, worn and shabby furnishings with clean, well-made furnishings, but tossing everything goes against the grain of this thrifty (not cheap) New Englander.
Guess what? People can see 'Pottery Barn' ANYWHERE. They go on vacation to see something they CAN'T see at home. If you wouldn't expect an adobe house in NM to be furnished by PB, don't expect it anywhere other than where it is at home!
Furnishings shouldn't be threadbare and hideous, but they should also not be from a kit that everyone buys so the whole country looks like a catalog.
Stepping off soapbox now...