What I've Learned From My Viral Facebook Post

I had an sudden factor occur on Fb a number of days in the past. A few of you might not know that I’ve an Addicted 2 Adorning Fb web page the place I largely simply share my newest weblog posts, however I additionally attempt to add a number of extra posts all through the week. It could be a throwback to an outdated challenge, a random image of a room in our dwelling, or one thing else. (You can find me here if you want to follow along.)

Previously few years, I haven’t spent an entire lot of time on Fb, largely as a result of I simply don’t have the time, and the payoff for spending time on that Fb web page hasn’t been very excessive. I do learn the entire feedback and make it some extent to work together with common readers, particularly in the event that they ask questions. I do my finest to reply all questions that folks have, whether or not it’s right here on the weblog, on Fb, or on Instagram. I in all probability don’t catch 100% of them, however I do attempt my finest.

So about two weeks in the past, I posted this image, and requested, “Who did it higher, me or ChatGPT?😀” with an evidence that the highest is how I truly adorned our lounge, and the underside is how ChatGPT “adorned” my lounge.

Most individuals most well-liked mine. A couple of most well-liked the ChatGPT model. A few individuals didn’t like both one. No massive deal. It was only a enjoyable, meaningless submit.

However one remark caught my consideration as a result of the lady stated she didn’t like my model of the lounge as a result of it wasn’t “cohesive”. I believed, wait. You’ll be able to say plenty of issues about my home. I get that my colours aren’t for everybody. I have a tendency in direction of colours that most individuals could be afraid of of their properties (or so I believed), and I get that. However, not cohesive? I undoubtedly assume the colours in our home are cohesive. I’ve labored actually onerous to make them cohesive.

After which I noticed that she was seeing (for the primary time) one image of one room from one angle, and that’s it. She in all probability simply randomly occurred upon that submit in her Fb feed and has by no means seen some other a part of our home. That one photograph is all she’s ever seen. And from that angle, you’ll be able to’t actually see the small print of that room that I believe make it cohesive.

So I put collectively one other submit, and this time I included 17 photos of assorted rooms in our dwelling. The submit appears like this on a Fb feed, and naturally on Fb, you’ll be able to click on on an image after which click on by means of all 17 photos to see them a lot bigger.

The purpose of the submit wasn’t that everybody MUST love my hous😂 I actually do perceive that many individuals wouldn’t need these colours of their dwelling. Folks aren’t required to love my home.

The entire level of the submit was that generally it’s a must to see a room from numerous angles, and within the bigger context of the remainder of the home, to see that it’s cohesive. That’s it. That was my solely level. And when seen from numerous angles, and within the bigger context, I nonetheless contend that our home could be very cohesive, even when I’ve adorned our dwelling in colours that you just abhor.

Effectively, my goodness, I had no concept that that submit would tackle a lifetime of its personal. It has been YEARS since I’ve had something go near “viral” on Fb (and actually, issues don’t go “viral” immediately like they did a decade in the past, in order that’s in all probability not even a very good phrase to make use of), however this submit grew legs and ran. As of this morning, it had been considered 1,457,545 occasions. It had acquired 13,698 reactions, feedback, and shares. And it had gotten 249,619 clicks. Maintaining with the entire feedback (once more, as a result of I prefer to no less than attempt to reply as many questions as attainable, which requires me to learn by means of the feedback) has felt like a full-time job in itself.

The principle factor that shocked me in regards to the response to that submit was that the feedback are overwhelmingly constructive. I’d say about 99.9% of the feedback have been individuals expressing their love of what I had completed in our dwelling. That genuinely shocked me. I imply, now we have lived by means of a decade of impartial farmhouse model dominating each medium possible, from TV to Instagram to magazines and extra. I anticipated the response to our home to be no less than 50/50 likes and dislikes. However that was not the case in any respect.

I used to be additionally very shocked that the overwhelming majority of feedback have been from individuals who favored my particular shade palette that I utilized in our home. I imply, it’s one factor to love shade on the whole, but it surely’s one thing altogether completely different to love the very particular shade palette that I’ve utilized in our home. Once more, I genuinely by no means would have anticipated it to enchantment to such a big swath of individuals.

However are you aware what that tells me? I believe that individuals are shade starved. And it’s apparent from studying by means of all of these feedback. Individuals are actually shade starved. We’ve had all of those impartial interiors shoved at us for therefore lengthy now, mixed with the truth that so many individuals are merely afraid of including shade to their properties in concern of messing up, or ending up with a clown home, or fearing what a future shopping for may assume, or dreading a day lengthy sooner or later after they might need to really repaint one thing, that they’ve simply surrounded themselves with neutrals.

Some individuals genuinely love a impartial surrounding, and I completely get that. I don’t doubt for one second that there are literally individuals who want fully impartial environment of their dwelling. And I undoubtedly perceive that there are individuals who can admire images of a house from a shade lover like me, however who would really feel nothing however anxiousness all day daily if they really needed to reside in my dwelling. We’re all completely different. We’re all wired otherwise. These completely different personalities and completely different temperaments require completely different environment to make us really feel calm, peaceable, protected, and relaxed.

However I’m 100% satisfied that there are manner too many individuals on the market who’ve satisfied themselves that they’re “impartial” individuals after they’re not. For these individuals, that call to encompass themselves with nothing however impartial colours isn’t pushed by a real inner want for calmness. It’s pushed by concern. And that makes me unhappy.

Shade is life, y’all! That’s why nature is FILLED with it! And whenever you deliver shade into your house, you breathe life into it. It doesn’t must be flooded with shade like my house is. And also you definitely don’t have to brighten with the colours I’ve chosen. The colours I’ve used converse to me. These colours that talk to me could also be repellant to you. However I stay satisfied that, with only a few exceptions (and I do notice there are exceptions), most individuals have precise non-neutral colours that talk to them. Colours that they see, and that make them really feel like they simply wish to drink it in. These colours that make you’re feeling that manner ought to fill your house. These are the colours you need to be surrounding your self with. These are the colours that you need to come dwelling to on the finish of a protracted day at work. These are the colours that ought to fill that sanctuary referred to as “dwelling” — that respite that all of us want from a loopy and chaotic world outdoors of these protecting partitions.

Adorning your house is about a lot extra than simply filling it with the newest traits and the newest “shade of the yr.” That’s no approach to embellish a house. Whereas the entire impartial farmhouse pattern was raging on for the final decade, I’ve been over right here in my own residence doing my very own factor. And no matter traits, no matter what colours are deemed “common” from one yr to the subsequent, I’ve ignored all of that, and I’ve created a house that makes me wish to breathe it in each time I stroll by means of the door.

I want everybody had that. I need that for everybody. However that takes braveness, and it requires placing away that concern. Discover these colours that do this for you and fill your house with these. I promise you, it’s extra than simply adorning. It’s extra than simply making issues fairly. It goes far past that in ways in which in all probability even essentially the most sensible scientists, mind specialists, or psychologists can’t even totally clarify. However simply belief me on this. Do it, and also you’ll see for your self simply how quality-of-life-changing it may be.

It begins with discovering your colours. Not my colours. Not the “shade of the yr” from Benjamin Moore or Sherwin Williams. Not the colours that Southern Residing or Architectural Digest inform you’re the “it” colours for the yr. However your colours. That shade you’ve been drawn to your entire life. That shade that you just see, and also you simply need extra of it. That shade that makes you wish to drink it in. That’s your shade. Discover it, go along with it, and fill your house with it. Don’t fear about what others give it some thought. They don’t reside there. Your property is for you.

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and embellish the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.

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