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I'm 17, and I love vintage style rooms, but I can't quite figure out exactly what to do. My room is also very large and roomy so it's hard to balance things out. Any ideas are greatly appreciated!! :)
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I'd start with beautiful vintage bedding. Choose a color from it for the walls and then slowly accessorize. Buy an old chair at a thrift shop and paint it. Make a small reading area in your room with the chair, magazines and table and lamp. Use lots of different fabrics and patterns. Vintage is NOT matchy-matchy. Hang a chandelier and use lots of lace! See if anything here inspires you:
http://www.etsy.com/search?q=bed+spread&ref=related&page=1
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://apartmentsilike.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/decointeriorvintagedecoratingbedroom.jpg&imgrefurl=http://apartmentsilike.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/vintage-style-bedrooms-for-scranton-pa-apartments/&usg=__0vL1EGEMx9EMOcJVLHWxWddbEqY=&h=480&w=480&sz=76&hl=en&start=12&zoom=1&tbnid=5NQAoEyg3_l2LM:&tbnh=129&tbnw=129&ei=tFzOT_qHN42A6QG7q7SjDA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dvintage%2Bbedrooms%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26tbm%3Disch&um=1&itbs=1
http://www.inexpensive-kitchen.net/tag/vintage-black-and-white-bedroom-ideas-images/page/2/
https://www.onekingslane.com/vintage-market-finds/product/730086
Furniture like this is easy to find at a thrift store:
http://www.etsy.com/search/handmade?q=vintage%20painted%20chairs&view_type=gallery&ship_to=ZZ&min=0&max=0&ref=auto1
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=21004924
http://www.ehow.com/how_2108109_decorate-vintage-style.html
I'd start with beautiful vintage bedding. Choose a color from it for the walls and then slowly accessorize. Buy an old chair at a thrift shop and paint it. Make a small reading area in your room with the chair, magazines and table and lamp. Use lots of different fabrics and patterns. Vintage is NOT matchy-matchy. Hang a chandelier and use lots of lace! See if anything here inspires you:
http://www.etsy.com/search?q=bed+spread&ref=related&page=1
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://apartmentsilike.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/decointeriorvintagedecoratingbedroom.jpg&imgrefurl=http://apartmentsilike.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/vintage-style-bedrooms-for-scranton-pa-apartments/&usg=__0vL1EGEMx9EMOcJVLHWxWddbEqY=&h=480&w=480&sz=76&hl=en&start=12&zoom=1&tbnid=5NQAoEyg3_l2LM:&tbnh=129&tbnw=129&ei=tFzOT_qHN42A6QG7q7SjDA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dvintage%2Bbedrooms%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26tbm%3Disch&um=1&itbs=1
http://www.inexpensive-kitchen.net/tag/vintage-black-and-white-bedroom-ideas-images/page/2/
https://www.onekingslane.com/vintage-market-finds/product/730086
Furniture like this is easy to find at a thrift store:
http://www.etsy.com/search/handmade?q=vintage%20painted%20chairs&view_type=gallery&ship_to=ZZ&min=0&max=0&ref=auto1
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=21004924
http://www.ehow.com/how_2108109_decorate-vintage-style.html
What do you think of my essay? any edits, ideas, criticism, etc?
Rose F
(essay begins here)
They say, âhome is where the heart is.â In Homerâs Iliad and The Odyssey, love and romance, drama and malice plague the homes of Greek heroes and mistresses. Between them, it often seems that home is just a place to sleep and marriage is not always between lovers. Homerâs perception of home could be similar or identical to how home and marriage was in Ancient Greece â a very mystical, dramatic home indeed. Presented in these books are homes where a man can snatch up your wife and battle ensues, or suitors will fill your house while your husband is at sea, facing dangers unknown so he could be home with his family again. You may say there is no order or you may say there is none at all â at the core of Odyyseusâ home was the separation between him and his wife, Penelope. Though she believed he would never return, her love for him flickered like a candle in the night, though it never died. Meanwhile, she fed dozens of suitors for years and let them live in her home. Is this proper order? I would think not. But perhaps she found herself too weak to tell them to leave. In the Iliad, couples were married for different reasons, may they be political or to please the gods.
In the drama-filled Iliad, Paris, prince of Troy, fell in love with the most beautiful woman in the world â Helen, who was married to Menelaos, King of Sparta. Paris ran off with Menelausâ wife and thatâs where the war begins. Men everywhere drop everything and leave their families to fight in a battle over one woman. After many crushing lows and triumphant highs, the battle ends and Odysseus and his men off on a journey home. It takes twenty years and risks his life to finally be at peace and home with his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. The Iliad and the Odyssey present an idea of home that is strongly based on the status of oneâs marriage. Helen deserted her husband Menelaus and was whisked away by Paris, who she became deeply in love with. What happened to Helen and Menelausâ marriage? For awhile, it was non-existent! The fact that she left her home symbolized the crumbling and breaking of their relationship and her selfish will. After Paris died, Menelaus intended to kill Helen, but she had other plans and her husband took her back â and they lived together once more at home. Though Penelope had doubts that Odysseus would never return, his coming renewed their marriage in a sense â with Odysseus home again, their loyalty and love for each other is instilled once more and their family is reunited, with Telemachus finally being able to meet his dad after so many years. This also tells us that home is closely knit with the status of a family and their togetherness.
Proper order must be instilled in any home â it is a very important âingredientâ necessary to instill the harmony of couples and families. The families and couples in the Iliad and the Odyssey make perfect examples on what is bad order. The war in the Iliad was due to a dysfunctional home and relationship that was torn apart due to selfishness and lust! Proper order is not only having rules but being loyal to those in your home, trusting them and above all loving them! How is having multiple suitors living at your home, eating your food and drinking your wine good order â or any order at all? Penelope has no control over the men and cant even decide if they should stay or not. Although Odysseus ultimately returns to his wife, why did he have to make love to Circe? Obviously it was to save his men and himself but is that proper order and loyalty to his wife? Couldnât there have been some other way? Perhaps not, we will never know. But if Odysseus had a choice, I do hope heâd choose otherwise.
The place of marriage in the Iliad and the Odyssey stands politically and religiously, not bound by love and the eagerness to be together, forever. They are often determined by political plans and agendas, such as the wedded couple Hector and Andromache, married to solidify a treaty. The romantic but war-coaxing relationship between Helen and Paris was arranged to please gods and Odyesseus and Penelope were wed as the result of conquest and competition. But all three of these couples have something in common â they all had much love between them. Helen was so consumed by her love for Paris (although Aphrodite did have something to do with that!) that she left for Troy leaving behind her loyal husband, Menelaus. One pivotal display of love was between gods, when Aphrodite betrayed Hephaestus with Ares, breaking her marriage vows and betraying her husband Hephaestus in his own bed. Even the godâs relationships were often driven by lust and physical love. Odysseus virtually won Penelope in a footrace though their loyalty and love for each other was unending. Homer greatly related their marriage to home, as Odysseus spent twenty years at war and later risking his life to return to his wife and son.
(working on final paragraph. Im in 9th gr. any advice? TY!!)
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You seem to have two problems with this, namely 1) you didn't read the books carefully enough and 2) you judge these characters by our own morals.
For instance: was Helen in love with Paris? The impression we get from Homer is that Paris pillaged Menelaus' house, kidnapping Helen and stealing half the treasury - and he left behind his own wife, Hesione, to do so. Helen was clearly blinded by Aphrodite, and at some point she is so distressed by the resulting massacre that she tried to throw herself off Troy's walls. Aphrodite held her back and physically pushed her into Paris' bedroom, telling her to 'do her duty'. Helen's and Menelaus' was a loving marriage - she chose him over dozens of kings and princes, and he took her back, after she'd had sex with someone else (Paris, and after he died, his brothers) for ten years. It took a lot of corage to do so, and he probably became Greece's laughing stock, but the Odysses show us hat they're happy.
And there is no reason to assume that Agamemnon and Clytemnestra were unhappy - she only became murderous after he killed their daughter.
As for Penelope, what else could she have done? Her father-in-law was too old to defend her, and her son would have been killed once she settled on a suitor (think the new king would want a bastard son around? think again), so she had no choice but to stall. And she was incredibly skillful in doing it - we have no other examples in literature of a woman ruling alone for ten years.
As for moral standards, remember that until very recently men could do whatever they wanted. It was expected that a husband would sleep around. Homer's characters were warriors and pirates - their wives had no illusions about what would happen to the women they captured, and no sympathy for those women. Just pick a stronger husband, next time. So saying that Odysseus' behaviour was improper because he slept with Circe is weird. He fought Circe, he won, he had a right to have sex with her. Furthermore, he was an incredibly good husband to Penelope because he left those women - Circe, and also Calypso (she promised him immortality, and he still turned her down).
In the end, the only relationship in the Iliad which is pure and loving and everything you would expect it to is, paradoxically, the one your teacher won't want to discuss - Achilles' and Patroclus'. They were friends, and lovers, and Achilles' grief at Patroclus' death is unmatched by any character in Greek literature. But, of course, they were both men, so, even in 2012, their love should not be mentioned. Jeez.
You seem to have two problems with this, namely 1) you didn't read the books carefully enough and 2) you judge these characters by our own morals.
For instance: was Helen in love with Paris? The impression we get from Homer is that Paris pillaged Menelaus' house, kidnapping Helen and stealing half the treasury - and he left behind his own wife, Hesione, to do so. Helen was clearly blinded by Aphrodite, and at some point she is so distressed by the resulting massacre that she tried to throw herself off Troy's walls. Aphrodite held her back and physically pushed her into Paris' bedroom, telling her to 'do her duty'. Helen's and Menelaus' was a loving marriage - she chose him over dozens of kings and princes, and he took her back, after she'd had sex with someone else (Paris, and after he died, his brothers) for ten years. It took a lot of corage to do so, and he probably became Greece's laughing stock, but the Odysses show us hat they're happy.
And there is no reason to assume that Agamemnon and Clytemnestra were unhappy - she only became murderous after he killed their daughter.
As for Penelope, what else could she have done? Her father-in-law was too old to defend her, and her son would have been killed once she settled on a suitor (think the new king would want a bastard son around? think again), so she had no choice but to stall. And she was incredibly skillful in doing it - we have no other examples in literature of a woman ruling alone for ten years.
As for moral standards, remember that until very recently men could do whatever they wanted. It was expected that a husband would sleep around. Homer's characters were warriors and pirates - their wives had no illusions about what would happen to the women they captured, and no sympathy for those women. Just pick a stronger husband, next time. So saying that Odysseus' behaviour was improper because he slept with Circe is weird. He fought Circe, he won, he had a right to have sex with her. Furthermore, he was an incredibly good husband to Penelope because he left those women - Circe, and also Calypso (she promised him immortality, and he still turned her down).
In the end, the only relationship in the Iliad which is pure and loving and everything you would expect it to is, paradoxically, the one your teacher won't want to discuss - Achilles' and Patroclus'. They were friends, and lovers, and Achilles' grief at Patroclus' death is unmatched by any character in Greek literature. But, of course, they were both men, so, even in 2012, their love should not be mentioned. Jeez.
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