If you have ( or eff ) a coolheaded aunt , you make love her home is as enviable as her lifestyle . Here ’s how to examine her style for yourself .
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If you do n’t have anurban auntyourself , you probably sleep together someone who does — or a woman who populate this ultra - chic lifestyle : Think Auntie Mame foregather Annie Hall , with a touch of Glinda the Good Witch . An urban aunt has an unbelievably affordable ( rent - controlled ) apartment she ’s lived for decades , where she ’s create an environment unambiguously and unequivocally centered around her tastes . She has a in full - stocked bar with expensive wine , a customized bookshelf , and a coffee table she splurged on . Everywhere you look in her curated nursing home , you only see items that reflect her personality — which is as multi - layered and fascinating as her infinite .
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Unlike some late design trend ( Barbiecore , dark Americana ) , the nerveless , urban aunt lifestyle has been around for years , but it ’s just recently being translate into internal design . ( It also provides a counter for the"tradwife " trend . )
“ Aunts offer alternatives,”Patty Sotirin , generator of the 2013 bookWhere the Aunts Are : Family , Feminism and Kinship in Popular Culture , told theLos Angeles Times . “ They provide different ways of connecting us and give us a sense of other possibilities . These days , they are so authoritative . ”
The urban aunty decor aesthetic encapsulates maximalism layered with raw textures and finishes . You have unwrap beams , brick walls , clean but scuffed floors , piles of books , and more artwork on the bulwark than you ’d find in some little museums . Your urban auntie is a gatherer of people , clothes , and things . Souvenirs from tripsshe ’s taken , talent from spurned suitor , immaculate room decorator apparel found at 2d - hand store : you’re able to find all of these in her home . However , there ’s no delineate style that an she bond to , and she ’ll freely mix in an antique rug with abrutalist tableand ’ 70s chrome light mending . It ’s about whatever catches her middle .
An urban auntie loves to toy with , and her home , no matter its size , is plan to have people over . There ’s decidedly a bar somewhere , whether it ’s establish - in and grand , fill with every kind of Bourbon dynasty , or a low , vintage cart with cut - glass drinkware . The couch can likely fit piles of people to lounge or crash on for the night , comfortable and shopworn in just the correct room . The kitchen may not get much use ( your urban aunt loves choose herself out to dinner party ) , but there ’s always plenty of ice in the freezer and the makings of acharcuterie boardon hand .
Above all , the urban aunt home aesthetic focuses on personal identity . If you say an urban aunty that herpink sofaclashes with her red pillows or that pairing tartan with polka pane does n’t work , she ’d in all probability express mirth in your fount and turn over youanother cocktail . Your urban aunt always have sex best — so instead of questioning her pick , learn from them .
