Moderation is a virtue

I have always held the opinion that toile is beautiful, unique, delicate and incredibly elegant. It really does brighten my day to see a toile pattern pop out at me. Yet, as soon as those words have flown through my fingers, to the keyboard and on to the screen, horrible pictures like these flash into my brain:

OH MAH GAWSH MY EYES!!!!!!! Too. Much. Toile. Too much! I am sorry, it just is. You have taken a beautiful thing and ruined it. How do I know this? Because, when I look at these pictures, I feel the urge to vom from the overpowering dizziness I feel at seeing so much toile. And what is more, with this last picture, the toile is pink. I love pink. Pink is my signiture color (Name that movie?). But, here, the designer has taken two of my favorite things--toile and poink--put them in a blender and then wrecked havoc on this room with the results. Not convinced? Well, try on these for size:

Sweet mother of pearl, make it stop!

 

Two patterns? Is that really necessary?

If these don't convince you, then you are either invincable or you are blind. I don't know which one I would prefer to be. If I were invincible, then I probably wouldn't have any friends because no one likes the perfect kid. If I were blind, then I couldn't enjoy interior design so much. I guess another option could be that you are being simply contrarian by saying too much toile doesn't bother you. If you are this third person, then I bite my thumb at you a la the style of that one dude in the opening scene of Romeo and Juliet.
Because, the thing is, toile is lovely and no one wants a lovely thing to be ruined. I am sure that the people who begin a project with the hope of featuring toile in their rooms have the best of intentions: They agree with me that toile is a glorious thing, and they rightly wish to incorporate it into their design palette. In their enthusiasm for the awesomeness of toile, these people got a little too into it


Holy Moses, that is a heckuvalotta toile

One may argue that it is a purely subjective rule to claim that one can use too much toile. But, please, if someone walks into your room-o-toile and shortly thereafter falls into an epileptic fit due to the overstimulation of your toile, then I think you have crossed the line.


Now, in the interest of demonstrating the message of this post's title, I should practice moderation in my complaining of toile-overload. Well, I am going to do that. but for now I am going to end this post because--in the interest of moderation--I am going to go do something else. I have spent over an hour on this post already and I still need to do things around my house. Chaos can arise even when there isn't toile everywhere. Crazy.


However, do not despire, I will be back with a "part two" on toile. Stay tuned, folks!