Decoration Inspiration?

[sidewalkbeer]

Once I get bored of decorating each house I buy to my own taste, I start to pick themes and design challenges for myself. Does anyone else do this, and if so, what are your ideas? Here's a few of mine:
Rainbow House-Each room is dedicated to a color
Decorate a house for a fictional character
Pre-Electricity house, various time periods
Decorate a room around a specific furniture item
Decorate each room to represent an element (fire, water, etc)

I would love to hear some new ideas!

[Lisa Mockingbird]

I love some of your inspirations!

When I first started learning the toolset I took the barn house from the story into sandbox and decorated it like my grandparents farm house which is a farm owned in one branch of our family since homesteading times in the 1800's. Made me feel their love.

Next I built a whole house from scratch that was to be an exact dupe of a house built by one set of my great-grandparents when they married back in 1919 (g-grandma's dad, one of my g-g-grands helped) one of my cousins still lives there.

Maybe my brother obsessing on tracing our family history this last year is creeping into it! We've been looking at lots of really old family albums - I found a tin-type photo of one of my g-g granddads heading to the gold rush in Alaska! I have started on my childhood home and I plan to get to my current house but it's undergoing total reno right now.

I guess my inspiration right now is historical and family my focus tends to be on the clutter (some people hate the clutter LOL) that makes the houses look lived in as well as historical decor. The architecture is mainly just trying to dupe actual old houses.

Well and the contest themes as I find those very fun (I missed the first few)- but even then I keep drawing on my own life experiences and my family.