Martha Stewart has addressed the trolls who hated one of her newly decorated Maine living rooms that she updated with yellow furniture and large bird portraits, reported . Stewart unveiled the look on Instagram last week. “We switched the living room from grey-blue upholstery to a creamy, pale, buttery yellow,” she wrote, noting that she loved “the rustic yet elegant charm of this lovely 1925 house.
” However, one detractor wrote: “Imagine living in a place where there are no photos of family, nothing personal, a lack of color, a tired fireplace, blankets that no one will use. It looks exactly how my husband’s stepmother lived in her Naples penthouse. She’d be 105.
Sorry, Martha...
. You need color.” Another commenter was even more plainspoken: “Yuck.
It looks like a Marriott suite living room in 1987.” In light of that negative feedback, Stewart, 82, wrote on Instagram on Thursday: “I rarely read all the comments that come in after I post, but because I was so happy at the transformation of my Maine living room I did go through many of the comments and was surprised at the harsh judgment so many displayed!!! I and my Maine helpers spent three hours moving out the old furniture and putting in the new. We were pleased that the pieces actually fit the room and were proportionate to the large size of the space.
” The celebrity chef and design guru said the idea was to change the space’s style “quickly and efficiently” and that professionals weren’t i.
