How A Goth Would Decorate His Home
You would probably have to be a goth or have a son or a daughter who is a gothic to really know how they would decorate their home or apartment. Nevertheless, you can get a good idea about it just by looking at their clothes.
Aside from their bulky silver jewelry and a touch of vermilion here and there, gothics dress in black from head to foot. Therefore, ebony is probably the color they use the most in their homes. The goth that could afford one would have a large black dining room set and they would plant a very large and elaborate silver candelabra in the middle of the circular table.
Their china would be black, of course, and the silverware would be expensive and ornate, perhaps even antique. Think about how Count Dracula would decorate his castle’s cavernous dining hall and you get a good idea of how it would look.
The living room would follow the same monochromatic color scheme. Our hypothetical wealthy goth, perhaps a lead singer in a successful gothic band, would have the finest, most luxurious furniture, with black leather couches and chairs. The black glass coffee table would be custom made out of metal, with ornate detailing. The TV set would be large and minimalistic, since there’s no such thing as a gothic style television set.
The bedroom, of course, would be mostly shades of black. The bed, if it wasn’t a four poster bed, would possibly be a full size loft bed.
The reason for the loft bed would be because they long to sleep hanging from the ceiling, like bats. Not being bats, however, and not having the power to change into them, they would settle for the next best option: to sleep close to the ceiling.
The gothic subculture is a fascinating one. When it first burst on the scene, nobody thought it would last, but it has. There are gothics in virtually every major city in the world. They don’t mingle with outsiders much, so they are little understood and many people even fear them.
Some people think they are making a nihilistic statement. Others think they are aligned with the devil. Nobody knows for sure. Many goths go through the week dressed as ‘normal’ people and save their gothic gear for the weekends. You may have one working at the desk next to you and not even know it.
For all we know, the insides of their homes may be quite ordinary. As a matter of fact, the majority of them probably still live with their parents. Whatever the truth about goths is, you’ve got to admit that they are interesting. They give everybody on the block something to talk about, so in that sense they’re great neighbors, even if you never get to know them.
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