I really love your paintings. Did you do them yourself? They are beautiful. But I don't like your sculptures, feel all your art is kind of competing. Is there a hallway where perhaps your sculptures can reside so they don't detract from your paintings?

marvelous use of color! love this entry.great artwork. Don't understand the window decals...

I love the colors that you used and the bits of animal print mixed in. GORGEOUS paintings!

That vertical glass piece next to the window, is that a stack of lamp bases? What is it and if you made it, how?

Thanks!

This is so much fun! I love it. Looks like an art gallery.

Gorgeous paintings. I also love the tall lamp structure to the right, and even the sculptures.

I think I would be able to appreciate them a lot more though without the zebra pillows and throws on the sofas. I like them on the chairs but there's so much going on on the coffee table and sofas I can't focus on the art.

This space really is beautiful. Like an art gallery.

these paintings are lovely, but i agree that overall it feels like everything in the room is competing. i think if you've got three huge canvases in one space, it's best to stick to simple, striking pieces in the rest of the space, such as the barcelona chairs and the sequined bust. as it is, i feel like if i came to a dinner party at your place, everybody would be like "omg i love your apple core sculpture, omg i love that crazy bust, where did you get these paintings, that glass sculpture is really cool, where did you get these zebra throws, etc etc"

still, a great departure from the norm.

Not that this is a bad thing (for you negative-comment police), but this kinda reminds me of a stage design for an 80's movie. Any 80's movie, really - possibly early 90's :)

simply beautiful!
love everything in the room...everything.
thank you for sharing your home!

I like it, very much, especially the green glass vase on the glass cocktail table. It does look like a room from a movie set and that's because it's really stunning!

Really fun and refreshing. A little chaotic but somehow I don't mind.

Astrid M - I've been reading these posts and if it were up to some of these commenting posts no one would win! Ugh! It's either too much color, not enough color, not green "again" comment, wish there were more picutres comment-etc...
I've never seen so many rude comments before. This is a contest and yet you'd think they, these individuals who appear to be designers or the judges, are the experts! Well their not. These wanna-be judges forget these pictures are of homes that people actually live, love, eat, and work in. So, for those looking in for the first time and you wanna enter this contest this is all you need. 1. A cat (preferably sleeping on a bed or sofa) 2. Danish vintage furniture a designer chair (60's, 70's, even 80's retro - mod. design will do. 3. a shag rug - maybe faux zebra area rug. 4. Any acrylic chair. 5. Green painted walls if you have all the above.

I'm loving that big stack of glass. Not sure what it is, but it's pretty.

I'm sorry, there's just far too much going on here for me. To me, this doesn't resemble a home at all--rather a sterile art gallery where you don't feel invited to sit and stay. I have the feeling I would have to mind my P&Qs in this house, and stand hugging my arms and shivering like the people whom you see outside art galleries chain-smoking. The colour is violent and frenzied, and not very welcoming, which i personally feel is a pivotal reason for colour in the home. but, to each their own.

Great color!

I took a picture of a lamp like in a home decor store in Miami this summer. The store was closed at the time. Could you tell me the name of the manufacturer, please?

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To me, white walls with color from artwork is the best way to use color. Love it!

I LOVE it.
Beautiful, colorful, original. I wanna come over!

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Looks very high-end.

I love your art! I find your house inspiring! I think you have achieved something that is really "stunning!" Although I might be partial being from FL myself! Really I find it very nice!

What an amazing place to throw a party. Waiting for you to tell us more about the art and that incredible stacked lamp thing.

Thanks to most of you, and to those who would like to come over, please do! It was my intention to have my home reflect a gallery since art is my passion. The "lamp thing" is a totem made from old lamps. It is from NIBA in the Miami design district. Basically, the artist just cut off the bottoms of old lamps and stacked them on a pole. All the other art in the house was done by either 1)a local Miami artist, 2)my daughter or 3)myself. Some of the glass and sculpture pieces were done by my daughter and obviously I want to display her work. Those are not "decals" on the windows, they are art glass rondells. I personaly feel that 2 dimensional art needs to be complimented with 3 dimensional art so every room in the house has both paintings (or photography) and sculpture mixed together. The sofas are very comfortable and surrounded with soft fuzzy textures so it has a very warm, cozy feeling. The room is huge with high ceilings, so there is enough space to have these colors without it feeling "violent or frenzied", and the pieces actually complement each other. Living here feels happy, COLORFUL, comfortable, and inspiring. It is in no way sterile but very lived in by 2 adults, 4 kids and 4 dogs. I guess it just doesn't come across on camera, but it was very difficult for me to photograph such a large room.

How neat :) I love it even more now. A kid and pet friendly art museum that still looks elegant and luxurious. Neat!

Nice to see someone who actually hangs art on the wall, not the typical Potty Barn junk.

The neutral furnishings are great - I'd add some element of tonal difference in the walls, however, and ditch the zebra pillows.

Cheers.

To me there is NO colour in this room except for the art - this is not a contest to see who can buy the brightest piece of art - its a contest to see how you can use colour in the way you decorate your apartment - this apartment is all neautrals without the art - not what we're looking for at all!

That said I LOVE the paintings - especially the one between the windows!

a little random... but it works. there is so much color and design in the paintings, pottery and furniture this owner chose to display throughout the living room that it does not feel empty, but i still believe there could be some color on at least one of the walls. for this reason, i answered "no way." the area is so spacious that there is no reason to keep the background so uniform. though creative and fun upon first glance, it still seems to be lacking something in the color dept.

That colorful stack of lamps is luscious. Eye candy of an entry.

I LOVE IT ALL! I would be totally at home in your house, with all the art, and all the color, because I recognize your passion. HOT HOT HOT-- and the animals would fit right in too. It's much like my house, and some people just don't get it-- too bad-- their loss. FABULOUS-- don't change a thing!! Bebe Long, Artist

Toooooooooooo muchhhhhhhhh colorrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!

THIS IS WHITE DONE COLORFULLY!

Finally somebody gets it! No other color would show off your furnishings and art better. This is truly wonderful. Nice balance of color vs. b&w.

I'd love to live here, or at least spend a vacation here! The only thing I'd want to do is paint the inside of the niches to make them read as a group, but that's me, and you've done a great job already!

Kate, I love the glass sculpture as well. I went to the website that Astrid gave for NIBA. They have some BEAUTIFUL things there. Most way out of my price range. Including the fabulous glass sculpture ($4,500?????)

I'm thinking I could design something similar within my budget ;)

Still..love this room

This is really awful! The look is so eighties, over decorated, no where to rest your eyes and just totally overwhelming. Zebra prints, glittery statues, a sculpture looking like an apple core and a smoke coloured glass table? Please remove it before I go blind! Just take it all away, hang a picture that doesn't look like someone has thrown up all over it, and I'm sure it will look much better.

I second what Emma wrote, only I would add that it must be a challenge to have so much wonderful art to display. As someone else wrote, this looks like a great place to have a party, I even hear the music (albeit, 80's music) -- but as a contestant in a color design contest? I quite don't get it. (and I'm not being rude; just genuinely perplexed!)

I like the paintings on the walls, very very much...

Thanks for sharing these lovely pictures of your home. That lamp is fascinating!