Would love to see a proper house tour...

lovely and quirky at the same time. :)

Love how everything is hung just high enough so kids can't knock stuff off the wall. Smart!

Can I have some more please?!

Interesting. But what happened to the pillows?

This is homey and calm yet interesting. Thank you for sharing your home with us.

I want those Grand Prix chairs. They are simply the best.

The chairs and details are nice but impossible to imagine what the space looks like.

I'd love a house tour, too. I have a feeling you'd have your vignette nay-sayers (I'm not one of them), but I'd love to see more of your stuff! :) It's a cozy space. Tastefully appointed and considerate of children.

Also, I price-checked those Fornasetti plates-- woah, mama! Hope that wall's insured!!

you need a beautiful bed spread and some pillows. It's not minimal, it's blank, void, cold. Like to see that kids art wall filled up to the floor. it looks as though the owner might be tall the art is way to high.

What's not to love about a Parisian flat? I mean, seriously.

I like the apartment's set up -- easy to keep tidy, cool stuff on the walls, all that light coming thru the window on the door.

But that bird sculpture on the table is freaking me out. I know as a kid I wouldn't sit my butt on any of those chairs. Especially a chair directly beneath the beak. It looks like it would peck me to death for a plate of cheese.

I love the colorful lamps on the nighttables. Where are they from?

TV on the floor?

Is that a pink battleship over the door?

Lovely, clean and simple- with pops of design/color, collection and shapes. A loving couple with two children and -architects, both. Sounds wonderful.

And yes: in Paris, my favorite place in the world. Love and Beauty, inside Beauty.

I'd have to assume that for some people a lot of color is required, for others: less. I really like the simplicity of the bed: white, no headboard- and the lack of emphasis of the TV was great - no jumbotron owning a wall or set on a pedestal.

I'll never understand why people feel the need or compulsion to dictate other families' places of happiness. Especially with rudeness- baffles me.

I actually kind of dig the super-plain bedspread. Sure, it's not the best match with the beautiful, old-fashioned woodwork, but beds should be restful places for their owners. My only complaint is, it shouldn't look so rumpled! :D

Great space! Floorplan, floorplan!

This young man was born with decorating talent. It is in his soul. He had such great precision when he hung those groups of pictures and made all the small lower pictures measure out as the larger top pictures. What a great talent! sincerely, mary

Love reading and seeing fabulous apartments that people have in Paris. You have a wonderful place, I wish you well, you are living my dream!

Hello
and thank you all for the positives comments on my place.

As soon as the pics were online, I realized that they were dark and quite horrible, tough lot of things have changed since I took the pictures a year ago...

Fun to see you've been a lot to talk about the blank bed and the lack of pillows...
I sleep without any, but to be honest, I removed thoses of my wife for the pictures...
but in France, we usually are more reasonnable about pillows than in American bedroom.

just to answer a few comments:

@ JamesG: Yes, GrandPrix chairs are absolute stunners, and half chairs / half sculptural art.

@ Brooklynindiana: I love the Fornasetti plates mostly they recall me the best moments in my life: all of them are numbred and dedicated to a special event on their back:
my weeding, the birth of my first daughter 5 years ago, her first birthday, the birth of my second daughter...

@ Cyclokitty, right for the scarying bird... it is now in our bedroom, and it's used to hang my Borsalino...

@ Kareno: the lamps on the nighttables are simply from Ikea! and they display a soft and coloured light for a fistfull of peanuts.

@ Jen-g: yes, it's a red battleship over the door. I bought to a friend selling on Paris Flea Market a dark grey 1950 model of battleship, and simply painted on bright red.
With the same color than the 100% homemade George Nelson inspired bench.

@ Knifemouth & Mary Wise: a lot of thanks to both of you for your very kind comments.
I appreciate it very much.

best regards from Paris and season's greeting.
Ben.

It has got a very Parisian flair. I really like the way the living room is arranged. I suppose IKEA doesn't do your sofa any more, I would do with one that simple and heavy duty. The windows as just fantastic too.

Good luck.