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I love all the jars in the bathroom! Where did you get them?

Your pantry/bathroom closet makes my heart swoon

What a great place - he actually makes the plastic vertical blinds in his livingroom look good!

...And I love the upholstered wall in his bedroom layered with the upholstered headboard - the matching custom window valence takes it a notch up too!

The jars are from various estate sales, antique shops and ebay. Try ebay first. Search words could include pyrex, canister, and medical. The labels on the bottles are vintage pharmaceutical labels from ebay. Thanks for asking!

The entries have all been great; but this is my favorite one thus far. The colors in each individual room seem so disparate to each other; yet, I can see them working really well together as one moves from room to room.

I like the way he chose to paint the ceiling blue, rather than the wall, to coordinate with the various blue accent pieces in the room. Wish I had this kind of creativity.

a LITTLE busy, and a tad too "strict vintage" for my taste, but elegant and well presented. me likey!

love it!!

Love some of the vignettes, but it feels a little random overall. There doesnt seem to be a lot of coordination of colors in any arching themes - just lots of very cool, small scale bits.

I loved all the colored glass.

love the blue bottles!

I would love to go to a cocktail party in that living room.

Very nice, but are the first two pictures the same space, with the rug/tables/artwork swapped out?

i like it allot. i love the bathroom idea. i do the vintage glass in my windows too. the only criticism i have is that it looks a bit too crowded visually.

A beautiful apartment/home of an avid collector. Great taste. Wonderfully refined and restrained palate. Really enjoyable to view. Would love to see more.

The first two photos are of the same space with the accessories swapped out. The cool colors are the "summer" colors and the warm colors are the "winter" colors. Outside of textiles and artwork, everything else pretty much remains the same from season to season. Thanks for the interest.

Oops...sorry! I just looked at the photo again and the "warm" living room also differs in that the table below the window has been replaced by a Modernica Eames-style cabinet.

Clutter!?! They're tchochke's. All kidding aside, I didn't "prep" the place for photos. The rooms pretty much always look like the photos. Nothing has been staged. Thanks for your interest.

OMG - I just realized that's a vintage pink kitchen!

Are the cabinets St Charles - and original to the home?
They just make that room glow...

One more thing I should really mention is that no single item in this house cost more than $600. The priciest item? It's the Heywood-Wakefield Ashcraft suite in the office/den. I would be hard-pressed to think of the second most expensive item. Outside of a refinished hardwood floor in the living room and paint, the apartment is exactly as I purchased it four years ago.

I think that most people are interested in making their places beautiful on a BUDGET. Not everyone can afford to hire a decorator. I'd have replaced the floor in the kitchen, the carpet in the bedrooms and the vertical blinds in the living room. But why? They work perfectly as they are. Besides, I can't afford to do all that work at once. How many people really can?

The cabinets are actually a creamy white color with just a drop of pink.....the lighting makes the cabinet color appear more saturated than it actually is. The kitchen is an original Kitchen Maid painted wood kitchen. Pink, huh? Hmmmmmm.......now you've given me another idea!

There really is no randomness in the design; it's all intentional. The chrome and black of the basement has Modernist influences. The bedroom is early transitional-modern, probably dating from the mid thirties to early forties.

The office/den is pure early fifties kitch, although a prevalent theme in the room is the 1939 New York World's fair.....that's the year the house was built.

The living room is comprised of late-fifties and early sixties pieces. Most of the pieces of note in the living room were designed by the Eamses. The only room that doesn't hold to one general design era is the kitchen....It's a pastiche of styles.

i love your home.
it is really refreshing to see the colour combos and the interesting textiles.

Thanks Jessica, I love using textiles; they drastically change the appearance of a room and are not as permanent as paint. CB2 has hardware for hanging "yardage" textiles such as their Marimekko wall hangings. The impact is absolutely amazing and remarkably affordable.

luscious

The bathroom supplies photo is total eye candy. Love it. That is a lot of bar soap.

pyrexman-
This space is truly visionary. I appreciate your ability to make the eye slide over the less exciting elements like the blinds. Fabric and pattern solve all.

The blue glass in front of the window is lovely. Perfect way to pull a collection together and add emphasis.

I like the feel of the blue living space.

I love your floral headboard. Did you make it yourself? Would you mind sharing how, if you did?

J'adore the vintage fabric!

The "headboard" is actually blonde oak, barely visible in the photo behind the pillows on the bed. The patterned fabric panels are made of Armstrong ceiling tiles, covered with light cotton batting and affixed to the wall with velcro. It's easy, it's inexpensive, it's not permanent, and it makes a statement.

Absolutely wonderful. Another top contender.