I would kill for that yard, but you couldn't pay me enough to dust that house. My allergies would be off the charts.

I love your puppet collection! I have two Burmese marionettes and can't imagine maintaining all of yours. Though those Siamese ones in front of the fire are fantastic!! I can imagine cleaning day being a collector myself. Maybe you are lucky enough to have a maid? A room a day maybe? ;)

Wonderful place really. Your walls and floors are just fabulous. Great job!

Although I couldn't comfortably live in this home, I salute its owners for surrounding themselves with meaningful decor and items they love. That's what decorating should be about--insofar as there are (or should be :D ) any "shoulds" in how one furnishes one's home. Good for JoAnn and Dan, who fearlessly created a home that suits them! Not to mention a home that bears zero resemblance to the tedious sameness of catalog pages.

Beautiful and amazing. I love every inch of the space. I am a huge proponent of "eclectic maximalism" and believe that many people do find inspiration in being surrounded by beautiful things. It is sad to see the same old post like "it is so overwhelming etc." Isn't the point seeing how different people choose to live? How fun would it be to see the same minimalist apartment over and over again?

I would love to see a home next on Apartment Therapy where someone from this relationship co-decorates a home with an extreme zen minimalist.

I like both- but lean more towards the less is more approach most times. I love the things in this home- but could decorate 2-3 homes with this amount of decor.

It's fun to see maximalism and collectionism (eclectic hoarders with good taste).

This looks like a house you could be comfortable in and relax. Not stuffy or too perfectly "arranged".

I had an interesting (to me) thought process while viewing this gallery. In order, it went like this: 1) This is too much stuff; at some point there has to be a limit to how much stuff you should have; 2) But they're travelers and avid collectors, and this is how they choose to remember their travels; 3) But this is too much stuff and you can't take it with you! 4) Well, you take your best memories with you, and their best memories are living with them right now, they're with them every day, and they probably remember their experiences like they were yesterday.

In the end, the sentimental in me won. So, bravo!

My friend's grandparents worked for the State Department and their house looked something like this (not the same cultures collected from, but the layering of really interesting things). Really awesome to visit and go through and lust after how awesome those trips must have been. The thought of dusting it though is overwhelming.

I think overall, your place is gorgeous. I am in awe w/ the collections you store in here. It's just a bit too heavy for my taste.. =)

I consider myself a 'maximalist' but now after seeing your home I think I'm not lol! I do not feel quite so guilty now about my collecting and I thank you for a look inside your interesting home. I never thought I'd say 'too much is too much' but here it is for me. I would LOVE to visit, but couldn't live here, and so I am really grateful to you for creating one of the memorable moments in my life when my taste and decorating style was significantly refined.....completely sincere here when I say Thank you very much! BTW, though your taste is different than mine, I consider your taste to be artistically amazing and not gaudy. Thanks for the inspiration!

The wall of bugs made me cringe. I'm of both minds...one, I think there's just way too much stuff. But on the other hand, it's not in anyone's way and it's styled and organized, so it's still practical.

I'm a minimalist, but I love the way you've curated your collections.

They are obviously avid collectors and world travellers and their home is a reflection of who they are. It's eclectic and colorful. I'm sure the objects d'art all have a story or a memory for them which is what collecting is all about. It's hard to pull this off but they achieved an "organized" clutter feeling that works. I personally constantly struggle with a conflicting desire for simplicity, spareness and living with only the things I really need yet my heart sings with surrouding myslef with the things I love and that "curiosity cabinet" collected feel. So in "touring" this home I felt that struggle. Just the same, it felt homey, curated and interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Finally! A house that looks like mine....in my head. I even have bears wearing buttons with slogans of various kinds. And Indonesian puppets. And lots of interesting ethnic textiles. And enough art for more walls than I have. And old furniture of a bygone era.

The inspiration is just what I needed on the day before moving into a new apartment. (with more wall space)

Personally, I think this tour is what this site is all about: Helping the rest of us come up with interesting ideas to decorate our own home. I don't have to take every idea here for my home (I don't have the money or the space), but if I can't find something beautiful and inspiring here, then I'm obviously not looking hard enough :) And wow, there are so many beautiful and interesting things in this home. Looks like there's plenty of room to walk and sit, so the maximalism certainly doesn't bother me, especially when everything is so fascinating. Well done!

Phenomenal full of color, personality and soul! I love the entomology wall, the framed artwork, the evidence of lives not shaped from a cookie cutter framework. Love the unabashed embrace of self and the delights of the senses. Bravo!

amazing collections!

It's just that it looks more like a shop than a home.

I don't understand collecting. I'd just as soon have one or two key pieces out of each collection, else to me the beauty is diminished.

But I think your shed's outside wall, and your gate, are wonderful.

I always love a house that gradually evolved into a representation of who the owners are and this fits the bill! So many things to discover and so much more personality than most houses here on AT. Congratulations on your collections!
AT - can we see more "older" homes, please?

I love this so much. It is personal, authentic and timeless, full of beautiful things beautifully organized (all of which are included in my basic motivation/aspiration in creating my own home.) It really has soul.

It reminds me a bit of Andre Breton's fascinating apartment wall recreated in the Pompidou.This multi-layered effect is inviting and stimulating to me, and I can't understand how anyone, whether they appreciate this particular aesthetic or not, would liken it to a shop. I guess shops can be full of things intricately displayed, but the feeling I get when I look at this home is not "want to buy" but more "want to know" the story behind this or that item. A large portion of the AT community seems to lean toward a more modern, minimalist vibe, but commenters' references to clutter, hoarding, claustrophobia, dust, etc. are really off-putting. For this reason, I would never want to try to get my home featured here. Oh, well, your loss, suckers! ;)

If I had stayed in one place for 25 years,Ive no doubt it would have looked exactly like this! I could happily while away the hours looking at all of their wonderful art and collections! As for dusting,my best friend says"Its not dusty,its frosted"!

As someone who has been a guest in this home, I can say that it's an absolute blast to wander from room to room exploring all of the eye-catching pieces. Each new wall or nook presents you with another collection to pore over, and you could probably go back many times and still find something that you'd overlooked before.

No matter your style, I feel like anyone who stepped foot into JoAnn and Dan's home could immediately sense the joy and love that went into collecting every single piece in this house. A place full of items and memories that are treasured is always in fashion.

I love this house. I admit I would have to edit a bit some of the collections (we all have our individual likes and dislikes) but otherwise on a scale of 1-10, I give a 9.5.
Very warm and it feels nicely lived in. The wall colours very nicely compliment the collections.
Oh, and those baskets with leftover shmattas and wallpapers - my heart jumped.

JoAnn and Dan should write a travel book!

Papillons! So cute!

I love how the Micah Ofstedahl painting reflects the movement of the tendrils of the potted tree in the master bedroom.

What kind of tree is that?

Sensory overload. I would enjoy it more if they had 1/4 the amount of stuff. It's hard to appreciate individual items when they get lost in the crowd.

LOVE IT......I have a frame shop in Portland so gallery walls have always appealed to me. It feels like a home. Beautiful! Cheers.

LOVE it. really warm and interesting. clearly a labor of love. i would HATE to be your housekeeper, tho!. love it!

Lots of great things here that's for sure, but I agree, it's a bit too much for me. I tend to keep my place less full of stuff overall, but then again, I live in a 600Sft, 1 bedroom apt in Seattle so space is very much limited.

That said, it's not spare by any means, but it's not so cluttered that every inch is filled with something.

I am a collector, just not been avidly doing so for about a decade (a lack of money as cost of living overtake income) but still, I have a collector's tendency none the less.

That said, I love the color used in the dining room, and the living room, it adds a warmth that I like and has a bit of a retro vibe to them.

Overall, a very fun place, and I love that layered look to a degree.

Love some of your Bacara rugs though. :-)

If you're going to be a maximalist, this is how to do it!

Love your African masks and your pottery collection. Wow.

great to see everything you love on display, rather than hidden away.

Please give us more amazing houses like this! I looked through the tour three times, seeing new things each time. I love the colours, the kitchen and creativity in this place.

Big thumbs up. Hooray for adding personal panache to a split level house. Amazing collections. Creepy bugs. Lots of dusting. Tthe cherry on the top is teddy bear with the 'I read banned books' button.

I love this so much. So much more interesting and rich and authentic feeling than a lot of the places ion AT which are packed with typical 2010's stuff (oversized chevron painted walls, keep calm posters, cushions with ampersands printed on them).
Personally I'd rather keep some stuff stored where there isn't room to display it and cycle it, rather than keep beautifully framed art on the floor... but anyway picture 29. Aaaah mah gaaahd

I love to travel and collect paintings from my travels. But this couple has shown me how to really collect memories of your holidays! Wow!!! Incredible collection! I would probably spend too many hours here trying to figure where everything is from! Happy collecting JoAnn and Dan!

Thick and Rich - - in a good way.

I love this home more than I can possibly say. No "Keep Calm & Carry On" posters, and
every bell and whistle big box store items displayed on endless white walls. This tour
is lovely and extraordinarily personal, there are lives being lived in this home. I adore
your hallway, just walking through it would give me endless pleasure. I'm in love! And
yes, we also have framed artwork on the floor.

What an amazing place!Really dying for!I'm so jealous of you having a great place like that!And you are awesome!The yard is my favorite!Looks so fresh and have plenty of sunshine.Nice outdoor view and maybe have a picnic out there.

Can I move in?

This is 'right up my street'. Love it. I'm an avid collector too and am extremely covetous of your extensive persian rug collection!! They are so damned expensive!

Thank you for inviting us into your magical home. I've been checking out AT for a couple years and just registered so I could tell you how I appreciate how you have shaken things up and raised the barre on so many levels.

The garden/landscaping/greenery is beautiful. The dog is very cute.

This is definitely not for me, but to each their own. I'm all for acquiring some items that are sentimental in nature (travel, inherited), unfortunately there is just SO much stuff that the "special" quality for most of it is lost. My allergies would be out of control with so many dust mites, regardless of how clean one tries to keep the place.

This house is not to my taste BUT I LOVE IT because its unique and reflects the personalities of its owners. Too often we see houses trying really hard to look tile something from a magazine, very nice to look at but rarely very personal spaces. So Bravo to you for stepping outside the box and doing your own thing!

I have desperate rug envy. And admiration for the appointed vaccuumer/duster.

While I do love the "more is more" idealism, I think this house might be a little much for me! Can you imagine packing up all that stuff if they ever had to move?!

To be surrounded by the things you love and the things that trigger beautiful memories is all you can ask for. Lovely.

I think this place is fantastic! I honestly can't stand the way this site constantly overuses the word 'curate.' But I have to concede, that in this case the term is *very* appropriate!

I love it when the things that fill up a house actually mean something to the owners instead of just being props. Well done.

when you love the things who cares about the dust? I don't. Our place is full too - after 30 years and no divorce and a beauty-craving eye that never sleeps of course one's place gets full and it can be very tricky to edit and organise. For those of you who can't look at so much and feel you could see better if there were just a quarter of the objects, you forget the house is a home for its owners; I speak from experience, its never too much if you live there and are familiar with and in love with the objects that form the "soul" of your space. Each object or painting reminds the true collector of a lovely or special time in their lives.

Wow so much stuff. You could charge people an entry fee to see all of your incredible collection, it's like a museum in there!

I'm an inveterate collector. It's great to see a home designed by people who also have the collectors gene. I love it.

What an amazing and personal home.

I don't get all the 'this isn't *my* style' posts (then as above, move on to the keep calm poster division, kids.)

Also, have we not learned 'hoarding' is an actual condition, not a term to be used lightly?

I too couldn't help but think of dusting, but this is amazing, incredible, awesome!

Mostly, I love it; what a refreshing change from the studied minimal curation that's so in vogue at the moment. It goes a little far for me; love seeing all those pictures on the walls, don't like seeing pictures propped up against things on the floor - at that point my tidy-brain gets a bit anxious. Also, my personal take is that having such a huge number of artifacts about the place almost homogenises them and makes it difficult to appreciate them individually. Still, I like it overall. I love all those rugs on the floor...you can't go wrong with beautiful Middle Eastern and Asian rugs. Love seeing all their treasures displayed as really loved objects, and mostly like the taste in furniture - heavy carved wood is always beautiful.

It looks like an extreme version of my family's houses I grew up in and visited as a child, so it's rather comforting!

I agree with Mavis - more tours with truly personal homes like this, please!

I think you need a bigger house for all your collections.
What type of plant is that in #15?

Before I start to have a look all the pictures in your house and When I saw Indonesian wooden Puppets in your house, I instantly knew it that I will like the house and love what kind of style you have.
I am Indonesian who lives in London which share same style with you both, and I just love every items in your house, its magical, I am loving it.
Note: you can see our house at Apartment Therapy by click: Tour, Local, England and see : Budi and Andrew’s Global Oasis in London ( page 4), Enjoy.

I love the warm spicy colors that you've chosen and the artwork is amazing....and I'm always a sucker for a tribal rug. I could spend hours looking at your collections. Thank you for sharing your home.

Forgettabout dusting and cleaning, I can't imagine how long it took you to hang all of that!
I bet you'll never move again. haha

Your kitchen is awesome! I love the fusion of rustic, farmhouse elements with modern elements. It feels like a kitchen with culture and with modern sensibilities.

Thank you for sharing your special home. It clearly depicted good taste (and resources to indulge in so many well kept collections!) As I looked through the photos I relized that the owners' one-of-a-kind collections do overshadow the unique individual pieces. But obviously that's how they roll, and good for them to have a home that captures their minds!

It's a Beaucarnea recurvata, commonly called a "Ponytail palm." It's slow-growing, likes bright light, and it's important not to overwater it. JoAnn

Budi & Andrew-

I enjoyed seeing all your beautiful ikats, batiks, and teak. I was in Indonesia this past spring for the first time (just Bali and Java), although I've collected textiles and puppets from these beautiful islands for many years. Your outdoor space is stunning! JoAnn

Please see my comment at the end with info about the plant. Thanks, JoAnn

I like the colors you used. My eye however went directly to the inside plant in a plastic pot, may I suggest using a large natural colored basket...would look great with all of your things. Enjoyed this post very much~ enjoy your lovely home.