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this home is so fun...I love it!

love the rug in the bedroom!
where is it from?

This place is BURSTING with personality! Love it!

Oh wow! I love that pink and red wallpaper! Such a fun and bold place! Great job!

I LOVE both of the big wooden tables! Where did you get them?

I promise no exclamation points in my critique. Is it fair to love the home more than the decorating?

To me, the bedroom is perfect. Calm and relaxing. And that outdoor space is great, especially the tree swing seat.

But the living area is kind of a jumble. There are too many colors and too many couches. I wonder if the built-ins should go? They don't look very comfortable, and maybe the flat screen could go in that space.

The kitchen needs some serious clutter control.

"Forlikeever" poster? Check. Nelson lamp? Check. Sling chair? Check. Faux taxidermy? Check. Sigh. This is a gorgeous house that deserves a little more thought.

I'm with Bolder,

Love the house and some beautiful elements in it, but yikes that pink pattern. Still I admire anyone who can live with that in peace.

i love it! its so original and inspires me to use more color at my house!

I would have to agree that their style is a work in progress. As a city apartment dweller I'm totally envious of all that awesome outdoor space.

Somebody please tell me where they got that fire bowl on the back patio. It's PERFECT.

That wallpaper is better than a thousand cups of coffee to wake you up in the morning... and the table is lovely.

DAMMIT another one of those antique rustic dining tables that haunt my dreams. Too bad they are ungodly expensive. If ANYONE knows where one can be made/found for UNDER 1k, please post a link here.

This house is amazing and wonderful full of personality. It makes me happy to look at, but then also sad as that lifestyle is so unattainable to most of us.

I remember this home from Small Space Big Style when it was owned/designed by a (different?) woman and her daughters. I still love the bones of the house (the awesome bridge, outdoor mirrors, double-deep bookcases) but kinda miss her touches (like the paint-splatter "rug") I also love what she'd done with her daughter's room upstairs.

The pink wallpaper in the sitting room here is fun, though.

im new to apt therapy and just checked out these pics. love this place - makes me happy to look at. seems like folks feel strongly about the pink wallpaper. i LOVE it.

the best design about this place is the wallpapers. i didn't care for the pink color with the furnishings, but i love the close-up of the pattern..with the cats & birds. and the tree paper was cool.

otherwise i agree with a previous poster, the bones of house are very nice and there are some nice things in it, but...things are kind of jumbled... in colors, items, placements, etc. i almost expected these to be the "before" photos of the "before & after" type of decorating. but, i.m sure it's comfortable to live there.

i love the exterior color of this home, the personal touches inside the home are inspiring.

This house sort of reminds me of a "best of Apartment Therapy 2007."

In a bad kind of way.

a "for like ever" poster, a faux deer head, a wassily chair, a print from 20x200, a "bold" wallpaper, a small parsons tablebold, graphic pillows, a shag rug, an oversized paper lantern...

Makes it somewhat difficult to see the real personality here. Sorry...

typo!

Plus to make it worse, looks like Bolder already said what I wanted to.

THANKS FOR ALL THE COMMENTS, BOTH THE POSITIVE & THE NEGATIVE. WE LOVE OUR HOME.

TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS...

1. THE LIVING ROOM TABLE WAS BOUGHT YEARS AGO FOR UNDER $100 FROM A SMALL SHOP ON SUNSET AND MOHAWK
2. THE SHAG RUG IN THE BEDROOM IS IKEA
3. THE OUTSIDE FIRE PIT IS FRM POT-TED ON LOS FELIZ BLVD

I MUST know where they got this wallpaper. Anyone?

This is one of the best tours I've seen on AT. It really looks like a home people love and live in--not staged and picture-perfect like some of them.

It's funny, I barely even noticed the potentially clichéd things like the bubble lamp and the "for, like, ever" poster. I believe that the owners chose them because they liked them, not to fit into a certain prescribed aesthetic.

You can tell this is a great home for entertaining and that the owners have a lot of good parties--they've done a great job with the seating inside and out.

And one last thing--the wallpaper. LOVE it!

Six Months Shelf Life (13 days left).
Master bedroom is nice (sans Wassily chair).

The dining area, wall unit (so terrific!) and table and chairs and print all work together SO very well. I take inspiration from it. Like the yellow counter in the kitchen, too. This area is clean, warm and super functional - I bet the flow is just perfect at that table.

But the EIK is a different experience to look at.
The wallpaper is too strong and a poor match for the streamlined brown cushions and honey wood in the eik. Particularly bad with the white plastic cubicle table and stark white pendant lamp. I don't like the pillow pattern against the pink wallpaper either - kind of trying to mix rococo and minimalism. same deal on the deck with the orange fabric...good spaces, maybe even okay colors but wrong combinations and patterns. Sorry. But you've got fantastic foundations there.

The bedroom is cute but you haven't infused it with any personality yet - surprising after the rest of the place.

BEAUTIFUL ..WOW


I love your place and LOVE your dining table ,also yours is one of the few houses I've seen here that have comfortable seating and enough room for the family to be together .

I love the bookshelf! I think hanging artwork in a bookshelf is a wonderful idea. I've done the same thing with the shelf in my room, only I had limted space to work with so the impact is not as great as this.

Phenomenal, the perfect mix of charm and sophistication!

I just love that pink wallpaper!

First of all, my absolute favorite thing is the Obama bumper sticker ;)! Secondly, I LOVE LOVE the pink wallpaper and I like the contrast of the dark seating against the wallpaper. However, it doesn't look all that comfortable and I wonder if it gets used all that much? I'm sure at a large gathering it does. (Okay, so now I'm arguing with myself). And albeit trendy, I like the faux animal head against the wallpaper. The bedroom, however, doesn't make me happy. It's a little lackluster and makes me feel like I'm trapped in origami....

Does anyone know about those leaf pictures? It looks like they are made out of wood veneer.

THE LEAF PICS WERE PURCHASED AT "SHOW" ON VERMONT, IN LOS FELIZ.

VLM, have you seen CB2's Darjeeling table? It is not exactly the same, but is made of reclaimed wood. Costs $899. I haven't seen it in person, but am loving the pictures:

http://www.cb2.com/family.aspx?c=202&f=4662

This does kinda make me sad. It's actually pretty cute, if a little trendy for some, and I love all the colour.

But I did get a weird sense of deja vu about it, until I remember it being on SSBS a few years ago, with different owners with a much more authentic sense of style. The new owners seem to have barely managed to copy it, as if they tried to buy into a lifestyle they don't actually understand. Sad.

What a gorgeous eclectic HOME. I feel like those who currently reside in this HOME have done a wonderful job of inserting their
personality into the space. Living in an architectural takes courage. If you stray too far from the architect's vision you risk being taken to task for that and if you stay too close to the architect's vision you risk being taken to task for that as well.

The terrasse/garden seems to be very confortable. Love the outside bench.
Have to wait for the summer....

Disagreeing with another person's style is one thing. To insult them and accuse them of "buying into a lifestyle they don't understand" is another thing entirely. Whether or not you agree with their decorating choices is irrelevant, they are the people who have to live there. Not everyone has the same taste, just get over it already.

Hi Megan! Your home is so lovely to view. It is very inspiring!! Where did you get that white deer head in the pink room? It is so cute. I want one!! Thanks a binch, Gabriela

HI GABRIELA,

I BOUGHT IT AT SHOW ON VERMONT IN LOS FELIZ. ITS A GREAT STORE!

i wish i had seen your kitchen counter top before i purchased my white one. the black is beautiful against the sink.

Hi Megan, I am a little late, but I hope you still check this - who is the artist of the wave print in your bathroom? I love that and I know I've seen it before. I did a google images search and STILL can't figure out who it is. Thankssss!