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I'm moving away from MCM towards Hollywood Regency/Neo-Traditional - its so much warmer, more luxurious and comfortable, yet quirky.

Is there a "master list" of recognized interior styles?

i read that as "cozy bozo decor"!

Does anyone else Tivo HGTV's Find Your Style? It's on Saturday afternoons and is a great show. It's totally unlike usual HGTV shows, there isn't any making lamps out of toothpicks stuff and the designer is great.

Can I pick your Eileen Grey tables? Ha! My Tolomeo lamp has nothing on the vintage Victorian heating grate that I picked up from my grandparents' summer home, my homemade Mission-style side table that I picked up at the Georgetown flea market years ago, and my sweet new microfiber couch that invites naps and relaxing. I hate to label interior styles. I like a mixture.

Things I can't live without: the Mission chair I bought recently, my Christmas Cacti, and my Target bookcases!

can't live without my big ceramic lamp, teak lounger, and my parent's buffet and hutch (that is still in use by them).

I'm an MCM-on the cheap girl.

As usual, I am all over the map. My three favorite things are my antique trestle table (a wedding gift from my parents), the giant bookshelf I faux-marbled in college, and my grandmother's Heywood-Wakefield lazy-susan coffee table. Perhaps my style is best defined as "Sentimental Fool".

Lol, SydneyBristow... I read it as "crazy hobo decor"!

SydneyBristow and Mrs. Mack: Oh, I figured it *was* "crazy bozo decor," and thought, yep, that's me!

rosewood MCM dining room set, hollywod regency-ish gold love seat, painting of a little girl on a giant slab of wood: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21305917@N06/2329683819/

I'll cheat and add a fourth, MCM sofabed with teak armrests.

Primitive chic. That's me!

what if you could care less about every single thing in your house? as i look around i realize i've bought stuff for comfort, storage, or based on price. i like it but could live without it, so what style is that? i need help! i love elements from everything i see here but it would be hard to put together without a unifying theme or plan.

i used to watch that find your style show and remember liking it... maybe that will help me if i go back to watching it!

I'm not sure what this style is: custom made arts & crafts style settle with colorful upholstery, vintage metal hydrangea lamp, antique iron bed.

my style is techno
i can't believe without refrigerator, computer and shower

less is more

taxidermied pirannah, heywood wakefield dresser, Gus Harper "Signs of a Benevolent Universe" painting.

streamlined vegetarian man eater?

food, water and air

My grandmother's tufted, apple-green velvet slipper chair, a green, rust and bronze elephant from India, and my collection of Fillmore prints.

Hmmm. This could mean disastrous things for my "go gray, off-white and wood tones" plan for the Cure.

My partner keeps describing my taste as austere, and yet I look around and see very plush, colorful, surroudings that blend traditional and modern items. So I looked up the word austere in the dictionary and of the many ways the word is used, I think my partner meant "minimal embelishment." I don't like lots of nicknacks laying about, and most utilitarian things are put away where they belong. But the word austere sounds more minimalist to me, and my style is definitely not minimalist.

I've heard the word "transitional" style and I guess that might be it. Whatever my style is, I do like the way my tastes and sensibilties have evolved, and I daresay have been refined in the last 18 months due to reading AT and more design magazines than I've ever paid attention to in the past.

I really don't know what to label my style other than eclectic. The three things I picked are my gold Alessi wire bowl/basket, a framed vintage nursery rhyme print, and a large seashell.

3 things I can't live without...well when my(neighbors) apt. caught on fire I grabbed the travel toiletries from under the cabinet, extra undies, and my computer. but back to what this question is trying to figure out, if I had to pick 3 things I plan on keeping for...forever my 1950's era seate for it's wonderful shape, handmade(not by me) cedar chest for it's versitility, and it's a tie between my books & 1970's green velvet chair with cream piping.
so, I guess I'm somewhere between modern farm, & vintage bohemian???

Louis Icart print from my grandma, Indonesian wooden dining table and MCM sideboard??

So I guess I'm a MCModern rustician??

My two antique oak four-stack barrister sets, aqua McCoy mixing bowl and the other McCoys, and the .$50 school yard sale painting of (what I think is) a flower garden. The painting has great, wonderful colors and reminds me of expressionist or lyrical abstractionist work.

I guess I'm kind of craftsman, not-too-too-woodsy woodland, elegant retro-farm.

Late 19th century renaissance-revival marquetry table (family heirloom), a 16th century portrait I bought at a ridiculous price, and my 19th century bronze Mercury.
Guess I'm classical somehow inside ... although the mahogany art deco console table isn't far behind.

what can I not live without.... ... ... my Rothko paintings... um... hmm... (beautiful but not functional)

there are things that I'm attached to.

I guess:
my sofa if it were recovered (functional but not beautiful)

and... um... uh...

my mattress, but that doesn't really count...

and I guess my beautiful 60's dining room table that doesn't fit AT ALL into my dream world. (functional, beautiful, but not used for the last 2 years)

So my style is Mid-Century Abstract Expressionism with a dash of je ne sais quoi?

NO! My style is je ne sais quoi with a dash of Mid-Century Abstract Expressionism!

Great, where do I go from here?

I chose my orange glass lamp with the brown and orange butterflies lamp shade (Think modern referencing 60s)

A stack of vintage art books, leather bound, variety of colors.

And a table top sculpture that is on the abstract side I made about 10 years ago.

I guess that makes my style vintage with a pinch of modernism and a splash of sass?