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My style is a bit of a mash - I like what I like when I like it. Since there's no option for Eclectic or Ivy Modern... I guess I'll have to stick with 'other'.

Hopefully developing, because right now it is all IKEA/Target and thriftstore, and not in a chic retro sort of way but more in a just moved across the country and wanted to sit in a cheap couch, instead of on the hardwood floor kind of way.

I don't know what to call my style -- what would you call this?

I guess it doesn't take HTML. I meant to show our living room: http://www.lisabug.net/Photos/0606Livingroom.jpg

lisa, some of your pieces look contemporary (couch, shelving) and some are more traditional (coffee table). So I would say Contemporary/Traditional mix! Bonus points for the cute guy on the couch.
Too bad the survey only lets people choose from one style. My place is contemporary/modern/romantic plus whatever lots of dog toys equals :)

Ideally it would be Frank Lloyd Wright's prarie school minus the mission style pieces meets contemporary comfort, but I'm still paying off school loans.

Um... I think maybe "Global Roadside Motel" sums up my place. Or maybe "Baghdad Cafe meets The Standard." Or... eh, never mind. Let's just say "Eclectic" and call it a day.

I guess you'd call if "hip, funky grandma".

I would call mine yesterday's tomorrow...today. Or Jetson chic

If I had to define my style, I would probably go with "traditional whimsical." I like very high-quality furniture, but I dislike ornate furniture. I tend to go with very simple, classic pieces but then I add modern art and sculpture and accents, so it doesn't end up looking too stuffy at all. I like country, too, but not "rooster accents and floral accents country," but rather simple, rugged, beat-up-looking furniture which looks fetching in modern or traditional setting.

I chose "other" cuz I like the combo of new modernism w/ some global ethnic thrown in.

the day i moved into my current apartment, i looked at all my stuff, and i looked at all my roommate's stuff, and i said, "oh, good, we have pretty much the same decorating style". he responded, "yeah. Beyond Thunderdome."

i prefer "proto/post modern". in other words, i'll take anything from shaker to midcentury, as long as it's not minimalist.

Do you have links for Beyond Thunderdome? The description is so hilarious I've got to see the reality.

My style is MidCentury meets Contemporary - I can afford to occassionally buy smaller midcentury pieces like side chairs, lounge chair, desk but the I don't have the ducats to buy and reupholster a Florence Knoll sofa.

Beyond Thunderdome. as in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. i.e. postapocalyptic. i.e. weird salvaged odds and ends cobbled together.

which, both proudly and sadly, is probably pretty apt. almost all my furniture when i moved here was scavenged (and all the recent acquisitions are thrift and vintage). i'm also a big reuser. and i have a soft spot for weird rusted out vintage junk. even the new stuff i buy is often vintage repro from target, or repurposed hardware, art, and dollar store trinkets.

Now that I've moved to the West Side, my personal space is a romantic shabby chic (well, the parts that aren't still Staples Stor-All box chic). The rest of the place is an airy ethnic zen decor, which is why I decided to move in.

However, my old place was totally postapocalyptic (think Fight Club meets Burning Man).

At this point in time, I would classify my style as "Industrial/Shabby Chic goes Tropical"

I live in an art deco building in hollywood, so the mixing of modern/retro furniture is so perfect it hurts.

I've described my living room theme as "Mad Naturalist"; taxidermy, shells, and natural-history art around a random collection of wood furniture and lamps from the 1930s to 1970s. It just sort of happened...

My style is aiming more toward "Bohemian Glamour": red leather wing chairs, white cowskin rugs and mid-century seating reupholstered in plush velvets and boucles. White walls. Beamed ceilings. And a serious penchant for what I dub "Primitive Organic" -- this includes a mounted woolly mammoth tusk (bought in Alaska), Arne Jacobson Oxford chairs (handed down: black leather, steel) and an antique 1940's horseshoe bench (bought in London) to which I added a long-haired white goat fur cushion. Add to this some antlers and embroidery and you're getting there. There's a constant tension between new and old, hard and soft, practical and decadent, Viking and Roman.