Very nice place. I especially like the high ceilings and the built-in cupboard, as well as the curtains in the DR. You've done a great job of blending styles/tastes!

I just love your decorating style, all the rooms are great!!!!!

The two styles work well together. Very nice compromise! :)

Excellent use of vintage & Ikea finds! bravo

Love your home ... walls, moulding, wall colors, etc.

I adore the box on top of the microwarve oven. Please share the sources for it. Is that a vintage bread box?

swooning over your pew. i have been searching for one for years now, every one I find is either ugly, or twelve feet long (and I can only do three- four feet in our house)... i know, we could cut down and rehab, but i hate to spend the money on seating we'd literally cut out. the search continues!
great find, and great apartment! :)

lifeabundant- yeah, it's a vintage breadbox that we found at a thrift store in Chicago (the village on Roscoe).

And a big thank you to Apartment Therapy and everyone else's nice comments. We are excited to share our space!

Ikea done right! Great place!

great use and choice of colors for your walls!

@hannah-a, Could you find 1 or 2 others who want a short pew, find a long pew, and then split the expense and pew?

Oh, that blue paint. Love.

That living room reminds me very much of my own in terms of color, so of course I like it:) The blue paint looks strikingly similar to what I used - Behr's Dark As Night.

I'm sort of surprised to find that I love the Ikea curtains in the dining area - they're quite pretty. The photos on the company's website must not do them justice.

LOVE! Every square inch of it.

totally gorgeous home! LOVE the rich blues!

Love your home! I too have a mix of found items, Ikea, family pieces, etc. Including....the EXACT same orange chair :) Your space is inviting and fun - well done!

What a lovely color in your living room. Is it blue or grey. It looks blue but I was just wondering.

To each their own...I find the decorating to be flat, for example the blue room with the blue window treatment. No depth. I personally do not think the styles are cohesive...at all. Again, just my opinion, nothing personal.

Wow! That "gun" vase. I wonder if it is possible to find another. What a wonderful darkly-humorous object!

Love the mix of functional and vintage. But I will never understand the empty frame and the shadeless light bulb. The first is a little too ironic and the second is just too harsh.

i like the light gray trim in some of the rooms. what color is it? and what wall white did you use with the light gray trim?

LOVE your living room color! I've been searching for the perfect navy. Can you please share the paint color?

Very nice apartment, there isn't anything I don't like. Did you attach the expedit's together in the back or simply stack them? I live on the west coast so I would worry about earthquakes.

I really like your house. I love the vintage pieces as well as the "bones" of the apartment itself. Very nicely put-together and I enjoyed looking at it. Thanks so much for sharing.

que horror! sorry but i think i can smell old furnitures/house from here.

Excellent choice of wall colors! They go so well the honey-colored wood floors... Just perfect!

I love it ! I love how you mixed all the styles together. You have the same kitchen set as my parent's and I never knew it could look good lol !

@jillfernandez : what a rude comment and uncalled for... and it's "quel horreur" not "que horror"...

Again, repetition for emphasis, I like your place. It looks comforting, cozy and clean.

A really gorgeous place. The mix of two styles work perfectly and everything just blends in to make this fantastic house.

Love your place! I'm thinking of taking the dark blue living room plunge myself--consider this another plea to find out what color blue paint you used in that room. Thanks!

Love the color punch from the rich blue painted walls!

I think this is great. I'm also a fan of the blue and I really like the plants in the old crate in the kitchen. The whole thing feels really soothing.

@jeannemarie - I think that vase might be from Suck.uk.com. They certainly did something like that.

This apartment makes me miss the Midwest. It's sweetly creative, unpretentious and cozy. The best qualities of the MW.

@MaryJos

If Jill Fernandez is speaking Spanish, then she is correct with writing "Que horror!"

Dosen't excuse her comment, which was a bit rude, but throwing in that extra jab was also uncalled for, especially when you're incorrect.

Love it! Has anyone heard the adage " if you don't have anything good to say, say nothing at all"?

esp: that doesn't really make for a great exhange of ideas and input, does it?

and this got a complete House Tour because...?

Sorry, I know the saying posed above, still I'm not saying anything negative other than WHY?

The pared down living room is gorgeous and dramatic with the dark walls and minimal furnishings. Nice style.

I'm a fan of the salvage life, but that microwave area makes not want to eat anything from that kitchen. It just has a creepy dirty vibe about it. I don't understand the charm of this place at all.

This is why I miss Chicago - the awesome shops and that all-American skyline - you have a very cool apartment and it shows new is not always better!

Paint is used to very good effect here.

Well done! Love the living room wall color as well. A list of paint colors would be nice! Thanks for sharing:)