Best...house...ever. Fun, real and stylish. I envy their kids.

Seeing this home inspires me to be less serious about what I think of as art for the walls in our home. I must get better about putting sentimental items into frames and getting them on the walls. I love the long line of little frames.

I love that they show how being a creative family doesn't have to translate into being a messy family. Lots of joy in this one.

I appreciate the fun and lighthearted touches inside and outside this home.

As for the Thomas Jefferson "quote," let's be both accurate and grammatical. What he said was "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal."

Love this tour. Their house is real. I'm tiring of the picture perfect houses and interiors you see everywhere. I'm going to steal the row of frames idea!

The last picture freaked me out - my sister and I have the same childhood nicknames. No wonder I like the house so much! My brother's name is not Zion though, it's Benjamin.

Big favor to ask AT house tour posters: please show photos that give some indication of how the space is being used, size of rooms, etc. Love the personal art collections, kids' cute drawings, cool and stylish, fun objects and tchotchkes, but I need help in the space planning department, and real life examples work best.
Thanks!

Cute house but I second @51Desks' comment. Too many of these House Tour photos these days are dedicated to vignettes. More wide shots of rooms that show the rooms in their entirety would be far more helpful to me.

Agreed on the inclusion of the whole space shots. Would be super helpful.

Awesomeness!

I love the art and how the kids fit into the house. It feels as though the kids are incorporated into everything. It looks like a fun, loving house to grow up in.

The orangy-red ginger jar in the bedroom .... swoon.

@pippigirl - relax. there's nothing wrong with tweaking a quote to be more inclusive. it's not like they were using it in a book report, it went on their family chalkboard. without quotation marks. so yeah, relax.

Love this home! Real design for how real people live! Question for the Stern-Schlussel's - what is the color of the paint used in the master bedroom?

Love the master bedroom, but on the whole although the art is nice there is too much clutter - too many objects. Too hard to keep clean. Not enough serenity. Every home needs serenity sooner or later.

We are so grateful and happy with your comments! The sentiment that this would be a great home for kids to grow up in is our exact goal and intention. The orange jar in our bedroom was my Grandma Annie's. We have been huge fans of this site forever and this is a gigantic honor for us to be featured. Thank you for appreciating our space.
x The Schlussels

Love it all...what awesome creativity in every space. Yes it's full...but full of beautiful unique things all of which look like they are used and enjoyed.

Wow. Those kids will have wonderful memories of growing up in that house. I bet visitors adore it, as well. Vibrant, warm, creative, inclusive, buzzing with energy and visual texture. Just pure awesomeness.

Vibrant, warm and very neat with that many people even! Love the highchair in the kitchen, it's gorgeous, I've never seen anything like it.

Also adored the fence painting.

Gorgeous home! Amongst all of the life and creativity and energy I think they've done a great job of making their master bedroom a quieter, calmer space with the dark walls and softer lighting.

I agree with many that we don't need so many close-ups of individual bits and pieces. Photos like the one of the empty vase blocking the stencil don't do this home justice...they make me start to skip over photos and resort back to the thumbnail view to find wider shots.

pure swoonworthy.

Paint in the bedroom is Dunne Edwards http://www.dunnedwards.com/ in Parisian Night.
High chair is by Svan http://www.svan.com/svan-high-chair.php

xx

THANK you! I have been looking and looking for *real* inspiration pictures for our home, but coming up short all too often. We have 5 children, and most of the house tours (although lovely) just don't fit with the "lovely but lived in look" I'm after. Most are too minimalist or too overly orderly for my tastes. I'm thrilled to see your home featured :) And I ***love*** that the kids' dresser were left unstyled.

Great house tour!

At last a home that looks like people live there! (To be fair, I think many spaces shown on AT belong to individuals or couples, not families with kids.) But it's nice to see a home where it doesn't look staged and the familiy lives with the things they own.

I love the mix of styles and the vibrant colors. Always good to see someone still using a milk crate to store LPs! The string of prayer flags is sweet as is the use of both professional and kid art. Would have loved a look at your ketubah since it was mentioned as one of your important pieces of art.

Thanks for sharing your house.

You're right, Funkytown. Many house tours are couples without children or with one or two.

Quick question... the room with the finger painted clouds... shared with Vivienne. Is that a boy/girl shared room? One of my biggest challenges right now is working on a bedroom for my 7 year old daughter and 5 year old son to share. My colors are actually very similar to the ones in that room (gray/blue walls, red, orange, etc.). Just wondering. Also, if the children are brother/sister, do you mind sharing ages for reference? Thanks!

This looks like such a happy, creative home! But yes, please more wide space shots and fewer close ups of flowers in a vase or sunglasses on a table.

Looks like a really happy, busy house. Wonderful. (Though it did make me chuckle that the Thomas Jefferson quote is next to a list of chores - none of which seems to have been achieved....I can empathize!)

What a fantastic home. loved the art, specially the abstracts. And the slightly quirky wall art re the clock tower, etc The contrast made the slightly formal areas stand out, as in the dining area.
this home has the signature of the artist!
just fantastic.

i love the "grandfather" clock!

The kids room with the clouds is shared by two sisters, 7 and 2, but that is a recent switch. We just took our baby daughter out of the crib and nursery and gave her old room to our 5 year old boy. Hence the blue walls in the (now) girls room. My Son's wall (the cloud wall), had robots and his name, etc. It just recently got a lot more girly.
P.S. the kids receive marks for their chores with fruit markings on the tree drawn on the board. When they fill their tree, their chore box gets filled. 3 full trees of fruit=a big prize.
Each kid has 3 branches to fill so they can receive $3. One to save, one to give, and one to spend. We went to sleep feeling amazing because of everyone's comments. Thank you again for appreciating how we live.

Thank you for allowing me to view your lovely, love-filled home. Shabbat shalom to you!

What a great example of home! This is the kind of home I am trying to create for my family. Best of all for me was the kitchen with the little plants in the windowsill. Many times I doubt my judgment when I see a "before" kitchen with an older style and think that there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. I'd take that nice, clean white tile countertop over a run of the mill granite one any day! I will also be copying the small art frames. Love it all. Thanks for sharing.

Well, this is real! I really connect to the way art is at the fore, and I appreciate the nudge toward being brave about painting on the walls (or fence)! The kitchen feels...odd with the lonely stove next to the metro shelving. I agree a little out-of-sightness for all the books could let the art breathe more. I love the idea of 'everyone who comes over can make something' like the whole place is a studio vs a curated gallery. Interesting!

Lovely home! I don't have time to read all the comments, so I apologize if this is redundant. My husband and I bought a fixer upper with a hot tub in the back yard 3 years ago. We posted the tub on Craigslist as a freebie and there were many inquiries (and my husband learned that one should never post a phone number on craigslist!). It was a long wait, but somebody eventually came along and took it for free. We dug out the cables and dug around it to make it easy to take out, and it was picked up. We also looked at the possibility of breaking it apart and disposing of it in pieces, but held out for someone that might reuse it. Hope this helps!

I was "introduced" to Molly through her makeup videos via Girl's Gone Child and loved her then. Seeing how she lives makes me love her even more. While it's not even close to my own, personal design style, her home seems so inviting, just like her personality!

I know Jamie Shear!!! How wonderful to randomly look at a beautiful home tour and come across his name!! I wonder if he knows your tour is on Apartment Therapy??? Thank you for mentioning him. My only wish is that there was a photo of the Ketubah. I wish you many years of happiness together in this home! It is filled with love, inspiration and joy! Thank you for sharing!

I love it! It looks like people live here, and it's got tons of creativity!!

That said, I must know where the LOVE blanket in the kids room is from???

Your DIY grandfather clock will be serving as inspiration for our new home! What a fantastic mix of modern, color, comfortable, creative you have given to your home!

You can just feel the love in this home! What a wonderful place for your kids to grow up. :) Love your style!

Like Melissa82, wondering where the Love blanket is from?

I love your home. A wonderful reflection of a happy, loving, and creative family! Thank you for sharing with us.

The Love Blanket was made by my Mother for our youngest daughter. She has made a blanket for every one of her twelve grandchildren. They are all unique and extraordinary (as is my mother).

David

Wonderful!! I especially love the drawing of the woman with the...harp? She is lovely!! There are two things I'm very curious about. Is that yellow "laugh" box really something that was used as an audience prompt to get people to laugh? I just love it! Also, am very curious as to what that helmet-looking thing is on the dresser in photo 58. Looks like some sort of very interesting toy or something. Very curious!

Thanks for sharing your vibrant home with us!!

David - That is wonderful!! My grandmother made quilts for all of the grandchildren. The last one she made was for my daughter. What gifts to be cherished.

Love this comfy-cozy house, probably because it's a lot like my 1937 home, also in L.A, Even the entrances are similar. Ours is also a family home - 2 adults, 2 kids, one cat, one dog - with a similar vintage kitchen. It just warms my heart to know that I am not the only one w/o a designer range and acres of marble countertops. Right now we're cleaning out the garage so it can be a studio-teenager hangout space.

I'm seconding (thirding, tenthing, twentiething?) the posts that all say "happy". That is it in a nutshell: this home looks happy. I suspect that for people who know the Schlussels personally, it is a house that looks and feels "just like them." What an accomplishment.

The grandfather clock silhouette is pure GENIUS. Made me laugh out loud (and immediately clip to my IDEABOOK).

are my eyes deceiving me, or are those small square picture frames? i've been searching all over for frames like this. anyone know where i could get some?