wow its just darn too pretty.

i would've liked some more wide shots, but i love what i see!

oh my goodness, absolutely fabulous...esp that dreamy bathroom!

Awesome!!! So many ideas I intend to steal for my own place.

It's just so pretty!

exactly what my place would look like if i was still single and didn't have a man encroaching on my absurd love for floral EVERYTHING

Would have loved to see more wide shots of entire rooms, but wow, this is gorgeous! Particularly loving the floral rug, the tub (!!!), and that haunting, lovely picture of the young girl.

Incredibile! You have totally captured what I have been struggling to express in my home. I didn't know where to start but now I have a pretty good idea. THANK YOU! I have a teeny weeny place with two HUGE windows that bring in lots of light and I wanted to bring the outdoors in without it being too "earthy".

Wishing you great luck in winning this contest!

The colors make me want to jump up and down!! This is so wonderful, I love it, I want it! It's incredible!

Just noticed that the second picture is of a bathtub...genius, something so unexpected is beautiful!

Pretty but too many vignettes to really get a full sense of the rooms.

would love to see more of this house! it's so girly and pretty, just like a movie set for a happy, well adjusted, career girl...in mill valley! love it

Lovely. It looks rather European to me. AAnd I'm sooo jealous of your tub!

I love the tableaux...
...but I'd like to see more of the rooms.

wow. and i'd like to see more please.

nice!

at first glance I thought there was a koi fish painted on the bathtub in the thumbnail picture, that would have been cute too!

love the pink salmon with the purple flowers.

The display of Japanese anemones on the mantle is one of my favorite flower arrangements ever.

too many vignettes to get a sense of how it works together, but i like what i see. i also love the white floors.

i disagree with the majority about the vignettes. the vignettes capture the mood of the color scheme we're meant to resonate with in each shot. if we saw the whole (or even most) of each room in the photos, we'd see 'too much' and would not feel the full effect the selected colors were meant to evoke. consider that in most of our smallish homes, each corner or wall has its own color and character scheme. and it's each scheme (or theme) that the resident is trying to display here.

This is really charming. Beautiful colours! I like it a lot!

One more thing - this is the most beautiful bath tub I've ever seen - shape, colours, position, everything!

Would love to see a walking house tour... (;

I disagree with heather leaf. These photos are amazing, the house must certainly be lovely, but still it'd be nice to actually see more of it.

Nonetheless, this is one of my favorites.

just beautiful! beats the candy stores with its good balance of white and color. winner.

Your tub is beautiful.

This is absolutely gorgeous, but I really cant tell if its one home or shots from several homes--there is so little to give a sense that it is a unified space, so that dampens my enthusiasm a bit. That said, every shot makes my heart sing, and I could pretty much live in that bathroom.

Wow! I love it!

Would you tell me where you got those stencils from?

too many closeups.

Love much of your stuff. The tub, the vase with the ... not lavender, not chaste tree ... purple flowers.

Beautiful details. It's like a fairytale, so sweet and inviting. I agree we don't see enough of the bigger picture, but these little moments are very special.

really hard to evaluate without seeing the whole rooms.

What we see is beautiful, but mostly vignettes. You can't really see how the rooms are put together for a total effect. We would all love to see the kitchen and bedroom, the whole living room, etc. More please. What I see reminds me of Tricia Guild n a good way. Maybe she needs to desgn fabrics.

Catherine,

I'm in love with that bathtub. I live in a tiny cottage with a very tiny bathroom that currently has only a shower. I wanted to put in a tub, but I'm afraid they will all be too big. How large is your bathroom/bathtub and where did you get such a lovely piece?

Thanks for sharing your home. It is quite beautiful.

so sunny and pretty. I'd like to see more overall shots.

Absolutely stunning! I looove your choice of colors.

OH MY GOSH! I just saw this today! Thank you all for the lovely comments! I so WISH NOW I had picked more long shots. The rooms are small and it is hard but if any of you want to see longer/overall shots or have any questions about details, where I got things, how I did anything etc you can email me at cgoldie123@aol.com. I am always happy to help! That red wall was is in the living room and I sent in the WRONG photo! The right photo is a wide shot. I asked them to change it out but I am sure they do not have time. The dining area/kitchen/living room are all connected in one narrow room. The room with the yellow flowers (stencils are from Stencil Library on the net) is the family room which at one end of the house. I think it was a garage conversion. The house is the shape of a shoe box with flat roof and all concrete walls built in 1963, done in one pour. I call it the concrete shoe box. Over the years I have changed every single-pane aluminum window. That is the hall bath I re-did and had that big window put in. I waited 20 years for my clawfoot tub under a window. The bathroom is only 55" wide and about 9 feet long. The tub is 60" so I had an alcove cut into the wall at the faucet end to make it fit. Do you know there is about 6" between most walls?! Anyway, sorry no wider shots and THANK YOU ALL for the wonderful comments! I am sooo honored since there are so many fabulous entries!
Catherine

more more more

I loooooooved the green art/photograph. Beautiful!

Forgot, Someone wanted to know where the tub came from. I searched and searched all over the net and finally selected this one from Vintage Tub.
http://www.vintagetub.com/asp/product_detail.asp?item_no=LG60SL7WSIW
There are so many to choose from and varying prices. This was one of the least expensive I could find. You just cannot fit comfortablely into anything less then 60 inches. I looked at used ones but once they are finished and delivered it was almost the same price. The fixtures came from overstock. The chandelier is a small Schonbek I found on the net. The vanity is a sofa back table made by Lexington I also found on the net. There are silvery vine stencils on the walls/ceiling from Stencil Library (tub), Henry Donovan, and Royal Design Stencils. The floors are all a white-washed-wood-looking laminate. Thanks Everyone again.
Catherine

This space feels very personal and original. You have worked with magic in your small space. Bravo.

world's prettiest bath tub

just love it, all of it!

Again, too much white. You have many architectural features and book cases that could have been used to bring in more color. The colors don't have to jump off the walls, but could tie into the other colors more.

There is only one shot of the pink wall, so it's hard to see how that ties into the color scheme of blues and greens from the gardens.

Hello again:
The main book cases are FILLED to the gils with books and the china is all diffent colors so I wanted it on a white background. The colors all work together b/c no one color overwhelms another. Each room or area has a distinct color and light. But the style is similar. And as I said before the red wall shot was the wrong pic, my mistake! so you cannot see it in context in the living room. The garden changes color every month since I have tons of perennials. What color does not compliment all the colors found in a garden? I never buy something or paint something b/c it matches the garden somehow. I am by no means a professional decorator. AND THIS is the MOST IMPORTANT part for anyone's home: That YOU, not anyone else, LOVE coming home. I love coming home to my own small concrete bunker/art studio!
Catherine

Oh wow!! I'm in love with this house. And I'm especially in love with the bathroom. My apartment has a chipped old clawfoot that must have been luxurious at one point. Any advice on what kind of base and paint I could use to replicate this gorgeous tub?

Thanks Theo, I agree the trick is being even handed. Philly: Sand outside of tub just to rough it up, roll on a coat of good oil base primer, the kind that allows you to paint over with latex paint and then roll on any color you like. I used 3 shades colors of robbins egg blue and some watery green/turquoise mixed with glaze on top of the solid base coat. Then stencil away. Outside of tubs do not get that wet, especially a roll top tub. if you want you can put on a coat of water based poly. Thanks

Stunning....!

i love your house!!!!!perfect
this one's a winner

This is the most perfect decorating I've ever seen. Truly stunning.

So basically you folks voted for a space not actually knowing what it looks like...? You voted for a bathroom? Great, I guess...

goldie - even though I don't see the full room shots others also want, I can tell that you have a terrific, whimsical eye. I especially love the color groupings on the book cases & mantle. Good luck!

Good Sport Catherine- I was very sad to see your entry lose yesterday to one that was so clearly less creative and less inspired. I really hope to see more of your lovely place- it is stunning. the pictures that you took atop your mantle were some of my absolute favorites in this entire contest- Thank you for entering this contest and sad to see you go!

How did this extremely creative, colorful entry get the boot to one that had absolutely no use of color?? In a color competition??

I loooooove the dishes on white. Delicious, no food needed, thank you very much. I wish I could do the same in my place. I have just an old set of brown dishes, though! I disagree with BriSha. The entries were matched up well. Good on you both!

Goldie - Love your color choices. Is that a stencil or wall paper used on the green and white wall? Do you mind sharing the source for the stencil or wallpaper used to create that effect? Thanks much.

love your colors and use of texture on the canvas walls. brilliant idea. very cool artwork as well. sorry you didn't make it further, i was pulling for you.

i'm SHOCKED this one isn't in the finals - i've been rooting for it since the beginning. your home is gorgeous!!! xoxo

Thanks again for comments. The green hall is interno lime wash by sidney harbor and lattice is stencil from Royal design stencil on the net. There is no canvas on any walls.
Catherine

How is this not in the finals?? and Ingrid's Bland Boring Colors is???

catherine-
i'm a doofus. misread the "my walls are my canvas" line. the wall paintings are great, however.