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Oh! I love these pics!!! Those are great Standard Motion prints. I love his work. I have a couple of his prints too. I love the cat houses too. Did you make those yourself? How did you do your orange hallway?

I really like your paint color choices - what blue is that in the dining room?

Thanks guys!

Berman - Standard Motion has great stuff. I haven't gotten the prints framed yet because I ordered more from Etsy and I'm going to bring them all in at once. My boyfriend and I made the cat houses. Super easy - just wish the cats would sleep in them. They do like scratching them. The orange in the hallway is most likely going to turn grey in the near future because the orange is a little bright right when you walk in (and I want to sell this place within a year - orange is a hard sell). I was too lazy to paint near the popcorn ceiling so i just taped several inches lower around the doors.

Amy - the aqua blue is Behr's Tropical Waters.

Thanks Kim! I love the orange, but I agree it might be a hard sell. I love the taping job. Maybe you can do the same in grey? I also love your pics of the glass bowls. It makes them look like weird butterflies.

Good job-
I have a collection of about 10 old cameras and I can't seem to find the right place for them. Right now they are on a side table, but I like that look on the credenza

Kim, I LOVE nearly everything about the downstairs of your house, including (and especially!) the big bold orange, the gorgeous green and that tantalizing unusual blue in the dining room! I could move right in! And what an incredible eclectic collection of furnishings! Wow.

As to Shari's question about camera display, I had a client once who had a really cool collection of old cameras. We just staggered floating shelves on the wall and artfully displayed the cameras there. They look awesome, plus they are up and out of the way so they're not stealing any clean flat surface area.

Thanks Monica and Shari! I had tried my cameras on the Ikea floating shelves over my couch but they looked kind of dwarfed there. Maybe on thinner, not-so-wide shelves. Turns out a picture hanging over the cameras in the same shades helps too! And I saw a pic in a magazine once of a collection of cameras on top of an upright piano and they had a big square black canvas hanging above it that had SMILE painted in white in the center. Looked REALLY GOOD.

I'm going to do the floating shelves things with my antique cameras...just have to find the right shelves, ones that can actually stay in the walls but are thin enough to not distract