apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

You've got some great passages here, but it leaves me wanting more of the vibrant stuff! Like, where does that incredible blue fit in with the rest? And whats that tease of bright green doing in the hallway?

PS. Brilliant juxtaposition of the chicken print next to the portrait :-D

Love the picture of your dining table. The titles are pretty cool colors and the flowers are a great way to bring more reds into the room.

Also the lime green room in the back of the last picture seems intriguing. (more pictures ?)

Overall, surprisingly bold colors for an old fashioned house. For some reason I always see these homes in rather conservative/traditional ones.

I'd love to see this house in a slideshow. Everything I've seen is lovely and wish I could view more of the house and your displayed artwork.

I like your house a lot. It looks like a comfortable place to hang out.

I'd like to see this as a slideshow, too. The house is intriguing, but I wonder if this isn't the best contest to showcase it.

There is nothing in the rules of this contest to say that a hodgepodge of a house can't compete. Why is this not a good contest for this house, quercus? Agreed, this house doesn't fit the design magazine aesthetic, but it does have color and the color does define the space, so I think it works okay for the contest.

I love the kitchen floor!

I love this house. It is a house that looks like a home, unstylized, unpretentious, and not trying too hard. The responses of the homeowner makes me love it even more.

If I may answer for quercus, I think she's just saying that the way the contest is structured, with only so many pictures, it's difficult for us to get a sense of the "whole"--how one room relates to another, how the flow of colour works. I bet you a loonie the more successful entries will be those focussed essentially on one room, (and that includes a studio apartment) or two.

Your house is REAL! I like it. The shot of the old piano with the old chrome and vinyl chair got me. That's "good hodgepodge".

"I'm probably not the best to offer tips. Our house is truly too hodgepodge for most people's tastes."

bollocks. i want to hear your tips!

also...in the third picture...do i spy teeth in the artwork to the left of the desk?

I am lucky enough to live on the same street as little green, and this is my most favorite house to visit. It's warm and inviting and cozy. I love the kitchen most of all. Well I love the garden most of all, but the kitchen is really good. The kitchen table is an old library table, and the bench is a church pew that is painted and reupholstered. This house is colorful and full of art and books and collections of interesting things.

And to answer shenanigans, yes, that is teeth in the artwork above the tatami in the kitchen. It's a large scale ceramic piece by Todd Barricklow.

hodgepodges often make the more interesting places -- of course I have a hodgepodge myself -- and like Alana missing something of the flow of colors in the entries.

Sadly that blue wall is now almost completely ripped out. We were replacing windows and found major structural inadequacies, so we're in the middle of a remodel of sorts.
The blue wall is in the living room (opposite the piano) , which has only recently been restored to a living room. It has been serving as my sewing studio for the last few years.
Our house is not a showcase home, sigh. It is very lived in and funky. I think that might be the only unifying factor. So I guess that answers the questions of how it all works together, eh?

I think the house looks great and I really want to see more of it. I just think that as an entry, it is at a disadvantage, compared to the ones with bolder colors and photos that highlight colors, rather than design elements more.

What is that kitchen floor? I love it!

Armstrong tiles. 99 cents each!

I really like the chalk board....did you make it yourself, or buy it somewhere?

Home tour, please...

great drawer pulls. and YAY for being 'people with stuff'! i love a good hodgepodge.

Ohmygosh!