apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

I love the pieces in isolation, but clumped together it feels a bit more like a rummage sale than a home. The feature pieces don't really get to speak for themselves because they're too busy competing for attention. That poor little gumball machine gets lost in the mix, whereas it could (and should) be a great focal point for an entire room.

Man I have a CRUSH on this guy just from his house. Yum. One of my favorite house tours ever.

I LOVE this house. It's like Edgar Allen Poe, if they'd had prozac in the nineteenth century.

Okay, I have to agree with the previous poster that this guy's house is a crush-inducer... love.

He actually has an original Hitchcock prop? I'm in awe of the crow, gumball machine and mannequin.

Then again, I am big into kitsch. I have a mannequin in my bathroom wearing a daring bit of lingerie, the better to enhance the hundred or so retro pulp fiction book covers I've made into make-shift wall paper.

@ jplee: Now I have a crush on you too! Pics please!

I love the color and individuality. The place has real personality. I find the empty birdcages slightly disturbing - but that is probably the result of some personal psychological issue I have yet to address.

Love the toy stoves.

Love everything.
Really cool collection of what could so easily just be random stuff. Very stylish.

Love everything - that is - except the butcher headboard. There are those who would say that it is 'unfortunate feng shui' or 'bad chi' to hang a hatchet and raw cut meat over one's head ...

100% in love.

Love the creativity that went into this home! Fantastic job!

mskk: thanks! pictures in a few months -- i'm about to move, so the pulp fiction bathroom theme is now mostly in boxes.

(but, i plan to redo the theme in the new place, in some way, so i'll post in a few months. i also will need to post a "good question" about dealing with floor to ceiling ugly bathroom tiles rather than walls in the new place.)

Bravo for leaving the wabi-sabi finishes on all the old stuff alone, rather than painting it to look like candy-coloured plastic.

jplee, do you own the place? I put new walls up over hideous tile in my place. It was surprisingly easy. Feel free to e-mail me for details.

http://flickr.com/photos/eeka/sets/72157604303073486/

If you don't own it, then, hm, some sort of wallpaper adhered with something removable?

Hello this is Andy Phares, thanks for all your comments. If you have any questions I would be glad to answer them.

Hi Andy,

Love the photos. Thanks for some great ideas.

How many hours a week do you spend at the auction house?

Hello Malia,
It varies with the Auction line up. The more auctions in a given month the more often I'm there. I work there part time and choose the days I come in a month or two in advance.