Loving the first room - The limed-oak paneling is to die for and the furnishing are tastefully choices.

The rest of the place?
Looks like a mid-90's Horchow catalog threw up in there...

LOL@ Horchow catalog. That said, I also love the first room.

The library, the first room, is wonderful. I'd love to have my blanket, a cup of tea, and spend a Saturday with those books.

Goodness! This is lovely! I'm with you Terry in Silver Spring!

i like the orange against the pale gray in that one room.

I absolutely love this mature decorating style; and the fact that the owners have decorated it to enhance the "bones." It would look silly to have any other catalog than Horchow to throw up in it. Lovely, just lovely.

totally not my style..the green room is nice..but the other rooms suffer from too much clutter...like that coffee table for example..too much stuff on it. I recommend clearing out the clutter...I wonder if she does the dusting or the cleaning ?

Does her own dusting, LOL!

I'm sorry, but there are no thrift stores on the UES. Unless a $3500 chair is somehow "thrifty."

Just not my style.

That story about the coffee table is hilarious... UES Social Suicide!

I do find this interesting, but all the stuff in there is overwhelming. So many beautiful things competing for attention.

Wow, how many living room type rooms are there? I like some of them better than others.

Au contraire, ErikTheRed. Housing Works (of them, actually), Spence Chapin Thrift, Goodwill and Council Thrift are all close by. And all of them are pretty great.

(Did I just give away some of the my best sources? I totally did.)

I think she went to the Sloane Ketterling thrift store as well as Housing Works (which has great stuff, even online.)

honestly, i love this. it's not my apartment and not my style, but it's actually really beautiful. the furnishings are wonderful, the colors, great objects... and it fits her neighborhood. it's the UES so it works.

i love her artwork as well. i think my favorite space is the bedroom -- the wallpaper is so cool, and i want those japanese dolls!

"cat hair macrame"

I lol'ed.

Older lady chic. Not my style, but she seems to dig it!

i'd be able to get more into this if the article hadn't stated the apartment cost them $2 million. not really AT's core demographic, is it...

That is a nice shade of orange.

I find it fascinating how so many AT posters associate "traditional" (often more a perception of what is "traditional" than what actually is -- i.e., the Horchow look...) with "grown up"...

Anybody care to elaborate?

I find it quite beautiful. I love the first picture, the room stands alone, even if it were unfurnished. There is a lot of stuff on that coffee table, though. In the next two pics, I am in awe of her use of pattern, it is quite daring. The orange and grey room is perfectly ornate and chic. Most of all, I love the garden, put some cushions on that sofa and I could spend my whole summer out there.

I like me some Horchow, but not too much.

Love her nature-inspired paintings.

@ladymantle: ooh, that was mean! Yow.

@mschatelaine: all the old people (grownups) we know, parents and grandparents and that little blue-haired lady down the street, tend to have very traditional furnishings, where there seems to be a lot more variety, at least to our eyes, in the dwellings of those in our own generation(s). Same reason someone might characterize the trade-in of a Honda on a Lincoln as grown-up. Not necessarily true, just a perception formed over time, probably when we were younger and everyone was grown-up.

Nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to DUST there!

I disagree, shanalulu. How can you call someone's style a perception? I prefer lux to knock-down any day. However, I can appreciate all the different decorating preferences I see on this site. No one has a "lock" on style.