Very modern & clean, I like this window a lot, and I could see myself living in this space. There isn't too much going on, and the colour scheme is comforting, which is ideal for a room meant to relax in. This space does the best job of featuring the merchandise, which is the number one priority for a retailer's window display. Well done, Eileen!
BTW, that Hudson Park 3 drawer chest is quite a popular item!!

i think this one is my favorite. it just WORKS.

i like it. the sketch had a bluer couch, but this is nice and warm. the wall treatment is really interesting.

This is my favourite too, although I think there are better on apartmenttherapy every day. At least it's not as claustrophobic as the other two.

The only thing I prefer about this window is that its much less cluttered than the other two.

This space is so clean and inviting -
- and not overwhelmed with accessories.

Eileen is the winner of this week's challenge!

OUTSTANDING! This is the perfect mix of styles, color, texture and form. It's interesting and complex without being over-designed and visually overwhelming. Love it, love it, love it!

Ditto @AnastasiaBeaverhausen.

Agreed! The others made me claustrophobic just looking at them!

This designer actually understood her mission. I wouldn't want to live in this room, but I prefer the clean lines over the other two rooms.

I'm reserving full judgment until I see them all in person, at night, but I will say this:

Eileen's room looks really effortless, and it's from a pretty ambitious color/pattern starting point. NOT easy to do.

And while perhaps no surprise, I think she also wins, hands down, if the criteria was to showcase Bloomingdale's furniture. She's made a very nicely "collected" look from a department store selection.

This is also a space with a LOT of function in it. And a LOT of flexibility.

Also VERY happy to see the boys-- Mitchell & Bob-- nicely represented here. We couldn't use their stuff last year!

While I would have loved to see a slightly edgier art installation above the sofa (which would have perhaps gotten you more AT votes), I pretty much love everything else about this.

Eileen-- if you are reading this--
Regardless of voting outcome, you've proven that a Grande Dame (Bloomingdale's, that is!) can hold her own against two media darlings! Congrats!

Ms. Joyce's window is clearly head and shoulders above the rest! It's well organized, clean lined, not overly busy or cluttered, filled with interesting objects, etc. and a nice balance of shapes. The color palette is warm - enough to take the room into reality and out of the store window. The grass cloth wallcovering is a real winner. What a fabulous choice. Congratulations. You get my vote!

This is a room I could actually think in. The other two would drive me to schizophrenia.

I'm with melonyjade & anastasia. The lack of clutter and fabulous lines on the furniture (I love that chest of drawers) made me vote for this, but it reminds me of a stage set, or a well-lived in high-end hotel room circa 1962. Give me the creative mixing & matching & 'making do' of the typical Apartment Therapy house tour any day!

My comment echoes many others already made. This is the only room that really captured my attention. I avoided looking at the other two because they really made my heart race.

I adore Maxwell's choice of theme and decor to match, but it is far too busy for my liking. I'm overwhelmed by the patterns and number of items. Love the blue, white and beige in Elle's room, but again, too much. This room by Eileen is warm and inviting, thus, earns my vote.

I love almost every part of this look - furniture choices, the grasscloth, the art and the placement of the art, the colors. This is my favorite of the three, but with that said, it seems something is missing...a lack of soul or something, can't quite put my finger on it.

I don't like any of them.

Add my voice to the amen chorus.

It's easy to stuff all sorts of things into a room so that it winds up looking like a furniture warehouse or Granny's attic.

It's much harder -- and ultimately more appealing -- to practice the art of restraint.

Sorry, this one is my fave.

The art is stock imagery.

Lady J, I also noticed that the photo looked more washed out then the sketches. I ran across a photo that shows the couch as more blue, and the colors looking more rich in general. I would like to see more of the area on the left by the curtains.

I am not wild about the ship art in lieu of the 4 framed pieces in the sketch, though it seems that the art was hung in response to the unusual break created by the store window divider.

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Small vignettes from the other 2 as close ups in a design collage would be nice, but each room taken in at once is disturbing. Ms Joyce's room makes me want to tour the entire apartment and consider staying there. Love the colors and the room to breathe.

this one gets my vote. I like the warm burnt orange/slate blue combination. The pillow sealed the deal for me.

Agree with queenbee1230. Nicely balanced color, and I love the pillows... also the curtains to the left.

The only thing I dislike is the wooden knobs on the table and the pussy willow switches in the paired vases. Something with color would have worked better with the striped mirror and matching yellow vases, maybe forsythia for vertical impact.

Calm and beautiful, much less cluttered than the other two. However, I have seen better often on Apartment therapy.

Love the wall paper and drapes. Feels sophisticated to me but I don't get much sense of personality. This could be cover of any home decor magazine which maybe is the point, but I don't really mean that as a compliment. Nice, but not a big impact next to every other home decor magazine on the magazine rack. Does that make sense?

Very calm indeed. I would have liked to see something, intresting, exciting. It looks like an Ethan Allen window display. There is a fine line between enough and too much. This was on the side of not enough.

Not to be critical, but isn't this room is alittle safe?? All the proportions are right and it's beautiful, but this is a window display for a department store. Isn't it supposed to make you stop and say...oh my!! Think I'd keep walkin...

This room really functions well. It is uncluttered without looking bare because of the use of color and texture. I like how there is a foundation of warm, earthy color with a pop of sky in the sofa and sunshine in the vases. Nicely done.

I wouldn't say that I love this room, but it's so much less disturbing than the other two.

Beautiful, wonderful, relaxing.
This is what people need.

Of course this is a lovely room. And clearly, Ms. Joyce is a very talented decorator. I'm sure that anyone would be elated to live (or spend time) here. But I'm not buying that this room evolved over time, or that this travel editor periodically adds to her collections. Which is probably the reason why people think this room lacks personality--because it doesn't look like a real person actually lives here.

the photos are tragic.

A bit cold and boring. It looks like a formula furniture display in a store with no personailty. Oh yeah. That's what it is.

Bored. Just... bored.

Nice, clean, nothing ugly about the room. But.. yeah.. totally bored.

Does anyone know what company produces the fabric used for the curtains in Eileen's window?

quiet substance. not a wow factor but livable and realistic. great colors and nice wallcovering. the paintings don't add value to the room.

This is room is boring, it looks like a display at Bob's Furniture Store

Lovely room, but looks entirely too much like a designer showroom and not enough like a space designed for an actual person.

I agree that the other options are a little over the top, but at least they feel truly lived in.

I keep going by and looking at this window. So beautiful!! I'd gladly live in it, in the window!!!!

I only wish I could see this window in person. I only hope I could live in something this elegantly decorated. Well done on all fronts!

I really don't like any of these. They all would cause me to have a mental break down. BUT, if I have to pick one it would be this one because it is the lease cluttered.

Visual Vamp,

I agree--this looks like a store floor display. Of the three, I'd probably choose to live here--because I like the world traveler look and am a bit dull. But I'm voting for Eddie's brighter, flashier window because it entertains me and keeps me looking.

Just got back from seeing these in person...

And still like this window.

Perhaps it could have used another layer of detail or theatricality (a Tibetan tiger prayer rug would have been AWE-some), but in person, it exudes a quiet confidence that I aspire to in my own work.

The textures are interesting, the color palette is grown-up, and the room is nicely balanced.

Did Eileen hit the "Hey! Look at me!" note as hard as she could have? Maybe not. But not sure that's a bad thing.

Have you noticed Maxwell's new detail shots on his post here? What How can you call that fair? I want to see more of Eddie's and Bloomingdale's! What do other people think of that? I just don't feel I can judge fairly anymore...

I really like the wallpaper in this one. Pretty!

I like the clean lines of the room, however I love the dramatics of Maxwell's room as well and think it's kinda awesome he went in that direction. I'd more likely would rather live in a space like this with a little bit of Maxwell's drama he brought. But I think for this challenge the room should be a little over the top and think this was a little too safe.

I love the wall covering. It really lets one enjoy the art; it isn't lost in pattern. This is an easy to live in room; just would have liked something with a little more edge to it. Not to the extent of Eddie's room, but somewhere between this room and Maxwell's would be great. But I cast my vote for Eileen.

I think the ONLY place this missed the mark was not having some more "life in progress" styling, to make it stand up to the "Museum of Natural (?) History dioramas" the other two windows seem to be going for... like a wooden crate off to the back, with excelsior spilling out and a peak at another of the homeowner's newest global finds peaking out... but THANK GOD at least one window did not use women's shoes as a styling prop. And perhaps something with a little more shine to it...

This window feels like it was a definite, and totally understandable, move to focus on the elements of the room and leave it at that. It does not AT ALL look like that happened out of lack of talent or creativity. She displays both here... just WAY more subtly than her blog-buds.

I'm a sucker for many of Eileen's ideas.. the console table with cube stools beneath (a great and flexible set up) and a dresser/bar, flanked with a pair of great vases.

I'd love to hear what her inspiration piece was. Perhaps those gorgeous sofa pillows?

I think the ONLY place this missed the mark was not having some more "life in progress" styling, to make it stand up to the "Museum of Natural (?) History dioramas" the other two windows seem to be going for... like a wooden crate off to the back, with excelsior spilling out and a peak at another of the homeowner's newest global finds peaking out...

Yes... and I'd like to have seen collected art that looks less like something carried at a department store! Not more art, though... the combo of having a collection but keeping the room generally clean and uncluttered works for me. Just a little funkier and weirder, so that a person would convincingly have had to travel to get it.

This is my favorite of the three: it's relaxing; it's elegant; and a sane person could keep it dusted (or trust the paid help to get the dusting done quickly and right).

Looking at this a second time, I think that if the pictures had had any sort of punch or interest, I would have voted for this room.

I love the pillows.

EileenWyatt--

Totally agree.* Like a HUGE black and white photograph, by a modern photographer, of a worldly subject. In a retro-modern brass frame.

Although I do like the stack of art off to the console side.

* And not just cuz you quoted me. :)

I don't head-over-heels love any of the windows, but this one is my favorite simply for the lack of clutter and the way it pulls off the varied patterns, colors, and textures without feeling over the top or forced. It's a room I could live in. There were elements of the other two rooms that I loved, but they would require me to clear out a lot of items before I could enjoy them or feel relaxed.

I've been a grasscloth lover since the 70's. Fab room. At last a designer room that doesn't look like it was done by Ru Paul on Adderall hitting garage sales in Anaheim.

Guess I am in the minority on this one, but I don't like this window -- in any way.

I just find everything about rather boring... This doesn't say to me that it is the room of a world traveller; this is the room of somebody who travels first class and tries to impress people with their lifestyle.

The mirror, the lamps, vases, the "wing"chair... they all remind me of 'eighties decorating. This could almost be the room of one of Alexis Carrington's lovers...

I saw all 3 in person last night, and they all seem much more impressive in person, just generally.

I like different aspects of each of them. I actually know people who live like each of the characters that have been created to occupy these rooms, but as far as clutter level, I prefer to, attempt to, and generally tend to live like this one.

I like the wallpaper of this one better in person, because I can actually tell what it does; here it KIND of looks like a very modern flavor of exposed brick; but it's actually sort of a gold horizontal stripe of some kind with a sea grass. I really love the shape of this couch.

elizabrook put it well, I think, with noting that this room needs a soul. I get the feeling looking at this that Eileen just rounded up "the usual suspects" rather than putting a lot of thought into it.
That said, this room gets my vote far and away above the other two. I prefer to think that the cleaning person just left and soon the owner of the room will arrive, arms full of the ingredients for a lovely supper; a charming antique she found on her lunch break and a couple of books she cant wait to start reading. Suddenly the clean, charming room will spring to life. Hopefully at that point the editor will call me and invite me over for gossip and drinks.

This one makes me feel really tense and stressed out to look at. It looks almost exactly like the suite I stayed in the last time I went to an industry conference at a business hotel. It's so overtly, adamantly, oppressively calming and desperately inoffensive that it makes me feel like I'm going to hyperventilate just to try to get my brain going again. It's like a waiting room. If I had to stay in this room too long I'd start trying to dig each of the freckles out of my arms just to feel like I was doing or accomplishing something.

I do appreciate the shapeliness of this design, but the photography (on the wall) is unforgiveable. It makes a mockery of the narrative.

Sophisticated travel magazine editor? I don't think so.

As an avid AT fan, I wanted to vote for the AT window but agree with many of the others who feel there is a schizophrenic energy to the other two. This is at the other end of the spectrum and while it's very elegant, it's also a little bit sterile - It needs a little darkness and chaos, maybe a brief consultation with Keith Richards' stylist. In the end it came down to, not necessarily liking this more, but liking the other two less.

The grasscloth creates a lovely wall treatment and perfectly balances and anchors the rest of the room. I love that it's not a cluttered disaster, but instead has enough space to let people breathe, AND it shows off the gorgeous furniture (that couch is fantastic!).

I feel like I'm looking at a more sophisticated version of my grandfather's (he was a business man in the 60's) bar/lounge. It is elegant, classy and yet totally approachable.

Hands-down my favourite, even if the artwork could've used a punch-up. I'd have gone for something big and aboriginal-modern like Alex Janvier ( http://www.alexjanvier.com/gallery.htm or http://www.canadahouse.com/dynamic/artists/Alex_Janvier.asp ). I mean, we are creating ideal/dream worlds here anyway, aren't we? ;)

fallen tree -so right you are, that is what's missing. that said the room is obviously done by an interior design professional-With a spiced up work of art and maybe an exotic lamp or two it becomes very elle decor. I think the one downfall the room has is its creator does not write a blog or have a web presence an obvious case of no fan base

It is hard to believe a sophisticated travel editor lives here . The art work is ordinary and some of the decorative touches are just silly like the ball topped objects on the coffee table. Maybe the travel editor was trying to make it look like a hotel room there it succeeds. The grass cloth and the tiger pillow are nice touches but overall the room lacks character

I like this one. The wall texture is fun, and the color scheme warm and calming, but not stuffy. Also, the other too made my head spin. I'd get nauseated sitting in those rooms. Strangely, the current standing is exactly opposite how I would rank the rooms...

Eileen wins hands down.

The other two feel more like theatrical scene designs than an actual room in someone's home.

Kudos Eileen. It looks terrific. Good luck!
LZ

Nice room, distinctive yet original. True form conveyed by the Grass cloth wall paper and modern appeal.

Bloomingdales should do windows with furniture, rugs and accessories THAT THEY SELL!!! thay would make the challenge more interesting.

jd101--

Eileen comes pretty close to actually doing that. Closest of all three, for sure. Especially when you consider each window's "statement pieces."

By FAR the best of the three! Too much noise goin' on with the other two. People must be voting for their friends. Take an honest look people!

i still LOVE this room. does anyone else think Elle Decor must be cheating?! lol

I wish this race weren't so lopsided, and I don't think it necessarily reflects on Eileen's room or talent.

Eddie has a very wide network of very loyal blog-based fans and some really, um, *ardent* supporters, and the word is out, for sure.

Maybe it's just that the people who are drawn to the calm confidence of Eileen Joyce's window are less likely to get into the whole rah-rah, Go-team-go! multiple voting aspect of the whole thing. If, say, a non-blogging designer like John Saladino & Albert Hadley were in the running, he'd probably be trailing, too.

Like you, P2, I was in an AT contest a while back, and although I got an Honorable Mention, I was way back in the actual vote total & never even made it into the playoffs. A few weeks after it was over and they'd announced the winner, I mentioned it to one of my pals--none of whom read decorating blogs--who then jumped all over me because I hadn't said anything while the contest was still going. "Geez, why didn't you tell anybody you were in a contest? We all would have voted for you!" I just asked him what that would have proved.

Maybe Eileen's in the same boat. Maybe begging her friends--and her friends' friends--to vote for her window twice a day just isn't her style.

There is a WIDE gulf between *telling* your friends and aggressively *begging* for votes.

But yes, an established blog-circle apparently doesn't hurt your odds.

I just love the look and feel of the wall paper, where would I find this type of paper?

Love the look

Warm. Elegant. Chic. Ageless. Let's just shift the whole room to my house, okay? The other offerings make me twitch.

I love that sofa so much! It's on sale at bloomies this weekend for $4501.. I wish I could get it but alas no. :(

I love this window.
It's warm , comfy --still elegant , but the "art-work" ..is a no to me...
still my favourite

Beautiful room! It's classic and timeless. Love the fabric on your pillows and that great blue sofa. There are many elements I like... the interesting finials, the yellow gourd vases, and the overscaled lamp. You really did a nice job on this.

Hands down winner

Best Window, by far.
Nothing is wrong with "calm" - indeed, we need such spaces more now than ever.
I'm with the person discussing the multi-vote audiences. Remember, just because a room gets more votes, doesn't make it better - perhaps only better campaigned. There is a lot to say about classic over frenetic.