I love all of these, but at this point they feel a bit over-used. They've been popular with the flea market crowd for about 10 years now. Maybe more. Pretty soon we'll see reproductions in the Pottery Barn catalog.

Thanks for sharing! fun stuff!! The Wisteria House is A.M.A.Z.I.N.G! Another room of it was featured not too long ago, too. It's cozy yet mysterious. love it!

Sorry. it's called House on a Hill from Country living back in November or October?
http://www.countryliving.com/homes/house-tours/house-hill-1008

I've always liked the one in Dr. House's apartment.

amen about the baby room thing, yves

i have a medical backround so i am used to anatomical diagrams and i suppose in a study or den i could accept them but in a dining room or baby's room???...talk about giving guests indigestion (before even eating my so-so cooking) or children nightmares...that'll do it!

I agree about the creeps in the baby's room, I wouldn't want it in the dining room either.

Eh, props for creativity and such but prob not my cup of tea. I would become bored with all of them very quickly. Then again this is coming from a guy who found an old piece of rusted and bent up welded wire mesh at the junk yard and re-purposed it as a "frame background" so to speak on which a vintage 1930's British "Mind The Sheep" cautionary sheep crossing rural road sign has been attached and hung as a picture on my wall. Perfect textural compliment to the sign. Anyway stuff like that is golden in my book. My opinion of course.

I'd compromise my morals for that black table in the first picture

To me this doesn't seem daring or creepy in any way, for any of the rooms. Actually, I think it makes perfect sense for a kid's room - people often put world maps there for the same reason, to educate. And I had anatomy books when I was little that I was fascinated with and loved; they did not creep me out.

I am partial to a bit of science-geekiness in decor, though. That is why I think the first picture works so well, because it really channels that with all the glass beakers, the insects on the wall, and the sparse, simple furniture. I agree with Leonidas, the table is great.

I think there's a fair potential to scare or scar a youngin' by having such large illustrations of the body hanging overhead... I don't know how to put that well... but some kids really do not internalize that info in a positive way. It can become a scary, or even OCD kinda thing. Other kids become fascinated (as I did) with such stuff. But I think there should be gentler introductions, in which kids have a choice to look further or keep the stuff away. This seems like potential nightmare material as the child gets to be 3, 4, 5, 6, etc.

Aside from that, I think the arrangement of items in pic #2 makes a nice composition.

Great idea for a study room. Adds vintage nobility :)

I'm in nursing school. I also happen to enjoy collecting antique medical equipment; therefore my apartment is something of a history of medicine exhibit. I've also gotten used to having gory, graphic conversations during meals. It's quite the norm around here!

What livc said. I love geeky diagrams as decor. Educational and aesthetically pleasing. I certainly hope they don't go out of style!

the bat is amazing. in fact that whole house is amazing. i want it.

I love 'em all... I found a couple of beautiful ones but they were well over 300 bucks... that wasn't happening for me lol

I like vintage diagrams--anatomical, botanical, zoological, you name it. I don't have any up, but if I found the right thing I'd display it in my home. I'm not worried that some of my tastes run in a popular vein.

Regarding the nursery picture: I had a framed picture of a fluffy kitty that freaked me out as a child, and the patchwork animals on my wallpaper spooked me in the dark too. I don't think anatomical diagrams would have scared or scarred me any more than those did.

The child's room is a bit turn-of-the-century depressing, like a haunted orphanage or something. I think it's the blue hospital bed as crib. And the most prominent toys are a toy broom and iron! It's like they're in training for a life of servitude.

This is right up my alley...thanks for the post.

What makes a toy iron worse than a toy kitchen and why would either equate with servitude? Are we going to say "no honey we don't do that the staff does that YOU are so much more special than ever cooking or cleaning for yourself..."?

That said I like the first and second rooms the best, ever so slightly steampunk, in the best way.