Self Proclaimed style = Home Sweet Home

CONFIDENT personal design can be bold and this house absolutely is! WOO HOO!!!


Your home should be a reflection of what you LOVE... it does NOT have to match in order to work.  It actually creates interest to mix and match styles and price points... it does not have to be $$$ to be chic. This is where a designer comes in and pushes you to break "rules" and make your own. Its more fun this way!


Exibit A: (Check out this house)

Apartment Therapy Survey:

Our Style: We are drawn to a mix of things that are found, things that are very modern, and things that are old and have a story or capture the spirit of the time period from which they come. After that we try to be careful arrangers and then become constant re-arrangers, always sensing what color combinations make us happy and aiming to create spaces that are comfortable and clean.

Biggest Indulgence: We actually don’t have one. We are bargain hunters, thoughtful consumers, and homely object re-fashioners to the bone. And because we are always alert to the possibility of finding great stuff, we tend wait until we get lucky.

Best Advice: We keep files of images we love, both electronically — i.e. images saved from blogs — and/or culled from paper sources (i.e. magazines). These "genius files" help to form your own design ethos and will somehow filter into the identity of your own spaces in both conscious and subconscious ways.

Dream Sources: The best things are always ones that surprises us, that we didn’t know we needed but that make perfect sense when we see them, bought from a treasure trove off the beaten track that is owned by an incredibly nice and quirky person.

Other Inspiration The 70s. Always the 70s.

Resources of Note:

PAINT & COLORS

• The house felt dark when we bought it, so we just whitewashed almost every room with Dunn-Edwards no-VOC paints.

FURNITURE

• Sofa and dining room table: HD Buttercup • White chaise lounge: found at the side of the road and reupholstered • Dining room chairs: Bellini chairs from DWR • Phillipe Starck outdoor bubble club furniture: DWR and Craigslist • Midcentury Swedish chairs: Surfing Cowboys in Venice • The Saarinen tulip table is from a vintage furniture store Palm Springs • The bright blue ice cream chairs (at the Saarinen table) were found in an alley and powder coated • Yellow chair in Monty’s room: found • Orange rocking chair: found in a junk shop and powder coated • White office desk: West Elm • Black desk chair: Konstantin Gcric: bought online • Black sideboard in office and natural wood Heywood Wakefield bureau set (which Tyke has had for 18 years and is about to lacquer white): flea markets (Rose Bowl and Long Beach) • Beds: IKEA, gray sofa sleeper downstairs is from DWR. • Master bedroom bedding is from Habitat in the UK

ACCESSORIES

• Throw pillows were made out of vintage clothing fabrics and fabrics bought in India • table knick knacks are from places like OK, French 50s and 60s, and Tortoise • the Eames elephant was a baby shower gift • the silver toy "baskets" both in Monty’s room and the dining room are from Plastica

LIGHTING

• vintage chrome multi-globe lamp is from a Goodwill • rice paper pendants above the big table are from IKEA • the green and red lamps in the office are from flea markets

ARTWORK

• Jon painted and drew many of our pieces (such as the empty pool watercolor — copied from an artist’s photograph) • deer drawing is by art students at Tyke's school • many of the little pieces around are by family and friends

THANK YOU Apartment Therapy for this spot on design! LOVE LOVE LOVE 

 ~ Apartment Therapy Blog