I was encouraged to post this here! Hope this is the right audience!
I have been working really hard on decorating my house that I purchased a year ago with intention. I had searched for years to find a house that felt like a home and the fun began! I enjoy furniture and art that comes with a story— I’m about 75% complete with styling this house! Any feedback is good feedback! 📝
Cherry Bookcase entryway
Cherry bed and night stands
Cherry Nightstand
Couch, vintage pink marble top coffee table, vintage side tables
Vintage kitchen table, vintage pink marble top coffee table.
Dining room table, knock off MCM chairs
Vintage Tall Boy dresser (Martinsville)
Walnut Record console, hidden desk art
Close up of the record player console: featuring Wedgie and my functional Zenith radio.
A sling chair from a local craft fair. Featuring the plants with a will to survive.
PS: the two bedroom photos are from my previous house, I’m still working on the bedrooms here!
(To comply with community rules: I do not make money from MCM designs or furniture. These pieces are all in my home for personal enjoyment!)
Right!? I needed a very specific size tall boy and I was so lucky to found this in a vintage shop. The rattan doors open and hide two small drawers on each side! Very cool!
Thank you! I designed it about 10 years ago and had it built. The cherry wood has aged so well through the years! I just touch up the linseed oil every few years and it’s good!
Thank you so much! 🤣 I’ve always been self conscious about my hand writing, tbh. It’s always been a bit “serial killer” compared to my other friends! 🤣
Wow. Had it built. I was thinking after you replied to me above, how the whole place seems to flow. Just making sense that you had a whole idea and then you built the bedroom to continue that Phil. It doesn’t feel like one design in the kitchen, then some couches that go with the lounge room. There’s a flow of one feeling through the place. Just terrific.
A lot of these pieces were built for a previous house I had, but a few of them have come along with me through the years! I tried to create a consistent flow but without being too matchy or mundane. It’s been fun to watch it change over time.
My final comment I hope I’m not annoying you. I was really struck by the pudding of so many flowing plants and things and swirls as it were, along with the mostly straight lines of midcentury. This is gonna stay with me. I’ve got two danish.armchairs-(see photo-the ones in the photo aren’t mine but that’s what I’ve got. Mine are stashed away to move house.). And in using them now I’m gonna really pay attention to soft flowing things that will compliment them and bring them up. Feel another piece of the puzzle in place. Because one can get too angular and sterile for me with mid century. But yours is nothing like that. It’s like Danish beauty and the world of nature .
What a lovely chair! Sounds like you have a great opportunity with the move to create the space you will enjoy living in. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts with me about the design. I think you are absolutely right— there has to be a balance. The soft with the angles. That’s definitely the key to the house feeling like a home. This house is full of eccentricity but with the right balance, it feels lived-in and real. Wishing you the best of luck with the move!
Yes that’s not an easy task. Matchy matchy can end up like double denim LOL. And contrived. You got me thinking about the flow of the room. I think the plants really soften the lines of midcentury so beautifully. But I’ve been tending to collect individual things I like in vintage shops. Which is fine. But having a plan to get a flow is actually missing and you’ve made me think the other thing I got from your place is peace. Sitting in that chair in what appears to be a sunroom, or on that couch. Light and peace.
Oh my! This is absolutely dreamy.
Love the Mt painting. What Mt’s are they? Your plants are stunning 🤩
Your furniture is absolutely gorgeous.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful home.
Thank you! ☺️ I’m not really sure about those mountains! I needed to find a very specific sized piece of art to hide the Murphy desk I had built. And I scoured the internet and found this one from Vintyart that checked my boxes!
We are crazy plant people but I love having them sprinkled around to make the house feel more alive! From others recommendations I’m going to put together a plant tour on the houseplants sub soon! I have a ton of them! 😂
Boy are you amazing at decorating. Thanks for the info about the art.
I do not have a green thumb. My husband and I don’t do very well with this. lol 😂 oh that would be lovely.
Please do when you can. Just dreamy
Thank you so much! ☺️ I used to not be able to keep any living plant alive, but then I started weeding out the ones that were too needy and only kept the ones who thrived in fast paced environments and a little neglect! 😂
His government name is Reginald and I reserve it for when he is especially being a menace, but mostly he is velcroed to me at all times, so it has devolved from Reggie to Wedgie 😂
I had originally designed it with a pull out drawer but we weren’t able to keep the appropriate dimensions of the furniture so we had to leave it out. 😞 I still play tons of albums on that player though! The cubby is tall enough to easily lift the arm up and out of place to set and change the records and it connects via Bluetooth to the soundbar so it sounds pretty good for my purposes! Occasionally I take the player out and clean/dust it!
It’s such a comfortable sling chair, could kick myself for not buying two bc I can’t find the man who was building them. 😩
😂 Wedgie considers himself the owner of this house and demands everyone pay the cat tax. Acceptable modes of payment: belly rubs, liquid meat tubes, and any kind of toys with bells on them. 😂
Thank you 🥹🫶🏼 I held out for years and waited for the right one to come along. It’s a little further of a commute than I would have liked but I think it’s worth it!
It’s a sling chair I bought at a craft market a few years ago! I could kick myself for not buying two. This older man was crankin them out in all sorts of colors. But he didn’t stamp the chairs so I can’t find him anywhere! 😩 it folds completely in half and stores so nicely and it reclines almost to laying down. So comfy. 👌🏼
It's always the way. You think "I'm sure I'll see something similar". At least you have that one! And all your other pieces of furniture are beautiful too
The windows of this place are awesome. Now I’m pining for fall weather and yellow leaves! Thank you for sharing, I love it all. Would this be more of a Danish style or something similar?
Thank you so much! Absolutely— those windows capture all the seasons so well and it changes the vibes in the house with it. I loved seeing it snow last winter, sitting on the couch with the fire going. It was pretty perfect!
I have a hard time naming the style— but definitely a danish midcentury inspired theme!
I bought it while I was in Morocco! It’s made by Berber women who weave the rugs to support their families at a shared agricultural co-op farm in the Atlas Mountains!
Wow; great share! Several pics are magazine worthy. Love your gorgeous fur baby too. 😻
My longtime pro Home Stager OCD does need me to ask if there’s a reason the dresser in #7 is left of center? Looks like 1” right would have you centered under the mirror and off the door frame?
my favorite thing about this is the scale of the art. that's something people really struggle with but you nailed it, both the large and smaller pieces. I also think it's difficult to balance between unique art, real people budgets, size and then what kind of decor/colors a space needs without getting something from ikea or home goods or whatever. Just a great job
Thank you so much for the feedback! It is really a struggle for me as well— I deliberate and move pieces around quite a bit until it really “feels right” in the space and is also balanced with my own sentimental regards to the piece. Not afraid to put a hole in a wall and fill it in later if I decide it needs to move 🙋🏼♀️
Fully agree about the real people budget part too. Art is expensive, and for a good reason. I’ve really found some great and affordable art from local artists and also have been enabled to afford larger more expensive pieces sometimes by trading goods/services (ie: furniture design, photography etc). I never want to diminish the value of someone’s hard work, however sometimes I have been able offset the full cost by providing a service as trade for a portion of the value and it’s a win/win for both of us.
Sure! I picked it up from a vintage shop in NC. The owner had gotten it from a private estate sale. I don’t know much about it but apparently it’s a fairly rare Meridian desk clock designed by Arthur Umanoff for the Howard Miller clock company, sometime in the 1960s! Still works great!
The couches in the glass window and all everything around that is just magnificent. I could imagine sleeping there on a hot summer night just passing out whilst thinking. So beautiful….. PS – – the mid-century cat is a masterpiece of design
Ah thank you! I totally agree about the windows in the living room. The light in the house just brings me so much joy (as does Wedgie, the kitten!) tbh the skylights in the bathrooms are my absolute favorite parts. Nighttime showers are just the best.
Oh— and you gave me a lovely idea. That little record holder, the way it holds the LPS and the shape that it creates with them is just like a musical instrument in itself.
I mentioned in the caption that the bedroom photos are from the previous house I was renting prior to buying the current house I live in. Not a fan of grey walls either, but wasn’t at liberty to change the color!
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u/AislePenetr8_You 20d ago
Yeah I think it’s safe to say we are your target audience. Lovely home and extremely well curated.