Thanks chijim for posting the pictures. I love the table and chairs by the window. And the artwork is incredible! I have never seen so much blue and white ware. It does look spectacular on that beautiful carved chest.
Diane

That's all great, but where do you play catch?

I love seeing how he brought in his Vietnamese / S. Chinese roots with his porcelain. I have a m-u-c-h smaller but just as meaningful collection of blue and white porcelain from when I lived in Hanoi, so seeing his was a warm fuzzy.

Looks like somebody had a few collections and sure loves pattern! Thanks for sharing, Jim. ;o)

Yum. Love the blue upholstery!

He would be using pounds and pounds of quake-hold putty if he lived in CA!!

Lovely! I especially love the first two pics. Ahhhh!
Lynn

I opened this while my 5yo DS was standing beside me: "Oh Mommy! I LOVE THAT ROOM!!!!! And that one, and that one and that one too!"

I love it. Especially the tapestry in the first picture, the green color on the walls, and the way the blue furniture looks against that green. And the way he combines things. The rooms don't feel overwhelming to me the way some layered rooms do.

I had difficulty appreciating the intensity of the colors and the mix of styles. I like eclectic and I like layered, but these rooms were not appealing to me.

He paints his trim to match the walls, 18th-c style...I like it all but while I like the bedroom, it would be too intense for me to sleep in, I would decorate a different room in that manner, instead.

Lovely! Most of the objects are up higher and not covering all the surfaces so it does not feel as 'cluttered' as some layered rooms. I have let my subscription to Elle decor lapse ever since Margaret Russell left ( not on purpose really...). This spread seems unusual for what they used to show...it's more WOI to me ( which I love). Do you feel ED has changed much / any since Margaret Russell left?

Elle Decor seems to have stayed fairly consistent to when Margaret Russell was at the helm but Architectural Digest seems quite a bit different since she took over for Paige Rense.

The blue velvet chairs--love!

The table cover in the first pix ruined it for me. I could deal with a lot that followed, but that reminded me of Sesame Street...one of these things is not like the others....

Sapphire blue and olive green do not a pretty picture make.
The brand new Kazak rug-as-tablecloth is wrong. The colors are too bright and it is too stiff to drape.

The rest is mostly very nice.

Casey

His bdrm so reminds me of Victorian rooms I've seen from the past - I made the image blk & wht

Also, notice the trim on the shelf edges in the DR to dress them up a bit.

Thanks so much! I am in love with pic #2. I have always loved navy in upholstered furniture. Stunning against the green. As Pal points out the trim is painted the same as the wall color. Love that too.

Pic 2, 3, and 5 are my favorites.

The skull painting is interesting!

I don't think I could rest in the bedroom either for some reason though. It is a bit over the top for me. :) I would have liked to see some kind of opium bed, or bed frame in general. I don't seem to see a HB/FB which is interesting.

I don't like the rug "tablecloth"...it just looks weird and uncomfortable.

The bedroom has way too much pattern for my brain, and kind of makes me dizzy.

Otherwise, a big thumbs up from me!

I am never sure what such spreads are supposed to illustrate. It always starts with rooms with grand proportions, moldings, and great light. Spaces that look terrific bare naked (and actually I'd prefer them that way).

Then, they load up the space with massive amounts of fine paintings, china, furniture etc that require years of travel and wheelbarrows of money (not even dollars anymore) to acquire.

And it all looks kinda nice.

Big deal, who among us would fail with such things at our disposal? It's like reading Vogue. Interesting but largely inapplicable.

That's why Id take apartment therapy over shelter mag any day

The PO's in our house painted the walls, the molding, even the outlets (not just the covers, the outlets themselves!) the same color. Might have been ok but it was a color that we weren't crazy about. Sort of Crayola "flesh" if they also made a crayon called "flesh with a fake tan".

Funny, I immediately focused in on all the deep paint color choices, I didn't even notice the matching trim.