I love the interior design styles that are ‘in’ right now, because I can combine my love of vintage with my love of Japanese-inspired decor, and my love of sparseness and clean lines AND my love of screaming bright colors. In any other era, these styles would not mesh, but right now, with the emphasis on upcycling and do-it-yourself and mish-mashing styles, I feel like it’s within reach.

I want to preserve heirloom furniture and dishes from my family, so I think some re-covering of antique couches with bold, funky fabrics is going to happen. But also I want a quiet bedroom space with low-to-the-ground, Japanese-inspired furniture. Mainly because my boyfriend can’t stand tall beds. He’s a mattress-on-the-floor kind of guy.

And then of course we need to work in my Fiestaware collection. ^_^

For art: Have you ever attended the annual art auction at the Bemis? It is phenomenal. I’ve only been once (living in Texas makes it hard to do so…), but my brother attends annually and has quite a few amazing pieces from the auction. Info here: http://www.bemiscenterartsales.org/auction.cfm

Also–have you checked out Barcode Art? You can print them out on any inkjet printer, than piece them together. They are pretty amazing in person : ) http://www.barcodeart.com/artwork/portraits/index.html

I’m obsessed with combining the antiques I grew up around with awesome mid-century furniture & decor and setting it all against really modern colors, clean lines, everything has a place, everything else is on display.

I could easily have a house that was all shades of brown & green and mix in interesting pottery & textiles for accent color, super colorful pop-surrealist art in simple frames, lots of textures, lots of elements (metal, glass, wood, plants) & massive amounts of storage.

It was a dream of mine as a kid to have a “secret hiding place” where I could draw & read (I had a little sister so my desire for alone time was a driving force in my childhood) so if I were moving into my potential forever home to start a family in I’d definitely try to carve out a space for my kid under the stairs or in a spare closet to turn into a sort of book nook/fortress that doesn’t involve tearing my couches apart to assemble in the living room.

http://bigcheesehouse.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-dream-casa.html

i would also love to take all the junk out of our second bedroom, have a place for it and make the bedroom a giant closet!

Loving that inspiration board in the pictures. Is that a painted square dedicated to awesome stuff?! Hmm, we may have to work something like that in somewhere.