The bedroom was reclaimed from attic crawlspace. The addition of skylights created a cozy sleeping space. Carpet was salvaged from a carpet business in the Seattle SoDo — or south of downtown — neighborhood. Louise Lakier: What is your decorating philosophy?Yvette Endrijautzki: I guess I have a problem with the modern world and its forgotten treasures and values. I find it important to bring the good matter from the past back into the now and break away from the faux and artificial like plastic, laminate, rubber, styrofoam, etc. Recycling and salvaging materials is an important factor that runs throughout the whole house. The old times rule here at the Nautilus with a nautical spirit, combining industrial remnants with traces of Victorian times, old world curiosities with an oriental flai, and a mad scientist's laboratory with a puff of gypsy dust. Jethaniel Peterka: A puff of mummy dust, rather ... I 'd like to live in a world immersed in old world natural science: botany, zoology, books, specimen, instruments and charts. My collection of botanical and animal specimen are important parts of my decor. They make me feel at home in a sort of past life nostalgia. Create the world you want to live in! Yvette Endrijautzki: Or the world will create you!Paint, windows, and building materials: Habitat for Humanity