Thank you! There are some really atrocious rooms there, but some painfully gorgeous ones, too. :)

I wonder if Johnmari would agree with #26?

Not a lot there that I can relate to my home or my life! But this one hit home for me;
"A well-designed bath can be modest in size and still be more successful than a larger one." Â Marc Appleton

I'd like to live by #7, "Beauty and diversity are key to good design. As Oscar Wilde said 'All beautiful things belong to the same age'." but on my budget, it's more like #29 (paraphrasing) Buy one signature piece, mixing high and low of interior design.

I also like #53 "Every house needs a dark, nesting room."

Shells and Coral fit into any style decor and just don't relate to the beach. Laura Hunt

I couldn't agree more I have shells all over my house, but not as many as I would like. Jane Doe

I love #3 and #24 The white bedroom and the white kitchen

....Jane

I like this one. Came from #40: "ItÂs important to take a space and give it air. You have to make sure there arenÂt so many objects crowded into a room that they lose the beauty of their form. Â Bruce Gregga of Gregga Jordan Smieszny

Got to say - not feeling the love looking at these photos. Some (?) of the designers need to heed de Guardiola's advice.

Going back to my #7 pick about beautiful things filling a room...there still is such an art to decorating. I was looking at one of the rooms that I loved and saw that it did, indeed, have all elements that I separately loved in it. Then, I saw another room and tried to figure out why I didn't feel the same love for it (also, with each piece a standout in its own right).

There's more to putting it all together than simply having nice things.

Hmmm, maybe that's why we're all here, to learn how not to just 'put' it all together but to 'pull' it together, too.

There are some great bits of decorating advice in there. There are also some really awful rooms mixed in with the nice ones . . . yikes! Kind of makes you wonder just how good these designers actually are if they decorated rooms like some of those :^O
My favorite quotes (so far) are:
#33 "We should live surrounded by the things we love most" Â Juan Pablo Molyneux
and
#8 "Beauty and diversity are key to good design. As Oscar Wilde said, ÂAll beautiful things belong to the same age." Â Marynus-Tripp

I love how some suggestions are worded. Especially your favorite first quote.....
""You wouldn't wear your whole clothes closet all at once. Why throw everything into your living room?"
 Joanne de Guardiola

My own thoughts are that for a room to be comfortable you need balance (I call it or harmony)---not matchy matchy but balance....there is a difference.

I agree there are a number of dreadful rooms next to several hopeful rooms next to a couple great rooms. But if it wasn't for the great quotes attached to each I probably would have stopped looking at like room #10. I know a lot of these rooms I would never emulate for my own home....heck a lot of them I wouldn't be comfortable just as a visitor!!! I guess that's only because I'm not a minimalist contemporary traditionalist type person.
I'm SO out of touch! LOL

OSH, I can't really say I have much of a thought at all about #26, other than that is one fugly airliner... (Or are you referring to #27, "Purple is a very sensual color, though itÂs not for the faint of heart"? What a wussy pale orchid it shows though, that's barely purple at all!) Actually I think most of these "pronouncements from on high" are a bit of a crock, and a lot of the rooms are really not very attractive at all. And you are NEVER EVER EVER going to convince me that ginormous mirrors in the dining room (#40) are a good idea - BTDT and hated it with a passion, went out of my way to hide them. (Would have taken them down had it not been a rental.)

I prefer: "Only follow some ÂrulesÂÂitÂs much more fun to break them!" (although I think it's a good idea to KNOW the "rules" so you can break them coherently, if that makes any sense) and "IÂve always believed small spaces are more intimate in dark colors."