I like it, but I've always wondered how people clean around books on the floor. Do you have to move them? I suspect they'd get beaten up after a while from bumping into them with a vacuum cleaner.

You use the crevice and upholstery tool around them instead of running the vacuum right up to them.

I lift them off the floor, make sure they're not dusty, clean the area and put them back. I only collect art books.

I like it, too, but I'd want a 'more serious' rug if it was my place. This $12,900 Qum Life in Mehrab Bi Gham Silk Persian Rug with 900 KPSI might go well with the lamp and flowers on the table.

Sorry, I do not like it at all. Whenever I see that style of displaying a whole lot o' stuff, it makes me uneasy on several levels. I also don't like the extra-large matting on the small art. Diminishes them IMHO. The books on the floor are not likely to be read, so are there just to have a pile of something. Such a shame for the book lovers among us.

The rug/carpet is the only thing I like.

As much as I love Oriental rugs, this more carefree, modern style helps to take the English country house style into a more modern direction. For the picture gallery to look more cohesive I would have chosen a less ornate frame for the oil painting, but overall I like the look and would feel comfortable there.

It's funny how we each have such different opinions! One of the things I love most about this scene is the way that the artwork is framed. The photos may be smaller format, but I think they need those larger mats to give them presence. If you simply matted and framed them to size, some of them would be miniscule. I think the large white mats help draw the eye in to the art.

I don't like the rug. Something about it makes me feel a little queasy, in fact. It might be the chartreuse, as that's just not a color that resonates well with me at all.

I also don't think that books on the floor is an indication that they aren't actually read. One can easily bend down and slip a book from the stack. I used to have so many books and so little in the way of shelves at my previous home, that some of them did end up being stacked/stored and displayed on the floor.

We kept all the artbooks maybe 150 or so, on the floor in the last apartment because we didn't have shelves deep enough, but I actually put them on a couple of shelf planks set on the floor to raise them up a few inches. They were actually a little easier to access than now that we have shelves and you need a stepladder to reach a lot of them.

I was wondering if that is a rug or if it's cement tile?

As for the books, I keep some on my bdrm floor to look at/read before I go to sleep

Cement tile

I love it.

It still looks like a rug to me, and that's my favorite part of it. I don't hate the room, but I don't like it either. I do not like artwork on walls with molding details where the molding has been ignored and covered without much regard to it. I don't like books on floors, and I don't like artwork leaning against a wall, as if it is an afterthought. I do sort of like the little square stools. None of the artwork interests me from the photo, but it might be worth a glance in person. I'm sure it has meaning to the owner, but I do not know that person. I sort of like the table also, but there is nothing in this room that I would want for myself, and I would probably have much in common with the owner. I don't like being in rooms with dark paneled walls for very long, but a brief visit can be nice.

I like the melange of pictures, except for the one just plopped on the stool and leaning back against the wall.

Also, books on the floor is a no-way for me.

I cannot tell if the ceiling is silver or gold leaf, but I've always wanted to do that sort of ceiling in my dining room.

The books on the floor really bother me. If I were physically in that room, even as a guest, I'd be hard-pressed not to briskly pick them up and put them properly on a shelf.

I would remove all the artwork except the framed painting (allow the wall paneling to show as Lars mentioned), and remove about 75% of what's on the table. The table itself is really great. I'd find another spot for the framed item sitting on the stool (it appears to be a letter which may have deep meaning for the owner - why leave it propped on a chair like it was something you meant to hang but never got around to?). Ahh, there, that's better. Breathing room. I like the rug; very fresh and lively against the dark wood.

Like that view a lot!

Lol. As a victim of housework PTSD, I empathize with Friedajune. Since books are an important part of my good life, though, a couple of piles on the floor are acceptable, but little more. We have a few thousand books standing upright as a sort of graphic "wallpaper" background, but our bottom built-in bookshelf is 5" above the floor for a reason (designed after carefully consulting those with experience right here!), and our dining table that collapses against the wall to spend most of its time as a "library" table holds only a lamp and a few stacks, no fussy "collectibles." (Dusting is NOT fulfilling.)

Since I reached young adulthood in the 1970s, I like the posted arrangement in general, and flouting current fashions as appropriate for someone who's seen many of them, for me dark walls are far a wonderful option. Assuming those pictures on the wall are special to us (and why would they be there if not?), the importance conveyed by their framing would work very well.

More interesting, for our children's generation and after, I'm imagining a collision in their later years between a culture of what I see as a generic fusion/unfussiness and development over time of acquisition of possessions, as well as sentimentality for some. Given the power of the trends that capture our tastes in our younger decades, combined with desires to keep memories and special possessions around, I predict more open floor space relatively uncluttered by rugs (that millenial-generation revulsion to broadloom!) than in some past eras but a new appreciation for walls like this. Yet will more head to landfills than in past?

We'll see. :)

In general I think the majority would do something different- each for different reasons. I do agree. The whole concept just does not fit well TOGETHER. BOTH modern and bright colors are great- but not with the look of a formal English home. If you want to bring some color/cheer into a sombre room, how about a larger ceramic floor planter with cascading plant/flowers. A solid color throw tossed on a sofa/chair. A reupholstered chair in a lighter color with A pleasing pattern. A slightly more colorful set of toss pillows on the sofa? But please do not ruin that beautiful room with hot pink, bright yellows etc. You can liven it up with color that is not shocking or too much pattern. You want your room to be a bit livelier, I think but not garish. People should feel calm and welcomed into your home, not eyes darting everywhere from being overwhelmed. The books on the floor- too dirty for me- even if you are a clean housekeeper. If I had nice clothing on, I would not want to crawl on the floor to haul a book from the floor on my lamp I hope I have not offended- I know what I like and the majority of friends. If I was hippy from the 60's it would be fine.

I love both the first and the second vignette but I'm kind of surprised that they are both in the same room, and adjacent. The mood seems very different from one to the other. Would love to have a gander at the other two walls.

In the first vignette, I really like the way the little dots of flowers theme is carried from the lampshade through the tree sculpture to the urns. The whole look is surprisingly tight given how collected it also is.

Personally I am much more comfortable in a collected room than a minimalist room, especially as a visitor who doesn't have to keep up with the dusting.

I'm looking for the price tags...it looks like a store display.

I love the sofa!

It reminds me of my DD's house. Lots of framed pictures and paintings, quirky rug, books everywhere and the antlers-always with the antlers with that kid.

In the photo with the sofa, there is a table in front of the sofa with some objets. I am not trying to be flip, but I see on the table a vase of beautiful flowers, a square thing with an egg on it, and...a toilet bowl cleaner?

I love everything but the rug. I'd have an oriental in there, but that's just me loving English country traditional.

Lovin' it, and I now can see that the tree doohickey is sculptural. I couldn't figure that one out from the first photo. Now I want to see the other wall with the velvet chairs, and figure out what that toilet bowl brush thingie is!

That "toilet bowl brush thingie" could be an African juju seed shaker, or similar instrument.

I love the room, the pics, etc. I don't like the rug but perhaps this is the unexpected element in the room, and it succeeds. Personally I'd have picked A traditional rug.