What would you do?

DH and I are contemplating decorating the house. The problems are: too much stuff (I'm working on that one) but especially books & photo stuff. The fact that we both find pieces we love and buy them, whether we have any idea where it will go and/or fit into any decorating scheme. And finally, there's a conflict of styles.

The house is a log home, finished on the inside to look like vertical paneling. DH prefers mid-century modern/playing with space stuff and I prefer shabby chic (but not cutesy!) and junky.

Trying to find a style that will not look wierd in this house AND fit both our styles is something we agree we need to do, but we have no idea how to do this.

The things we have which work for both of us are mostly from my retailing past, commercial fixtures and the like.

For reasons of our own, doing one room to suit one of us doesn't appeal except in our dedicated rooms: offices mostly.

I like enamel pans, stars, wire baskets. DH likes Eames, some Deco, etc.

I have been reading old home ec books to find clues that will help and have found some, but nothing specific.

JudithDial

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