In my fabric-addicted life, I would say you may get tired of so much pattern.  The top bed is beautiful and the french apt. is calm and serene.  If you want to know how to build a low headboard, just ask!  I love your ideas and the fact that you save pictures of what look you like, I do too.

I love my loft!! it's not exactly what I dreamed of (I wanted concrete floors and floor to ceiling windows like the Rossmor building) but it's very cool and it's in an old building. I had visions of black, concrete, steel, 2 or 3 pieces of vogue furniture and that's all. I have tons of art so it looks rather like a gallery.  In my opinion, lofts look best when they are rather spartan. I, too, can picture myself living on the Champs Elysees in a 300 sq, ft, flat with a wrought iron balcony where I would look out at the bustling street below, but, alas, that is not to be. 

Living in a loft, we have to have less 'stuff.' That's all there is to it. Clean and streamlined. By the way, I have an airbed on top of a mattress and box spring that just sits on the floor. I put a dark brown sheet on the box spring and a lighter brown sheet on the mattress. It's cheaper than buying one of those beds.