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[sligo]

@lolakimono,LOVE all your helpful ideas. You are the BEST. Many thanks for your sharing your thoughts with us.Lola, we want people to enjoy our homes. I feel the greatest compliment is when a visitor states, "Our home looks like ME" 

[151949]

I too have an eclectic mix with several mission style antique pieces that my DH inherited from his grandmother. She was married in 1905 so she had what was popular then - mission style. I also have a lot of country style oak furniture  that we bought when we were married in 1983 because that was popular at that time. It blends in well with the oak of the mission style pieces. All in all we find our home to be cozy and comfortable & that's all that matters.

[Regal Bee]

My style flows well from room to room but I do not like the same old same old in every room. My main goal is to make each space welcoming and soft. 

I mainly like Traditional and really good Shabby Chic pieces and then tweak everything with my own twist. I am not afraid to try something new and different and rarely, if ever, follow the crowd or the norm. 

[Q4u]

Definitely eclectic... Primitive American/English with some leather furniture and black wrough iron (lamps) but I also incorporate color with soft throws and interesting pictures, etc.  My rule of thumb is:  If I walk by it and think "Gosh I'm glad I own that"....then the purchase was successful. 

[Mominohio]

No specific look for me.

I answer the call for my love of many different kinds of things, by decorating different areas of my home, in different styles. 

Briefly, the family room is more farmhouse and primitive. The master bedroom is more feminine and Victorian (but not overly so, like the term conjures up in the mind). My son's old room is mission oak and masculine and clean lines. Main floor is in transition, but more traditional with antiques featured. 

I see homes that everything is in the same style, same color scheme, and sameness runs from all the same paint color to all the same flooring, same cabinets, same fixtures etc. throughout the entire home. It can be calming and cohesive looking, but in my mind, can be very boring if left to live in it for too long. 

So for me, I like a room to have a basic style to it, but all my rooms don't have to be of the same style. I love the variety, and it allows me to buy things I see and love, as there will most always be somewhere in the house it will 'fit'.