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What items do you have in your home that make it unique, that make you feel at home, and show off your personality? And where did you get them?
Or what items do you want?
My favorite "personality" pieces in our house are FI's Maltese Falcon statue and his giant university professor style globe, and our giant plastic ice cream cone :)
Things I want
"Family planters"
A penny floor
Teapot wall hooks
And some fun switch plates
Right now we don't have a lot of kitschy stuff that makes our home unique. Maybe once we buy our new place and get to decorating!
@MissAsB: We're in the same boat. We live in a cramped apartment right now, so we're waiting to really make things our own until after we're in a house or at least an apartment we know we will be in for more substantial amount of time!
I love that our home is a juxtoposition of modern and antique. Modern colored walls and furniture in the living room coexist with an antique accent pieces (small furniture pieces and decor), and black and white wedding and family photos from previous generations. Every room in our house has an old piece in it (minues my sons room), and I LOVE that. My favorite is a bronze statue of a lovely young woman sitting on a pile of rocks, her dress draping almost to the point of exposure. All the old pieces in our home came from the homes of our older family members.
My favorite thing however is that there is not a single area/room in our house that doesn't have a family photo or snapshot of us. I love being able to look at our memories every single day just while I am sitting around the house.
Does, dirty boxers on the bedroom floor, count as 'personality'? I hope so!
@Mollytov: lol Then our apartment has a lot of personality and character! ;)
I think that since this is our first home together we just wanted something that stayed true to the house period. Cue woodburning stove, slate fireplace, oak flooring and a nod to victorian style floral wallpaper. BUT, it just has that modern, but cosy look to it I think (sorry for rubbish blackberry photo)
I just love we could pick what we wanted and started from scratch and I love home decor!!
@kala_way:A penny floor! When we finally buy a house I totally want to do that! And your globe rocks!
We have this awesome photoframe chess/checkers set (the red squares are clear with space for photos). We haven't filled the squares with any photos yet!
It's on our living room coffee table, and you can see our awesome zebra rug. I haven't vacuumed the styrofoam up yet--we unpacked the last wedding present this morning--a china hutch from MIL and FIL both. They went in on it together.
Our ketubah and our "practice contract" from the rehearsal are on our little mini wall by the front door so we see them every time we leave the house or come home! The photos didn't come out well.
Silly little kitchen jars (not yet filled, probably one will be M&Ms and one will be something else fun) from my MOH.
@MrsSl82be: That is an awesome painting!
I've always collected egg plates, so they're covering our dining room wall.
I don't have a picture of just the room, but here they are in the background.
I have vintage prints from books framed and hung up of various places I've traveled with my dad. He frames them as he finds them and sends them to me, so I've got some from Venice, Germany, France, Switzerland, I think? We have a huge framed sea chart of the Savannah River and Wassaw Sound hanging above our fireplace since that's where we're from. I have a china hutch full of different china plates I've thrifted, plus mercury glass and milk glass pieces, and crystal and china from our wedding now. And in our front entryway, tons and tons of framed family pictures.
@artbee:I love the egg plates! Very cool. Deviled eggs themed party! lol
Our latest printed painting that we purchased. Looks flipping awseome... I just changed the frame so waiting it to come back from the framers.
We have a lot of paintings. However I have kept them in all white frames and they don't bombard our wall.
We live in a rental atm, so I cant wait till our house is built (were in the middle of it) to do these paintings justice and hang them somewhere really nice!
oh i forgot to add that I got this printed print and a few others at www.society6.com
It is totally all of FI's photography I have hung up and all the pictures of us, our families and friends
@kala_way: Wow! That penny floor is sooo interesting! What room would you want to do that in! I think that's so unique! :)
@bunnylovesbear: Isn't it cool?!! I don't know, probably the entryway so it's more visible. We're in an apartment now, so I'll have to wait until we have our own place, but I can't wait!
@ccranetobe: that painting is lovely, reminds me a bit of Leonid Afremov. Both of my DH's parents are painters so we've got a good bit of art as well. Sad thing is that my DH didn't inherit their love of modern art so I'm having to coax him away from movie posters :)
@kala_way: aww. I love gorgeous black and whites and colour painting. Im fairly neautral with every else I own. Seriously, grey, blacks and whites and sometimes a dark red is the colour of furniture and accessories I love. It makes the bold paintings just come to life.
I think art is one of things that takes time to love. Some of my favourite artworks I hated on sight, I have grown to love and have on my walls. :)
@kala_way: Yes!! Very cool. I'm going to google more pics of that! I want to see it in a finished room! Or up close!
Our bathroom is decorated in rubber duckies that I've been collecting for years. Including a bride and groom duckie set 
(DH isn't so fond of the ducky hand towels)
There is Baylor stuff everywhere, not on any of the wall art but just everywhere. Football season means I care a little less about picking up my uniform pieces and DH's gameday attire. Thus we have 4 green BU hats in the living room- ignoring the other 3 BU hats in white and green in other rooms...
Our personality shows through more with the WWII posters around the room as well as the dance workshop posters. The living room is in hunter greens and a shade I know as havana when it's in saddles (so warm brown? I guess?) Which works with the posters as well as the eventual goal of including my fox hunt themed things
@ohheavenlyday:That's a really cool and sentimental touch!
@ccranetobe:Oh wow. That's great! When we have more money I'm going to buy artwork, too!
@Knubbsy-Wubbsy:posters and duckies? WIN!
Thanks to this thread I'm finally getting off my butt and reupholstering our chairs. Of course this means my husband finally gets to buy the saw he wants because I need a saw! The chairs need reupholstering because the wood underneath is actually really weak particle board. The fabric itself is really cool safari print (gold on black)--only a little frayed. Now they will be practically brand new--new wood seat (keeping the foam seat), new wood back with new foam lining, and new yellow fabric with zebras!
@kala_way: The funny thing is my husband hates deviled eggs! I'll make them for parties sometimes, but the plates are normally just for show.
The art. I saw a painting at a designer show house in DC and knew it would cost thousands (it was about $6,500). I eventually emailed the artist to see if there was something smaller in the same style and he said that he could have a print made of the painting I love. He knocked $150 off the normal cost of the print for me to make the cost more paletable (but with proper framing, it cost about as much as the computer I'm typing this on!). BUT, it's my favorite posession and I'm happy I splurged.
The best part: it's hung so people walking by outside can see it (or the eyes, if my blinds are pulled down from the top). I imaging it making people laugh.
Her name is Olivia.
Here's a not-so-great picture of what it looks like from outside at night.
re: artwork: street art is surprisingly cheap. I picked up a pair of small paintings in Antigua, Guatemala for 100 quetzales which at the time converted to around $12 And in the US it's slightly more expensive but still not too bad
@Jeannine @ Small Chic:lol, that's awsome! And by the by I love the color of your walls.
@kala_way: Thanks! It's Smoke by Benjamin Moore. It reads pretty blue in lamp light, but more gray in natural light. I actually wish I had gone just a smidge more gray...but it worked out really well with the background of that print!
I have some photos I took in Australia, France, England and Florida hanging in our spare bedroom - changed them to B&W and have them in B&W frames. They vary in size from 5x7 to 11x17. The walls are a light blue to offset all the B&W. It's my "relaxing" room. All our other cool stuff is in storage because our house is on the market. Ugh.
I think the thing that gives our home personality (other than our dog and cat) is the juxtaposition of antiques and modern furniture. I'm slowly bringing in some more feminine touches, but it takes time to change a bachelor pad into a home.
We've got a subtle coffee theme going on. People don't actually put it together until they've been to the house a whole lot. We have a funky coffee mug shaped clock, drawer handles and most recently a wall mounted key holder that's the shape of half a coffee cup. (I was going to post an image but couldn't find it anywhere! D'oh)
@kala_way: That penny floor is so cool!
We're renting until next spring, so can't paint walls or do renovations to really bring out the personality in our house, but I like adding little personal touches with our wall art in the meantime. Finding or making something that is meaningful to us is one of my favorite ways to bring personality to a house.
Recently I made some shadow boxes using a map of San Francisco and of Raleigh, to highlight where we loved living for the past 7 years and where we live now. My husband calls it the "I left my heart in San Francisco, to buy a house in Raleigh" wall.
@cola: My husband would love those maps!
For us, it's a few things. I love asian design and since I am not the best designer and don't have a ton of money to get the stuff I REALLY want, I make due with the cheaper stuff... and the gifts. lol. Also, we have our ketubah and new last name, custom artwork my very very tallented artist of a father made just for me, and of course, Mr. Hedgies LOTR swords and other daggers, my DIPLOMA's. And who could forget, THE HEDGIES!!!
(Please ignore the mess and the fact that the turtles tank is about to get cleaned today...)
There is only so much you can do with a small apartment...
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