Mid-Century Low Dresser - $350 (San Jose, CA)

Mid Century 9 Drawer Dresser

Where To Use It:

  1. Living Room
  2. Bedroom
  3. Kitchen

Possible Style Pals:

  1.  Swedish Dreamland(minimalist natural bed, one joyously bright lacquered side table, one odd-ball shaped side table, light non-symmetrical design rug, earthy art)
  2. Bohemian Rhapsody (collection of drawings, noguchi ceiling lamp, white pottery, red poppies, sheepskin throw on a leather butterfly chair)

8 x 5 Zig-Zag Rug - $170 (Mill Valley, CA)

Blue Nate Berkus Zig Zag Rug


















Where To Use It:

  1. Living Room

  2. Bedroom
  3. Kids Room

Possible Style Pals:

  1. Traditional Tweaked (Grey velvet sofa, greek key throw pillows, salon-style painting collection, wingback chair, lucite cocktail table)
  2. Alice in Marrakesh (Bronze tray coffee table, modern leather sofa, red paisley throw pillows, Tibetan lamb poufs)

Wicker Chair and Ottoman - $200 (SF, CA)

Crate & Barrel Chair with Ottoman

Where To Use It:

  1. Sun Room 
  2. Living Room
  3. Bedroom

Possible Style Pals:

  1. Upbeat Coastal (Slip-covered sofa, turquoise gourd lamp, white lacquer coffee table, Moroccan mustard rug, driftwood mirror)
  2. Global Casual (vintage persian rug, classic leather sofa, well-loved trunk coffee table)

Brass Mid-Century Lamp - $250 (San Jose)

Mid Century Modern 5 Globe Light

Where To Use It:

  1. Living Room
  2. Dining Room
  3. Bedroom

Possible Style Pals:

  1. Pop Living (Optically intense rug, modern leather wingbacks, white minimalist coffee table)
  2. Mod Glamour (Tortoise shell side table, black velvet pillow, silk-wool silver/grey carpet)

Blue West Elm Chaise - $60 (Pacifica)

West Elm Chaise

Where To Use It:

  1. Living Room
  2. Bedroom
  3. Library
  4. Entry Way

Possible Style Pals:

  1. Modern Lounge (Sisal rug, ivory gourd lamps, 2 Bertoia diamond lounge chairs with sheepskin throws, white ceramic round coffee table without legs)
  2. Pattern Play (Black & white chevron rug, ikat gray throw pillows [Ballard Malabar Gray], rattan side chairs)

Louis XVI Table & Chairs - $249 (Vallejo, CA)

French Provincial Dining Room Table

Where To Use It:

  1. Dining Room (either make-over the chairs to look less matchy, or use different ones altogether)
  2. Office (as a very grand desk)
  3. Library (for consuming books as though they were food)
  4. Kitchen (as a breakfast table, see 2 below)

Possible Style Pals:

  1. Supper Club (extend it to the full 12 feet, and use big, dark wingbacks for EVERY chair)
  2. French Modern Famille (back one side up to a banquet, add Red Panton S chairs + a Marimekko runner, and you have an upscale but approachable kitchen table for the fashionable family)
  3. Curiously Chic (for a library table, add a stack of books for each seat, dark wood chairs with extra-padded seats, and a center tablescape of natural specimens in various bell jars)

Quatrefoil Wood Mirror - $50 (Berkeley, CA)

Z gallerie wooden wall mirror

Where To Use It:

  1. Dining Room (off-center over the sideboard in a tableau balanced with a table lamp on the other side)
  2. Living Room (as part of a salon-style art wall)
  3. Entry way (check yourself before you wreck yourself!/leave the house)

Possible Style Pals:

  1. Classic Clean (neutral wonderland of grays, light browns, and creams, punctuated by the occasional soft blue and live greenery)
  2. Mischievous Glamour (paint it gold, pair with velvet fainting chaise and leopard rug to say "I know how to walk the line, but I sometimes prefer to cross it)