how clean is too clean?

sometimes i'll catch myself looking at a room + thinking....it looks a little TOO clean.  and when i say clean, i mean neat.  because i'm admittedly a neat-freak, as opposed to a clean-freak.  [one look at my dark walnut floors will confirm this.  dust unabashedly resides there.]  but when it comes to mess....well i don't mess around.

anyway sometimes i'll catch myself living a little too near the neat side of things + too far from the freshly lived in look.

one example was our bathroom, as shown in this pic i recently posted.  i really like a picked-up bath where the statements themselves can shine....pretty fixtures, lovely lighting, the texture of the tile....etc.  but sometimes things look prettier when you dabble in disarray.

a little more interesting, no?

while it might seem funny to some, to force things by purposefully creating clutter, i'm rather enjoying it myself.

how about you?  is everything categorically organized behind closed doors? ....or do you like to leave evidence of 'life' living on the surfaces in your home?

hep, hep, hooray!

as you recall, our master bath.

a little sparkle, a little masculine, a little feminine....
well speaking of feminine, we've had a new girl move into our house. yes that's right, kevin and i are sharing our domain with a hot young thang that has a saucy demeanor and a penchant for fancy cigs.

that's her, hanging to the right of the tub. the story behind this little lady is that on our last big trip to the land of ike it suddenly landed on our cart without a word of explanation. meaning? the husband picked this print his very own self. so proud am i!

....and not only proud but absolutely loving miss audrey hepburn sharing this space with us. loving how we get a duplicate view of her in our mirrors, loving the combination of her with our mod lotus-like tub pendant, loving the dove gray color of the canvas with our soft gray walls. love, love, love.

i think what is most clever about my hub's pick is that the master bath really is a woman's retreat more than anything else....a space away from the chaos of the rest of the household. [i can especially appreciate this now through my new mom-colored glasses]

so what better place to have a cheeky girly print that adds glamour to every angle of the room.