Mixing decorating styles

Here's a good article on mixing home decorating styles: Contemporary, Traditional, etc.

I thought it really explained the thought process behind mixing styles and working with furnishings already present in the home.

I think they just missed, though. If you click on the photos, you can see they're working with Oriental rugs in both rooms. When I work with Orientals, I start with the colors in the rug, because the rugs tend to dominate a room with their strong patterns and colors. The wall colors are not even in the ballpark-- I would have gone with a red-based beige rather than yellow.

One caution when you do eclectic: try to weave some of each style in every room. Otherwise you end up with themey type rooms or, as I like to call it, the "White House Syndrome" (the Lincoln Room, the Washington Room, and so on).

Here's the link, halfway down the page, under Interior design news, first article:

contemporary design home interior Resources
"Greenwich Time - Traditional, transitional, contemporary can you mix them? (Greenwich Time)
Traditional, transitional, contemporary can you mix them? We were recently asked to provide the finishing touches for a large home in Armonk, N.Y. The homeowners, a young couple with two children, had worked with two design firms over the past several years."