i'm not even joking you guys, my house is a mix of "shit i brought home from asia" and "montana is the best place on earth" is my aesthetic "ni howdy"

So, porcelain, lacquer boxes, silk prints, and exquisite woodworked things mixed with buffalo hide rugs, hand-hewn log-things, and range-adjacent stuff? (I do estate transcriptions for obscenely rich folks in Hilton Head, SC. Rich people collect a LOT of expensive stuff from elsewhere...)

Our big prints on the wall are an old Japanese train map and then maps of Bozeman and Missoula. We used to have my North Korean propaganda poster up too but our wall space is more limited for big prints here. Lot of clean lines with the furniture, the kotatsu, and some handmade cross-stitch

Solid. I like it when folks have random-ass AMAZING things in the middle of a bunch of contemporary, expensive furniture and things. Did one the other day where the estate was mostly meh, except for the HUNDREDS of AUDUBON PLATE PRINTS, by Havell, 24 x 30. That's an EASY seven-figure find.

Same. I did one a while ago where the person had just basically bought out a catalog of a bunch of nautical-themed stuff. Also had a couple where the ENTIRE house was 'Tommy Bahama' themed crap. I've had some (literal) gems, though. One had three pieces, Revolution-era, that were museum 🧵

... museum quality. IIRC, a tall-boy, dresser, and end table, all in 1" thick flame maple, perfectly preserved. Another was a jeweler who had 200+ pocket watches, among other things, as well as a diamond ring that was the size of my thumbnail, with a diamond of OBSCENE quality.

The revolution era stuff has me all 👀👀👀 I imagine it has to be hard not to drool over that stuff but I imagine people love when you recognize the quality and value of their stuff