Who are we

It's too easy to plan on paper.  We have gone around and around with what we want, without realizing who we are.  We've discovered that our style is exactly that.  We started with Tuscan - an Italian farmhouse.  It's very trendy, and can be pretty slick.  It can also work with modern touches.  Then we opened it up.  In discussing it with an architect, he suggested that we look at British cottage.  My wife feared that this would lean toward Tudor and get too formal, then they suggested American Arts & Crafts Style.  Little did we know, that is our style.  We went here http://architecture.about.com/od/housestyles/tp/housestylesindex.htm and started researching.  Sure enough, it fits us.  The words we were using to describe what we wanted and knowing us led him to direct us to this style.  After picking up a few books, we found that the touches we had added to our current house, as well as a lot of our furniture are arts and crafts style.  Some great examples are the style in the Greene & Greene Gamble House, as well as the furniture work of Gustav Stickley.