Homes: hang in there – in pictures

This wall is treated as a sketchbook, filled with random objects, notes and pictures. The mantelpiece and hearth are the centrepiece, and a pile of tattered encyclopedias have become display stands on each side. The owner cut the eggs sign from a cardboard box because she loved the typography; the portraits of men with interesting facial hair are the start of a collection; and the other photographs are old family snaps. Photograph: PR The owner of this Tokyo home collects buttons and beads. She has thousands, sorted and displayed in cabinets, drawers, cake cases, bottles and jars. The effect is of a grid, with the boxes, containers, shelving and desk creating clean lines. Layers of overlapping fabric pinned to the wall create a backdrop. When a display is this busy, order is key. Photograph: PR The fashion designer owner of this Stockholm apartment uses her walls as in a studio – for inspiration. She has combined a 1920s cabinet and monochrome Ettore Sottsass vase with abstract art on silk paper that she creates herself. These often inform her clothing designs, so she pins them to the wall using masking tape, to study them more carefully. Wonderwalls: A Guide To Displaying Your Stuff, by Sarah Bagner (supermarketsarah.com), is published by Cico Books at £19.99. Photograph: PR