Interior Design for a Woodsy house

I've never lived in a ruralish home for any long period of time. Yes, I know cortlandt isn't strictly speaking rural but it's certainly not urban...Let's call it woodsy-suburban. With this new setting comes a new set of aesthetic choices and I'm not particulary a visual person so it's a hard for me to chose what kind of stylistic avenue to go down. I have lots of ideas/ambitions. 

At first, I was toying with neo-victorian maximalism: William Morris wallpaper, a huge amount of framed pieces, lots of trinkets from various travels, a vintage steinway grand, etc. A grand old house that you can spend a lifetime filling with interesting stuff, like that fantastic set from Fanny and Alexander. 

On the other side of the coin, Maybe i should go for a barebones Scandinavian minimalist/modernist. Fill it with Bauhaus furniture and appliances, still go for the steinway grand piano but even out the rooms with lots of glass plus solid colors.  

These two design choices are diametrically opposed but I think both represent two aspects of my own personality. It's hard to know which one I'd be able to live with best. I guess it's important to remember that even Mies, father of international style and THE uber-modernist, never lived in one of his own creations. His house was old-fashioned gothic german....isn't that funny. 

Anyways, I'll be mulling this over for a long time to come. 
-Marc