Hopefully you'll get your camera back soon, Brian.
I'm contemplating a project pretty similar to yours. However, I'm going to try to unite my photos of different objects {edit: not furniture, or things around the house--uniting the hodge podge I've got would be impossible!} into a series through my processing of the images. Does that make sense? For example, an artsy buddy of mine took a series of shots with a Holga and a red colored filter--so the uniting feature is that they were all very red.
Anyway, just something to think about.