The whole apartment is a big mishmash of items... The coffee table I brought back from India, the lamp behind the armchair is a hand-me-down and the ones in the bedroom, I made :)

Naomi here. Thanks for all the compliments!!! Really brightened up my lazy Friday morning :) For all those wondering: The TV cabinet is from BoConcept, the armoire in the ...

ha ha.. just saw that ziacd is also looking for goat recipe ideas... what's going on with this meat?

I'm trying something new and making goat chops tonight. I was going to make them with mushrooms, mint and parsley and bit of lemon. Would pairing it with new potatoes and green beans make the dinne...

Ooo - interested in finding out about this too!

Don't do black with that rug... Maybe try to liven up your khaki sofa with red pillows?

jplee... what about using an old globe? Don't know how you'd thread it though... but if you can come up with a cool solution, it could be really pretty

Container of milk in the trunk of a car - rotten milk smell for months. Carton of eggs, also in the trunk of a car - rotten egg smell for EVER!

Hey Sassydo... I have almost exactly the same Buddha statue that is unfortunately not going to follow us into our new home (husband's not into Buddhas). Anywho, where are you located? I could send ...

I like the shutters... I'm not crazy about the concrete. But maybe you could just change that out with pretty pea gravel. And just update the lanscaping. The paint colors are nice as is.

Maybe place a bookcase in front of it and stuff the back with foam like you said? That way you could disguise the fact that you're blocking a door - that always looks strange to me.

I guess you could keep adding horizontal or vertical pipes to create more of a headboard and footboard. What width pipe did you use? Was the project hard to build? What tools did you ...

I would move the bed to under the window and make that your accent wall.

Sofa

I think that you should have two couches (or a couch and two chairs arranged perpendicular to the window directly across the front door for coversation with a coffee table in between them.

Fugly!

What is that wall color? It's fantastic :)

I'm looking for a craigslist-like website that was blogged about here a while back. The main difference was that you could browse through pictures... I can't find it anymore.

That's a scary looking mantel

I like the orange because of how warm it makes the room feel, but I think it would look a lot better if you hung the curtains above the windows and had the curtains hang down outside the wind...