Small Cool 2011

love the blue and green with the wood!

Great furniture!

great kitchen

I like your paintings. Also, is that a Jens Risom table in your living room?

I love the paintings.

This is exactly how I want my apartment to look. Breezy, sunny, a little bit vintage...

Thanks for the nice comments! Yes, that is a Jens Risom table.

LOVE GERTIE!

Love your art and pottery collection. Also love the all white kitchen! Good luck.

P.S. Second look - I adore the red lamps against the blue paint in your bedroom. Your place makes me feel happy.

How cute is Gertie! Adorable home, too. The look of the entire place, and not just the furniture in it, is a true mid-centiry vision.

Wow-- greetings from your soul sister in another state! :)

Breezy and sweet.

Love love love your house Christine. :)

love your kitchen

perfect!

Its so perfect, sweet and cool, just what I would have pictured you home to look like, best of luck

What a great place. I had to linger on the photos to check out your ceramics collection. I love the aquas mixing with pinks and reds.

This is my kind of place. Love the art, love the furniture.

I love your china cabinet in the living area! I would love to know where you got it? Also love your pottery collection and blue walls!

Wow, I'm really enjoying these comments. Thanks for the votes!

The china cabinet, and indeed much of my mid-century furniture, is from a great furniture consignment shop in my town. The name of the store is The Treasure Mart and it is definitely worth checking out if you ever find yourself in the Ann Arbor/Detroit area.

LOVING your place (and green with envy) !!!

Cute doggy! The kitchen is amazing, I love white cabinets and pops of color.

So my style! I Love mid-century! Where is your sofa from?

Houndstooth: it is the Corona sofa from Macy's:
http://www1.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=251335&CategoryID=30362&LinkType=DepthPath

I love love love your white kitchen!! Also, thanks for the tip about The Treasure Mart! I also live in Ann Arbor, just moved to my first unfurnished place and was searching online today for a furniture place!

Extremely homey. I can so see myself lounging comfortably in your place. Great job!

Gasp! I have the Corona and a schnauzer, too. Yours is such a cutie!

http://myheartbehaves.com/2011/04/07/rearranging/

Your palette makes me so happy!

Are those paintings by the same artist?

I admire your matching of colors through your home (I'm too wishy-washy to commit to one set for all rooms). They flow together very nicely and is a great color scheme.

It's interesting that many of the "small" flat in this contest (and past years too) are normal flat in Europe :-)

I just don't think that this is a small flat for two people. I would be interested how you could fit in a family with two kids in it but like this? It is a lovely flat, but I think small cool should be about finding good solutions for small spaces and I don't really see that. I mean having a living room AND a den? Thats the opposite of having rooms and furniture do double duty.

love the use of light blue and red. seriously dislike your art.

I cannot imagine every feeling unhappy in your home. The kitchen put a huge smile on my face. Well done : )

funlinlin- the den is a bedroom that we put a t.v. a couch and a dining table in. trust me- its packed. however, you're right- this size is not cramped for the 2 of us, but we are short of storage and extra space, so there I definitely have to be careful about how much stuff we have and where it will go. If we have 2 kids we'll be putting them in here, so maybe I can update you with that some day. However, this is the "small" category and not the "teeny-tiny".

felttipjr: the paintings are by my husband. I can sell you some if you want :)

I love your style! Your place looks crisp and clean but still like a home. I love the ukes!

@ChristineOC: I don't doubt that your den is packed. I just don't see why it is. Why not put the TV in the big living room (where you already have two couches). If you have the space to own three couches then I don't think you're living small. For me it isn't just about the size of the apartment but what you managed to actually fit in it. So if you have those two kids, still live in your flat and found good solutions how to make it work, you could reenter your apartment in the contest and I would probably vote for your. It would still be in the small category but now it would actually be a small flat for the amount of people living there.
Your flat is lovely, but from small cool I expect more than just lovely. I expect ideas and solutions about living in a small space. I can't really say that I really saw anything of that in your space. Like if I wrote an article about the 10 best tips for living in small apartments with real life examples- why should I include your apartment? What about your apartment should I include?
Don't take that personally, your flat is really nice, but it really doesn't give me what I want from small cool, so I won't vote for it. And I hope that more families would partake in the small category because I just don't think that the apartments in the small category are small if only one or two people are living there.

I love your place! I'd love to see more of it.

I want to live here! It's lovelly, realistic, warm and fresh. Every photo made me smile.

Thanks for the tip about The Treasure Mart. I'm in Dearborn. Love your selection of furniture and the happy colorful accessories in your kitchen.

I want to see more pictures!

Great to see an Ann Arbor place on here!

The white is great and bright

Way to represent the A2! Great colors and clean kitchen with pops of color.

Love this place!

Treasure Mart loves your place and not just because you buy some of your things here :).
Your home looks great! (love the portrait in the living room & the painting of the smiling loaf of bread in the kitchen)

Love your kitchen!