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I used to live across the street from a church converted into a single-family home (on Damen about a block south of Addison, Chicagoans). It had been converted several years earlier, but they still had the letterboard thing in the front yard. They always just left it blank, and I wished that if they were going to leave it there they should at least put up messages.

I think that's a GREAT idea to paint the ceiling a light blue or similar, SHERRYBINNH!

One person's "starter" house is another person's dream home. I love your outdoor spaces, both the backyard and that great front porch.

>>sherrybinnh, the study was widely reported. I read some details about it at the NY Times Well blog. It measured a bunch of body functions in people who sat for X straight hours compared to those who got up and moved around at regular intervals. The findings were pretty scary. Sitting for long intervals affects your body negatively in every measure they took, and it happens fast. And the real bummer is that exercising for 60 or 90 minutes at the end of a long day of sitting doesn't undo the bad effects or stop them from happening. Even if you get a lot of exercise at some other time, long stretches of sitting are bad. The precise recommendation is that every 20 minutes, you should get up and walk on a treadmill for 2 minutes. That's the amount of moving around that kept the bad effects from happening in the study.
Who's to say we aren't dropping like flies because of all the sitting? The whole point of the study was that being sedentary is much worse for us and may cause a lot more disease and ill health effects than we have any idea of.
I'm with you on CHAIRS! Love them.

So simple, and yet there's really a lot of very smart small-space design going on in there, what with the hall and the kitchen and I suspect the closet you mention.
And can I just say I'm so jealous there's a town called Sunnyside? There's a street with that name here in Chicago, and I once almost rented a not-so-great apartment just so I could live on such a nicely named street (second only to Bittersweet, which yes, someday I will live there). But a whole town!

For all the expedit-as-room-dividers we've seen, props to this one -- adding the second one at the end to make a little bit of an L shape really makes a nice difference in how it feels. It's a little bookcase corner of the living room, not an expedit plopped in the middle.

I agree with the person above who suggested pulling the two chairs out a few inches so their front legs are on the rug. Seems like you have plenty of room there, no need to press them back against the bookshelf.

PS: Your tv looks like it has horns. Kind of cute.

So smart to steal square footage from the bedroom and use it for what you need instead!

I'm just going to go ahead and ask something I've been wondering for a while, since I noticed that Mason jars have a presence on pinterest as big as nutella and chalkboard paint. Where do they come from? Until I started seeing them on pinterest, I thought of them as a Depression-era item, or something that gets mentioned in country songs to invoke the good old days of America way back when. I had not idea they still existed in the 21st century. Is there something that actually comes in Mason jars so all these projects are reusing them? Or do people go buy them at a craft store or something?
Honest question. Those yellow painted ones are cute.

Shoeboxes need love too! It's very nice.
That stone wallpaper in the kitchen has been featured on Apartment Therapy before, yes?

@sadiemalion and @cheyhorn, I had that same thing, for the first time today. I got an email saying that someone mentioned me on a pin. I didn't click on it, but I did go to pinterest and search for that person's name and saw that "she" has 2 boards with a few pins on each of them, and the caption of every pin says the same thing about a weight loss product.
That seems to be the spamming model. Bad news bears.