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Not to quibble, BUT... the population of Seattle is nowhere NEAR 3.3 million. It's about 600,000. The population of ALL of Puget Sound, including from Olympia up to the San Juan Islands, is around 3.5 million.

Yeah, but is it going to survive our forthcoming 9.0?

Other than that, I loves.

LOVE to see Northwest / Seattle house tours on AT! Nice work, Suki! I swear, I've been in your apartment before, long ago. Love the bathroom most of all - the gold touches with the blue tile is gorgeous.

AT! Please, please, please get a blogger here. The reader-submitted tours are better than nothing, but ones done by local bloggers are so much more useful, inspiring and inviting. Seattle deserves it!

She exists.
http://www.rejuted.com/
Now the apartment is down to 96 sq feet, though.
Personally, I like it, but it needs more information, and would have been better if the profile were photographed and written by someone else. Are there no AT bloggers here in Seattle to do house tours? Because I'm always available for freelance work :)

We just painted our brick fireplace a gorgeous white after many years of hating the ugly, uneven red brick that was the focal point of our living room. I wish we'd have done this sooner! The room is so much brighter. Unlike the blogger's suggestion, we went high gloss. I was inspired by the outside of one wall of MoMa on a recent trip to NYC. Our brick is corner to corner, which I think looks even prettier when painted..

I'd like this better with a plain rug and without the fabric wall hangings. As it is, it is overload. As someone who gets migraines, well, I wouldn't want to hang out here!

I am one of those people who fantasize about someday running my own B&B -- nothing fancy or anything, just an adorable, rustic cottage in Oregon's Willamette Valley with an overflowing organic vegetable garden out back and perma-cat in the front window, sunning himself. My guests will come from Seattle, England, Brazil and Japan and we'll share travel stories over a pot of coffee and huckleberry pancakes out on the porch that overlooks the rolling hills of the vineyard next door...

Yes, I have given this whole B&B thing some serious thought.

Whenever I travel, homestays and B&Bs are my lodging of choice. I really like the concept of AirBnB, and am set to use it for the first time for an upcoming trip to NYC. But I think outside of expensive cities like NYC or London the prices are kinda steep. (For example you can get a 4-star hotel via Priceline for $69 downtown Seattle right now. Compare that to what's offered in Seattle on AirBnB, and it's the W Hotel that starts to look like the bargain.)

Another great way to cut costs when traveling is to arrange bed and breakfast homestays. In an effort to fulfill my own B&B fantasies, I created a network called Casa Casa, where travelers stay in each other's homes, eat a home-cooked breakfast, and pay a small gratuity of $15 a night to their hosts--a fraction of the cost of a real bed and breakfast. Check it out at http://www.casacasa.org.

I wonder if the handle is height-adjustable? That is one mark against the Micralite Toro we are considering. I am also in Seattle and need a recommendation on where to test drive some of these strollers - suggestions?