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I feel so alone. Am I the only person who really, really loves the 70s and all its bizarre and ridiculous excesses? Especially all the colors and patterns.

I love rescuing dumpster chairs and re-upholstering them to make them fab. I got this chair off of a curb: http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/rudebega/chairkai011.jpg

My (vintage leather, neon yellow, button-tufted) couch is decidedly the focal point of my living room: http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/rudebega/DSCN2371.jpg (messy, sorry!)

But then, my design sense is channeled straight from the 70s, which I adore but most designers agree was The Worst, so I don't know that anyone else can trust my taste level. I go with what makes me happy!

Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. So cozy and colorful!

... And I found an old pic of it in the vintage shop before I'd decided to buy it. I took a picture of it and dithered about it for several days, you can see some of the rest of the furniture set it was a part of: http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/rudebega/chest02.jpg

(Sorry I keep harping about my chest of drawers. It was the first real piece of furniture I bought for myself when I moved out, and I have major sentimental attachment to it. Clearly!)

If yours is like mine, take a look at the little metal panels from the inside of the drawers. They should be in kind of a slot, and they'll probably have that eye-searing lime green on the reverse side that you can see in my pics. The panels on the mirror are reversible, too! If you undo the drawer hardware you can flip them over and slot them back in so that the green is showing, but I think the yellow works just fine in your space. :D

Found a better one. Apologies, I'm a total '70s furniture nerd: http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/rudebega/DSCN2226.jpg

It works--IF your door is perfectly balanced and doesn't catch the insides of the door frame, else the eye-catching paint will get even more eye-catching scrapes on it. Wouldn't work in my apartment :( Everything is old, made of wood, and has a tendency to swell and shrink in the humidity.

We had a cast iron clawfoot tub in my childhood home. It was gloriously deep but the iron took forever to warm up in the winter. You could run nothing but hot water and it'd be only lukewarm by the time the tub was half full. Romantic, but not energy (or time!) efficient. Still, the tub was so large I could practically swim in it as a three-year-old, which is always awesome.

It's beautifully-decorated and all, but the house kind of looks "grandma" to me. Wealthy, awesome grandma, one with good taste and a lot of money and time, but grandma. Too much chintzy print, white space and dark wood for me, I guess. My tastes may be too color-saturated for this place.