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that first photo is an optical illusion! it makes the bed look SO high off the floor, when it's really no taller than the average bunk. COOL! i would have loved this as a kid!

i vote for an electric light. natural light is great, until it's dark outside... and then you'd be relying on the electric light from the other bathroom, filtered through something opaque? doesn't seem efficient!

i'm spending extended time in the caribbean right now with the family i nanny for. his parents are here working, and obviously I'M working, but it's a vacation for the toddler! the parents enjoy themselves as a family unit on nights and weekends, just like they would at home.

the flight was a dream (even though he's normally a bit of a wild child), and we've found LOTS to do (even though there aren't many SPECIFIC kid-centric activities). it's all in what you make of it! honestly, i think it's been harder for ME as a single young adult, trying to find activities in the evenings, than it has been for him as a 2.5 year old!

I actually used two giant versions of this (5' wide by 2' deep by 7' tall) to create "walls" for a nursery in my loft, and ended up having one of the shelves perfectly at changing table height. Works great, and I threw a few wine crates on it for storage (though any crate or soft-sided box or basket) would work just fine.

since i suck at maintaining flowers of any kind... if it were mine, and doable, i would stencil in some kind of cool design, in a bright (but complementary) color, that meanders down those steps. sort of like a welcome mat, but much more personal!

just, wow. there is nothing in it that's not amazing. i'm taking with me some inspiration for my own (albeit much smaller) open-plan loft.

ahh. this was me in my last place. i rented a huge historic house as a live-work space... imagine my surprise when i spent 90% of my time in the very large master bedroom. i had a queen bed, loveseat, entertainment center, bookshelf, in-room shoe storage shelves, and three rugs... and it still wasn't FULL. the rest of the place? out of sight, out of mind! it stayed a mess, i'm sad to say.

the only solution for me was to move into a smaller space and get rid of most of the junk taking up space! i moved into a loft with an open floor plan in which nothing can really be hidden (except my closet... that's STILL a disaster area, but i'm also still paring down clothes). everything stays quite a bit cleaner now that whomever comes to visit will instantly be subjected to the mess!

absolutely love!

but, can inanimate objects be viewed as masculine or feminine? i think my view on it is more as dark and utilitarian than masculine... but that's a po-tay-to po-tah-to situation :)

whatever you wanna call it, this girl likes it!

I nanny for a little boy who comes to me in the mornings, and then I take him to the house of the other child I nanny in the afternoon. He's still young enough to need a nap in both places, and I live in an open-plan apartment/loft. I used large shelving to section off a part of the room to make a separate bedroom for him. I've found that noise isn't so much the problem... it's him being able to SEE me. He won't go to sleep if he can see me moving around or walking by, which means that when he naps in the mornings, I have to stay in one specific area of the apartment (inconvenient, b/c I have to walk by his area to get to the bathroom, kitchen, and laundry room). Noise does occasionally bother him, but there's no where in my place where he couldn't hear noise.

In the afternoons, he shares a bedroom with his toddler friend (friend in a bed, baby in a pack-n-play). Neither have a problem falling asleep with the other in the room and aren't really bothered as much by noise when they're together. Plus, because of the way that room is set up, even with the door open the baby can't see me, and falls asleep faster. :)

Hope that helps!

i falsely believed i needed to "upgrade" with each move, even in rentals. extra bedrooms for guests who rarely came. more bathrooms, even though i'm single. set-aside rooms to work from home. ugh. it was so tiring. this last move, i pared down my possessions and moved into a loft with one bathroom and no yard upkeep. i am still destashing possessions in hopes of getting down to ONE minivan load full, for the next time i move (which will likely be to nyc). feels good to be free!