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These ceilings really do seem higher than they really are! I'm getting ideas for two small bedrooms I've been stalling on.

The Curried Coconut Carrot Soup!

I'm with you on the pink girly stuff.

New paint. In my case, this is wall and ceiling paint in medium and intense shades of cheddar. My tiny kitchen gets north light, which is bluish. When everything was painted white the room became broody and morose in winter. The new colors knock the depression right out of it.

I'm hugely impressed but too far away. Please write about a similar company in Denver, if there is one.

I keep hoping for a trend toward mint green and white striped towels (lengthwise stripes) but I bet it doesn't happen this year, either.

I rather like it the way it is. I'm getting Scandinavian vibes from it. The chair in the corner looks cozy, and I really doubt if anyone would hit their head because a person doesn't stand straight up from that kind of chair. Were it mine, I might introduce some medium-to-dark gray for contrast plus one small vibrantly-colored thing.

Is that real old red linoleum with metal banding on that countertop? Or Formica? Either way, I like it a lot.

I grew up in a semi-rural part of western Oregon, with parents who grew up rural. The rural life seemed ideal, so I went to a college with agricultural roots in a small town. I loved it. After a stint in Denver, which I did not care much for, I have managed to live either rural or semi-rural. Full-on rural didn't pan out so well for me - I found that prefer a different sense of community, where I can see people if and when I want to, but I know I could live fairly isolated if I weren't surrounded by arch-conservatives. I could be totally happy with the Northern Exposure existence, and in fact that's approximately what my tiny Colorado mountain burg is like. Yes, I need a car to get "to town". So what?

When those curtains are pulled closed, the color in the room must be delightful.