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@ jeff45

Good ideas! You HAVE been brain-storming.

Soooo inventive. Surely this is from an architectural competition of some kind.

I'd prefer your chair and footrest to a lot of sofas. Looks like the home of someone with an interesting mind.

This:
http://www.containerstore.com/shop?productId=10005137&N=&Ntt=canvas+hanging+bag

I have three of those and 30 pairs of the largest shoes will take up only 15 inches of clothes rod. In fact, I fit far more than 30 pairs in because in my shoe size I can fit two pairs of sandals and ballerina flats, or three pairs of flip-flops in one cubby,

I also have one of the wide hanging bags (intended to hold sweaters) in my hall closet and I use it to store all my table linens and accessories like candles and napkin rings. I stack folded napkins and I roll things like placemats and table runners. I only have a couple of table cloths and I have them on large hangers that I hang next to the canvas shelf. And I still have room for coats!

I'd say it was just as likely that the can't-sleep people actually have sleep disorders and that they are prone to picking certain colors.

As many have pointed out, it's hard to tell what color your room is when the lights are out. At the very least it would be next to impossible to tell the difference between blue and lavender. I live in Arizona where few window treatments can really darken a room (and this time of year, the sun comes up at 4:30am). I wear eye shades.

Just lovely. Another person who can make white look cozy! Nice to see the trees out your windows. It must feel like you're living in a tree house. Every San Francisco apartment should be blessed with so many windows to let in that inimitable light.

I like how the bed is partitioned. Having a piece of furniture in front of the fabric creates a firm delineation without a contrived barrier. The kitchen cabinets are beautiful (IKEA?) and I love the backsplash (painted glass)? Your work or did the apartment come that way? In any case, white on white is not easy to do without making the space seem sterile or precious. But you succeeded in using that scheme to make the apartment seem spacious while remaining comfy looking.

@FightTheFuture

"Lauren several window air conditioners are priced below that!" But is that the issue?

The cheapest window air conditioners I've ever seen were about $120. Window ACs are also ugly and inefficient. But the most important question is: how much will they cost to run? Window air conditioners use more electricity than many refrigerators and cheap ones are not Energy Star compliant. In apartments, they are usually the biggest consumer of electricity and can be 5 to 10 times more expensive to run than a fan.

If a person is interested in the environment and their budget, even the most expensive fan would be preferable to the cheapest air conditioner if the user can get cool enough with the fan. Sometimes we get hot enough that only an air conditioner will do. I live in Arizona and used to live in Washington, DC, so I know hot. But when I can get away with it, I much prefer stirring up the air to artificially cooling it for more than one reason.

I'd put a rod up at ceiling height that extended to the width of the room. Then I'd go to a discount fabric place (one of those places that buys up leftovers from decorators -- there are many in Chicago) and buy fabric in a very nice texture in a color that will melt into the wall color. Cut the lengths long enough to fall from the top of the wall to the floor and sew these pieces together, making two wide drapery panels. You don't even need a sewing machine if you are patient. I've made simple drapery panels by hand-sewing and also by using fusable tape or fabric glue. But given that you will close these at night, sewing is probably the most stable.

You will be sewing selvage edge to selvage edge, so as long as you press neatly after they're sewn you won't need to do anything special except to hem the sides and bottoms once you have panels wide enough cover that whole wall. (Get fabric that's substantial enough that you can't see through it.) After you hang the two panels (clip-on rings are the easiest way and lend ease to opening and closing), pull them open far enough to completely expose the window except for when you are trying to sleep. That will keep them from looking like girly drapes and the bunching will disguise that the panels have seams. If you use a simple canvas fabric or a stiff lining, you should be able to keep within your budget. The rod and rings could cost more than the fabric. If you are short on money, you fashion a drapery rod from plumbing supplies and sew on metal rings from some purpose other than draperies (e.g. jewelry rings from a craft store or loose-leaf rings from an office supply place).

Wow, what great hair. Any advice on how I get that?