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To piggback on Vykim's suggestion, Room & Board actually makes white/natural slipcovers for their Jasper sofa that leave the legs exposed.

I bought that sofa about a month ago, in a creamy peach velvet. It was part of a set (matching loveseat and two fairly hideous tub chairs), but I just needed the sofa - after the awesome seller agreed to split it, I was out a whopping 80 bucks. It's being lovingly recovered in grey linen as we speak, and even with the cost of fabric, upholstery, and the initial purchase, I'm at about $1000. That price is insane.

Try Partylite's Teakwood & Cardamom or Tamboti Safari. Both are gorgeous masculine scents.

Oh thank god. We lost it in the first round of voting.

The kid in me would have loved to be around for Olympics in my (admittedly gorgeous) city, but the adult in me dreaded the taxes, the traffic, the unfair and unnecessary relocation of thousands of low-income families, and the destruction of several historic parks that contribute to the very Chicago beauty that Daley's been touting.

When you're combing ebay and craigslist, keep an eye out for PB Teen's Maison Canopy Bed as well. It was available in black iron, and retailed for a little less than half the Anthro bed.

Have to echo ThatGrrl here - I have two cats (both white, one a longhair) who not only lovingly shed on every upholstered thing I own, but love to claim new comfy scratch surfaces. There's no way to justify it, for me.

I'm a born-and-raised Chicagoan, so there's probably healthy bias in this statement, but I call B.S. on this one. The setting, culture, and people of this city are unparalleled. I love to travel, domestically and abroad, and have a list of favorite cities as long as my arm, but I will always come back to Chicago.

Living in a major metro with midwestern people is the best of both worlds, and this is the only place in the country where that vibe exists. It's a wonderful melting pot of amazing architecture, universities, theaters and museums, and yes, food (and are there bigger food snobs anywhere? We're culinary elitists, and proud of it.). Every non-native friend or family member who visits remarks on the friendliness and approachability of the people. The summers are more beautiful here than anywhere else in the U.S. And there's the Sox factor.

tarynitup makes an excellent point - with rolling gentrification and the loss of public housing, many many people were forced to flee to the suburbs. And most of those people are back in the city weekly, even daily - to work or to play, because they're still Chicagoans at heart.

What a beautiful, personal home. Your use of color and pattern is fearless and admirable, and everything feels like it belongs. I'd love to know the source of the melon color in the master bedroom - it's exactly what I've been looking for for my own.

Probably my favorite house tour ever. I wanted to see more.

Whoa, those drum shades are massive.

I'm actually kind of digging the layered opulence look here (although I'm not sure the nightstands work in this space, and that settee in the corner needs to be banished immediately). And for the love of god and all that is holy, someone please source something like that bed.

I would say that bed, but the price tag would only break my heart.

Wow. This is... disturbing, to say the least. And I'm not talking about the apartment. Is it written somewhere that, since the internet makes you faceless, it must also make you tactless?

If it's not your style, fine. If you can't appreciate the asthetic, fine. Overall, it doesn't suit my taste, either. But personal opinion can be conveyed without ripping someone's home and choices to shreds, and being as ugly as possible about it. It doesn't make you seem discerning, it makes you seem petty. If these same choices were made by the tenants themselves, and in an apartment a third of this size, would you still be spewing this same vitriol?

Jarret, there are some beautiful pieces here (the dining room chandelier and case goods, that gorgeous tripod lamp, and the bedroom as a whole). And climbing into the tank while the piranhas are feeding took guts. That said, I think you're fighting a losing battle here. If your clients are happy with the end result, do you really need to defend your choices (or their taste)?