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Great job knocking out walls and putting up those frosted sliders to extend the sight lines. I'm thinking that if only you had made your floor plan pic a before/after instead of just an after, more people here would realize the smart things you did to make your small place cooler. Well done!

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Yep, great advice Mike in HI. I'm a believer also that a well-designed lighting plan can not only visually stretch the dimensional footprint of a small room & boost its perceived square footage, it can dramatically improve the general sense of well-being imparted by a room of any size, not just small ones.

@RickRoberts, there are a few more pics of this houseboat at its entry in in last year's SmallCool.

And the owner & renovator of Archipelago, Dominique Brown, has a blog with lots more photos documenting her reno and since she's been trying to sell the boat it now has its own separate website with more recent pics (click on all the categories up top.).

Mybe you'll find that those last photos look a bit more realistically lived in, fixitchick. The boat is berthed right in the middle of an urbanized area (Leyton, in East London) full of restaurants & markets & such & so they don't have to have supplies for a long passage aboard.

The wardrobe is Ikea's Bjornholmen media cabinet which I think has been discontinued, but it was featured here --->at AT in 2007

And for the bookshelf, try the "Sapien Bookcase" at DWR

Gorgeous does seem to be the word of choice here today for this one and no wonder! Gorgeous light, gorgeous home, gorgeous atmosphere.

In the annals of serendipitous finds, this apartment has to go down as one of the scores of the century for a renter, but does the landlord get to charge more per month now that you've made it a showplace Olivia?

If you ever decide to move, though, you MUST put the listing here on AT before your landlord gets the chance to post it locally or you will go down in the annals of AT's most treacherous & UNgorgeous turncoats. Just saying. ;-)

Wow. The Spoleto Festival must be a lot wilder now than when I went there, if authorities there are locking up so many Anglophonic visitors for bad behavior that they have to put all their prison signage into English now.

Or do you think these clever folks are just trying to boost their chances for winning AT's "Concorso Piccolo e Fico 2013"? ;-)

Couldn't find them on the site. Anybody else find a direct link to the item page?

Drat! Just when you thought the ubiquitous Swiss Cross marketed as a "must have" motif to aspiring design hipsters had been safely deep-sixed into the world's landfills next to all those formerly de rigeur Keep Calm tchotchkes, it rears its sneaky little head again using this devious "plus" disguise.

I dunno, you guys. If we're gonna have to jump like lemmings to buy whatever faddish doodads the accessories manufacturing consortium decides to crank out this year, shouldn't we demand they at least come up with something that doesn't come already bearing the musty whiff of 2009 all over it?

How about that cute little symbol for pi ,π, instead?

Absolutely glorious, this house is. While Marcia's tour photos are tantalizing and much appreciated, I'd sure love to see it get the royal treatment by an architectural photographer who could camp out up there for a few days to capture the SoCal light. Interiors remind me of the Gropius House in Lincoln MA - but with palm trees outside the windows! Thanks Marcia P & Frank for this very special tour.