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Amazing. This clearly took hours, and yet no-one took a second to step back and think "Actually, this might look ridiculous...".

I can literally hear people cringing.

Thanks for posting!

I very much enjoy patrick (the other one)'s comments on tours, so it seems like a natural choice for him to get the job - good luck, p(too).

What irritates me is fellow Brits (I'm from, and live in, the UK) 'making up' phrases for the benefit of Americans and purporting them to be 'British'. I have never - EVER - in all my hours, months and years of watching British reality TV, heard it referred to as "factual reality progams", NOT EVEN when I'm watching a program ABOUT the making of reality programs in the UK.

This apartment isn't to my liking, but I'm not in the habit of being negative about other peoples' taste, so that's all good (although I think I can say that had the title been different and Nick's nationality not been referred to, I would never have known he wasn't from the US).

Also, Nick: please don't pretend to have a cache of "British" phrases to impress your colleagues with - AT has a huge British following, you know...Keep it real!

May I be the first to say absolutely stunning. This is just so beautiful - small and perfectly formed. The colour palette is perfect and the layout works so well. I am swooning.

This is lovely. The light coming in through those lovely windows in the lounge is just dreamy - I'd love to sit in that chair and read a book. And I like how that big metal tv stand kind of makes the TV disappear but is still really accessible.

I love the upstairs too - the little office/guest nook and the bedroom. You both a have really nice way with colour.

Also, you live there and we can tell! Thanks for this tour - hope you're feeling more settled now :)

This home is beautiful. The colour palette of fresh blues, greys and whites, with some natural hues thrown in, is so fresh and clean-looking - I would imagine a house this size could look cluttered pretty quickly, but the decor makes all the difference. And I love that I can totally imagine kids running around here and not living in fear of getting yelled at for putting their feet on the Eames.

Who knew this one would cause controversy? I agree with all the commenters who say that inspiration for great design comes from everywhere, no matter the size of your own home - otherwise every Brooklyn studio apartment would look the same, every 1-bed Seattle apartment would look the same... I think the vast majority of Apartment Therapy readers are open-minded, non-judgemental design lovers who like to mix it up and have fun - there are no rules!

Don't be put off by the odd bad vibe, Lynn-Anne - your home is gorgeous :)

This is a fantastic house - it kind of made me feel like I was snooping round an eccentric recluse's mansion, lots of treasures and collections everywhere, and little nooks with opulent ornaments. I have to admit, my internal monologue was screaming "The dusting! Think of the dusting!" - I spend enough time dusting/vacuuming/cleaning my comparitively modest and comparatively minimalist apartment - to pick up all those knick-knacks and dust... well, shudder, really. But then I am incredibly anal and don't have children yet, so that may change.

But as for a place for kids to grow up - wow. I love it when parents provide an adventure playground home for their children, a place where half the work of their imagination is already done. Kudos for that :)

Also, I meant to say: if you are considering stripes, you could make them the same width as the decking outside and maybe even paint the decking the same colours, to create a nice feeling of continuity?

What an amazingly comfortable, subtly colourful, spacious, kid-friendly, creative looking home.

This is the kind of place you would want to spend the rest of your days in - just wonderful.

I intend to move in immediately.

I don't think it's necessarily fair to call people who dislike this tour 'haters' - I personally think this tour in particular stands out as not really fitting in with the AT ethic...It seems like it should be in a glossy interiors mag rather than this website.

What I love about Apartment Therapy is that it shows real peoples' homes, with solutions they've come up with themselves to storage problems/how to hang art/furtniture finds/their own unique taste.

This tour doesn't seem quite right because it looks like everything was purchased brand new, with seemingly a limitless budget, and with labels and names in mind - so maybe not really in the spirit of AT. It would do fine in another format, maybe Elle Interiors or something, but maybe just not here.

Lovely tour and lovely place, Jessica. I remember your two other tours, so it's really nice to see your style translated into a larger space. I love that your spaces seem so liveable and laid out to suit your purposes, rather than meet some trend - that really comes across.

I love all the splashes of bright colour - the little vignette with the Moleskines and toy cowboys is so cute.

Can I ask you a question - who makes the set of 6 larger coloured notebooks in that photo? I love the colours.

Thanks Jessica, I really like your style :)