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i picture myself falling asleep on the couch with my face smooshed into one of these, and the heinous imprint it would make.... aaargh. Gratuitous pillow decorations FTL.

We actually just put our little craftsman house in Southern Maine on the market a few weeks ago. It closely resembles a Sears & Roebuck "Twilight" craftsman-style bungalow. It's not as fancy as any of these by any account, but it is lovely and bright and cozy and has beautiful vintage wood details.

Shameless plug for anybody who wants to live in Maine: http://www.trulia.com/property/1064758950-129-Fore-Rd-Eliot-ME-03903

@ Tobi: we furnished our house with an eclectic mix of old and new, with a lot of mission style furniture, glass, and vintage prints we scored in flea markets. Wasn't very expensive at all. Though i have to say that a lot of midcentury modern stuff and ikea contemporary doesn't really jive with the whole stone and wood craftsman vibe.

livc : "[Thoreau] was never home, he was always hanging out in the woods around Walden, going fishing, growing food, etc."

I grew up a stone's throw away from Walden, near Concord, MA (my woods were pretty much Thoreau's woods). As much as he loved to write about his idealized version of living in a cabin in the forest, he actually spent most of his time hanging out in town and pestering the other transcendentalists. And he was a surveyor by trade, and no great shakes as gardener! But your point is correct, if you lived in a cabin that small you'd probably go stir crazy and want to go out all the time. Or become a crazy philosopher dude, LOL.

stylish & cozy < watching nature shows on a BIG screen in high-def!! LOL!

I am also a big fan of credenzas. My husband insists it is a word i made up, along with "chaise" and "duvet". But credenzas are real, and infinitely useful.

I really really like this. I wonder why i nevr thought of it before.

Oh, that's right, because all my CD's are in a box in the basement, LOL. I'll be dragging those suckers out asap!

I adore the retro glass counter, the buddha heads, and the Federal style dome mirror in the 1st pic. Awesome combo.

This post brings to mind an old episode of the Brit-com "Keeping Up Appearances" I just saw. Mrs. Bucket (that's Booo-quaaay!) and her beleaguered husband move into an apartment in a mansion in the posh English countryside. She makes a big to-do about how illustrious their new address is, as they climb and climb and climb the increasingly small and steep stairs. Their apartment is RIDICULOUSLY cramped, but oh such a fancy locale!

These apartments are way the heck better, I must say :)

Oh my gosh, the wall in the photo is like my paint-chip hoarding wet dream. I guess i am just a color fiend, I've even thought about covering a wall with my collection.

My color advice? Don't take anybody else's color advice. :P

@ SherryBinNH- I'm curious about this "trouble and expense" your house rabbits have given you. Ours have nary nibbled nor ruined a thing in the house, excepting their designated chew toys. And the vet bills have been no worse than our cat's. They do get into some antics, but nothing tough to clean up again. Finn the Lop does kick his timothy hay around the floor a bit, i suppose :)

Okay, i know this makes me a weirdo, but every time i look at that first picture, the two pieces of framed art look like eyes and the couch looks like a mouth. That livingroom is smiling back at me! I like it!

My husband and I are both artists and shameless hoarders of vintage "ephemera"; he particularly deals in vintage baseball cards and old Popular Mechanics from the fifties. I love pin up girls and old fruit crate labels and ads. As a crafty experiment, he collaged some of his old baseball cards onto the top of a Lack and sealed it with a clear coat of resin. It currently lives in his guy-lair with all of his other fun stuff. Since then he's accepted a few commissions for other tables and we make other decoupaged stuff, too. Shameless plug!

http://collectedstudio.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/baseball-card-coffee-table/