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Leave it open!!! You can set it so that it's a piece of art:
1) Set your virtual wallpaper to something that coordinates with your room's decor
2) Set your virtual desktop such that your icons are hidden and your taskbar only pops up when invited to (on a PC, anyway, I have no experience with Macs)
3) Set your monitor to never turn off when it's plugged in (yeah... I'll take flak for that... it's not environmentally friendly)

Here's my example with my desktop, but the same principle applies with the laptop: My Home Office Setup (Pinterest)

Key lime juice can be used as a cleaner to disinfect your kitchen and make it smell nice.

...or you can make Key Lime Mousse
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Key-Lime-Mousse-351854

Gorgeous. Totally not my style or color scheme and yet I am totally enamored with your apartment.

Curries! You can make them in a slow cooker or just on the stove. I freeze them in individual portions and they nuke very well.
I usually: sauté onions, garlic, curry powder; add cooked or canned chickpeas or lentils, canned tomato, spinach or kale, cover.
Good luck!

Beautiful and inspiring! (btw, by my math you actually have 192 square feet, not counting the deck)

I love the lofted bookshelf look, but wouldn't it be a smidge more practical if they turned around the bookshelves and just accessed them from the loft side rather than the ladder side? I suppose there might be another set of shelves on the loft side.

It's totally possible to grow herbs and greens indoors (or on the indoors side of a screened window).

Fortunately we have very large windows with great windowsills, though they are predominantly North-facing (with only a few hours at most of East sun). The basil and borage love the direct morning light, but the arugula (runaway and rustic), parsley (curly and flat leaf) and chervil grow amazingly quickly without any direct light. Following their success I'm now experimenting with rosemary and thyme (both from seeds and starters), oregano (from starters), and chives, scallions, dill, spearmint, and cilantro (all from seeds) in the East-facing windows. So far so good. Next up: strawberries and more greens.

Vegetables or flowering plants need at least some direct light, and flowering fruit require bees (or q-tips), but herbs and greens do great indoors with limited light!