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I've been meaning to visit BA, it's on my top three list for a big trip this year. If anyone has any advice, please share! Mostly, I'd love to know what a good amount of time would be to spend there (a week? A few days more or less?) and what a good budget would be to bring.

Also - would you advise doing BA as a trip in and of itself, or visit somewhere else in S America in the same trip?

In the bathroom, the towel rack that fits around/under the sink.. brilliant! Where is that from?

I just bought my first loft and the previous owner did a lot of the work on it himself. It looked beautiful but soon became clear he chose form over function (he was a graphic designer, not industrial or interior. Makes sense to me now). The kitchen cupboards are only 10" deep so large plates don't fit and the drawers only open 5". The light switch for the mezzanine bedroom is beside the front door, so if you want the light off you need to then climb up to bed in the dark. The cupboards over the sink in the bathroom that look like sooo much storage don't even fit a small deodorant upright let alone a blow dryer. Oh, and there's not a single place to hang a towel.

Overall, it's mostly little picky/preferential stuff but boy has it been odd to be constantly saying "how did they live like this?"

Thankfully, I knew that the train went by frequently and was surprised that we cannot feel it and only faintly hear it.

@anthropos It is in the Junction Triangle area so not as crazy as Downtown proper. We lucked out I think ;)

@visuallingualltd I'm not sure I understand your statement. I wouldn't have bought this space if I didn't understand what it entails and asking for advice about a smart bed frame option doesn't imply that I don't.

It would be awesome if the legs could be removed but stored to be readded in the future.

If you lower it to use as a coffee table, get some floor pillows that could be pulled out when you want to play it!

My cat loves sleeping on backpacks/messenger bags. He makes a nice little bed out of them. I also brought home a nice danish teak upholstered chair a little while ago and it now belongs exclusively to him.

For toys, he plays with foam squishee balls and those white things that look like tables that come in some pizza boxes so that the cheese doesn't stick to the top of the box. Really, those are his favourite.

He eats anything knit or woven (think hats, scarfs, blankets) and anything that has tassles, fringe or drawstring. We learned early on to get that stuff out of the way. Thankfully he stopped eating kleenex.

In Toronto we don't have anything TOO scary. Cockroaches and bed bugs if you are unlucky. Spiders and centipedes are disgusting but not harmful here. Mosquitoes are just plain annoying.

We try our best - there have been a lot of cooler periods in Toronto and today there is a nice breeze.

On humid days, though, we can't do without it. We're also in a top floor apartment - a first for me and likely a last.

They are $125 at Bungalow in Kensington Market. Not bad, but I've avoided buying cause I also wish they were cheaper

Where did the comments on this post go? I was trying to figure out the source for those tables!