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With my kids now out of this stage for several years, I am very glad we never did the toddler beds. The pros list for toddler beds makes no sense to me:
I don't see why people think they save space-I use the space under the bed to store all kinds of things like toys, clothes, etc and THAT frees up play space.
A twin bed also allowed us to read in bed with our kids at the age they started to really like it. I don't know many kids who can't play ON their bed as easily as on the floor.
If your room can't fit a twin bed-what in the world will you do when they outgrow it, which will be soon? Move again?
Crib bedding used again? Since when does crib bedding include a flat sheet or pillowcase?
An easy transition is to just use the twin bed with only the mattress, not the box spring. If your child can crawl down off your couch, then they can get out of the bed as well.
Reading through the comments, it seems that most that feel the need for a toddler bed are currently using one and most parents that have gone through this stage are in the twin bed camp. Maybe it has more to do with the security of the parents, not the kids. A child in a twin bed hasn't lost any childhood time.

So much of the After picture is different from the Before-where is the window to the left of the door? Porch seems much deeper than the 1st picture, a second story downspout...all expensive or difficult changes that are making me wonder if this might be the backside of the house. If so, the bright multicolored is probably pretty happy and fun, but I'd reconsider for the front. The colors (I count 5 different ones) seem a bit jarring.

LOVE. I've done strie in Ralph Lauren's Bronze metallic paint over a chocolate brown base and it resembled brushed metal. I haven't come across many light color versions so this is like a breath of fresh air-very nice and new looking.

A grown-up home is one that you have once you are grown, psychologically more than just your age. I've been in home full of kids and kid stuff that you could easily see it's a grown up's home-they are the ones in charge, they've got the whole thing going. And then I've been in co-worker's homes-some 30/40 ish people who are intent on having the latest greatest tech gadget and can't find 4 forks in the whole place, have barely half a roll of toilet paper, and are more about where and what they will be doing that weekend away from home. It's not consumerism, it is priorities. A few people get it right in college, more after, and some not till they are 50. And the grown up home can be anywhere-even a trailer.

But once you've gotten there, it's the best. All the posts arguing about the topic remind me of teenagers asserting that they ARE grown up. It's not how many glasses match or whatever, but you know it when you are there.

LOVE. It's a perfect, perfect example of what I try and tell my clients about color-bold color doesn't have to be for kids or only big modern spaces, it works equally well in eclectic and traditional rooms as well, and offsets more reserved furnishings and helps take the emphasis off of other bright colors like the pink chairs. This room has it all-darks, lights, brights, solids and patterns and they all dance together. LOVE it truly.

Martha had a furniture line through Bernhardt years agoa nd I was lucky enough to score a fabulous china cabinet-black with antiqued mirror on doors and in the cabinet back. It's a huge piece, the biggest thing I own except for my bed and it's fantastic.

I spent 2 weeks there too too long ago...love the pictures, keep them coming and do tell us everything you ate!

This has become quite a fad in my town, and no one seems to do much research beforehand. City law doesn't allow roosters, and when new chicken farmers find out they have one, they tend to 'liberate' them somewhere near a park. A few roosters have taken to hanging around a downtown retail area and so we have passionate defenders of rooster rights and others that see them as a nuisance and health hazard. I have seen and of course, heard, one that is living in an empty lot near my house. My family likes him, but this is becoming crazy. And no, nothing bothers a rooster, they can take care of themselves.

Not in love with either light, really. I wanted to add that Hammerite paint (the 'hammered' finish paint mentioned above) can give a great effect, but only over flat surfaces. I first used it on a large plastic planter and loved it, then I tried it on some wrought iron porch furniture and it really didn't work.

A family member had this installed in a walk-in closet where the ceiling was 9'. Made great use of space, she'd store her out of season clothes on it. The arm is usually hydraulic, like a hatchback car's hatch, and smoothly moves when you use the handle to lower it. In the 10 years she had it, it never failed and was fully loaded down with clothes.