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Love the two mirrors over the bed. What a clever and unexpected idea....and how funny that it still manages to look classic!

The rest of the place rocks, too! Well done.

I'm sitting here on my couch, CLAPPING at this entry.

Garrett, this is an absolutely lovely home. It just looks beautiful to the eye but also looks incredibly functional and like the kind of small home where all the space is used and adorned but without clutter or craziness. I think this is something people rarely pull off and I congratulate on your beautiful space! Thank you for sharing!

Haha, I love the floorplan, too! :)

This place looks very cozy and I like the idea of "small but mine."

Wow! I'm with the others who said that it's hard to believe this is so small. You packed a lot of personality and texture in this space. I love the fact that you look like you've managed to figure out how to live in every square inch without it being messy or claustrophobic.

Lovely space, thank you for sharing it with us!

Absolutely love this small space! I like that it's a good example of how color and small spaces can go well without being overpowering. So lovely!

@ Kaytee Stone - Respectfully, it speaks to the fact that you are reading into and ascribing your own ideas about the world to someone else's question about a kitchen island remodel (nowhere does it specify she's re-doing the kitchen, so how can we know for sure? We also can't tell from looking if this is even a brand new kitchen. Again, that's an assumption you've made here. It could be falling apart inside.)

And I'm sure that even if she did a kitchen renovation a thousand times over, there would be just as many people starving in the world.

This is about you making assumptions not about the ethical responsibility of every single person who owns an item of any significant monetary value changing it.

In addition to liking yurts, I just like the word, itself. It's fun to say.

I second Erin Kate's advice about making sure you don't violate any codes with a yurt. This happened to a friend of mine. They had three good days with it completed before they were visited by a code enforcement officer who informed them it violated a structure code. Sigh.

@djtopaz - That is a good tip. Though it can also work in your favor if you know what to look for. A few sites will have free shipping for a month after your first purchase, even on heavy items. I know of one site that will often send out email vouchers for free shipping just for being on the customer list.

But you're right. That $200 chair with a retail value of $500 doesn't look so good when it has $300 in shipping and oversize surcharges tacked onto it.

Wowwwwwweeee! What a great transformation! I hope you guys love every second in your new space, you deserve it with all that work and patience. Seriously one of the best renovations I've seen on AT.

I'm just in Santa Barbara, so I'll be over with a bottle of wine and brownies, mmmkay?

:)

I actually love white in a kitchen.

t's not a bear to clean if you clean up spills quickly. My white kitchen is exactly as it was installed nearly a decade ago. I find it easier to clean than any other color/type of kitchen I've ever had.

I will say, however, that I strangely like the before. I'm always annoyed when I see comments (like mine here!) preferring the before when it's such an obvious improvement on a space and a lot of effort. And this is an improvement with a lot of effort, for sure!

I just....think there needs to be a bit more depth going on and I would have left the window frame a different color, even a lighter one. Just not white.