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@Tequila Red - obviously I *LOVE* what you've done. Love it. I'm going to look up Knoxville Gray - it's so beautiful, I love the blue-ish tones, almost steel like while still being warm. Very nicely done.

@Canadianmango - funnily enough, I see Tommy in my neighbourhood pub all the time. I've seen some of his work and we definitely share an aesthetic.

@troyce - I'm lucky to face east and west with my windows, so, it's pretty light all day.

@Marcelaz - that chandelier was a surprise find for me, and one of my favourite things.

@Kassgood - major major points for guessing Carbon Copy as the wall paint in the dressing room. One day I want a larger room with this wall colour.

@bellyache - yep! framed intaglio that I bought on ebay. copies of carnelian originals.

@Blandwagon - you know, I never really thought about it that way. I'll have a think. No one has really pointed that out before, and so it never occurred to me - but I like your point about semantics vs aesthetics. I do use artificial flowers often only because there isn't a good place to find what I want locally. Oh and those pink roses were fresh that day and died 3 days later. Pfft! What a shame. I should have dried them.

And many thanks to all for the very kind comments. It's been a joy to create it all, and to get feedback is the best part.

@kissofhope - I'm going to rearrange the books and see how it looks! thank you for your very kind words. I love Shepherd's Pie!

@chicphillychick - thank you! :) although see my other comments about the backyard. I've worked really hard on it, but it's still a work in progress. It might look neglected to you but it gets more time from me than anything else.

@coletta - hey it's totally cool to give 'negative' feedback, it's all constructive. I tend to agree with you about the unfinished feel of the stove. the guy who had the house before me put the kitchen in and it always felt a bit like something was missing, although I never changed it because the space is so small and I didn't want to eat into the living room so decided to live with it!

the light over the dining table isn't centred just because I tend to move the table itself around a bit, but, I did keep the light centered with the room and not the table itself (so that if someone else were to move in and have a different configuration, at least the light would be centered with something!)

@thorndale - the table and prints in the bathroom haven't seem to been affected by the steam, although the bathroom isn't used daily as it's a guest bathroom!

BTW if anyone is interested, I posted the BEFORE photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/willeagle/sets/72157624285147652/

Hey everyone. I really appreciate all your comments. Thanks for saying such nice things.

I've really enjoyed working on the house to get it to this point and to have people who know/ love interiors provide such great comments and feedback is really good.

@jacksonlalonde - the kitchen cabinet colour was an odd and surprising choice. The cabinets were unvarnished pine when I moved in!

@bepsf - the cabinet is pre-1850s I think. It's luck that it fit. I saw it in the store, loved it but left it for a week thinking there's no way it would fit, but then finally measured up and decided to get it. I took the doors off and hid them behind it.

@b77 - I love Hermes Eau D'Orange Verte but it gives me a headache (I discovered after buying it!) so now I keep it in the guest bathroom to spray on the pine cones just before guests arrive.

@CBH - I've heard it can be a bit vignette-ish, but I didn't stage very much for the shoot - it's typically like this most days.