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So pretty! Can I ask what type of curtain rod system you are using? It looks like it's attached to the concrete ceiling.

Would it be possible to know who the contractor was and how much everything cost? It looks great!

keep it as a guest room/office. You can get a daybed like the ikea hemnes which pulls out to a king size bed. It would be nice to change the door to the wall that faces the windows, but not totally necessary. Just replace the current door with french doors and save some money for hardwood floors :-)

Knowing the prices in NYC, I think I would upgrade only if the other aspects of my life would not be affected financially. I'm guessing that for a 1 bedroom it'll probably be ~$2400 a month, and if you can spare that extra grand and don't have to skimp on shopping or going out or saving, then why not? However, if you have to make lifestyle sacrifices then I wouldn't do it.

I'm kind of in a similar situation, I have a 2 br condo and my roommate pays me a grand a month, which halves my mortgage. I really miss living by myself but that extra $1000 goes right into my savings account. I can afford my mortgage, but I just can't justify forking out that much money for more space and privacy, especially since I get to do so much more traveling...although I think once I have enough saved up, I'll start thinking about living by myself again, but to be honest I'll probably see if my bf would want to move in first :-O

I have a living room/dining room combo similar in layout to jendavid1000, with one wall of windows. My condo faces east so it doesn't get much light during the times I'm home after work. I tried 6 shades of gray, all of which look different on the wall compared to the pictures I found online. RH Ash (too beige) and pale silver (too blue), Behr Dolphin Fin (really liked it but thought it was too dark) and Mahattan Mist (too lavender), BM cement gray (too lavender) and gray owl (winner!). Gray is one of those frustrating colors that one shade could work on one person's walls while looking awful on another, so you really just need to try them out on your own wall.
Thanks to all the recommendations on this post, I only had to try out 6 shades before I found my color...I thought I was going to have to paint my entire wall in mosaic samples of gray!