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Love, love, LOVE the backsplash tiles. Gorgeous, especially with the beautiful marble countertops (did the contractor fix that seam problem? I can't tell from these photos). Very clean, streamlined look with the cabinets. I kinda agree with the folks who question the gold knobs, but that's a matter of my taste -- and it's YOUR kitchen! Seriously, a terrific job. Enjoy!!

@Bee for Brian and @MrsLupinski ... Your kitchen descriptions sound wonderful. Do you have any pictures online to share? A girl can daydream (I just moved into a rental that has a huge kitchen with wood cabinets, but they're all stained the same medium shade of brown -- and that won't change!) ...

@pegling: I've been eyeing the queen-size version of that bed. Do you have any experience with it -- or does anyone else here on AT? I like its height off the floor (not so much for storage but for kitty play area!). Thanks!

Yep, there's something to be said for "fly-over country" when it comes to costs. I'm leaving Dallas at the moment, but I was paying $750/month for a three-bedroom house in a safe (but not hip) neighborhood -- about 1,200 sf, w/d hookups, decent kitchen, original mid-century teal-tile bath (!!!), driveway (no garage but off-street parking) and spacious closets/storage. I'm moving to a small town in Oklahoma, where my rent is going up to $800, but I'm going to be in one of the nicest places in town -- an 1,800sf, three-bedroom duplex with high-end finishes, stained concrete floors that my cats won't be able to damage or destroy, top-notch kitchen with tons of storage and a two-car garage. If I'd ended up on either coast or even in Chicago, I'm not sure I could have afforded it!

Can I echo the LOVE for the purple bedroom? It looks luxurious, lovely and totally relaxing to me! And what a wonderful selection of cat accessories (especially Pete himself)! Also adore the Surfer blue in the kitchen. I rent, but the next time I paint a piece of furniture ... :)

Cute! And somebody musta had a special on turquoise tile back in the day -- your kitchen tile is all over my bath here in Dallas! :)

I love C and probably can't afford it, but I'm betting the $$$ one is A. History, y'all! :)

Love this! And I really LOVE your records in the living room! :) I have no problem with TVs, books, records, CDs, DVDs, whatever in view -- we all use them! :) (Not a popular stand on AT or in decorating circles, I know...)

Me, I rent. :( However, I have a CRAPPY kitchen. Maybe I could use this to prod the landlord into remodeling my kitchen! :) Wishing, wishing, wishing ...

Me, I don't know what to think. I lived in one house for 8 years that started out with a clock flying off the wall and crashing across the room as I was moving in. After a couple of weeks of things like that, though, nothing more happened, and I never could find any record of anything happening in the house to account for spirits and the like.

On the other hand, many years earlier, I lived in an apartment where absolutely nothing occurred only to discover when I was moving out that a rather grisly murder had happened there about a year before I'd moved in (a newspaper photographer who was helping me move took a look around and said, "I've been here before!" -- then wouldn't tell ME why till the move was done!).