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I love the freshness of your apartment, plus the bold color. And please believe me, this is not a negative comment, I designed and made the dress I wore to my high school graduation party in 1970. Except for a little difference in the print itself, your dress is the same dress I wore! Believe me I had lots of comments then too!

To some of the posters: a lot of vegetarians eat dairy. I think the cheese comments would affect mostly those who are vegans, who use no animal products of any kind.

Those are Mrs. Butterworth's syrup bottles. Nothing to do with Aunt Jemima.

Sorry, but your choice of things to "let go of" is completely lame. Depending on your home, maybe some of these wouldn't work, but they are all beautiful in their own right. Could find nothing here to completly discard forever.

This is stunning, but please save me from the big-eyed velvet people. These were horrible back in the 60's and even more so now. Everything else is amazing!

I think the furniture looks great! I'm only commenting because "now that it's Memorial Day", here in Southwest Texas, we are done with outdoors and have moved back inside! It's 95 here and not even June!

I think it's great, except for the book shelf thing. I know these are "kind of in style", but they just really seem useless. I've never seen one in a room where they improved it in any way. To me they are way to trendy of a trend that has no meaning.

Yes, please show us the house, not the stuff.

I forgot to add I would use a bright lavender as an accent color. I love simmery next to rough.

I agree with Kristjana, the bed is gorgeous and should be the star of the show. It brings to mind an elegant, calm, somewhat glam room with lots of texture and natural fabrics like linen, cotton, burlap, wool, etc. I think the current curtains, pillows, art and rug are too jarring for the bed. I would also lose the bedside tables and the hanging lights. A chandelier in lieu of the fan would be amazing. A thrift store find spray painted flat black with added faux crystals would easy on the budget. If you can afford it, a drum shade fixture would bring a more modern edge. I would use shiny finishes throughout, gold and silver, and mirror too, for sparkle.

I think smaller lucite or mirrored tables or trays would look great beside the bed, although they are pretty pricey. I've been wanting to buy the fattest concrete form tubes I can find and cover them with wallpaper that looks like birch bark or something elegant and also paper the wall behind the bed in the same paper so that the tables dissapear, which would be great in a small space. Or paint them with Rustoleum's new stainless paint that comes in a can, not a spray. Then top with glass or concrete. Or if you know someone who could build rectangular boxes with an open front and a shelf, you could paint the inside with the stainless paint and mirror the top and sides. I would top the tables with a very modern lamp to contrast
with the traditional look of the bed. Or install flat black swing arm lamps on the wall.

For paint, I would consider Ralph Lauren's Metallic Ambassador Sterling or Silver Plated. Google up Ralph Lauren metallic paint and you'll find all you need to know.

It looks like you have carpet in the room. If it's in good condition, I might just not have a rug. If you need one to hide stains, etc., just a neutral sisal would be nice. I would used linen drapery panels and just keep everthing neutral, yet textured.

Good luck, I would kill for that bed. Although we live in the south and always make our headboards from Cypress doors from New Orleans. We also always replace our front door with an antique Cypress door.