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Hmm. My first thought was if you have kids- you can make it a REALLY cool Puppet Show Theatre. I know, not the best advice, but wouldn't your kids love it?

Other ideas would be a STAINED GLASS feature! Ok, that's a better idea. Make it look like a stained glass gallery, and make it look intentional. Add special lighting to the windows to really enhance them like a gallery.

How about a cloth-draped wall from top to bottom......kind of gathered up some....???
You have me stumped. If you figure something out, let us know.

If this were mine, I'd leave it there, and do very little with it. I think it's a good conversation piece, and definitely unique.

Add Train tracks to the list.. find if you are near any tracks. and if so, how loud they can be.... I've learned the hard way on this one.

This is awesome. Our nursery when we planned for either a boy or girl ended up being this exact color scheme, AND theme. We did it in red, blues and teals. and it has grown up with each of our 3 girls. Great part of it is, if we had a boy, it is JUST as boyish and it's fun, bright, and a has a lot of pizzaz.

I like watercolor art to fix that problem though, it's very natural and flowing.

velcro- could be your new best friend.

some lighter curtains could feel nice? embrace it if you can't change it- make sure you have plenty of light sources if natural light are hard to find. Overhead, lower lights, and mood lighting can be key here...

I don't believe in house-guests that live in our home over 5 days.

So, what we do is take our kids, who sleep anywhere and love it, and let them sleep on the sofa/air mattress- or on a fun bed made in the living room- just while our guests are there.

Our oldest girl has a queen bed, and she gives that up when guests come. She sleeps either on the spare bunk bed in her sister's room, or on the couch. Then the guest gets a bathroom and bedroom with a door- more privacy all around, and keeps everyone happy.

My oldest daughter has a wild imagination and always changed things up to the last minute about what she wanted. She thought she could change her mind last-minute and have Santa magically know her thoughts. We had to explain that he worked primarily in a mail-based wish-list world... and once her letter was sent, it was pretty much final.

So, this year, she sat on Santa's lap and said, Santa, there are a LOT of things out there that I like. I really don't want to be greedy though, so can you just surprise me this year?

I about melted. And now I am wondering if her presents will be near magical enough, if she really has some other idea in her mind of what she hoped the surprise would be.

At least she was sounding thoughtful and selfless in her request :)

Someone drops in not giving you proper time to clean-
my solution- don't clean.

Say to them "Welcome to what our house really looks like. Now you are a true friend and just so you know, we don't fake clean for true friends dropping by.... this is how we live-"

I've found lot of people who really like to know you're not being fake just for them.
Plus- who isn't a little crazy and sloppy from time-to-time.... especially once you have kids.

I would love to see a home next on Apartment Therapy where someone from this relationship co-decorates a home with an extreme zen minimalist.

I like both- but lean more towards the less is more approach most times. I love the things in this home- but could decorate 2-3 homes with this amount of decor.

It's fun to see maximalism and collectionism (eclectic hoarders with good taste).

I babysat for a family when I was a teenage boy. I went to the bathroom upstairs in the only bathroom up there... the doors were wide open... and there- in the bathroom was a sexy almost naked full-length photo of the mom. WHAT? I was embarrassed, and ran to another bathroom.