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Outbuilding? How about home?

Such a small portion of these comments actually deals with the subject of the post---a genuinely imaginative and inventive piece of recycling art. Amazing! This is why I used to love AT. (And yes, I, too, miss Patrick the Other One. Thanks for the links.) What if the grouchy, insulting, unkind, wretched commentaries that infect AT lately are actually a reflection of our current society?
Woe.

There's some harshness floating around here that seems unnecessary IMHO. I imagine that the way this space has been decorated feels very cozy and not uninteresting when you're inside it. Every successful nice space isn't Fabulous.
The bathroom, though, is utterly the pits, and I don't see where anything's been done to improve the situation. And the skinned wildcat with its legs hanging over the shelf is revolting. Those two things excepted, nice job!

You'll remember your grad student years all your life, and a lot of the memories will be in this cozy, homey place, making you a very lucky person! (Any readers who "don't get it" probably haven't been to grad school.)

I love the things you've done, so I don't know how to break this to you, but ANY apartment you live in would be cozy with Mildred in it. I love her. What kid of, dog is she, please?

Books are beautiful. Lots of books make a room. It's a certain kind of room, not loved by all, but for some of us, walls full of dog-earred, annotated and abused books are innately belovedly beautiful. Anf if you're just starting out, Ikea has clean-lined, capacious units.

What I did in your place was to have the lumber yard cut 4"x8"s into the 12" upright pieces and 1"x8"s into shelves to fit the space they were going. I stained them a liked color, and voila. (Oh, and a couple of molly anchors along the top to prevent catastrophe.) This simple solution has always gleaned compliments, to my surprise!

PS And it DOES annoy me that the two top drawers aren't numbers 1 and 2. . . .

---And it DOES annoy me that the two top drawers aren't numbered 1 and 2. . . .

Even though I have acrophobia, I just love it. I'm a great fan of architectural idiosyncrasies, and this one certainly ranks high on the list!

PS did nobody note that they also have a [presumably normal] powder room?

The close-ups (and they're almost all close-ups) suggest a trip to the nursery followed by popping immature plants into holes in the dirt. Which I don't get. Even less do I get how friends disliking the space can confirm the space's owner's aesthetic. I'm just confused by the post.

As Chekov famously said "One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it." Gives a sort of resonance to the bedroom decor. Which, by the way, I think is great.

Charley and/or Jessica: "History is a good catalyst for an emotional connection between humans and stuff." Thank you for putting into words something I've always tried to express!