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Luv it !!!

Nice!

@lynnebee. I totally agree about the towel but can't get my husband to agree. One thibg i do is hand wash our good knives and put them directly back into the wall-mounted knife holder where they finish drying. The kitchen is congested and I'm taking all these ideas in. Maybe a small in-sink dry rack and the kitchen towel on the side.

I love the gardening-cooking connection. More please! Totally inspirational. Especially with unusual varieties.

Along these lines, I'm enjoying a lovely book by William Woys Weaver called:
100 Vegetables and Where They Came From

It's history, culture, general culinary combinations (no recipes), and firsthand experiences of growing them in the garden. Lark's tongue kale, gbognome eggplant collards, Cardin de tours cardoon, dinawa black-eyed cowpea, and so on.

Anne-Helene, je l'adore! Your bedroom is great. Where can I buy those mirrored nightstands?

Love it!!

AT and Janel are so smart! I'm prepping for the party tomorrow and I am noticing a whole new layer of stuff I somehow missed. Looking through the eyes of my guests, I see even more details and if they aren't too onerous, I'm dealing with them now. Sure, my friends probably won't notice these details or won't care if they do, but its a great exercise for me.

Big surprise of the Cure: after I sat in my living for 10 min and simply imagined how I want to feel in the space, the next day I found a chesterfield sofa for $30 at goodwill -- the sofa of my dreaming!!

Thanks, AT!!

The photo is from the Jan. 2 home tour that designer Sally Breer did for Alan Yang: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/alan-yangs-retreat-in-the-hillshouse-tour-182014
I'm not sure but I think that she designed the light fixture. I want one too!

When I worked at a museum, we hung the work at 57" center and it always seemed to look great.

@katiejean -- I grew up with a German shrunk! All the Americans we knew then got them to take home and they were giant! Dark wood, sterotypical Bavarian style. I heard that they were popular because the Germans are taxed by room, and a closet is considered a room. I don't know whether that is true or not, but these big storage units were very popular.

My mom went contrary to the style, since she wanted Danish modern but was overruled when they got the shrunk. So the rest of the house was much more modern and clean, and the shrunk was left to be what it was. I could see the opposite approach working well too. In either case, an interestingly shaped pendant toward the side-front of the unit could nice. Or even three of them grouped together. If your shrunk has openings for displays, some under-cabinet lights in there would also help. Good luck!