Xeno's Profile

Great job with your entry considering how little time you had to put it together. I also really like your sorage in the living room. It looks cool, more like a colection of boxes than storage.
But my one question, why hide a showpiece like a marshmellow couch in your bedroom? I wouldn't even think that a couch in the bedroom would get much use.

I can see that you put a lot of work into the design of this place. I feel that the weakness of this space is that it has been over designed. What I mean by that is you planed the look of your place so spacificaly (the matchy-ness of the bedroom and the perfect rows of identical bottles and plants in the kitchen) that you haven't left any room for an organic feeling to emerge. That certain X factor that makes a place click.
Adding collections or art over time will really help your place evlove and feel more natural.

I really like the surfboard stored above the nook. Surfboard as art!

Although I like the space and rated it well, I am frusturated about it's legitimacy as a entry. I'm not upset about it being an entry, I'm upset because it wasn't clear that these types of enties where premitable. Reading the other posts I see that the rules never specified that the space have a bathroom and kitchen. But the fact is at the very top of the page it says "Small Cool Apartments".
I live in a large house with friends where my bedroom is my only personal space. I would have loved to have entered my room but assumed it was inelegable because my house is bigger than the square footage requirements. Apparently I was incorrect. I could have entered only my bedroom and not counted the rest of the house that isn't "my" space.
Yes I could have read the rules and I feel really stupid now. But why would I have any reason to look and check? Having a bathroom and kitchen as a part of your entry is just as implied as having four walls and a door. Having dorm rooms or bed rooms or RV's for that matter included in the Small Cool apartment contest, is like having women from Italy or China enter the Miss America contest. I don't think that this entry or others (like boats or RV's) should excluded. I just feel like the inelegablility of those types of entries was so heavily implied by the nature of this contest that many potential contestants, or at least myself, where prevented from entering.

Your room looks angry.

It is so completly bizzare that it makes me laugh.

The mirror and red panel in the second picture seem to be really out of proportion with the rest of the space. You have so many cool little things in there, that the size of those two pieces sticks out and make the room feel top heavy. A smaller mirror and some of your decoupaging skills on the panel would help them to fit in.

The dishes in your sink are great. Don't listen to those other people, heaven forbid we should see how someone actualy lives. The perfect home is a fantacy from magazine photo spreads, but dirty dishes like small spaces are a reality. Besides, houses are ment to be lived in not treated like sterile showrooms.

I do like the kitch aspect, but I wish that it wasn't so focused on the touristy, while ignoring the whole southern portion of the city.

Nice pieces, but they don't form a unified whole that make a place pop for me.