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It's always refreshing to hear that I'm not the only person who likes moving furniture around just for the sake of a new view. Though, it does suck when you find the PERFECT set-up and have to decide whether having a fresh look is worth destroying the most ideal placement for furniture in that room.

I've never owned a new knife, let alone a sharp knife. I'd probably accidentally knick myself right off the bat. :P

@hrhprincessfiona I'm glad I'm not the only one concerned about the tiger. I think I gave that picture a quadruple-take before finally continuing on.

Many of the things I don't like now, I liked before. Many of the things I like now, I expect not to like later. Though I respect that people can put whatever they want in a room, I still have to agree that, at least for the time being, I'd like a few trends to subside. Here's my list of cliche'd items I don't want to see for a while (but I may end up dong myself as some point anyway):

- taxidermy heads (real, fake, paper, doesn't matter)
- chevrons
- props in rooms that get removed as soon as the photo has been taken
- reupholstering chairs with so many conflicting fabrics/painting with so many colors so that they look strange anywhere but on a pedestal
- living room after living room without a television. There are still a lot of people out there who still own television (even if only to play video games and watch movies), right?
- super minimalist rooms (ex. large room with nothing but a mattress and a bit of bedding)
- vintage writing on everything. This is 2010, not 1940! I love the old text, but I don't believe that this person using these items today actually exists.
- "I spray painted it and now it is good!"
- words painted directly on the wall
- books as art (but, you know, times change. I have my books in color order and it is waaay easier for me to find them now.)

I made my first real furniture purchase over this last weekend (I'm 23). After scouring craigslist for a couch for weeks and finding that my boyfriend didn't like vintage couches, I finally found something he liked (not vintage, though). I immediately cleaned the whole house, rearranged multiple times, texted a photo to my mom, and have been talking about it more than a "normal person" would probably talk about a couch.

It's so exciting seeing things from the Northwest! Anyone who's meandered down Alki during the summer would remember this place!

This is amazing. I'm moving out to my first place soon and definitely need at least one piece of furniture I can revel in. (Okay, so I have a table I love, so maybe I need TWO items to revel in?)