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This is the best house tour I've seen. I love absolutely everything. Very well appointed without anything looking too "precious".

I do and have a few storage practices that help:

With stuff like TP and paper towels, I look for opportunities to store them up high. I like to keep things out of sight and can always find some extra vertical space in a closet.

When I need to store things and don't have an obvious spot for them (which is pretty frequently as my decor is minimalist), I walk the loft and look for dead space. Not just dead space that can be used for the stuff I need to store but dead space that can be used for storing anything. I find that shifting items to a space that more closely matches their size means maximizing storage capacity. By moving things around, I can usually uncover an opportunity to stash whatever my new purchase is.

I buy things that can be easily removed from their packaging. This saves a lot of space. Breaking down my mondo TP package into individually wrapped rolls lets me place them in baskets, put a few under each sink, and tuck them into little pockets of space in closets. Every time I bring something into my home, I try to immediately dispose of as much of the packaging as possible.

I'd consider what other colors you have in your apartment. It might be good to have a palette of colors that work well together (compliment, not match) as people frequently experience many rooms at once (with doors open, etc).

I'd also be wary of anything too peachy. I have used the color scheme design tool that Tffnynelson mentioned with great results (OK, it was for my website, but still...). I bet if you played around with it, you'd find something you really like.Like this.

Oooh, I wanna be judged by Apartment Therapy!

It's OK, I have issues. But if I did all that stuff before I went to bed, I'd never get to sleep. Too much light and activity. Just saying that if you have any issues with insomnia, do that stuff earlier in the evening.

I'm also one of those do-as-you-go dorks. And I consider myself fairly obsessive (like I said...issues), but taking the garbage out every day exceeds even my OCD needs. I've been known to leave a coffee cup or 2 in the sink...gives me something to do while the coffee is brewing in the morning and I am trying to remember my name.

Nice mix of masculine and feminine so the girly touches don't look prissy. Exactly my style. Love-love-love.

Gawker? Oh wait, it's Apartment Therapy.

Didn't most of us get to our own style by a system of trial and error; inheriting furniture from relatives, making furniture out of milk crates/cynder blocks/palettes/plywood, buying crap furniture, mixing stuff up, figuring out who we are and then investing in more and more good pieces? Then you can have a home that you can be proud of, that reflects your personality and that makes people go "wow!" for the right reasons. You still gotta do the work to have "style", even if you can afford a decorator. Just not feeling it here.

When you stage your house for sale, you are told to remove all "personal" objects like pictures so that the potential buyers can see themselves in your home. That is exactly what his place feels like. It makes me wonder if he enjoys showing his friends his home more than he enjoys living in it. And that makes me sad.

This is the first time I have seen photos that made me sure that I would want to hang out with the owner. Tons of personality. Looks like it smells of old wood and greenery. Love-love-love it!

I have an industrial/modern loft and Tim's place is giving me great ideas!