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We heat with wood (clean burning woodstove) and constantly experiment and one-up each other with our fire-starting skills. It's like fish stories. Must be hard-wired into human nature! This looks like a fun thing to try. One advantage of twisting and rolling the newspaper is likely to be less floating flaming ash. So there may be something to it.

I'm sorry but the first pic looks like the kid is an accessory for the room or the self-consciously hip parent and it completely creeps me out. Not a fan. Not. Little fake ado room.

Kasparkat, is it the insulators or the cables which potentially contained PCBs? What I read suggested that this was only used during the 1930s... can you add to your previous comment? Thanks. It would be good to clear this up!

I think it's gorgeous. The way the space was re-imagined and the colours and textures and use of light really are inspirational. I think it's too easy to take potshots... especially on the basis of budget. Everyone knows it's very easy to spend money badly. Spending it well and achieving an elegant result is another part of where the inspiration comes from.

This is such an inviting looking home... your dog looks very happy!

Oh Horror Vacui, you are so right.

An incredible Indonesian water table with frogs leaping from lily pads set in the perimeter. At the time, I was a busted broke student and couldn't see past my looming deficit. A Chinese antique seller's warehouse in Surabaya full of vintage toys, medical supplies, poster art, sculpture, furniture and more, that so overwhelmed me that I all I could do was wander around endlessly, visit after visit, trying to make up my mind about anything I could fit in my student's backpack and bring home when my elective was done. I most reget the vintage medical ad posters. Sigh.

Wow.

Yeah, I think this is stunning, in an old silver with patina, angled sunlight, subtle good flow, way. It really shows that good design and a beautiful space are about relating to the surrounding environment, as much as they are about what colour yer couch is, or maybe more so. Sitting in front of the fire in my cozy butter coloured sitting room, looking out at grey skies and slowly falling snow, makes me feel warm inside, but this house makes me want to move to San Fransisco and soak up some of that incredible light.

Wouldn't the cut ends dig into your back? Or into a cushion? I'm not overwhelmed by the look, either...

Hi,

I like your bathroom and think it has lots of potential (and I think the grout colour is fine and practical too). However, I think Iloverehabs nailed a really important point, which is that in your small room, there already seem to be two focal points right now... the neutral tile surfaces, which appear bolder because they occupy a large surface area and have more dominant grout AND the brick chimney, which is massive, colourful and rough in texture. As you like the chimney best (me too), I would emphasize it by neutralizing the tile somewhat, using a soft grey to cream coloured semi gloss bathroom paint on the walls and ceiling. This will visually extend and unify the tiled surfaces with all other surfaces, except the chimney. In my opinion, any brighter/stronger colours on the walls will only create a hot mess of three distinct colour and texture choices and will look visually overwhelming, as well as shrinking the small room further.

I completely agree about creating more balanced/attractive lighting. I also think the shelf over the door looks DIY and topheavy. You could put baskets on it as another poster suggested, or consider replacing it with simple white cabinets with doors which open upward on a hydraulic lift. IKEA sells these very inexpensively. We have them in one bathroom and the laundry room and they're great. They would provide more storage, reduce visual clutter and fade into the wall visually, which is I think what's needed. After you decide whether the medicine cabinet provides enough storage to stay, if you still need and want open storage, you could add one or more thick glass shelves with industrial brackets.

I would be inclined to take the towel rod off the brick (don't towels get caught on and pull threads?) and hang one to three smallish, interesting pieces of art vertically there to further draw the eye (remembering that if it's paperbased media, it should be specifically framed with high humidity conditions in mind). I would install towel racks on the inside of the door if not already there or on the wall the door opens against.

Then I would go to town and have fun with the colour and/or pattern for the shower curtain, towels, bath mat, wastebasket, accessories, etc. These you can change up when you get bored at little expense.