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@BGR5928 It is a set of icicle Christmas lights, and the old untrue wheel from my bicycle combined together to make a lightweight, earthquake safe chandelier.

Hi guys! Thanks so much for taking the time to look around and comment. I'll try to answer some questions.

@Mattab Thank you so much! I'm sorry I'm not going to be much help, our kitchen was an oops paint of the local hardware store's brand.

@Sophiasrevenge @Ana @Usbek de Perse @Toypixie etc Glad you like Chewbacca. I was a bit bummed to hear some of you saying you only like Chewbacca, but then I thought about how people say that about people's apartments and their cats and dogs (not judging, I love me some cute AT pet photos) and I thought, why not wookiees? Also, a big thanks to all the people who thought a cardboard cutout wookiee was tacky, and chose not to comment. I appreciate your tact!

@Alahoop My living room was indeed in Room for Color. I'm very flattered you remember me.

@Tracey333 You would have done the opposite? Like put the bed in the bedroom? No way! I kid, I kid. I think that's 99% of people, but we had the office in the closet, and I had no desk or place to lay out my sewing, and Derek had no place to work on his bikes, and now our place feels like a palace spacewise. Besides, it was fun to make our own built in.

@Evelymenm. You know they only let us pick 5 photos, right? I have 5 different wide shots of the apartment, no vignettes, I just have more than 5 areas. I'd love to share my kitchen, it's pretty great, but it's great in a nice butcher block counters and and old fashioned sink and ice boxes way, which honestly I had very little to do with other than choosing to move in, and I get bored in these contests when I see pictures of people's fixtures rather than their decorating. But here's my kitchen: http://tinyurl.com/7sswvaz http://tinyurl.com/6nkr3hq http://tinyurl.com/785s5cp

@Kalakala "humor and personality" is our bread and butter. Yes, there is a milk door at the foot of the bed. The cats use it to crawl from under the bed to on it, and scare the crap out of us in the middle of the night.

@Xarcady All miscellaneous small non-kitchen stuff is indeed behind the books. It's actually completely invisible, and really easy to retrieve.

@StevenJ Thanks for the compliment but no thanks on the advice. All the art you mention is at eye level, furthermore, if I took your advice, some of my pictures would be behind the couch!

Wow! Putting both the small and the cool in the contest name! Your apartment looks so welcoming, I kept checking the square footage, saying "That can't be right!" I really love your (Oscar Wilde?) print and the textures of your corkboard, rug, and loveseat in particular.

...I'd also like to add that as of this comment you are the only entry in this contest without an Eames chair, and I always feel I've got to support the individualist. (I'm not saying Eames chairs aren't nice, just giggling at how our little design community has certain interests.)

No lilies ever. They are deadly poison to your cats, and even if like most people's cats, your cat doesn't eat plants, if your cat brushes against the lily with its huge pollen covered stamen, and then later grooms himself, guess what? It's still ingested lily. An expensive (luckily in dollars, and not in life) emergency room lesson from me to you.

I get where you're coming from, and I love trying to find the perfect gift for someone. I really put a lot of effort into it and think I'm a pretty good gift giver (though who knows, maybe my family is just filled with polite and talented actors).

...But there are certain people in my family who are not talented gift givers. I am always grateful, and thank them, because it is the thought that counts (though sometimes I'm baffled by what the thought was) but every year I end up with things, usually from the same people, that are extremely ill suited to my personality and will never see use, be they books on religions I am not part of, household goods I obviously already have, or paraphernalia from TV shows I have never seen. While it does bum me out a little that people don't seem to have given my gift as much thought as I gave theirs, it's not that I'm sad I didn't get loot. It's that this stuff was honestly a waste of money and I would have been happier if they'd just donated to the local animal rescue and gotten me nothing. But that's not not fun, because there's nothing to open, so it's not a thing that will happen. So, while I encourage people who are excellent gift givers to rock on with their surprises, in situations like these I'm not going to feel bad subtly directing people to a wish list, nor would I be offended if someone I didn't have a good idea for did the same to me.

I feel like I'm walking into a grown up Lisa Frank house... and I love it.

I like not only the color, but how the half circle on the bed mimics the shape of pit to enhance the idea of avocado.

I may be biased (I'm the one with the pink old fashioned couch and green walls) but I love the having such big pieces NOT be neutrals! And the colors you've chosen, wow! I might even continue the wall color further, it seems a shame it doesn't wrap around and grab that other chair.

SamU: ha! Thanks, Dad, for trying to give me an opening to talk about my DIY lamp. It still hasn't caused any fires!

Stephanie: The portraits are by Travis Louie. He is amazing, right?