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If it is an eveing visit, use candles and dimmers on your lights. Our housekeeper was on a two week vacay and since we are super busy cleaning was not done. A friend recently stopped over one night unexpectedly called, and came so we just dimmed all of the lights and lit a few candles. Kept it bright enough not to seem like a love den but low enough to hide the fact that the carpets were a mess with dog hair fromt he three dogs we have and every inch of surface had dust on it. Our friend commented about how clean our house always is, lol. Thank g-d that our housekeeper resumes her schedule today!

I love this space and envy when people can take so much vintage and make it look so amazing!

Two not to, I know how to spell, lol

Can you imagine what their water bill is to keep that grass green, or is it faux? I dislike celebrity homes, and homes of very wealthy people. If I had millions of dollars of course my house would look super awesome. Those of us with normal budgets are more inspirational to me because when a place looks super awesome on a normal budget, it speaks more about WHO that person is. I understand them more, it seems more personal to me because you know that every decision probably had something that was decided against for more reasons than just personal taste. For example, when I spend a lot of money on a chair, it takes away budget for something else so I have to weigh exactly what I want, is the chair worth giving up x y or z and why so? That brings out the character in a place because your choices are limited and tell more as opposed to having it all.....(Not that I would mind the $ :)

@ sriley I believe the table looks like it maybe from West Elm and the chairs look like something I saw at ZGallerie. If those are not the actual places where these came from, those places have very similar products.

I am not trying to be rude because I do appreciate the design in this home and its uniqueness, however, part of why I love AT is that there are generally modest homes/condos/apartments etc. on here. At 3500 sq feet this is a very large home. Please stick with smaller spaces as they are the reason that I read this blog. If I wanted to see large homes there are plenty of other venues for that.

The bonsai garden is beautiful! I love that the place is original. I usually start a collection thinking I would like this type of look, however, when I get too many of something I get annoyed and take it all down. I guess in my own space it is too much "clutter" but I really enjoy other peoples' collections. They really bring out an originality factor, especially in this space.

My wife and I have a black den and we really like it. We painted one of the walls white for accent/light and the rest black. We also have a four inch white base molding and a 2-3" white crown and a white ceiling. The whole room is black, white and silver with the color coming in through art work and accessories that we have yet to purchase (still waiting on the perfect things). It is a small room but it looks great. I don't remember the brand or color of paint we used. I do find that our black walls show so much more dust and finger prints than any other color in our house. Good luck, it is a really neat look when done properly!