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The only thing I would say is it looks like it is on a very thin and delicate paper - so mainly I wouldn't try to do this yourself, go to a framer and have it done right. I have found that a good framer can often show you a few options that go with the art work at different price ranges and then you can decide what works. Also it looks like the paper may be a bit translucent, which might be why it was done in a frame that allows light to come through, though I think it actually might look better against a white right at the picture so that it shows up a bit stronger BUT you could then do a second map adding some color around it besides the frame. It might also be pressed between two pieces of glass (assuming glass but it could be plastic) so that there is no adhesive or anything used on the corners of the delicate paper since if it wasn't professional framed. I think I would just do a very simple frame in a red color that will pop a bit and just use a white mat behind it with a few inches around the paper.

I posted yesterday on the eating alone post. Most of us do it all the time, so I find it annoying to be told that makes me special is in some way - whether intended as a positive or negative. The issue I had with the New Yorker article and this post is this - it doesn't deal with what the person living or eating alone wants. Bravo to all of you who want to live alone. Do it and go be proud, yes some people will still say "when are you getting married" etc. but you've made your choice, and you are living your choice, so tell them to bug off and enjoy. But the what to make when you eat alone assumes that coupled is the proper way to be, and both ignores the person who isn't coupled happily and so alienates them, and only makes the person who is alone, and would prefer not to be, unhappy too. The New Yorker article really left out people living alone and living just fine - good, job, nice place to live but who is not only alone, but lonely, and that is where the difference is. Many live alone but aren't lonely. For those that are alone, don't want to be and are lonely, well, it's very different. A circle of friends may not be the same as a family of one's own and no, you can't just go out ant meet someone. It doesn't work the way lots of people say it does, that you will eventually meet someone, or when you stop looking you will meet someone, or if you just are happy and live your life...some people just don't get to meet someone. The recent articles on eating alone and living alone that have appeared here seem so narrow of thought if makes me want to stop reading anything here.

the pink doesn't do it for me - the rest is clean and sleek and the faucet is just too pepto for me.

Anyone know where to get the coffee table (clear plexi). It does not appear to be the one from CB2 which is only 13 inches high and thus too low.

Number 1 is too much. Makes me feel a little dizzy.

Light switches - get oen of those magic clean erasers. They get touched by a million hands as you walk in to your place, in the bathroom. Ewww. (Not technology - doornobs get seriously gross).

My cell phone works fine but soemtimes I don't want my email and texts and all that stuff right next to me. Also, nice to have something that has a speaker and dock in it. And an old fashioned radio (even with all the apps, to get NPR in the morning, the radio is still pretty easy (or bringing a laptop into the bedroom). Only wish there were more options for small footprint docking stations/alarm clock/radios (so they wont take up much room on a night stand). Oddly, few are iPhone 4 compatible. Just a clock radio is cheap - under $20 at most drug stores - but the sound is terrible.

I have a brown sectional (a warm rich brown I love actually) but I have Moroccan pillows on it - the reds really warm it up - many have orange and a beige in them but also some blue, green - kind of go with everything.

CB2 Chill Media Console - looks great - way under your price range. Drawers hold a lot, shelves good for yoru cable box, DVD player (thinks that need to be open to a remote).

Unless super pricey or not possible for other reasons (pipes in wall, only renting) I would simply change the window shape - you say there is a good view outside - make the window bigger, making it twice as high and reframing nad installing new window - not as pricey as you might think, probably would increase resale value if you own.....