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@ Melinda LOL!

If I knew sprouting foods were a GOOD thing, I'd have submitted my "coffee cup with unknown fungus" - from '96 - or maybe not!

That is one neat phot of an otherwise useless food (though I;d have it in salad, wth) - ta!

I also want to see just ONE bright red in there - maybe a photo of a red chili over the bed (prob'ly bad feng shui! LOL) but something, to feed the hungry eye?

Viewing in Firefox (latest version, and Windows XP home) I get a "error: 500 Internal server Error" grey box message when I try to comment. Works fine in IE6.

Bummer, because this site calls for multiple tabs and da Fox is the best browser for it!

This lovely home is RIGHT up my street, personal-taste-wise!

Thanks for sharing, gorgeous stuff.... (drools away quietly at that stunning garden....)!

I agree, pedestal table would be better. I'd go for a new table and the chairs in tomato, Pantone, bright red, or that table and a light aqua/blue for the chairs, to take in the glass and the skylight. Actually, on reflection - I prefer the second idea!

The whole thing would merge into that bay window, and look yumm.

That's where Hannibal Lecter and the Bone Collector have their retirement plans. The Boney Home.... or something....

Sheesh!

Where's a little love, a little life, a few plants, and flowers, and growing LIVE things in that?

Meh, you're probably some kind of insurgent if you can't see that having your "home interior experience" chosen for you is good, these days I ALMOST wish I was so braindead as to actually be like that.

Still, I'm not.... SOD IT!

@ Anokha - I read the comments and I feel for your sitch, because a few years back I lived in an apartment in central London - and, everyone said to me, don't paint a bedroom, black?!

Everyone says, if you have a dark room, make it bright, do the whites, yellows, whatever. Flowers. Sheers.

Well, I painted my gosh-darned north-facing bedroom DAMNED matt BLACK, with a maroon ceiling, dark grey flooring (major budgeting, made do with the floor tiles that were already there - a rockn mama lived there before me!) and black bedlinen.... and I was NEVER so pleased with a result as that!

It was possibly THE most stylish space I will ever create.

I did one wall insert in pale blue, which was superb, and if you can do any contrast on this, and it's appropriate, do consider it - it lifts the "black" into heavenly realms.

If you have your heart set on this then go for it - my limited experience would be, take off the hardware, do some primer, sand, whatever, but lash on that dark stuff like there's no tomorrow, because black can look so STUNNING that you'll laugh at the naysayers afterwards - I did!

Now, what's that Rolling Stone's song again?.....

Not my style, but wisely mentioned as safe for kids, for whom hooks might encourage dangerous pirate hanging games (LOL) or, completely seriously, not be good.

...I think my aunt used to have mushrooms growing out her kitchen wall that looked like that.... happy days!

Place a large mirror - or as cheap as even just some mirrored plastic tiles, or a thrift shop job, or even cheapo tiles wrapped in shiny bacofoil, and go for LONG, not TALL - this to reflect the window BACK to you to where you are sitting on the couch.

It will double the main feature of this room, and widen that space immediately.

Get either 2 big plants, or (on a budget) some fun mobile stuff (crazy carnival kites, stupidly plastic fake plants, something) on each side of that window to give the primal brain the notion that the outside is more inside, thus spreading the power of what looks to be a decent urban view.

Finally, put that tall standing lamp thats shown as oppo. the couch more towards the side of the windows as well, it's highlighting a big load of nothing where it stands, put it on the l.hand (as we're viewing) and it'll draw attention outwards.