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stunning - bravo!

love the peter gabriel piece in the stairwell. ;o)

re: amandaRH

here's the how-to

http://freshlypicked.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-make-chandelier.html

EVERY congratulations!! You've raised all of our collective spaces. It's nice to see that happen with the AT team. So very deserving.

Loving the glass dividing walls ...

i can't find that chair anywhere, but came across loads of designs & designers. my guesses:

1) it's a Walter Knoll piece. the base is like an Andoo lounge chair, but the top is a weird hybrid of either Bob/Oscar/Flow lounge chairs.

2) Eero Saarinen - it's very much like the womb or grasshopper chairs.

3) Jan Wegner designed the papa chair and wing chair. these are close, as well.

sorry if these only confuse more ...

this is so well done. that seating area is fantastic - great mix. and atarichamp ... i feel ya! how on earth can this be 500 sq. ft.?!

congrats, rajiv!

Cosabeth,

I love your little space! I think you could do loads with what you’ve got. Colleen’s got a great point that you’ve got much heavier pieces (bookcase and couch ) on one side, and then the lighter, lower ones on the other.

1st: rotate the couch so that is away from the wall and it’s back is to the windows (enough so that you can walk behind it)

2nd find a great rug and “ground” the room a bit so it doesn’t feel like your coffee table is floating in space. One of those flat bamboo ones would be very clean looking
http://www.gcrugs.com/im/696/bamboo-rugs-tomeo4.jpg

3rd find a good sized piece of art for the wall in between the windows. I realize it’s got an interesting slant to the wall and may not be easy to find the right piece.

4th rotate the desk so that it is up against the wall on the right (when you open the door it will be to your right. Uh-oh … you have a closet there. Doh! Never mind.

your floor & wall space should be opening up considerably. Green chair can go to either side of the couch. Have you ever thought of buying some fun, colorful floor pillows to sit on? You can stack them and they’d look great.
http://swissmiss.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/cushions.jpg

considering the size of the room and how much privacy you need, you could do a very cool window treatment (remove the mini blinds) by buying canvas stretchers to fit the width of your windows (they won’t go all the way to the top), but you can cover them with a lovely semi-sheer fabric and it would give you a lot of light as well as some punch.

Can you hack your bookcase at all? I think if you remove two of the shelves, you can fit your flat screen in it. Although it’s hard to size up how deep it is. But you could then re-use your ikea tv table as a bench (buy some pillows or padding).

I’ll shut up now.

good luck and have fun!!
- kristina

oh, lord yes!! my freak show of a study is the catch-all room. there is the biggest collection of junk, mishmash and ... well, that's where the litter boxes are. i am certain the cats plot my demise on a daily basis.

SWEET! this is absolutely hilarious.

i'm with cojack7. to all you haters out there, please be "constructive" on another blog.

wow! great room (and i love that glass bottom lamp on the right). i'm also with lightspeed re: color & height variance of the bookshelves. another simple solution for the bookcase height (like maude suggested) is to attach sofa legs to the bottom of the shorter cases, ala osbornewood ...
http://www.osbornewood.com/images/md-res/4082.jpg

SCALE is so important in relation to space. as are details: update simple things like your planters.

you've inspired me to do something special with my thonet chairs. thanks!

good luck. you'll have a ball doing this with great results.