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Maybe Lydia's subtly divided studio will help you? Put the bed facing the windows, with a nice chair/reading corner or use some storage benches to create a banquette/window seat.

Get some comfortable stools for the breakfast bar, and create a "living room" in the rest of the apt.

Hi Cosabeth,

What a pretty room! I love the dormer windows.

First suggestion:

Try moving couch to the middle of the room, facing the windows.
Move TV bench to one of the corners under the windows, place it diagonally, and use the green chair to make another diagonal in the other corner.

Try moving the desk to the lower left corner of your plan, facing the wall the door is on (will it fit?). Then try rotating the mirror and putting it on the other side of the door, between the closet and the door. You can tuck the blue bookcase in either next to the closet or between the green chair and the TV.

Another suggestion involves Colleen's & my suggestion (couch in middle of room facing windows, make a grouping with TV bench and chair on diagonals), also moving mirror to next to the door and hanging it "portrait" rather than "landscape", and putting the desk behind the couch like a sofa table. You'll have to be creative about managing your cords, but the room could use a rug that pulls in all the blues, greens, and browns you like and you can run the cords under it.

A third idea is to put the couch under the windows - you'll have great light for reading, but I don't know if that's too close to the radiators. Then put the TV perpendicular to the couch on one of the walls and use the green chair at a diagonal to make a grouping/seating area. Also look into a rug to tie it together. Then you can use anywhere in the other side of the room to set up an office nook with the desk and some shelves.

Flair is beautiful, and the crazy cat lady in me is sort of in love with "Chirp."

Thanks TommyMiller,

The joints have been reinforced. It's much better now - apparently it just took a few nights of sleeping (etc.) on it to make it "settle."

JP

Emilyandharry - the EL does work in the snow and if you decide to ditch your car you can still sign up for something like IGoCars (http://www.igocars.org) where you can pay a small fee and use cars when you need them.

Question for the group:

I have an antique bed, pictured here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/captaincinema/2282112794/

I love it. It is quite solid and sturdy, but as the mattress is held up by homemade slats made out of 54" inch long 2" by 6" boards, it is very creaky. Is there something I can do to make it less creaky? Get a thicker/sturdier mattress? Get some kind of slat system? My roommates and downstairs neighbors thank you.

trex466, brilliant idea with the legs to make the funky bookcases a uniform height.

I like the chairs as-is, and agree with the other posters that you need some more color higher up - curtains, a rug, something to get more of that turquoise into your room.