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Never. Ever. Checking who is calling to know whether it's someone I may know sounds a definite invasion of privacy. I don't even allow my children to pick/check my calls. Actually, to touch my phone unless I ask them specifically to bring it to me. Phones and handbags are totally off limits to everybody. I'd never touch either at any friend's, no matter how close friends they are, and would be very upset if they did without my asking them to.

Seconded, Elaine. All these rooms evoke greyish skinned sad kids with blueish shadows under too big eyes.

Kakugori, my experience as a French person having lived most of my life in 19th and 18th century buildings is that trumeau mirrors always are on top of mantles. Maybe it's a bad idea, but one that was replicated consistently over several centuries.

It's fun! I was a bit amazed at how many people found it dangerous above all. Being French, I guess I'm much more relaxed. Oddly (or not so oddly) enough, the people who created this great room seem to be French too!

Back to the comments on how a shower without walls, screen, or curtain will never be comfy... I live in a country where the weather is warm year-round, so it is not a concern. I'm building my first house and this sleek concrete look has been on my mind from day one. This definitely reinforces my will to see it happen!

Most everything (I LOVE sleeping on a straw mat on the floor, believe it or not; had to for a few weeks last time I moved, then the movers put the bed in my bedroom and I've been considering dismantling it ever since) except my Ikea desk chair and a decent desk. I'm not too much into furniture and ideally would only have mats and floor cushions (and built-in closets). I like things quite radically uncluttered.

I have a huge desk chair I bought at Ikea in the early 90s. I've dragged it from France to Senegal to Ghana to Cameroon and now back to Ghana, including one or several moves within each country. I'm 6ft2 and back in the early 90s it was extremely difficult to find appropriate seats for tall people. This one is incredibly comfortable, even though the leather has suffered a lot with the temperature, humidity, sand dust and salty breeze (and a dozen moves). I can sit in it for 10+ hours a day without pains, and have had a few naps in it too. That's how comfortable it is! I bought office chairs since, but none was good enough and I still use this one daily.