Sabine from Cologne's Profile

Oh wow, that workspace, that kitchen, that ... everything.

Seriously, I didn't think you could pull off an Eames Lounge Chair in a place this small, I always thought they needed a room for themselves. But this looks great. Good use of space, awesome style.

I love how you worked around those dormer corners. My ex-boyfriend used to live in a top floor apartment like yours, and it was incredibly annoying because those triangular volumes made it hard to put up shelves and cupboards. The way you accented them they look almost sculptural, and you made great use of the space.

I favorited this one for general awesomeness and would have liked to favorite a second time just for the floor plan!

That headboard is beyond awesome!! Well, the rest of the house is nice too. Love the colors especially.

Just the right mix of old and new, not too overstyled, lots and lots of fascinating objects on display - one of my favorite house tours ever!

Thanks to several moves during the last twenty years I now have friends all over the country (Germany). If I didn't host my friends overnight (and they didn't host me) those friendships wouldn't be happening any more. Some friendships just die naturally, but some I consider lifelong friends, and I wouldn't want to miss those. And I myself don't mind a night on an air mattress, as long as I get to spend a weekend with my best friend from high school. I guess I would draw a line with folks who just need to crash at my place after doing the tourist bit and want to save the hotel, or the in-laws staying for a week or so.

For my last move I did something of an in-between of the all-at-once and the box-a-day methods. Every weekend for a month I packed something like five or six boxes with stuff that I knew I wouldn't miss too badly until the move – books, winter clothes, blankets etc – then I packed the rest on the last day before the move. It worked out perfectly.

I made one major mistake: I didn't want to write all the content on the boxes, because I wanted to pass the boxes on to a friend who was moving a couple of months after me. So I put removable stickers with numbers on the boxes and wrote the contents of the boxes in a little notebook to help me find the essential stuff after the move. Then on the last day of packing a well-meaning friend came over to help and she packed the notebook away into one of the last boxes. So I ended up tearing apart all the boxes after all.

UpErMei - it's the Coral Pendant Light by David Trubridge. I adore it!!