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I'm with Mcgdesigner, would love to know the color of that paint. I'd love to have it in my bedroom.

Grand Central Terminal, not station. For the centennial logo they dropped it from the logo so it now just says "Grand Central", which will only make this error more common. Honestly I think they should just change the name to what 99% of people call it.

There's actually even more photos (much better ones) posted on this Swedish language Ikea Fans facebook page

Here's a link to a page on Ikea's site where you can see more (all?) of the collection. Some things pictured above, like the blue chair and the couch, come in more colors:
http://images.ikea.com/assetbank-ikea/action/browseItems?categoryId=96&categoryTypeId=1

I think people who put massive 55"+ TVs in small living rooms are the same people who think a laptop with a screen smaller than 17" is useless. If your living room is huge and you're sitting far away, then yeah it totally makes sense, and I'm very jealous that you have that much space --makes me wish I had a roommate so I could have a bigger place while staying in the heart of the city.

I sit about 5' away from my display, if I pushed my chair back much farther it'd bump into my desk on the other side of my apartment. With that, it probably isn't surprising that I use a 24" computer monitor as a "TV" (netflix and an xbox 360).

Those saying if you can afford this you can afford a better heating system, seem to be missing out on the "apartment" in the name of this web site. If it turns out the heat in my apartment sucks, this would be a good solution. I've been using a tower fan all summer (only have a sliding door onto the balcony that opens, so no window fans will do), so this wouldn't take up any precious square footage.

From the looks of it, my studio's heating system is just a small space heater mounted in the wall anyway, so this Dyson is probably more effective, more efficient, and quieter.

@Nanushka, yeah us yanks just sit in our SUVs all day --oh wait, I walk several km every day as part of my commute (the other part is a bus, as I live downtown but my company is located in the suburbs).

My home exercise stuff is out in the open, because when the room of your studio is not quite 300 square feet, there's no place to hide. I have a pull up bar hanging in the only doorway I have, the one to the washroom. Obviously that comes up and down throughout the day as needed. I have a set of dumbbells sitting just out of view underneath my bed, some ergonomic devices for push-ups at the bottom of an enclosed bookcase, and a deflated balance ball in a box somewhere that I have yet to unpack. For anything else, there's a "gym" in my building. I put that in quotes because it's about 200 square feet and contains a set of weights and a bench, a treadmill, an elliptical, and a recumbent exercise bike.. oh and 6 TVs, even though it's too cramped with just two people in there.

my first apartment had the air conditioner slash swamp cooler system break, in the middle of summer. Took a bit over 48 hours to repair (the blower motor had failed), meanwhile I stayed in a hotel. They refused to reimburse.

Before anyone jumps all over my post saying how a/c is a luxury, this was in August, in Phoenix Arizona. The temp was 115 at the weather station at the airport, downtown it gets a decent bit hotter than that. A/C failing is absolutely considered an emergency. The heat? not so much. One night after 18 months of living in my second apartment there, I realized the heat didn't work. I bought a blanket. I let the office know but it took them a month to fix it.

@matchbookhymnal plenty of apartment buildings here in seattle have bike parking in their underground parking. My little building has a parking space reserved for bikes complete with a couple racks (to hold about 20 bikes per space) on each of the 6-floors of the parking garage.

Thing is, it would be really annoying to use those racks since there's two garage doors to go through to get back in to the garage, and the remote that you only get if you pay $200/mo for a car parking space is much too bulky to carry around with you.

I just measured. My balcony is 9 square feet (6' wide, 1.5' deep). It's room enough for a dwarf Alberta spruce, a Rhododendron, and a Madagascar Palm (only during the summer, the thing just doesn't like living in Seattle as much as it loved Phoenix).

Anyway, definitely not winning any awards here, but it's a wonderful way to add green to my studio.