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Heather and Katherine: Please adopt me so that I may one day inherit your beautiful house and it's amazing furnishings. :)

There's so much I like about this place (the bedroom wallpaper, the yellow lamp by the fireplace, the teal poufs, the industrial bar cart, the "window seat", etc.), but I find myself hung up on two annoying little details:
1) Limes in the apothecary jars by the fireplace. They scream "staging" to me. They're gonna be a fruit-fly fiesta in about 2 days!
2) The interesting white candle-holders crammed on the second shelf on either side of the fireplace (right next to #1). They feel like they need some breathing room since the candles are just barely clearing the shelf above. I assume you move them elsewhere before lighting them — unless that's your "fire corner" in the Feng Shui!

I like the Twister mat as a painting drop cloth! :)

Beautiful! Oh to have such x-ray vision when shopping at yard sales and thrift stores.

Carrie –

When you're on pregnancy bedrest, you're RESTING in BED (or on the couch) 90% of the time — not rearranging your bedroom and living room furniture.

To your assertion that "the topic of this post is certainly design related", I respectfully call shenanigans. While I'm sure you could reverse rationalize any article to fit Apartment Therapy's mission, I agree with most of the comments that the site seems to be straying from its core focus as of late.

This shift is reminiscent of the evolution of Martha Stewart Living over the past few years into a high-brow Family Circle. (Incidentally, I cancelled my MSL subscription recently after getting it for 15+ years.)

I would suggest that you take your reader comments to heart and skip the defensive replies.

One of my favorite home tours! What a great, eclectic mix of high-end and low-end furniture and furnishings. Your art and tchotchkes are great, too.

I love the floor lamp behind the Nakashima table. Pray tell, where is it from?

Those self-inflating Aero beds can be expensive ($100-200+). And I wonder what you do if they spring a leak?

Check out the Coleman 4-in-1 air mattress. It's less than $50 and features 2 detachable twin mattresses that can be used as 2 single-height twin beds, 1 double-height twin bed, or 1 single-height king bed. You need to purchase a separate pump ($20), but it's still cheaper than an AeroBed.

The mattresses are flocked, but I still recommend using a separate mattress pad.

They're actually quite comfortable, though you may want to give grandma and grandpa your bed and sleep on the air mattress yourself, as the lack of height and occasional "waterbed" effect can be challenging for some.

The other added benefit is that they're easily portable — they roll up neatly — so you can use them on a camping trip or when you're the guest at someone else's house.

http://www.amazon.com/Coleman-2000002847-4-in-1-Quickbed/dp/B00339C3JG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332368949&sr=8-1

A beautiful, warm, cozy home.

As for the feng shui, I'm pretty sure that a 30 lb. Le Creuset grill pan hanging over a doorway isn't contributing much harmony and balance to the household. I'd venture to say that it's downright dangerous -- especially with a toddler around.