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Cute - makes me want to roll on it!

My decorating dare would be to throw/give away/sell all of my furniture from my tiny studio apartment, and paint the walls and celings white and have very minimal functional furniture (I currently have wenge coloured wood floors, and cream walls with dark red accent walls) - I only chose my current colour scheme to match the furniture I already had when I moved in... also a lot of the furniture is 'from a previous relationship' so for me getting rid of stuff and painting everything white would also be a sort of psychological 'starting over'!

I've heard about the toliet-germs and toothbrush peril too - really gross!! I now keep the toothbrush closed in a cabinet.

This might look cool if you hadn't actually experienced the 80's... but for me those pastels just bring back terrible memories of the pink and grey colour scheme in my parents old house (pale grey leather sofa against bubbly-textured grey and pink wallpaper), and those awful sort of airbrushed prints of ladies in high heels... eugghh!

This is a bit geeky, but I've collected rocks and stones since I was a kid. Not loads, just a few that mean a lot to me for sentimental reasons (e.g. a fossil sea urchin I found on the beach wit my grandad) - does anyone have any idea how I could display them? At the moment they're in a cluster on a shelf, but they don't look particularly good. Any ideas greatly appeciated.
Nadya

Excuse my ignorance, but in the States is it common that people don't have washing machines at home? Interesting, here in Spain there are no Laundrettes! I'm pretty lazy and hate ironing, cleaning etc and would happily hire someone to do those chores...but for me putting stuff in a washing machine seems quite easy and I don't mind doing it (but I live alone, so there's not so much washing)... Still, must be lovely having someone do it all for you and it coming back folded:-)

Cruel, but pretty.

I'd say grey (blue would be too seasidey I think). Sounds silly, but if the legs are brown (can't tell from the photo) I'd consider painting them a colour that would blend well with the grey - maybe the same gold as the sofa. The sofa looks sort of veloury from the picture, in which case I'd avoid green walls (for me green and yellow is ok if the sofa was more matte finish or canvass). Good luck!

greeps, your comment made me lol!

Back to the question, my weirdest tchotchke are 3 bone white plaster casts of my teeth from when I was growing up. Some people find them a bit disturbing, but I like them-weird I know...