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Apachejaz: That is a brilliant idea. We've been stuggling for 4 years in our small bathroom to come up a with a workable towel hanging solution.

To the problem at hand - just painted our bathroom Benjamin Moors 'Feather Gray" and we really like how it looks and feels in our small bathroom. The color shifts between blue, gray and lavender - http://www.flickr.com/photos/maryja/7265833464/in/photostream

I am the last to caution anyone about being bold with color (you should see me house!) but my personal experience is that you should be very careful about dark colors in a bathroom. Or at least how you accessorize / use art.

We painted a very small bathroom (5x8 sounds right) a dark eggplant. It was lovely. BUT when I stood in front of the mirror with my hairdryer I couldn't see my hair. LOL! It blended into the dark color of the wall! Because of the way the door opened, we couldn't hang art on that space so we ended up repainting everything a bright lime green so there was more contrast. Also, it made us giggle. :)

While, I'm sure that there were practical considerations in re-doing the bathroom (Carpeting? Really?) the reason that I can't embrace the 'after' is that it looks like every.single.bathroom you'd find in a Restoration Hardware catalog.
Whatever the problems with the 'before', at least it was unique.

Yes, very timely post. We purchased a 670sq/ft house and the door to our bathroom takes up a lot of valuable real-estate in our living room so we've known since day one that a barn-door was in our future. However, finding resources for an indoor version was proving tricky. This will be very helpful.

This is not even close to a dilemma - it's a preference. As in: some people want a dominant color, others want different colors - and maybe not even complimentary colors.

The real question should be: what do you prefer and why? And even then the answers are still a matter of personal preference and one shouldn't be considered "right" and the other "wrong".

A caveat for those of you considering buying vintage: after doing much research my husband purchased a Bernina Record 830 (considered by many to be the gold standard of sewing machines of the 1970's) off of eBay for me for my Christmas present. I didn't have an opportunity to use it until almost a month later when it became clear that there were some mechanical issues at play. After dropping it off with an experienced Bernina repair person I was informed that it was 'unrepairable', but by that time it was too late to return it to the buyer and eBay wouldn't/couldn't get involved. I've just brought it to a different repair person for a second opinion but the outcome my be the same.

So, while I totally agree with going vintage, do yourself a favor and make sure you test it/have it looked at immediately (or at least within the return timeframe) and if the seller says 'it works' but 'as is', look for another seller.

I grew up watching the show although, due to my lack of a television, I haven't seen it in years. I will, however, always love Tommy Silva.

Amen,VLADCOLE! I've been thinking the same thing about AT for a few months now.

My husband and I upgraded from a 470sf apartment to a 670sf cottage six months ago. We still don't know what to do with all the extra space!

I do love the challenge that comes with living small - it presents more opportunity for creativity.

Why is it being called, specifically, a "3-D" chandelier? Aren't all chandeliers that occupy a physical space 3-D?