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Hello, where did you get the vibrant braided rug in one of the guest bedrooms? I love it. Thanks!

i love the basement playroom. the thing i hate about it is that there are so many chatchkees all around and each and every one of them, as with every item in the house, looks intentionally placed by the interior designer. it does not look like the homeowners acquired any of the items on their own or placed them themselves. it looks far too....intentional. like a model home on steriods. and like it was all done in one day.

I haven't been keeping up with the contest, at all, but in looking at the finalists I am totally thinking "Really?" Not too impressive or interesting or spacefabulous to me. Nice, for sure, but not really the type that I would consider to be finalists. Maybe there were not superific entries this year??

And in a down crap market!

Very nice and calming. I really like it. Would love to live there. Great in many ways.

Can you tell us all of the paint colors in EACH room? Even the white used for the trims. I'd like to know it all! Thanks!

Wow I love love love the woodwork and floors and high ceilings. I think you did a good job of decorating in a way that looks great and does not compete with the elements that are really the star of the place.

Do you own the place or rent? I hope own! I just think that woodwork is so brilliant I would die to own it.

There is some draw to seeing regular apartments I guess, but come on, this would be a pretty boring site if that's what all the house tours and posts were like. No one would come here. People want ideas, to see what neat things people are doing, all the neat places people are living in, and some visual eye candy. And variety rocks, including in terms of fanciness and costliness. Obviously there is a mix of types of house tours on the site, and that's good, keep that up. But it's pretty clear that DC comes up short almost every time. If it was more of a mix, as with the other cities, maybe people wouldn't complain. See something swanky one day, see something purely architectural the next, see something cheap but uber creative the next, see a novel decorating style the next. But what they have had so far is pretty lame. All run of the mill. Maybe it is the photography and presentation in part, true, but I think the places lack interest. The stories might be need, but we do need some visual interest.

This is by no means a critique of Laura's pad. Her pad is many of our pads. Nice. It's just you don't come away with anything from it.

Yeah I sort of feel like we are getting into more Rate My Space type territory instead of being purposeful with presentation of the house tours. DC's (and I'm a DC native) house tours fall far far short compared to the others on this site. Those organizing have sort of set up a bad situation for the poor home owners on display. Laura's house is perfectly nice. Some nice features for sure, and I'm glad it was shared, but it is ordinary (as much as any pad can be ordinary b/c obviously they all are special and unique in their own right). Like others have said, it's just like the pad of some random friend we have. I do want to yack at seeing over and over again uninspired MCM homes where all the owner did was hit the order button at DWR. But overall there have been so many wonderfully interesting and inspiring house tours on this site. DC has pretty much had not one. And wonderful does not mean that a person spent a ton to get the place where it is. It means a small tidal wave of creativity or uniquely amazing architectural bones or an innovative approach to something or a different but strong sense of style that surprisingly works and on and on.

Good use of space! Awesome floors. Nice things and good looking apartment, though I do agree that it's pretty normal. Nice normal but normal (aka average). Not to diss the owner, b/c if this was my friend's pad I'd really like it and like hanging out there. And it's about equivalent to my pad (except mine is in an old schoolhouse and has lots of inherent charm/character just by virtue of that). Great job with the space, but come on ATDC, give us something that will get us all giddy or something unique enough to give us lots of ideas. Other cities are making us (I consider myself a Washingtonian, even though I live in Bmore) look less than the sparkling cool and character-strong city that we are.

But I do like your place. I'd live there with you!

Wow - there is no other word for this but total eye candy. Or lush! This is complete talent to pull this off. It is so layered and rich and full and cozy and fun and unique. The kitchen/sitting area combo is my favorite area of the home for sure. This place deserves an award. Bah humbug to the boring MCM-syle interiors that are everywhere where people just bought items online from DWR etc. and placed them in the home together. That can look nice, but this place is inspired and inspiring. I love all the art and creativity here. I would love to create rooms in my home that have 50% of the intensity of this but I could never pull it off. Kudos. This was so fun to view. One of the best house tours ever I think. Congratulations.