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we got the coat rack, which was surprisingly reasonably priced, several years ago at DWR. It's one of the few pieces that have stayed with us through the years. It's always a conversation piece!

Thank you to all of you who posted such nice comments. Alas, we weren't finalists, but the nice things you've said make it easier to take!
In response to some of your questions and comments:

The fans are artemis by minka. I've seen them a couple of places since we put them in.

The bedding on the guest bed is actually from WalMart and we sewed the red stripe on it. We couldn't find anything that worked quite right and didn't want to spend a lot of money. After lots of tries and returns, we finally found this one as a last resort and added the stiching with yarn. We ordered the red circle fabric sheets from dwell and cut them apart to make pillows and the curtains.

The shelves in the shower are something we made from mdf and covered with 7 coats of paint and tile. They've lasted 2 years now.

We ordered the bed from frontgate...you know, those magazines that you always read on the airplane? We found it on a trip back to visit family. It is very convenient and much more comfortable than a sofa bed. We definately recommend getting a memory foam top for it if you can find somewhere to store it. We slept on this bed for 6 months in various rooms while we did construction and it was great! This leads to one of the comments on the shoe boxes. They are actually quite convenient to get to, since the bed is out maybe 2-3 weeks total a year. Since it's such a small space, we needed to make use of every piece of area possible.

The upholstered wall was a consequence of our demolition, but it turned out to be a good mistake. When we tsldge-hammered all of the tile off of the original bathroom wall, we damaged the other side such that the only thing holding the plaster on the orginal lath was the paint. We didn't want to try to match the sand finish plater and didn't want the obvious replacement of smooth gypsum, so we made upholstered panels instead.

When we refinished the doors, we discovered the inset panel was plywood. We found this original Eames era wallpaper on ebay and ordered it from San Francisco. It was still in the original packaging.

As for the paint colors...unfortunately, I am not a neat painter and many of the labels are hard to read. From what we can tell, the bedroom, living room and dining room were shades of Frazee Touchstone 8762W and Lava Rock 8764M. The bathroom gold is Behr Goldfish. The blue-green on the ceilings and elsewhere was a comedy of errors. It went something like, "this is too blue, this is too green", so on the 3rd try, we dumped them both together and got the color we wanted.

Thanks again to everyone!

eric lauren, framework design

We ordered the wine rack from a place called smarthome. there are many that are out there and 99% of them were out of our price range. this one fit what we wanted and we could afford it.

Thank you to everyone that posted such complimentary notes. Hopefully, thanks to your votes we will be able to post more photos here soon.

As to some of the comments:
Sakura Tree - There is a sakura tree painted on the living room wall. It spans across the window and front door and into the dining room as well. We love the simplicity and the grace of the tree and have used it as our logo as well.

Spices - We weren't aware that heat ages spices prematurely, but it is good to know and we will have to find another spot for them in the kitchen.

Size - The actual living space is about 600 sf - yes, we know it is bigger than many that have posted and we have great respect to those who are able to do such beautiful things with their small spaces. They're all easy to clean though! The rooms are about 9' to 10' wide. This is why we tried to stick to a simple color scheme throughout and painting the trim all one color really seems to help simplify things. Especially since there's so much beautiful trim work to be found in older homes which is much of what is around the windows. Our bedroom is literally that. A bed - room. That's all that fits which is why our bed is made up of dresser drawers...and why there are some slanted pictures! It helps make things look bigger and it's next to impossible to get everything in a picture without it being at some odd angle!

Doors (all 3 of them) - are paneled with an antique Eames wallpaper that we found on Ebay. We refinished all of the doors and the middle panel was plywood so needed something different than the mahogany stain.

Thanks again to everyone! Will write more soon to the other comments.