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Just wondering how many of the people insisting a rug is needed actually have children regularly eating at their dining room tables! Egad.

Couch. Couch, couch, couch, couch, couch.

Anyone cringing?

My grandmother always called it a davenport. Would this pass muster with the "design community?" ~eyeroll~

I love this house. Everything works together so wonderfully. Just fabulous.

That said, it is flat-out, bat-shit crazy to have an open staircase like that with a child in the house.

And if we're posting about pet grammar peeves, my biggest one is the use of a double "would have" + past participle:

"If I would have seen him yesterday, I would have given it to him then." <-----Wrong!!!

"If I HAD seen him yesterday, I would have given it to him then." <-----------Right!!!

This seems like a relatively recent development to me; I don't remember hearing this years back. Hate it! However, I don't wonder what is WRONG with people who say it.

I simply cannot imagine why anyone purchasing a rocking chair in which to rock a baby or child would consider anything without a back high enough to rest your head.

Your house IS MCM. Check out the Brady Bunch house, built in 1959:

http://mid2mod.blogspot.com/2012/02/brady-bunch-house.html

I would remove the shutters and window box and enlarge the window width by about 50%. Then keep that paint color or something similarly earth-toned, but paint the roofline trim the same color as the house. Paint the garage and window trim either the same color as the house, or a complementary earth-toned shade. Then make sure your front door is mid-century appropriate in style and paint it something eye-popping. Orange maybe.

http://gallery.apartmenttherapy.com/photo/la-rachelthurstonhousetour/item/300417

http://gallery.apartmenttherapy.com/photo/jeffs-resourceful-mid-century-remodel/item/339063

Doverussell, I thought the exact same thing about the bathroom. It cries out for some of the wonderful color in the rest of the house. I smiled when I read that the owner likes white bathrooms.

I love this house. Beautiful.

The association between bedsharing with a nonsmoking, sober mother and SIDS is actually very weak and in many studies nonexistent.

Personally, I don't equate "calm" and "grim." I am fine with calm spaces, for people of any age.

For me, this design fails because there is nothing about it that says a "boy" would live here. (Zombie or otherwise, actually, lol.) Nothing distinguishes it (for me) as a room for a young person. If it were designed as a guest room or master bedroom, my reaction would be different. But that's not what the designer was asked to do.

I have children myself. It's true, not all children like primary and neon colors. Still, I don't know any little boy who would pick out gray floral fabric for window treatments or a gray checkered bolster. But it's not just the color palette that fails for me, it is the elements as well. Take the chairs. Children want armchairs they can sprawl in. If they aren't old enough to flop down in a chair with a book, then they are small enough that their parents usually want chairs sized and shaped for sitting comfortably with a lap child. Those chairs would serve neither purpose well, so what in the world are they for? Will this little boy be having tea with a young prince?

The bedspread and the lamp also make little sense in a young boy's room, IMO. In my house, that bedspread would be a complete mess almost instantly. (My children's bedding has been exposed to ink, magic marker, contraband chocolate, dirty hands and feet, drool, urine, vomit, and blood.) And that lamp would come crashing to the floor in no time.

Putting a baseball and mitt on a shelf does not make it a child's room.

@a-chacun-son-gout--I laughed at that comment, too.

When we moved to our current house, my older son was 11. I vetoed his first choice of paint color for the walls, because I thought it was too dark for his northeast facing bedroom. Then we moved in his old loft bed, dresser, desk, and bookcase and put them where he wanted them. We put the rug from his old room on the floor. He picked out a comforter cover at Ikea. I selected a new ceiling fan and some lights. And that was the end of my involvement. He's covered the walls with maps, posters, New Yorker covers, flags, arranged his tchtokes, and built a large, apparently permanent, Lego installment covering about a quarter of the floor--a city lay-out that he works on periodically. It's a mess, but it's his mess.

I decorated my younger son's room, and it has stayed pretty much the same for the past few years. But just the other day, he chose a random blank spot on the wall and tacked up a drawing. :-)