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I agree with Noelle153. Not a beige/neutral fan but this room is deliciously warm and inviting and not at all boring!

Hi, I recently painted my bathroom a deep grayish plum called Tropical Dusk (Benj.Moore), similar to the dark plum squares in your shower curtain. It is absolutely stunning, sophisticated, complex, NOT at all pastel (which I don't care for, that's just me), inviting and is now the favorite color in my apartment. And I'm a paint freak who constantly repaints different colors, but this one's definitely a keeper! My friends love it too, so much so that when they come over they like to hang out in the bathroom because the color is so comforting. And it does NOT make the room look smaller at ALL. http://www.benjaminmoore.net/samples/1432.html

This doesn't exactly relate to THIS this thread, but: I posted the Norman Bates quote from PSYCHO because I love the film. I even did my bathroom in Psycho motif: got a towel at Bloomingdales, had it monogrammed "BATES MOTEL." Alas, I no longer have the towel - that was 30+ years ago. But I think the monogram guy is still there, at the 59th St, Bloomie's. In fact, I think I'll get another Bates Motel towel, :>D

Always thought of ants as more suburban/rural. Saw them growing up on L.I. In Manhattan I'm more familiar with roaches, of course, and it never occurred to me that we even had ants in Manhattan . . . until last week, when my neighbor across the hall -- and it's not a very wide hall -- told me he's been having an ant invasion for a while. Yikes! So thanks for starting this thread!

This one made me smile! I don't think it's granny-ish at all . . . but the couch & rug are, ugh!

But if you put your hand on the screen to cover the couch and look at the photo again, you might view the bookcases more fairly, without the distraction, :)

I'd put the butter-colored one in the middle.

To those who suggested painting them all the same color, I can tell you, having "been there, done that" -- it would be BORING!

Did my foyer in "Bahaman Sea Blue" - Benjamin Moore, 2055-40. Trim is "White Opulence" - BM, 879. It's delicious, and I find I'm always drawn to it. I could be sitting on sofa watching the TV but keep looking back at the foyer, :)

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http://www.myperfectcolor.com/Benjamin-Moore-2055-40-Bahaman-Sea-Blue-p/mpc0004406.htm

The first room reminds me of the Seinfeld episode "The Nap" - where Jerry hires the contractor who built George's under-the-desk nap-at-work station to build cabinets in his open kitchen. These look as oppressive to me as Jerry's did. He eventually removed them.

Ugh. No thanks.

For me this is a very retro trip down Memory Lane! This is what people did in the late '60s/early '70s, used milk crates, often combined with concrete cinder blocks stolen from construction sites, to create bookshelves/storage units. By 1978, most of my friends and I had graduated to "real" furniture, :) It was fun at the time, though!

home body: I got mine in Bed Bath & Beyond