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i don't shoo any of our (4) cats off of anything ... i invited them into my home with the intention of sharing my life with them. and that includes my furniture. keeping the nails clipped and offering up a large, attractive cat tree takes care of the upholstery. as for the hair -- invest in one of those great big lint rollers, use often, and then everyone is happy.
easy peasy!

we love our wood -- but with no varnish. a simple light sanding mineral oil make sit look brand new!

very cool! hadn't thought of this as a table, but would be so neat.

we used galvanized in our kitchen after reading about it here -- it's funny that it is the darkest paint color we've ever used, but the only one we've simply never second-guessed. it's gorgeous!!

hiding the components is an easier way of dealing with them than designing a system that makes them attractive. since we are dealing with a "small and cool" space, we didn't have an extra closet to hide our stuff away in and we didn't want to add another piece of bulky furniture simply for the purpose of camouflage.
our entry was one of the most creative and one of the best uses of minimal space. i stand by that.

at the end of the day, AT is a web community -- we're completely entitled to our postings, within reason. i think we're within reason.
maxie: exactly - we didn't win the contest because we didn't hide our components -- which was apparently another unwritten rule.
it's true - there probably isn't a ton that you can do with home tech that hasn't been seen before - but there were other, more distinguishable entries than what the judges ultimately chose. the contest should have been about more than shoving a big tv on the wall and hiding the ugly stuff away somewhere. and then if it was truly about having the biggest and best home technology - where is randall as a winner?? he kicked all of our a**es with his set-up!
in the end, we lost. that's fine, i know it's not the end of the world.

p.s. matt and i have basically brushed our teeth with drywall dust over the past year, being that we've remodelled every bit of our loft -- ourselves. we've touched every square inch of our home. he's an architect and i'm a graphic designer and we've never once tried to advertise our professional lives here ... if we want to get into that.

and some of it is sour grapes - i've already said that.
if this contest was really judged on what AT claims to stand for, we should've placed in this contest. maybe that's snotty to say, but i really think it's true.

i don't think it's their fault at all, and like you said, of course it's their right to design something they love. and it is gorgeous!
it does sort of seem like a cheap shot to enter a contest like this when they probably should be competing with much bigger fish.

and if ANYONE for one second believes that video was made especially for this contest ... good gravy.

thanks dear! :)