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I just bookmarked this with the title: Best House Tour EVER. I absolutely love it. Every single detail has been thought out and all I can do is admire the minds behind this home. I love the S chairs in the dining room. I love the office so much, the FLOR rugs, the Alexander Girard details...sigh. I will visit this tour again and again.

As always, there is no greater pet peeve of mine than when before and after photos are taken from completely different angles making it impossible to envision the transformation. Stand in the same spot, people!

It's hard for me to want to click through to read an article when there is a grammatical error within the first 4 words. However, my love for Eichlers won out. Beautiful kitchen remodel. How I wish I had an Eichler! I grew up in one and I'm SO bummed my parents sold it when I was four years old. Perhaps some day I will be so lucky.

FYI, I meant "jealousy" but spelled it to look like a name just to be cheeky.

It IS sad. Unfortunately, good taste often CAUSES financial disasters. Good for them for choosing to be happy and realizing that it isn't stuff that makes you happy to begin with.

Lovely home, lovely stuff.

I am totally with prettypresley. I love the links posted above and think that either would work great. It is a truly wonderful table.

So uh, where are the clothes??? On any given day my laundry room (which is very small) has two to five loads of laundry either waiting to be done, waiting to be folded, or folded and waiting to be put away. Two little kids, a husband, and a dog make it so that I could do nothing but laundry all day and never be caught up. It also makes organizing the space impossible. Believe me, I've tried.

Lovely spaces, totally unrealistic presentation. I want to see these when there is actual laundry being done (not staged orange polka dot sheets that coordinate with the wall color).

I'll file this in the "dream space" file.

They obviously don't have kids. We have two kids and despite our best efforts (we are vegetarian, we compost, we recycle, I use canvas grocery bags, cloth diapers, napkins, etc...) we still manage to generate quite a lot of trash. I don't see how they were able to do that. I'll have to check out their blog.

I love the whole room, chair, table. It's fabulous! I would do a simple globe lamp with a low profile like this one:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70096377

This won't compete with the hanging lights in the middle of the room, or block the window like a floor lamp would. You can run the cord behind the table and it shouldn't be too obvious.

I HATE it when "before and after" pictures are not taken from the same angle. It is absolutely impossible to tell what setup is better when the angles are different.

Seriously people, stand in the exact same spot to photograph. Better yet, do it at the same time of day so the lighting matches also.

I am not a fan of the yellow stripes and I agree that the rug should be under the table, not weirdly asymmetrical where it seems that all it would do is serve as a tripping hazard. But probably I'm just bitter because of the different angles in the photos.