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We have just your stove, and got white appliances and built IKEA Varde cabinets and counters around it, hardwood floors as well. It's the center of the kitchen and looks absolutely modern and homey! Love it; everyone comments on it.

I used this behind my washer-dryer combo. LOVE IT!

Wow, thanks guys--yeah that's not my place, but something simply and nicely done. Those are great ideas! Our problem is we are simply not garden people, and can't seem to do it without someone telling us exactly what to do. Something like artisan landscape seems perfect! Any other suggestions? I promise to post when we're done!
Andy

Wanted to add that we have the double-high aerobed and put a featherbed on top, which makes it nearly identical to a real bed in feel--and not that rubbery, cold air mattress experience. Just used it last night--my mom was delighted as always! Just stored it away again....

The couch I found on craigslist, but I think it's very similar to couches sold at Therapy on Valencia street, and Room & Board has similar ones. We got ours from the apartment my brother was moving into, down the street!

As for the shelves, I did not use other brackets. I weighed a shelfload of books and it met the load the shelves could hold, so I stayed with their hardware! The key was that I drilled MANY new holes in the hardware so I could mount it to studs in about eight places. The hardware does bend with the load, making the shelves tilt foward slightly, but of course the shelf is against the wall and holds it up. I'm really happy with it and may make more to hold my growing book collections...

Thanks for all the comments, and I may have to have sunspot42 over to convince her about the chairs. I'm still on the fence myself about the pattern, to be honest. Maybe change the colors in the room a little to mix it up? Or a rug might bring it all together a bit more, as people have said. And I do need to reshelve my books!

me, please, in any color!

The cabinets are APSVIK

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10114614

THey are 30 inches high, and we store the guest blow-up bed and sheeting in there. The doors slide sideways (crucial to save room) and I had to cut all the pieces, plus drill new holes, in each but it was much cheaper than built-ins! I may mirror or paint the doors to add interest.

The walls are actually just taupe with a chocolate chimney--we painted all that four years ago. I can find the exact colors if I search in the basement. The rest is all craigslist finds and IKEA. The art is by a friend, and the top piece of art is a clock with a pencil attached that draws a circle every hour. The white frame are to unify them--bought at Community thrift and painted.

Thanks everyone for comments! It was fun to take the room from empty to a room everyone wants to sit in, and now I've got ideas to take it further--perhaps remove some junk and shelve my books! Oh, and a rug.

This is a constant debate in this region. LA and New York incorporated all of their regions long ago into gigantic cities, while San Francisco did not. Yet we would still be calling it New York even if Brooklyn were a separate city. Ya know? The way we call Beverly Hills part of LA even though it IS a separate city? And not LA Area?

Our house was broken into recently--while we were asleep--and a computer stolen from a front-room table. We never open our drapes, but we had the day before; obviously that allowed our Lower Haight friends to case us out. Now no sunlight enters our house--but film on the lower window would allow us total privacy *and* light.

The "white cabinet" is a West Elm item which cost $70 when I bought the identical item, so it's not exactly a deal here. Still, perhaps they don't make them anymore!