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Whenever I come across anything like this, I think of my parents' boxer. We didn't have a dog growing up, and I always thought boxers were the ugliest thing I had ever seen. Enter my parents' boxer puppy - henceforth I genuinely think boxers are the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.

Psychological warfare aside, there are a few considerations: 1. Taking the tile down is a very, very costly and messy project which I doubt the landlord would ok. Not telling you to keep it because it's the landlord's call. 2. Concerns of painting the tiles have been expressed and documented in all the above comments. 4. The colors are not bad and the decorative border is pretty. 3. The cheapest-at-Home-Depot vanity is my least favorite thing in there.

You did a fantastic job on that budget.The countertop DIY saved so much, and the counters look great.

For what it's worth, I never worked with an electrician who did not know that a GFCI is required in the kitchen and bathroom, or a plumber who would not know about backflow preventers.

Between this and the rabbit fur tea cozy, I'm starting to suspect that Maxwell has gone full Joaquin Phoenix on us.

Beautiful house and family. The cypress is fantastic. Nice reminder that there's no substitute for good bones - I love how they furnished the house, but I would love it no matter what they filled it with.

This concept always cracked me up. The main draw of IKEA furniture is clean design at low prices. You don't "create high quality furniture at a sensible price", you add $720 worth of pretty door coverings to your $179 PAX wardrobe made of MDF.
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S79894596/

Great handles and nice grain on the drawer fronts. It looks like it only needs a bit of cleaning and oiling. I like it as it is and I think it would look cheap painted. The painted herringbone inspiration dresser is used in a nursery context, and even there I would have preferred the dresser in the original wood finish.

Thank you very much for getting back to me, Andi. Yes that makes sense, I had to do a thicker edge as well because the countertop I chose only came in 3/4". Can't wait to see yours!

Pretty curtains. Niceville sounds like a fictional TV town.

"Gypsy" is a term (not a slang term) that has been used for Romani people, an ethnic group spread across Europe - not Romanian, inhabitants of Romania.

Great room, love the photos. I would put some kind of shelf on the stretchers of those stools to make them more useful as nightstands. I like globes and their relationship with the globe lamps, but they would have long flown off that ledge in my bedroom.