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Wait a minute! I have a similar apartment, and I bought mine with the brick wall already painted white. It really looks great! I also have two old wooden beams and they look fine even though it's a different wood than my floor.

So, I would say that you can paint the brick (it will still be brick and cool looking, but white and clean), and change the floors to make them dark, but leave the ceiling as is. The different wood colors will not bother you, and you'll get the bigger, cleaner feel, as well as a nice contrast between wall and floor - currently the brick/ceiling/floor colors are very similar..

I am finding it so hard to say something in this "conversation". I can't believe that all of you feel so entitled to judge, and be rude, and offend people.

There are smokers who don't consider other people, just like there are non-smokers who don't consider other people and create circumstances that are unpleasant to you (boohoo, in my opinion, but whatever).

However, that doesn't give you the right to attack SMOKERS. Walking behind a bus or a truck, or if you live in New York, past a hot dog stand, can be so much more unpleasant than smoke.

My mother smoked all my life, and still smokes to this day. When I was a child, she smoked around me - forgive her, she lives in Europe, where people don't know the things that you Americans know about smoking, we still live in caves - and, you know what, the only time it bothered me, and I told her so, was in the elevator. A small space with no ventilation. I was a child. You think my lungs were less sensitive than yours?

So, sorry, I don't believe all the bull i'm hearing here. Smoke when you're not smoking yourself is JUST as unpleasant to smokers as it is to non-smokers. Trust me, I have been both.

Furthermore, I smoke in my house like a chimney. Funny thing, it never smells. My friends come over and comment on the fact that it doesn't smell. An open window and a candle will do it.

And finally, I allow people to smoke when in my house. All my non-smoker friends all of a sudden are holding a cigarette, and thanking me for providing the party with packs of cigarettes for my guests, and with ashtrays and lighters.

Smoking, I am sorry to inform you is NOT a choice. It's a slippery slope. I see those ads on tv saying "I chose to smoke, and these are the consequences of my choice" and I want to throw my ashtray to the screen. You don't wake up one day and decide it's a good idea to be a smoker. You usually start young, with one cigarette, just to try it - two cigarettes, with coffee - might as well buy a pack for the week - and before you know it, you're addicted.

(Almost done)

Second hand smoking might be harmful, but only if you're exposed to smoke all the time and in closed spaces. Smoke does not have little "cancer viruses" in it and if you take one breath of smoke, you get cancer. Calm down.

Smokers ARE the only second hand citizens in this country, drug addicts are treated as people who need help and support, not as people who should be yelled at. Just look at your posts, and tell me if I'm right here.

Enough already. The only people this country allows, and encourages, other people to criticize are smokers. They are the only second-class citizens that are accepted by society as such. It is ridiculous. I have never in my life seen such hostility anywhere in the world coming towards me from strangers who thought they have EVERY right to be hostile towards me.

I only smoke outdoors, that's the only place I can smoke in this country, and I am still lectured by strangers. I always pull my cigarette away from babies when they come by, or not exhale my smoke when they are around, I never smoke in non-smokers' houses, I do everything to accommodate non-smokers, so I don't understand who gave everyone the right to judge and yell at me that I will die. Obviously we all know the risks. We are not stupid. We are addicted, and we enjoy smoking.

As a last note, heart decease is the #1 killer in this country, not lung cancer, and I don't have any right to go to mcdonalds, find the fattest guy in there and tell them they will die. Why do people have the right to do it to smokers, i will never understand.

Hope that makes some sense.