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Actually, if you know that you're moving/leaving far enough in advance, the kids MIGHT get a kick out of watching the bidding on eBay of something you sell of theirs! But then you might actually get some good conversations about what could be donate-able because of what kind of item might be best appreciated in that way versus something that someone who collects things might pay for something and why. All KINDS of lessons learn-able that way.

Once the wall that's coming down comes down, do a big old mural, preferably have me help you do one based on a paint-by-number painting like I did with mine. Then looking out those windows will be kicky and cute and fun like you're on the set of a play or something, and then do some cute sheers or vintage curtains or something. Do a search of "Curtis" here on Apartment Therapy and you'll see what I mean about a mural. Seriously, there are so many different kinds of scenes, you could really pick from a bunch of fun ones.

Sometimes when you say "Mommy make it stop" you stop it so completely dead in its tracks that it's just not funny. There are always things that I would do slightly differently, but I so very much understand the need to calm things down from that busy-ness in that first photo, that it really doesn't bother me at all that they stripped it so much in the "after". Once the owner eventually heals from the PTSD that living with the "before" is bound to have inflicted, they might warm it all up a tiny bit more.

Take advantage of the fact that orange accessories are EVERYWHERE these days and just dive in! CB2 always has some very cool orange things. And yes, I love your sofa. Like a LOT.

I've never something that sad end up looking that adorable. You're a genius!
Seriously, you've done that house and your neighborhood a very very big favor.
Not to mention your own equity. You would get back every single penny x 10 on whatever you spent on it, I think if you were to sell it.

I love it. I've had a lovely peach-and-black bathroom for 8 years or so, and I worked it to a froth in a lovely period way, but seriously, all the tiles matched itself, and there wasn't peach and pink alongside each other, so if it were me, I would probably have done the same thing.

I used a very dark grey grout on the floor of my art deco period bathroom with a field tile that was a basket weave that had black glossy tiles in the blank spaces of the weave, so my dark grey grout REALLY made the woven part pop, because the solid very-dark-grey border tiles also helped set it off. It was great. And seriously? I can't stand scrubbing light colored grout, so I REALLY love it. And so will my buyer. I will miss this apartment..

The change is stunning. I love the darker stain on the wood, and I love the white. You made the house look historic and modern all at the same time. You manage to remove what seemed to be a dated version of new construction. SO good. SO SO SO good.

Thoroughly homey and yet drop-dead gorgeous. I really, really love this.

I love it when good apartments happen to people who know how to REALLY make them sing! This is all kinds of delicious. That circular couch is to be lived for. Everything else is, too.