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I WANT THIS OBJECT!! I don't care what it does, I just love the look of it and I want to hold it. I hope it has the same heft of the dense plastic and metal parts used in rotary phone handsets. Functionally useless to me, I am still tempted.

You paid $50. You had something in mind. Stick with your plan. Have fun. Go bold. Don't let a piece of furniture tell you what to do with it. You have no obligation to an adopted sofa. There is no such thing as a "valuable" piece of furniture if you plan to use it -- if you treat it that way, then the next question is going to be, "how do I keep my dog off it?" or "how do I tell my guests that we only drink white wine in my apt?" or "is it possible to keep my furniture perfect while living my imperfect life?"

Great! Love it!

But, to be fair, the real test is: Do the kids like it? Are their imaginations sparked?

Kid friendly? How?
This looks like a room designed by an adult to look like it is for children. Sadly the adult doesn't remember what it is like to be a child. Specifically:
- There is not a chair at a table in the room to sit in to draw or paint or write stories or assemble a model or even set a big atlas on to look at the pictures. Indeed, there is no child-appropriate chair in the room - or surface above the rug to play at for that matter.
- There is no toy bin/basket/box from which to chaotically pull out the next toy and throw back the last one. But that probably doesn't matter since many of the toys best suited for the youngest players are situated like objets d'arte on the highest shelves out of reach of children. Whee.
- There is a sign that says "FUN" in a room that looks like you need to use coasters and can't eat on the sofa (and since there is no table and chairs, I guess there is no snacking in here) and don't even think about making home-made slime and trying to play with it in here. What is FUN for a child about this space?
- The rugs look like low pile rather than the soft plush that is so comfortable to lie on while playing or reading.
- About the only thing in this room that is truly child-friendly is the television directly across from the sofa. But there again, someone has art directed a few more objets right in front of the screen and IR receiver which will make it hard to change channels. And the TV is up high and far back on a credenza which makes it impossible to watch while lying on the uncomfortable rug (a favorite viewing spot for the kid I was and the kids I know). Plus, at least for me, TV defeats the objective of a space for children if you really want to "spark their imagination".
- A bonsai? Really? What kid wants a diminutive plant in a breakable planter in their FUN space?
- A table lamp? Breakable but hard to move or adjust if we want to get better light on the model we're building/bugs we're pulling the legs off/Balinese shadow puppets we're re-enacting Little Women with.
- The sofa is fine - I only hope the cushions come off so that the kids can build a fort so they can have a truly kid-friendly space.
Stripes and a "FUN" sign don't make a space fun or childlike. Easy access to good media, interesting toys, pine cones, hamsters and jars of marbles do. Having a place to sit down that is just the right height for a child does. Having surfaces that can be abused, spilled on, experimented with, and generally mistreated without fear of messing up an adult's design scheme do.
This room looks art-directed and soulless.

What does this post have to do with living in an apartment?
I'm sorry, did I miss something? Is Apt. Therapy now Home Therapy or even Country Home Therapy? Or is it therapy for people who desperately want to not live in apartments any more? Apt. Therapy is clearly going the way of every other shelter publication that ever purported to dedicate itself to people living in small spaces (or at least in apartments) - e.g., Apartment Living which became Metropolitan Home which effectively became Country Homes of People Who Made Their Fortunes In Metropolitan Areas.
I know you want a broad readership, but why don't you create another offshoot like Kitchn or Unplggd or whatever and call it WherevrULiv or OthrDwellng or something.

Remove from ass. Light on fire. Move on.

This will look AMAZING in the foyer/staircase of my rough hewn wooden silo house!! I need it!! Need it!!

I did this a few years ago - http://www.skypiece.com/projects/mosaics/P1030386.JPG - it required making literally thousands of scans of combinations of two different sizes and shapes of paint chip - dividing them by palette - duplicating them flipped and rotated every possible way - and then feeding them into MacOSaiX dozens of times in different orders and different combinations. Fair to say I froze my machine a lot. I prefer this though to using a straight pixellation - more colors - more variation - much more movement. Only problem is that there is no way to scale it down. More resolution requires more paintchips and the paintchips are fixed in size so to get something with good definition really takes a huge mosaic.

I like industrial-chic repurposing but that is the ugliest coffee table I have ever seen. EVER. UGLY UGLY UGLY. Holy crap!! It looks like a giant scrotum threatening to belch ash all over the living room. That thing could ruin any room of the house.