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We use our living room. We call it alibrary. Since we have a den it's no great sacrifice. I have a large desk that the kids can also sit at for homework and we have the other half of the room for seating. We also plan to put in bookcases, but we're not there yet.

I've never liked changing a baby on the bed, and since my husband and I have bad backs a changing table was a godsend. We inherited one from a relative and for this baby we got a cheapie at Ikea. With our first we used the changing table until the baby potty trained. Our current baby is two and we're still using it. I like having one central location where all the diaper changing stuff is instead of having it all over the house. No worries about the baby rolling off the table as I'm right there and because all my equipment (wipes, dipes, creams, etc...) is too, there's no reason for me to turn away or walk away. We had planned to get a dresser from Ikea to use, but got such a great deal on a close out changing table, and the dresser would take up too much space, so we went with it.

We moved to Atlanta five years ago and haven't made a single friend. We are introverts and have quite a few strikes against us: I work from home and we're in our late fortieswith young kids. Most of the folks our age are empty nesters or have teens and people with young kids are much younger. I have friends all overthe country, but am at times incredibly lonely.

Interesting, no quilts. When I was a quilter I used quilts to add color and noise reduction too. Then, I'm a quilter and have a lot of quilts.

Paint it white or black, keep the cool handles and replace the mesh inserts with some great fabric. I can see something Asian inspired with this design.

There are plenty of printshops that can print it up on fabric for you in pretty much any size you like. My husband does large format printing on all kinds of materials. This wouldn't cost very much.