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I cannot express how much I love this after

One of the things I love about my mother is that while she may not agree with all of my style choices, she respects them. She's always on the lookout for things she knows I'll like (I'm a grad student with very little discretionary spending- and this is my first home), and she's a great sounding board for decor choices.

Example: she thought painting my kitchen backsplash area a dark charcoal gray wasn't going to be a good idea, but after I did it, she was really complementary.

I wish I owned those two pieces so I could juxtapose them in my space. A marvelous combination.

Perhaps it's thanks to the nonstick coating on my madeleine pan, or my own laziness, but i never wash and rebutter the thing before adding a new batch. I slip the fresh madeleines out, run cold water over the underside of the pan and pop it in the freezer to return to baseline cold.

They always turn out fine for me. (it seems like kind of a waste to keep multiples of what is most definitely specialty bakeware... unless you use it like, weekly)

Could you treat your dining table as part of your living room arrangement? Perhaps as an accent table or something near your new couch, and place a couple of dining chairs strategically either at the table or in the room somewhere. I know it's a little large for that kind of setup, but you could style it so that it looks intentionally different, perhaps.

I particularly like the idea of having at least a couple of pieces roll, so you could rearrange for a dinner party or something.

I agree that a desk seems like it would crowd the space significantly, unless it served a dual purpose of some kind.

You might try something like starting with the sofa in the bottom right-hand corner and build around that.

If it were me, I would paint the two parallel walls your white, but choose a really wonderful, punchy color that I really love (and that shows up in a small way somewhere else) for that paneled wall with the window. Maybe the magenta from the bedroom? Just because I would smile every time I went down the stairs.

Also, a different/less noticeable handrail.

Hah! this post is about two weeks too late.
Although, true confessions: I haven't finished painting yet...

This nursery is absolutely gorgeous.

I mean this in no way as a criticism of the parents involved in putting together this beautiful room (or any of the other lovely nursery tours on AT); however, the most current guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics strongly advise against using crib bumpers, as there is a suffocation risk. Do people take them out when they put their babies in the cribs?

I don't want to be a debbie downer (and I'm certainly not trying to call anyone a bad parent, here), but I worry about this with just about every nursery tour I see here.

I have this one: http://www.bamboobottleco.com/about-our-unbreakable-water-bottle/
with the classic top- just screw off and drink directly from the bottle's wide mouth. I love it, and the protection of the bamboo around it. Also, the glass and plastic components pop in my dishwasher.
This doubles as my travel mug, too!

I agree with the above poster re: the roman shade. I think that would be a nice, practical, polished way to treat this window. I would choose a bold print that you love, or an interesting solid, maybe (depending on your taste).