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We have the Container Store version linked above and it works well on the side of our fridge.

Wait, why is someone choosing painters based on their design sensibilities? Or am I missing something? I thought painters, well, painted.

I wouldn't want to live in an art gallery myself, but hey, different strokes and all.

I love these!

It is crazy that in that particular room I actually kind of like the grate? My first thought was to loop strong white wire/cord around some sparklingly clean terra cotta flowerpots (with flowers or just as extra storage space) and hang them from the grate. You could create a nice trellis effect without being as direct as actually twining vines around it.

My name's up there but no photos, so I'm going to toot my own horn a bit. I'm so proud of what I've done that I want everyone to see. :)

http://flickr.com/photos/angelslens/sets/72157602915738754/

We're taking our final photos right now. I'm so excited to show everyone! The study looks like a completely different room, and the kitchen has perked up nicely.

We're starting to wrap things up. The biggest thing for us was painting the study and kitchen, so now that those are done we're down to smaller things. Unfortunately, I had the worst timing ever and chose to do the Cure in a length of time during which a) I've been sick several times and b) I've had a great deal of emotional upheaval due to my parents' separation and continuing issues. I'd planned to do a lot of small things this weekend, but may not be able to work just due to the amount of emotional pressure I'm currently under.

My dad is going to be visiting next weekend (and my mother the weekend after), so I've got a lot of incentive to have everything finished anyhow. I'm glad I went ahead and did the Cure this time around, but I wish I'd had more time and mental energy to focus on it. I think we made great progress with the work we did on the study and kitchen, but I'd fallen so far behind on regular cleaning that I ended up working from home on Thursday and cleaning for seven straight hours!

I'm definitely looking forward to posting photos of the finished study. I'm so, so happy with it. We still need to put up curtains, but that's about it.

Wow! I'm so excited to have our place featured a second time. I feel like I'd better work hard to have an apartment worthy of the honor when it's finished. :)

Last weekend contained the biggest part of our physical efforts for the Cure. Getting the paint color wrong was a huge exercise in frustration - we had friends over to help paint and everything, but when the two coats of green (Behr Emerald Lake) were up, they looked terrible. I think I said on my blog that it was like standing in a green Skittle. We trekked back out to Home Depot and ended up with Ralph Lauren Alpine Pool instead. (The photo at the very top of this page shows our study with one coat of Alpine over two of Emerald. We did do a second coat and that smoothed out all the unevenness of the color.)

I'm really, really happy with the second paint color, though. It conveys the forest feeling I was going for and it's very soothing.

I really, really had to push my husband to get him to give up his ratty old college desk, which I feel kind of bad about. He loves the new desk, though, so it's okay. The whole room looks completely different, much more professional and "us." Our friend J. who came to help paint wasn't there for the second day of painting: when she saw the photos of the finished room she couldn't believe how different it looked. Oddly, though rearranging the desks to face each other gave us MORE room rather than less, and we each have a nice little corner plus a perfectly adequate walkway, not cramped at all.

I hadn't planned to throw a party at the end of the Cure, since our circle of friends aren't generally the type to do dinner parties (and we don't have a dining table anyhow), but it turns out that we will have company that last weekend. My dad's going to be in town and will be staying with us, so that's good incentive to have everything done.

WOW! Someday when I'm rich and, uh, have a lot of time on my hands, I'd love to do this. It's the sort of effect I'm trying to create, in a very simple paint-and-curtains way, in our study.