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Nice, open space. When you're newly married, you can live without walls or privacy.

One thing I'd do is change "blinfold" to "blindfold" on the chalkboard. That really stands out to me.

Does that vintage television work?

They may already be planning to sell the home but, since they're underwater with the mortgage, need to bring a check to closing. Selling off all the household items will help fund that.

I hope this helps them get out from under oppressive debt. I also hope that they don't repeat the past and get stuck again.

Nice place.

Is it just me or are the apartments on AT getting bigger and bigger?

Great tips! Especially about setting up in the bathroom first. I'd have some cleaning supplies in the starter box so I could disinfect the bathroom(s) first thing.

Yeah, open all your boxes soon. We left a ton of boxes unopened in the garage for about a month. It's amazing how the fatigue and stress of moving will make you forget all about the stuff that's still packed away.

This place looks so much bigger than 680 sq ft.

I think what gives it a spacious feel is that it's furnished enough and decorated enough without going overboard. Too empty or too full makes a house look smaller. The right balance was hit here.

The craft room is awesome. There's plenty of inspiration around but it's also very well organized. I'd be a bit cramped sewing at that machine, but maybe it gets moved when in use?

I agree w/crayfish and bepsf. The best solution is to sell the sectional so you're not a slave to it and move to an apartment with a better layout (for your needs). Better to avoid conflicts before they start up.

I gotta ask...does your husband's brother absolutely, positively have to move in with you? Because that's not a great situation for a young couple regardless of the floor plan. Could you help your BIL some other way? Just trying to come up with other ideas here. :)

That's a galley-style kitchen. Can't say I've ever heard of a "gallery style" kitchen. Hmmm...

Unless your current fluorescent overheads are impossible to fix up somehow, I'd leave them and put the brightest bulbs possible in them. Kitchens are so dark these days.

I love track lighting anywhere except kitchens. They get dusty and grimy really fast there. If you do install them, please get into a weekly ritual of cleaning them or they'll be totally gross.

I'm really not all that fastidious, but I've seen some really ickified kitchen lighting since everyone got into the hanging-lamps-in-the-kitchen thing lately.

Isn't nearly a million dollars for a place this small in Brooklyn a bit high? Staging isn't everything.

I love 1930's bungalow-style houses anyway, but Sean and Ami have made this one especially lovely.

Great call keeping the walls white. The woodwork and windows make it interesting enough without tons of wall color. This home is nicely decorated without being cluttered. The living room cabinet is perfect there.

I absolutely adore the ripple afghan in the bedroom. A house isn't really a home without a ripple afghan in it (it's the law, or should be).

Otis is so cute I just want to smoosh his face. We can tell that he loves his home, too.

If designers are going to use that vivid a shade of green, the items they make shouldn't be so hideously ugly. And overpriced.

That said, I love green!