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@kaitylady I have no idea where the owner of the bed got hers, but Ikea has a very similar one here: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S89849971

I love mine. And, funny enough, I'd painted mine aqua-blue last fall!

This is possibly a crazy and over the top suggestion, but what about using those peel and stick vinyl floor tiles to cover the counters? As I understand it, they install and remove easily, and they come in a variety of colors and designs, as well as being pretty inexpensive. Then you could have a more neutral counter and go with pretty much any color you want.

That said, I'm pretty heavy into gray these days, so I think it would be nice to find a shade of gray that you liked, that worked with your (possibly ~new) counters, possibly something in the medium-lightish range? I would paint the full walls that color, and then do the sloped wall a shade or so lighter, in the hopes that it would make it seem airier. The cutouts I would do in the darker shade! You could do that with most any color you liked, I suppose.

I think it's actually a very charming space, and I like the character the sloped wall adds! Good luck!

Oh, and as bad as Bronx is (thanks, Wentzes), there is another band person who has named his daughter "Bandit." I cringe when I imagine her as a thirty-year-old woman trying to be taken seriously with a name that literally means criminal.

My inspiration is...finally being permitted by my "landlord" to paint the overwhelming wood paneling in my son's room. His is the last room to be tackled, but I've apparently managed to prove with my color choices elsewhere (on drywall) that I won't go batty, because I've got the go-ahead to paint the wood now. I say "wood", but I'm pretty sure it's cheap home depot wood-grain laminate of some sort, and it's overwhelmingly dark. So that will be my first step, and I hope the rest of the room will follow; it's a very, very big room and already burdened with too much furniture (and toys, three years of toys), so it'll probably be more about purging and rethinking finishes than actually adding things.

I liked it! It's as ridiculous as the original. And I think Ashlee Simpson-Wentz is adorable, so.

Alternately, live next door to Disneyworld/Universal Studios in Florida and have relatives and friend who work there and will provide you with free tickets.

I am absolutely all about the live shows. I have seen upwards of 30 in the last year and a half, and if it's a band I'm really into, then I'll drive several hours to see more than one show on each tour. I live in Florida, so most bands come to Orlando (where I live) as well as Tampa (an hour and a half away) or West Palm Beach/Boca Raton. If you really love a band, there's nothing like seeing them play live, to be honest.

I live right down the street from Celebration. It's actually a lovely little town, though their "homeowner's association" restrictions are...pretty firm. There are rules about the kinds of dogs you can have, if I recall correctly, as well as rules about the linings on all of your window treatments and the way your first floor furniture looks from the windows outside.

The Prime Time Diner! I love that place. Definitely my favorite restaurant at MGM (sorry, Hollywood Studios)!

What's missing from this shot is the swinging trapeze overhead, you know, this is just the safety net. Okay, maybe that was just in my mind.</I>

Me, too, randomname! I actually love this idea, but then, my parents were trapeze artists and we had a trapeze, complete with net, in our backyard for all of my childhood. It was a favorite place for my friends and I to lounge and read a book or something, so I would absolutely love to recreate it in my own home--if I had the space.