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I do think the semi-levitating seat cushion is an interesting twist as well.

It looks like almost everything you've got is a "warm" -- beige chairs, rug, and stools, pinky-red sofa, wood bar stools and shelving. There are a ton of options (as always) and I think a lot of it depends on if you can paint your brick, if you *want* to paint your brick, and what you want the focus of the room to be.

If you can paint your brick and are into that: Seconding the suggestion to paint the entire room white (since so much of your stuff is already warm, I'd suggest a Linen White rather than a printer-paper-white). That'd give you more options for swapping out color palettes via pillows & accessories as well, so you could dress the room for spring/summer and then rotate into something else for fall/winter.

If you can't paint your brick (or you just love it): Hope you like greeny-blues, because that's what's going to really shine with this orangey-taupey-pink brick wall and brown-grey pointing. I'd suggest playing with something like http://colorschemedesigner.com/ to help give you a few starting points for grabbing paint chips. This is probably one of those situations where as you're holding up chips, one or two will make you go "wow" and the rest will make you tilt your head. You could do a few different variations on this -- a more sea glass pale, a bright near-retro turquoise, or a really intense, dark emeraldy-blue.

As far as what to do with the brick wall, I also second the suggestion to frame out your media cabinet with bookshelves -- also consider a round mirror or some round (or at least non-angular) artwork above the TV. You've got a lot of sharp angles everywhere, which may be part of why your space is feeling "cold".

Unsolicited advice: if you really want to comfy things up, ditch the formal arrangement of everything. Can you swap one of your chairs with a non-matching one? Do you have something else that'd work as a coffee table instead of the matching stools? The only thing in the room that isn't balanced is the TV stand, which right now makes it look a little sloppy even though it's staged very nicely. I think if the rest of the space was equally informal/non-balanced, the room would feel cozier without a drop of paint.

Ah, a College Kid Version of Somerville (hint: the Red line isn't our only subway, for starters).

...can't we just get Domino back? /grumpy

This post is a wonderful test of who actually reads the post and who just jumps straight to "Post a comment" to criticize.

Odd question but: did they lower the ceiling? In the before, there's a drywall corner along the ceiling, and quite a bit of space between the window and the ceiling line. In the after, no extra angles and the window's right by the ceiling.

oooh, totally pick me.

I third the "what about Boston?" question -- I think you should expand AT where your readers are. If there's a strong contingent for a SW city, then by all means...but why stretch to try and create a market when you already have one clamoring for its own AT?

First of all, I love how goodnightdean thinks.

Secondly, I drop off because it's barely any more money. $1.75 to wash and $1.75 to dry, or $0.80/pound -- that translates to roughly $20 every other week, plus this way I don't pay for detergent, softener, etc. Also, I detest folding clothes, and they do a better job than I ever would, anyway.