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I'd go for dividers and a small cabinet. I'd put towel racks or hooks for towels on the side of the cabinet by the tub.

I just got caught up in other things. However, I loved watching the different mixes of styles of homeowners and designers. There were few enough designers that we got to know them and their general approach. It was fun watching the mix play out. Sometimes an expected success, an expected disaster, an unexpected success or an unexpected disaster. The only thing for sure was that the reactions were typically pretty extreme.

So which do you value more if you are keeping it for yourself :how it looks or how much it is worth on the open market?

I don't know, but the style looks Paul McCobb. Perhaps one of his students?

The room screams sectional to me too. Of course, in my case that is why I wouldn't do it. I'd create two parallel lines with the loveseat and sofa facing each other. Sofa under the front windows. Both sofa and loveseat starting just past the TV bench. (Allowing room to move past the loveseat to the dining area.) TV on bench between them on the wall with the TV outlet. Coffee table between tables a bit toward the TV. You may even have room for a small desk behind the loveseat to stare out the window and procrastinate doing any work!

Find a book you have always liked and paper the bathroom: you'll never lack for reading material in the "throne room" again!

Rustoleum has come out with a white erase board paint. You could do all twelve months on a wall or around a few walls in the breakfast nook or something. Then just stencil in lines and letters etc... with color Sharpies. You might was to put a light seal on the letters. You could also do the lines with simple color tape too. A bit of an effort to put up and together, but it would work. You'd never lose it and have it available every year!

I can't claim too much credit here. I'm taking that idea in chalk board paint from the AT pages myself. I just translated it to the new Rustoleum product.

You could put two narrow shelves back to back. You could cut out have the back and put it on the other side. You could put bracing in the corners and take out the back altogether. You can do whatever you want ....

There is a system that you can make fun of if you wish, but there is a lot to learn from www.flylady.com. She also has disaster lists etc...in the "control" journal. I'm still more of the crash and burn type, but some day I hope to fly.

How much sun does the room get and at what time of day? There is less in the winter, but it is lower and reaches more interior for part of the day depending on which direction the room's windows face. If you get little sun etc....go with something much lighter and put some mirrors and mirrored objects in the room. If you get a lot of sun in there, you can afford a medium or somewhat darker shade. There is really no color in nature that does not "go with" other colors. If you color block, you can choose any set of colors in any portion to each other. If you find a pattern you like, follow the proportion of those colors throughout the room as a whole. That's what I love about architecture and interior design etc...: no many ways to be right.

Try the sample paint in a big swatch on the wall before committing. Above all, HAVE FUN!