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I can't imagine anywhere one would put this in his home that wouldn't be better improve by a plant for a fraction of the price (and without the constant concern that it will crack and spill briny water everywhere).

You deserve to sleep in a proper bed. Not a daybed, not a single tucked into an odd space, not a murphy bed. This is your home, you don't have to apologize for or hide the fact that as a human being, you sleep at night.

Get a bed you like (I recommend a full sized, low platform) and place it so that head of the bed is against the 9'5 wall at the right, with a couple of feet of space between the side of the bed and the 16'4 wall. You could place an open bookshelf a couple of feet to the otherside, or leave it open to the room. Honestly, I don't understand what is so terrible about seeing someone's bed, it's just another piece of furniture.

place your large sofa floating in the large space, facing the 15'2 wall so that the back of it creates a "hallway" to the kitchen.

If I had that solarium I would use it as a garden - meyer's lemons, buddha hands, blood oranges... any exotic citrus would grow wonderfully in there and make the apartment smell wonderful (as would planting lavender or jasmine).

The library / dining room is a great idea.

Who ever invented this failed high school physics. The only "stretching" forces that affect the shirt are those from the part of the hanger it actually touches: the slope of the arms of the hanger, the coefficient of friction of the material used, the width of the material used... to the shirt, there is no affect from the part of the hanger that attaches to the bar. No matter how many loop or twist one puts in it, to the shirt it is simply an upward vectored force balancing the downward vectored force of the shirt's weight.

Good call Bretzel and trikitixa, I learn so much from the comments on this site. The problem isn't the wall color but the floor color; it's obvious once someone points it out.

The floor looks like it might be laminate, but if it's hardwood: sanding, staining, and revarnishing is actually a fairly simple weekend project. The room would look perfect with a cherry/mahogony stain.

If that's not an option trikitixa's idea of a large persian rug (with lots of deep maroon) would largely accomplish the same effect.

Electric things aren't really steampunk, which refers to a subgenre of science fiction imagining a world where the industrial revolution never lead to the computer age, but rather further and further refinements and advancements in mechanical technology to solve the problems we use electronic technology to accomplish.

brooklynb, have your apartment completely set up before the first day of classes. You won't have time to work on it at all afterwards. If you're buying furniture, a great couch for reading will pay for itself many times over (by getting you the grades to get your first choice or residency). You will be reading textbooks ten hours a day. I recommend deep buttoned leather. It also helps to review your biochemistry over the summer before you start (have the kreb's cycle memorized, for example). Good luck with your interviews this fall.

Real musicians have musical instruments in their bedrooms.

I love the idea of a pub in one's house. I took pictures of dozens of pub's last time I was in Dublin just in case I ever had the space to recreate one. But that isn't a pub. That is an airport bar. Why would anyone want an airport bar, the saddest place in the whole world, inside his home?

Don't sell DC short on the botique hotels, sure it's not New York, but we are getting our own W next to the white house (open tomorrow) and there's Hotel Madera (with firefly restaurant / lounge) and Hotel George...

I Am Not A Lawyer (IANAL) but I agree with the posters above about contacting legal assistance, if you show a judge that you are paying at least part of your back rent (I'm assuming you are being evicted for rent and not because you are violating some other aspect of your contract with your landlord) the court will intervene on your behalf. The state has a vested interest in preventing people from getting thrown out in the street, even to the extent that they will infringe on the landlord's property rights for a period of time. With this breathing room, I'd recommend you figure out a way to pay off your back rent and also move into a less expensive living situation.