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No, you're right to be upset, seriously.

If I were you, I'd ask for my money back.

The artificial turf has artificial dirt??? ZOMG!!!

What is the earth-friendly significance of a saltwater pool? Uses less chemicals or something?

Nice to see a Random light in a real home!

God, I envy that view!

Sweet Jesus, Jesster and Jezebella! Have you nothing better to do than snipe at typos in a blog? Everyone makes the occasional slip, and its/it's is - as you point out - a very common one. As is their/there. Writers do know the difference, but everyone - even you two, one suspects - makes the error from time to time.

Of course, for all the prescriptive advice your posts dole out, their real function is demonstrative pedantry; YOU are on the ball, the writers are not! YOU are so sensitive to poor grammar that a misplaced inverted comma wounds you deeply!

God, life must be a cavalcade of dissatisfactions for the two of yaz!

alexarc is right - that West Elm duvet cover is a complete uh hommage to Eileen Fisher's original, and the sheets uh pay tribute to Fisher's "washed linen" sheets. Have a look at the Garnet Hill catalogue for the Fisher original; more money, better quality.

I went to look at this cover at West Elm, but the only one they had out on a display bed was brown, and I didn't want to risk the off-white or whatever it's called looking sucky when on a King bed.

What I'd REALLY like is a duvet cover like this from the Wheatleigh Hotel in Lenox MA:

http://www.wheatleigh.com/hbrochure20.html

Indeed, well done so far!

It seems to me that you have quite a few chairs in such a small place? Do you often have enough people over to fill them? Perhaps a chair or two less.

Would a wall mounted hinged table be an option? When not in use, it could lie flat against the wall. Also with the dining table, instead of chairs, using large ottomans (ottomen?) that could slide under the table when not in use would get you more space.

I have a similar-sized apartment I'm in the process of decorating, but I'm fairly reclusive, and am not expecting many guests, so I'm going to make do with my bed (a European size between a U.S. Queen and a King), an office chair at the desk, and a lounge chair. I'm going to use a console table that I'll custom build (a top of recovered wood wider than a standard console table, but shorter than a dining table, plus a set of stainless steel chair legs).

With a ceiling that height, I wouldn't for a second consider a loft - it'd turn the place into a Terry Gilliam set! Then again, I don't like loft beds - my place has 12 foot ceilings, and I LIKE having 12 food ceilings...

I'm in NYC now, but I'll stop by in December, when I'm back there. I have a feeling, though, that if you need to ask...

I hate to be redundant, but: fantastic!

You should market that.

I love this house! I love Belgian interior design! And count me in the Neutral Fan Zone!

This is hardly an all-white house - there's plenty of greys and blues. Besides, white walls make the inhabitants and the contents, uh, "pop" more.

I shall grit my teeth through "Colour Month", not because I don't love colour, but because I burn out on it quickly. I don't use much colour when I decorate because I get sick of it, and am not rich enough in money or time to be selling off stuff and starting from scratch again every year or two.

Haha! My appartment is also a former chambre de bonne, with a toilet across the hall, but this place makes me feel like a king: I have a palatial 240 square feet...