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Agree that the tile won't be too awful with lots of white to counter-balance. I second the call for white walls, shower curtain, towels, and I like the idea for moroccan-ish accents, like a dark wood soap dish. Replace the sink op with a plain white one if you can.

I made a similar fix in our bathroom-- we have deep brown marble tile everywhere in our bathroom, and although it's actually quite beautiful my husband hated it. However, once we put up a white fabric shower curtain and hung some white towels, with bright green, yellow and dark wood accents (in a soap dish, a vase, and a painting), he decided he liked it!

I like it! There are a lot of shiny/mirrored surfaces in bathrooms anyway, so the mirror ball seems like a playful way to accent that.

Are radiators dry heat? I was under the impression that they released humidity as well as heat.

I take baths all the time. However, I tend to take them in winter when it's cold(er) here in California... which means I would be less likely to want to go outside! However, I go to a campsite every summer which has glorious redwood showers open on the top to the trees. Showering outdoors is pretty great.

I have a few thoughts:

Can the dining room table can be moved to the space in front of your open kitchen? Easier to serve to the table, and provides a screen to the business of the kitchen cabinets, etc.

There are a lot of diagonals in your room with the angled corners, and I think the couch angled compounds the problem. How about turning the whole sofa around so its back is parallel to the dining table and it faces the windowed wall? We have a similar layout (kitchen, dining, and living all in one space) and the couch back actually serves to break up the space into separate functional areas nicely. Your couch is pretty square so this should work.

Once the couch has been moved, you can move the TV to where the bookcase is (or the corner on the opposite side of the windows), and move the bookcase where the TV is.

Add a nice cozy conversation chair in the corner where the TV isn't. Put the lamp next to the chair.

As the previous poster mentioned, the desk is an issue. If the desk must go in the living area, I would recommend a smaller desk with a hutch that can be completely closed off and put it against the wall on the left in the first picture. I think this one is too big and bulky but you get the idea:

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I would like a large print, piece of art, or a mirror plus a tall and dramatic plant to one side (maybe a tall piece of lucky bamboo?) in a ceramic vase in a color that sets off the art work or the colors in your home. Also, a landing strip (a small box for keys) is a good idea.

It looks like a perfect bed... for DARTH VADER.

I say kitty on a grown-up day... most other days it's kitty-cattums, kitten-cat, or itsy-bitsy kitten boy (despite the fact that he's a 19 pounds and 11 years old)...

It's counter-intuitive, I know, but in people in cities have a much smaller carbon footprint and pollute less than people living in the suburbs or in rural areas. I live in a city and walk to a grocery store-- my sister (an organic farmer, believe it or not) lives in the country and drives 20 minutes to get milk. And big apartment building are less intensive to heat and cool than single-family dwellings.

The world would be much less polluted overall if humans crammed together into cities to live and left the green spaces open and people-free.

I mean: Gluttony.