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"Design Out of Our Reach"!! LOL! Thank you for echoing my inner monologue.

Wow... so cozy and personal. So many AT tours seem like an impersonal amalgamation of mid-century modern that do not reflect anything of individual taste. The reiteration of this hipster aesthetic becomes blander over time like a rubber stamp used so often it has become pale and faded. It's a great surprise when AT showcases a place like this one, so full of authentic reflections of its inhabitants.

I also have a feeling that the teenager prefers the refinished beds with paint.

I'm loving the breasts theme. I think it is funny that AT has so many seriously redundant house tours, and something original gets panned because it has a photo of breasts!

Great tour. I much prefer homes like this one that have plentiful originality than some I see on AT that seem like variations of each other.

super cozy and wonderful home - period.

Simply divine. Thank you for sharing the house, and thank you more for sharing some truly inspired means and ways to teach children about self-acceptance and how to treat others.

@DodieGoldney: this isn't really a great space to discuss what buddhism teaches, but i'll suggest you have missed the point entirely, since emptiness is not sought as an end in itself by buddhists, nor practiced for the sake of becoming devoid of substance. emptiness practice gradually reveals our true nature as bliss (which is quite a feeling of full satisfaction and contentment)! matter and spirit are only opposed to each other in western theories of being. buddhism does not recognize this duality as valid. and while buddhism sees desire (craving) as the source of suffering, the majority of the world's buddhists are not monks, but regular folks, whose practice leads them to become aware of themselves and to be be better able to distinguish between conditions that lead to further suffering and conditions that promote happiness for self and others.

Downtown in Montpelier, VT:

three churches have clocks that ring on the hour and the half-hour, but usually on or two are broken. so right now, just one wonderful church bell that rings away the night...

& the dive-iest bar here, Charlie-O's, closes at 2am, when the rest of this sleepy state capitol is pin-drop quiet, so I hear loud drunken buffoons at just about 2am, too.

also, a music school about a half block up... mandolin and fiddle!!

and the occasional sound of protesters - against the war, against or for gay marriage, against the occupation of Tibet.

this is like one of those temple gardens in kyoto where the rocks are placed in such a way as to make the observor experience a moment of satori.