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this is very cute - a lot of nice combinations like the clean white couch with patterned rug & ottoman, pink door next to the mirror, etc. However many, many of your decorations are small framed things and doodads - this clutters the nice shapes up.

is it my several years of watching tv on a laptop, or are a lot of these people really far from their tv?

I always tell my brother I'm coming to visit HIM in Berkeley, but it's really the Berkeley Bowl & Monterey Market I miss the most. I have been known to fly home with a suitcase half full of baby avocadoes and blood oranges (not sure if that is legal?).

a lot of great choices here. I personally prefer having an office that does look office-y, and is more separate as a space - otherwise I am too tempted to just lie on the couch or make dinner during work hours! But that depends on work habits and apartment layouts, and I love the shelves and other details that combine work life with home life.

first approach is to try to egg them along. It may well be - often is - that they haven't had good cooking and that is why they don't like X veggie/ingredient.

But after a while it is possible that certain things just have to be treats you have alone or when you go to a restaurant and you order different things. I think it is a really legit relationship problem, however. My SO does not like one of my favorite groups of foods - winter squash/sweet potatoes - and I deal with it, keeping those things for my packed lunch or nights alone, but garlic might be a dealbreaker.

agreed with mdorothy.. with both my furniture and my clothes, I've really tried to scale back announcing to people where it's from and how much it costs. I'll tell if they ask, of course!

and since you asked.. my Eames/Herman Miller side chair (upholstered, so not like a super fancy collectible), $3 at Goodwill, and my new mid-century upholstered side chair that kind of looks like a Saarinen knockoff, fished out of a dumpster at my university's library, make a good pair. I am also pleased with the two paintings on illustration board I bought at a thrift shop in NY - clearly the same artist, both women in abstracted color blocks, and surely a no-name but someone with a nice talent.

tip for those who don't like microwaving plastic - you can always bring your food in a plastic container, dump it into a reusable dish that you keep at work, and then microwave. That way you know for sure that you are microwaving something that won't harm you, plus you feel more like a civilized person eating out of a dish (if you're me). I do have one of those pyrex things but I am not sure I trust the lid with soup.

super cool.. I like that weirdo cork table/stool. Any sense of what "more affordable" actually means? They are like $3K for a table in their current line so I am not too hopeful...

yay Philadelphia! I love this take on a layout that a lot of my friends have too.. I agree that a totally Modern/minimal take on a rowhome rarely works. Love the layers of different patterns -- I'm not sure I really "get" the kitchen (partly b/c the picture is a funny angle) but it's certainly styled well.

third one is a little weird to me.. like one is at the framer's? Love the wrap-around one.