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I spent Valentine's Day at the Stanley a few years ago. Neither my girlfriend nor I slept well at all that night. It was cold and eerie. The cold can probably be explained by it being February in Estes Park, but the eerieness...

I hope it's not inappropriate for me to post this here, but that last map is made by my company, Authentic Models (AM).

It's the center of our 1739 Paris Map portfolio. We took the Michel Turgot map from 1739 and divided it into 30 even portions for wall display. I also have an antiqued version on UV-resistant acrylic panels that's been pretty popular. We have fabric panel maps of Rome (1676), Amsterdam (1737), New York (1879), the American colonies (1755) and the world in 1660. We work from original copies of all of these maps and it takes several months to complete the artwork for each.

Check out www.authenticmodels.com and click through to the Museum Collection to see them all.

Again, if this is an inappropriate use of comments, please delete this, but I hope it's okay to share. It's a very cool collection that we're very proud of.

I totally have that duvet. From IKEA, of course.

I want one. Where can I buy one?

I wholeheartedly agree that there are too many Eames loungers featured out there.

But mostly, I'm tired of the raised sink look. Maybe it's because I live in Oregon, maybe I'm a little clumsier about dripping water than the rest of America, but every time I see a raised sink, all I can think about is that it's begging for mold all around the outside.

And I also agree with the above poster who said that granite and stainless steel will be the dark green Formica of this decade. It's a shame we'll have mined so much granite, it's all going to end up in a landfill in another ten years.

My recommendation is to start with a single room that you both design together. Not the bedroom, that's too hard. Maybe a little nook or a second bedroom/home office area (if you're lucky enough to have one). That gives you both a taste for the other one's style and also an idea of how you like to work. I like to plan it out and move things once, my lovely bride likes to move things lots of times. That's why I think it's best to start small. As you continue to live together, start looking for purchases you can make (or at least decide on) together. Then it's yours together. We started by buying some art prints to build a room around. Since we got married this summer, we've sold a lot of our old stuff (college-style desks, the old bed) and brought in new that we picked out. It's been very fun.

AM Living is a fantastic store and you should definitely get down there and talk to Jarred, the manager, about the collection of restored campaign trunks from the Himalayas on display right now.

Fair warning: I work for this company and am awfully partial to our products.

The Paris map is a reproduction of a 1739 map originally published by an artist named Etienne Turgot. This map was made by AM, a Holland-based company that specializes in historical reproductions. The map is available in a desktop portfolio (which is what was used to make this display), or as a wall-sized fabric version in three scrolls. Check it out at www.authenticmodels.com.

My girlfriend and I took the liner notes from a CD (Lemon Jelly's Lost Horizons) to an art shop and blew it up onto poster-sized, then mounted it on the back of a giant piece of foam-board we found. It's followed us to four different apartments and now we buy other bedroom items to match the sunset colors and blues in the print.

I like the horn bowl...

Very similar to this one from Authentic Models, still my favorite source for curiositities.