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Tito's Vodka is really fantastic, smooth, and well-priced. I think I bought a handle for about $25, and a 750ml comes in just under $15.

@abbytail I still don't like the shelf above a baby's crib. What if the shelf itself is structurally unstable (even if you can vouch for wall integrity)? What if a car crashes into your house and shakes the stuff off the shelf? Just gives me the heebie jeebies, and I don't even have kidlets yet.

omg i love it. i love it ferociously.

It's a beautiful couch, and I think you could DEFINITELY make it work with a modern aesthetic.

I'm sad, however, that you included lots of photos of the couch, but none of the rest of your apartment. It's tough to make suggestions for how to make something mesh with decor I haven't seen...

You might consider adding in a couple of balancing pieces, like maybe a painting framed in a large, ornate dark wood frame similar to the couch's carved wood across the room, or something like that. So that you don't have a single out-of-place looking piece, but rather you're starting to build an eclectic mix of a largely modern aesthetic with certain more romantic pieces. I actually think something like that could look really great.

y'all are probably going to remove my commenting privileges but... his name is hugh johnson. hehehehehehe.

You could just buy a huge canvas, paint it however you'd like it to be (bold, graphic, etc), and then lean it up against the wall behind the couch, pulling the couch out from the wall a bit so you can see the canvas behind it. Or you could build a shallow box/shelf (i.e., fitting over the fireplace and maybe 4-6 inches out from the wall), paint it/wallpaper it, and then treat it like a mantle and lean/hang a canvas on top or put some tall vases or whatever you'd like.

It has a perched, kind of nest-like quality to it, lots of overlooks both internal and external. I might suggest a descriptive name that evokes some of those ideas. Like ___ Landing, or the Overlook, or ___ Nest, or ___ Perch.

Hehe, you could combine it with the above comment suggesting a nautical theme, and call it the Crow's Nest.

It's a very characterful house, and certainly one deserving of a name! Good luck.

What about putting the bed on the right wall of the kitchen (the one separating it from the entry area), headboard up against the kitchen wall, and then hanging a curtain at the foot of the bed extending a bit past it in either direction? According to the floor plan you have 12' there to work with, and a bed is like 6'-6" with a headboard. A curtain hung from the ceiling would keep it from being what you see immediately when you come in (assuming that the door is in a similar position in the configuration you actually have).

I think the surrounding rails are too low to really support the kind of large pillows you would need to actually use it as/like a couch.

A dark greyish blue might look nice.