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Stained glass! Stained glass! Stained glass!

We visited Coronado on our honeymoon! Such a lovely place. Evidently it's part of the building code on the island that no two homes are allowed to look exactly alike (or so our tour guide said), which I think is awesome. Our tour guide also told us that the MEDIAN home price was $1M (in 2006). Not quite so awesome.

This is a beautiful and incredibly well designed space. Well done!

The new layout is a huge improvement, but the original kitchen had so much character!

Our house is lovely Victorian on the outside, bland new construction on the inside. I'm constantly looking for ideas to bring some of the exterior character to the indoor spaces. In the living room, the biggest stumbling blocks are:

1. The early 00's tv niche. It's actually three niches-- a big, square one in the middle of the wall with smaller ones above and below. Nothing could be less Victorian than giant drywall-clad holes in the wall.

2. The drywall column on the kitchen pass-through. It's textured drywall, so I can't just paint it glossy white and pretend it's wood. We're thinking to clad it in some sort of veneer, but that plan is complicated by the fact that the column is bisected by the bar counter.

3. The rounded drywall corners. I don't understand why this is supposed to be such a desirable feature. It renders the above items even more contemporary-looking, and forget about trying to end a paint color at a corner. Infuriating.

Unless one is a very still sleeper, it seems like every toss or turn would set your bed a-rockin'. Makes me a bit nauseous to think of it. Cool in concept, but maybe not for real life, every day use.

My dad's ancient coffee pot is on the fritz, and I'd love to be able to give him one of these for Christmas!

quiltmaster, I've said that exact thing to my husband dozens of times. How DOES one go about getting that job?

Also, grellow = grucky

I hate the expression "often times".

Our 4ft. silver tinsel tree sits on top of my great grandma's sewing table in the corner of the living room. We stack the gifts under the table.

It looks like a giant telephone booth grew up through the floor.