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That is not an awesome improvement.

This applies more to if you're looking for a room/shared apt - but it helps to post on "housing wanted" with a good description of yourself and what you're looking for. Alot of picky folks use that to find a new housemate rather than the other way around.

Nice! I have a very similar coffee table/bench that I made with a slab of wood and hairpin legs from www.hairpinlegs.com . Looks like she made it with an IKEA top and ebay legs:
http://redjetwhistle.blogspot.com/2008/06/hairpin-legs-coffee-table.html

Wood is actually stronger with the wood grains this way. The structure is basically a bunch of tubes, so this way they're standing on end.

well done. a little stark for me, i second the vote for art on the walls! i do love the ceramic birds.

Aside from the potential pressure treated chemicals and maybe lead paint chips, it really bugs me that it's not the full width of the bed. so it looks like art hung behind the bed, and not a headboard.

@Sarah - it's not "rot" or "rod" iron, it's "wrought" iron.

I love Boston CL for the neverending stream of "chest of draws" posts. Really the best way to find stuff is to check out what was just posted, which really isn't practical if you work all day. And for IKEA stuff, things are worth exactly what someone on CL will pay for them... plus there is some value in actually putting the furniture together. Some people don't have the patience for it, and prefer to pay a large chunk of the original sale price just to buy it already assembled.

Nice place, but I would've liked to have seen more photographs of the space and not just photo after photo of her artwork. I like her work, but isn't this supposed to show the apartment?

Yeah, I'm not feeling it.

I with the unhelpful camp... What are you saving the couch for? Resale value? The desire to keep it nice? I understand using a slip cover to cover up a couch that is in rough shape, but covering a gorgeous couch to protect the surface doesn't make sense to me unless you really want to resell it or pass it on to your kids or something. Why not just keep it uncovered, and maybe some day down the road get it reupholstered. If you do go the slipcover route, i definitely agree that it should be custom to the clean lines and not cover the legs.