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I love the Thomas Paul shower curtain. We have the elephant. I wanted to octopus but our bathroom really needed the orange color of the elephant.

NO WORK. I made a rule when I was a 2L in law school and moved into a one bedroom by myself that no textbooks were permitted in my bedroom. Now, no work is permitted. If I'm sick and working from home, the laptop stays in the living room.

No personal photos.

No food.

I have a fondness for Amy Butler - there was this cute store (Green Velvet) in the town where I went to college that sold Amy Butler fabric, etc. The owner once told me that Amy Butler lived only a few miles down the road. I've always sort of imagined her raising chickens on some gorgeous green lawn in the backyard of a farm house.

I just bought my first carton of wonky, farm fresh eggs at the market this morning. I'm excited to eat them!

I love the Hideout, but I wouldn't want my home to resemble it, not even a basement.

Decorator Dave - I love Kara Mann. I swoon for all her rooms.

ebrown - according to the article in House Beautiful (which I mentioned in my post above), the headboard is made in Mexico.

I make my apartment feel like fresh by re-purposing or moving furniture I already had. I recently considered buying a new media stand for my living room, a new bookshelf for my office, and a kitchen island. Instead of spending the money, I moved the shelves in my living room to my office and moved my mini-bar to where the bookshelf had been. I started using my existing 2-shelf, very small coffee table as a media stand, and I also converted a small ottoman to a cocktail ottoman in place of the coffee table. The living room is far more spacious - and I can now do yoga there because my cocktail ottoman is on wheels, so I can just ship it off to the side for a bit.

I also took an old Ikea desk on wheels with a bottom shelf and converted into a kitchen island by putting cutting boards on top and a few boxes of essentials on the bottom shelf. It's like I got all new furniture but I spent nothing.

I had a child's desk that looked exactly like that. The number of compartments, the drawer pulls, the cutout for the chair... It was painted yellow to match my headboard, then my dad sanded & refinished it to almost that exact color.

Yay! For the first time in my adult life, my bedroom could be posted here as a clean bedroom. It has so improved the quality of my sleep to have a room that makes me happy and that is uncluttered.

Hah, I just did this very Ikea hack this weekend. I used a darker stain (not happy with Minwax dark walnut!) and Anthropologie drawer pulls.