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oh i would hate to be the guest that spills a glass of red wine on the dining room carpet......!

Motel Bel Air in Mojave. Quintessential motel decor: the 50's neon sign and cacti outside and marled brown carpet, orange polyester curtains (keep the candles away!) inside... The bathroom floors are hand-painted!
I love motels!!!

I like the sound it makes when the wind blows.
An empty bag beats a full one. There used to be one caught up in a tree on my street in front of an apartment building. Considering the people that live in it, we figured someone threw it out their window instead of walking it down to the curb. Anyhow, that full bag, full with trash, dangled up there all throughout winter. Everytime I walked home, I wondered if/when it would crash and spill its ghastly contents on me... It's gone now. As should every plastic store bag be banned. The new "problem" now is how many cloth/reusable bags we end with - we had that conversation the other day: you end up in a store without your tote and buy another one out of guilt!

Upon returning from a trip to France, my mom gave me a porcelain ciccada in which you put lavender branches. Hanging it above your front door is supposed to bring happiness into your home. It's the first thing I unpacked and installed when I moved into my house. When I visited Rwanda, I noticed most of the dwellings had these amazing trees (no leaves just huge red flowers that looklike fuzzy balls) growing in front of them. They were said to bring good fortune. I took pictures and hung one in my entryway.

A friend of mine sanded and stained her parquet living/dining room last year... Disaster, huge no-no! Of course she did it herself with the help of a friend (result might be different by a professional), but parquet is not hardwood! It's glued wood. How could you expect to get a nice finish?! And she picked a dark walnut stain hue: makes all the sanding irregularities and dust (!!!!!) stand out. In a nutshell: she ruined perfectly good floors. Spend your money on rugs!

trygve: at least six
late april to september (thanks to global warming; t'was not like that when i was growing up 30 some years ago)
we're having the best summer weather so far right now
then it's bundle up, drink plenty, make lots of soup and stews and nothing beats cuddling up to your significant other under a fluffy comforter

OUI Laura! Call your teacher!
When I saw the picture, I went: wait a minute, that's a typical Montreal staircase! Welcome, hope you enjoy your stay here!

for the fixtures, American Standard has something similar in lines - check their website for the "One" collection.
Affordable.

Very nice!
I would love to know which paint you used in the kitchen and in the kid bedroom...!

Speaking about starck and sterile... I don't know if it's because the pictures were taken on an overcast day, the flash making everything flat and blah... Great space and all the expensive classic mid-century pieces we all covet, but where's the SOUL? Where's the beating heart? Plants? Poor doggy!