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I loved this on the house tour, I love it all over again now. Just beautiful.

Gorgeous. There's something I love in every picture, right up to the itchy-scratchy floorplan.

One small question though: why do you get to question everything that I bring into my home? (Yay for kicks for grammar nerds!)

Heehee. I just went for a little walk with a colleague to stretch our legs and she popped into the supermarket to pick up some things for dinner. I hadn't mentioned this post, but quite independently she got all delighted when she managed to find white!! As she said, it's always a real coup when you find tp (or "pq" seeing as we're in France) that's not pink or flowery or perfumed.

The small/cool comments have been on my mind all weekend. I've been pottering around my little apartment all weekend, doing odd jobs, thinking about how much I love my home, how much I'd love to share some of its nicer quirks with the friendlies on AT, and how I don't want to because it'd hurt if (the less friendly) people sneered.

"Sticks and stones", I know, but unkind words can and do hurt. I feel really bad for the people who got bashed in this year's small/cool.

The meanness of some the comments this year is really p*ssing me off. What's wrong with you people? Do you really think that everyone's sitting back and applauding your snarkiness and rudeness? If something offends your delicate design sensibilities so much, why not just move on and look at the next thing? It's a flipping disgrace and you should be ashamed of yourselves for being so out of line about people's homes. Like eebnyc said, it's not like anyone's forcing you look.

As for the apartment, I think it's pretty cute. She's found some lovely furniture that really fits the mood of the place (I love the computer table and I think the dining table has great, solid piece that really has presence there in the middle of the floor) and she's put up some quirky affordable decoration like the prints, the sunny blue curtain and the pink fish that's hanging in the breeze in the kitchen. It's not as polished as a lot of the other entries, but don't crucify her for it. I reckon that apartment is just going to keep on getting nicer over time. All the best Lauren!

Agh, I LOVE the style behind the pink chair. I want it for my hallway. Wonder if it's available in France...

My feeling is that having more active moderation/babysitting of the comments would help. There's the usual sprinkling of helpful/positive comments, but there's a significant population who are just insulting and/or unnecessarily cruel. Even if my flat was in a fit state to be entered, there's no way I'd be throwing it open to this gang. It would be helpful to "remind" people of the rules of the game and ask them to play nicely or get out of the sandpit.

Though it must be said that I would have liked to have seen a floorplan... :)

Lovely writing - light and friendly.

Way cute dog - white boxer?