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Hi all! Thanks for the fabulous suggestions. Full disclosure - since submitting this question, I actually had to move out of my beautiful, tiny apartment. It was a sublet and it turned out the woman I was subletting from wanted to move back into it. Since this post, though, I have moved into a similarly small apartment, and though it has a stove, it is still an incredibly tiny kitchen. (But with a full-size refrigerator!)

The article in the Times that JenPDX suggested is absolutely fantastic. Can be found here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/dining/01rice.html

In print, the photo at the top took up nearly the entire page and absolutely made me drool. I have yet to cook a single meal in the new place (I've only been there a few days), but it definitely made me want to go rice-cooker-style.

Also, I'm so inspired by everyone talking about the toaster ovens! I used to have one that I simply never used - hearing everyone's praise for them really takes me by surprise. I think we used to throw little french bread pizzas in it, and that was about it. That just may be my first move for the tiny kitchen.

This is so disgusting. Can you imagine dating someone and seeing this as their bedroom for the first time? (Admittedly, since I think this might be Prince's bedroom, you probably already know what you're getting into.)

Oh, I want the MULTY bed so much! Except I don't live in NYC and I don't have $1000... but a girl can dream. I hope this goes to a fabulous home.

I think they're amazing, but they're definitely not for me. I'm always impressed with them in photos - never been remotely tempted to do it myself. I love that white tufted headboard against the slightly gray wall, though!

That picture is most definitely not Cincinnati chili at all. Looks like a good recipe, but for a different food.

I'd love to stick with the large glass of water, but I have a cat that wages war against any and all open containers of liquid. (Her favorite is to stick her paw in a glass of water and pull it off the table. We use a lot of plastic glasses now.)

I've been just keeping a gatorade bottle filled with water by the bed. Never really considered finding something actually designed for this purpose!

Link to bar stools is broken.

I had an Aeron at my last office and have a Mirra at my current one. While Aerons seem to be the standard thing in design offices (at least by my experience), I like the Mirra much more.

That being said, I have one for our home office that I bought for around $150 on clearance at Office Depot, and it's the most comfortable one I've ever sat in. It's some anonymous office furniture company, but I really love it. It won't be winning any aesthetic awards, but it keeps me happy for those long freelance hours.

Wasn't there just a post the other day about chairs that are a very similar style? There were some Target chairs in a kind of funky fabric for $200 or so. I haven't personally sat on the Ikea chair, but I do think that's a little pricey for Ikea. Still, if you like it, maybe you should go for it! I know all too well the feeling of falling in love with a piece of furniture, and no amount of convincing can sway you otherwise sometimes. :)

Bluestar, I'm with you! I really did hate Lisa's area, though, but good lord - anyone who ever takes the "Hey, we don't know what else to do, let's throw some sparkly pillows on it" approach to design probably isn't going to be invited to my next dinner party.

If they could have kicked Lisa, Josh & Robb all off, I would have been all about it.

I did really love the sunken dining room, and surprisingly, the quarter pipe! It's a little weird for a living room, but it somehow worked aesthetically and didn't seem like... well... a quarter pipe dropped in the middle of a living room. I'm sort of excited about this season. There's clearly some talent there. I just hope they kick certain people off soon so we can really see the people who deserve to win.