So glad you guys liked it! Mat is an AMAZING design mind. I kind of want to marry his floor...(I mean, you know what I mean).

I once trompe l'Oeiled (?) two doggie Milk Bones on my hardwood floor, thinking it would fool my dog. My dog completely ignored them. But human visitors would always step over them thinking they were real. Go figure!

If you've forgotten, in the hectic multi-tasking environment of a daily design blog world, how to spell Ernest H's last name, it might help to remember his two granddaughters, both actresses who appeared together in the dreadful Lipstick. Mariel did fine work opposite Woody Allen in Manhattan, where she played Allen's high-school-aged lover, and he, apparently, played to type as a creepy loser.
Mariel Hemingway
Margaux Hemingway (named after a bottle of wine, consumption of which inspired her conception, according to legend)
Ernest Hemingway

No wonder people are going crazy about editing. I just corrected student papers about "Hills Like White Elephants" and had to change four or five students' spelling of "Hemingway."

it is great, but what is your landlord going to say? I guess you are ok with not getting your deposit back.