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hot! i love how the green in the print works with the green in the room... and the vintage couch is
beeeeaaauuuutiful!!!

I am so sick of this lime green color, and your wall art lacks taste. An open mouthed kissing print? So highschool.

I love this! I never thought using only one color could look so beautiful.

It's gorgeous. Cool enough to show off to people, but comfortable enough to kick off your shoes and relax.

Lacks taste! Oh my! Anything but that! I love that print--it's doing what it's supposed to if it offends someone here. In fact, I would take everything else off the wall. In about an hour, lime green will be yesterday's bubble gum--about 90% of the participants in the color contest will be frantically repainting next summer--but I think it works well here.

LIME GREEN IS NOT A FAD -

It's been my fav color since I was 15, that was 16 years ago. I first painted a lime green room in college, 10 years ago and I've been doing versions of it in every apt since.

The way it's used may be faddish, but the hue itself is not.

Long live lime.

I like the room, I like that green color and I like girls kissing girls (I'm taking heat from my girlfriend, who read AT for that statement-sorry darling)

What I miss is something unexpected, something to throw the meticulously sculpted, highly contrived scene askew. I need something not green/white/black, leafy/sticks to smack me in the face, grab me and for lack of a better phrase, mix it up. Something as simple a few kitchy tchotchkies in a hyper saturated, super shiny orange coupled with a really inviting orange pillow might keep the room alive.

While I commend the study in reservation, I ultimately feel it is page 102 of Ikea's Fall 2006 catalogue...ya get...

WOW! WHAT AN EXCELLENT CHOICE OF COLOR COMBINATIONS. IT PROVIDES A CLEAN BUT WARM LOOK. THE ART WORK IS FRESH AND COZY TOO.

I can appreciate the trendy-factor of the color I used, but honestly it's just one of my favorite colors. And as for the girls, I realize it's not the most sophisticated art in the world, but I think it adds a fun element to the room,(we are in our early 20's) and holds true to a lifestyle that we embrace. Thanks for the feedback everybody!

I LOVE THE COLOR YOU HAVE CHOSEN FOR YOUR APARTMENT, IT IS MAGNIFICENT, YOU HAVE SUCH WONDERFUL AND BOLD TASTE,I HOPE YOU BECOME A FINALIST,GOOD LUCK.

Looks so well put together, though it does create the impression that nothing (no art, no magazines, no nada) is allowed into your home unless it fits your color scheme.

"no",

Lemme guess, you're prissy and/or old.

If the Incredible Hulk gave up the superhero business, started taking mood stabilizers, got married and moved to Evanston, this is the sort of place he'd keep renting on the side; he wouldn't tell his wife about it, but once a month he'd sneak down there and host orgies with Robert Palmer's backup singers. He'd have an extra-large velvet robe and silk pants, but he wouldn't sit on the furniture. That's just what kind of guy Orgy Hulk is.

Three thumbs up.

I, of course, love the color. I'm beginning to think that half of us were subconsciously drawn to AT because it's lime green. I'm especially impressed with what you have done as full time students. I agree that I'd like to see one more color in there, but overall I think this is a lovely entry.

I love lime green as a color, but this just might be too much of a good thing. The vibrant walls, the green plate on the table, candles, green chair and green in the art is just a bit overwhelming. I imagine that if I sat under that ball light for half an hour I'd start to feel a bit green myself. Homes are just supposed to look cool, you're supposed to feel comfortable in them too.

Wow, I love it guys. Leslie will need to step up her game!

heh heh...I've seen that picture of the girls in headphones kissing floating around the net. Did you just do a little photoshop work to it and get it printed somewhere like Kinkos?

Btw, I like the room. The single color used in spots throughout really pulls it together. Although I think you either need to space the first two pictures in the fist pic closer or get something to fill the void above the console.

Maybe just a slightly bit too much matchy matchy going on, but I love the color combo and appreciate that you are willing to be this bold with it.

Lime green is not traditional, but has been used in modern spaces for a long time. I had an electric lime/pea green livingroom back in 1998, and it wasn't because it was trendy, it is because it looked great!

This feels very west elm two years ago.

When did lime green become the new orange?

The people who voted "no" clearly lack a sense of history. To them, everything that didn't just jump off the sales flyer from Target might as well have been designed by committee in the Bolsheveik '30s. If it's good for the party, it's good for the proletariat.

Not true. Look at the lackluster performance of these naysayers apartments, ordered while on a drunken binge with their anytime minutes and an Ikea catalogue. Would you see anything like the masterful duotone poster matched up with the kittycorner wall, (creating a high level of graphic tension, but a very post-moddish sense of continuity) in those pages of endless flat-packed mediocrity?

However, a trip through Urban Outfitters might be a step on the right path - if that path leads no further than the cash register and leaving the price tags on the everything-old-is-new-again doilies so your guests can marvel and how willing you are to go into massive debt for the sake of social brinksmanship.

Yes, you are all wrong. This apartment is a skillfull fusion of modern imagination and all the strange things you thought your grandparents used to get up to when you first started getting the butterflies when looking at girls. Somebody's taken ownership of their fun and let me tell you - all you've got to say for yourselves is that you just got pnw3d.

More "Lesbian action" artwork PLEASE!!!

love the print!
a little too much of the matching for me; although, i love that color green- "in" or not.

Who is this "No" character?
People, I recommend reading Maxwell's piece on practicing etiquette and tact. Even if the space isn't you per se, you don't need to be so blunt and harsh.
"Taste in colors is extremely subjective, so go EASY if you don't like it. You don't have to live there."
Lighten up, and be gracious y'all! (:

And... I happen to dig this space. Kudos to you for being so bold!

I love your art works and color. I like how you displayed those art works with differnet shapes on the wall. lovely!!

I think it looks wonderful and cozy and very Erica...which all are good things to speak of. Nice....

I loved the first pic. Loved it.

Then I saw the 2nd, and... it just feels too meticulously planned. Everything matches too well. It feels more like a restaurant or some other commercial space than a home. Don't you have things you love that don't fit that colour scheme? What happens if you receive a gift and it's pink, or teal? IMHO, a smidge more variety would add a lot here.

absolutely fabulous dahling. your taste is impeccable, of course. love love love it. i can just feel the personality of the room exuding in an extremely feng shui manner. the art you've placed on your walls seem to represent the true nature of the inhabitants in a tasteful and beautiful way.

lets all just keep in mind that this room isn't my entire apartment! I have 5 other rooms that aren't lime green!

It reminds of something David, the winner of HGTV's Design Star would do. Love it.

I agree with what others said--I love the color and style of the room, but am bothered by the rigid color scheme. It doesn't feel organic at all--you might have ordered all of it off the internet in one day. A room that is really well-designed looks collected as well as cohesive; with many items you love creating the space. I think when it's so deliberately matchy then that's "ikea catalog p. 3" as someone put it above. That said, this is the space of a student, and as they wrote themselves, the room is easily customizable to a different color scheme, so with a less contrived coordination of accessories, it could totally be turned around.

It does have a West Elm-like vibe, and I am really sick of seeing lime green (and most every other color at this point), but I stil like it. It all works together nicely and looks like a fun room to hang out in.

It seems like some of you are so upset that you did not become interior designers that you are taking it out on contestants.

SHAME!

It looks set up?

If you're taking a picture of your place to submit online, it probably should look set up. Are you really expecting that they wouldn't take some time to move the porno mags, the copies of the Air Bud films that Erica still hasn't sent back to Netflix and the broken dolls she moved out of the bedroom so they wouldn't see anything unbecoming of a lady?

If that's what people want to see in this contest, I should send in a photo of my place. I hope y'all like Hello Kitty.

I feel compelled to submit this to ever entry with lime green walls ...

We're seeing so much lime green because AT's are a trendy and modern bunch - we're influenced by trendy and modern home catalogs, sophisticated design magazines, etc., and we're seeing this color in all those venues. Lime green is a beatiful color and, until now, an underused color in home decor. It's fresh, easy on the eyes, reflects nature, and sits somewhere there between warm and cool.

Many of us spend loads of time in front of our computers perusing home decor websites like AT, while the vast majority of the population doesn't give it a second thought and is content to go along with the mainstream when it comes to color choices. In my area (New Hampshire), my lime green walls are an anomaly. There is a preponderance of what I call "Wal-Mart colors" - burgundy, navy blue and forest green around here. I can't stand going into a large chain store and being confronted by those same limited color choices every time!

To my circle of acquaintances, none of whom are interested in home decor as I am, painting my walls lime green was a shocking action and I love seeing people's reactions every time they enter my room. While we can all acknowledge that lime green seems to have become very popular, we must remember that it's popular among only a very tiny percentage of the population, almost all of whom seem to be regulars at Apartmenttherapy.com!

I like the color, but I'm surprised I like it here considering it's so much of the exact same color all over the room. But it does look good.

I like the color, the artwork (including the kissing photo), the boldness. And it still looks comfortable to sit in, party in, relax in, have your morning coffee, and your nightly glass of wine. And as far as the "kissing" photo goes, it's not porn people. It's a kiss for goodness sake. No one would complain if it was a man and woman kissing.

I love lime green, too.

I echo the west Elm comment. It's generally okay, but I find it a little monotonous. Maybe all the greens are too perfectly matched? Or maybe if the white color on the wall and ceiling was brought down to where that vent is. I think it's a question of balance. It is the right shade for the woodtones in the floor though. Getting that right is an acheivement on its own!

Rich,
Your Orgy Hulk comment made me laugh harder than I have all day long! Perfect—thank you! Oh, and note to Erica and Lindsey:the fact that your place looks this great and you're full-time students requires kudos. My apartment NEVER looked this put together. Please come over to my place and decorate my apartment!

I thought they had these codes to prevent crazy spam/porno postings. What goes on?

Thanks alot LW! We would love to help decorate your apartment! :)

I love the green color, I like your furniture and I really like the overall, but it's too matchy. I'd love to see some other color, something else, some of your personality in there.

The lime lazer comment is a reference to www.homestarrunner.com. Not sure about the one after it. But love that color! I like seeing all the shades of green in this contest, I don't know what people are bitching about, nobody complains about all the shades of blue we've seen, or orange, or whatever. They're all different greens used different ways and no one is just following a trend here. That's not why we're here.

Anyways, what I like is the gray-blue thing behind the couch. Wall hanging? Wallpaper? I'd get a couple of pillows in that color or something like that to add some more of that as an accent color, I think it's beautiful. I'd love to see more pics of this place!

I love it. its so beautiful.

very resenting your having *cut up* the gorgeous marimekko fabric into pithy squares for the sake of having had something to frame that matches.
that said, holy shit youre in your twenties? wow good work. Please not to be cutting up further mekkos unless for considerably more worthy causes

This reminds me of my boss who is so annal she refuses to go out of her house unless everything she has on matches.

When everythings matched to perfection its boring.

I too love the colors (green and brown is a nice color combo), but I feel like it is trying too hard to match and in that way it feels restrained.

Powerjen...

So very well said!

Your comment about color usage among those who keep up with the world, and don't fall back on the pablum feed to America by the mass marketers is right on target! Thank you!

Too much of a bad thing - sorry!

Wow.

I absolutely love green and even THIS is too much green for me.

Just too much of the same tone in the same place. There needs to be more variation.

It looks like West Elm threw up ALL over the place!

Spewed chunks of Mod Vases, Poorly constructed dark wood furniture and Trendy pillows.

There is nothing original here - its a page right out of the Fall Catalog.

aw. i love this place. i like greens, but not so much sage greens, and this is NOT sage.

of course not everyone will like everything or agree on everything, but come on, no one needs to compare someone's apartment to bodily fluids.

if you don't like it, show us how mature and smart you are and express your dislike skillfully. as skillfully as you expect the contestants to use color in their apartments. jerks.

Cozy and Modern! I love it!!

I don't use the word "Hero" often, but Erica and Lindsey, you are America's Greatest Heroes. If there was a Diet Coke and a pack of cigarettes on the coffee table, we could probably get this room named a National Treasure.

Good work, girls. Don't go changin'.

i just threw up in my mouth.... no way Jose!

I LOVE this apartment! It's so cute, modern and beautiful. I don't understand some of the nasty comments posted here...people who are miserable with their own lives, I suppose. Why waste your energy? If you don't like it, don't vote for it. Great job, girls!

This room kicks ass!!

insta from me for the kissing girls alone. i agree with the suggestion of one shocking splash of orange.

The problem I have with your space is that it's so flat and manufactured looking. Plus, there is so much green that it looks quite monotone.

cute. simple. estrogen-friendly. but a little too completely IKEA. i don't see much originality but the color works either way.

TOO much green!!!! and that poster.....i have no words!

It's a lovely room! and the poster....give me more lesbian action! And for the people who say to Ikea or West Elm I'm sure everything in your house is so cutting edge.

"When Life Hands you Limes"...the title of this entry explains it all. The room owners made the best they could, with what they had...and I must say it is extremely impressive!!

Im shocked at how much time people have on their hands to bash someone's entry, with such cruel comments, shame on all of you!! I would love to see all of your rooms, just because you read Wallpaper and watch HGTV...it doesn't make you an interior designer. Perhaps Erica and Lindsey should add neon signs and black pouffy leather sofas to their room, maybe then you people might like the room.

P.S. Lime green is only a fad for Martha Stewart and her fans.

This is really nice, ladies. Cool, Modern and Serene. I think you did a great job with your resources. These bashers should be so lucky. Good job!! And PS - BLECH! I wouldn't add orange to this. Unless, of course, you're Hildi.

This is sexy, I want to live here. I would trust Erica and Lindsey with my apartment!

Your apartment needs another color like(red, burnt orange, etc.)or it has too much of the same colors, I can't put my finger on it.

This is your cousin lil' truel (aaron) and im just saying that you are a for sure winner and your room looks so sweet. Hope you see this and hope your mom will feel better soon!

I heard Ralph Nader is throwing his innauguration party in this very room. His running mate? Orgy Hulk of course. I like the room - very pleasing - like ice cream for the eyes. Nice job ladies.

personally, i love it and i've entered this contest myself! i've read the other comments about adding some other color (like orange) to break up all the greeny-limeness, but hello, the greeny-limeness of the room is "the point." don't change it up.

the only suggestion i would make is finding some type of sparkly, twinkly, teeny-tiny lime-colored lighting to keep the greeny-limeness going when the lights are dim, perhaps a grouping of lime votive holders for tea lights.

just remembered to vote... "insta" from us!

Green is my favourite colour. Girls who kiss each other are also pretty high on the list. And, you've got great taste in textiles. Voted in contention here.

I love this space. It is simple and sleek. I especially love the wall art. Where did you get the kissing print? Anyway, very nice job.

I love this space, even though lesbian art makes me cringe a little, but that's my own issue. I really love a courageous use of monotone and chartruese has long been one of my favorite colors. Honestly, I would love to do a place in all one color as you have accomplished here.

I love your graphic art, but am not a fan of groupings, sorry this is my own personal preference again for what it's worth. I'd like to see the lesbos and the small prints come down and replaced with something large that really punches, of course in acid green. Maybe a graffiti-inspired or urban vinyl toy inspired print? You clearly are graphic artists, so I know you can do something edgey and classy at the same time.

As far as adding another color. RIDICULOUS. This place is fab. I don't think you need another color, because with your wonderful monotone, you've place organic elements like those great metal vases.

The more I look at it, the more I like it. The only change I would make is as listed above.

i am so loving green the older i get so i am usually drawn to it and you ladies obviously are also.

only one thing..it just seems kinda faded or muted(maybe its the pic quality)

I don't think so. Life hands you limes? Looks like a badly styled Real World themed room. Inspiration at Ikea and Urban Outfitters?