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Love the skinny spice rack!

i don't know if i love blocking the fireplace with the bed, but it's very creative using it as a headboard. :) your fridge looks monstrous!

overall, very cute place! great architectural details!

I like the color its relaxing but bright and cheery. Great idea with the fireplace as a headboard.

Great use of the fireplace.....(it's probably closed up, anyway)

And I adore that spice rack.

Great job!

I think this is the first small, cool that I can see myself living in - well done! Love the fireplace as headboard, love the wall color and the not too cluttered white Expedit. Great job!

The fireplace as headboard idea is so cute, and I LOVE your wall color!

wow, your wall colours (both living and kitchen area) are almost identical to my apartment. great place - you are lucky your friends and family have such good taste.

Nice choice of color for the walls. Using the fireplace as a headboard is genius. Very nice!

Love the fireplace headboard and your dining nook! Very cute apartment.

like everyone else, I love the fireplace headboard. I've got a closed up fireplace eyesore in my place and I wish it was in a location I could put my bed now!

The bed looks so cozy :)

I agree about the lovely color. :)

Your place is so calm and cozy. I especially like the wall color and the storage/organization in the kitchen.

my favorite so far. nice

Nice. And nice to credit your friends donations.

Double take on the fireplace, nice job. Where did you get that hanging planter? I've been looking for something just like it.

Do your friends have an oriental they can lend me? And that desk looks way too clean to be the desk of a graduate student! Get back to work!

love the wall color. so soothing and inviting!

What a pretty, soothing green.

I also love the green-could you tell us the color? thanks! your place is very inspiring!

Where is the spice rack from? That's exactly what I need.

Love the headboard fireplace and your happy plants

i love this!

I absolutely love your place!

Love the wall color. And the choice of fireplace as headboard is really unusual and clever :-)

please source the wall paint :) lovely!

Nice job. What part of town is this in?

Good idea using the closed off fireplace as your headboard. Very creative. Also, I like the way you personalized the book shelf by attaching pictures on the side, it gives the illusion of a wall being there.

i assume because you're a student that you rent, but if i owned the place i would definitely tear down the wall between the kitchen and living room, the kitchen looks so cramped!

but i love the color and i love what you've done with the space.

Agree and love the creativity of the fireplace as headboard!

As a fellow grad student, I have to ask, don't you have a million books hidden somewhere? That's my main decorating challenge.
I like the open shelf as a room divider. I think you could use the covered backs facing the bed to display art work or you could cover them with interesting patterned paper or fabric to make the piece look unique.
Great decorating job with limited resources!

Love the cool green on the walls and the use of a bookcase to separate the different areas. Nice work.

I have always wanted to use this bookcase in just this way, so I am happy to see how well it works! Love your place. Maybe one of your friends can lend you a big comfy easy chair? You definitely have room for one, and is the only thing missing (for me). Love the bike rack, I have been wanting my husband to install one in our foyer forever. He thinks it will be ugly, I think it looks like sculpture.

love your "headboard" and making your bike part of the decor. i'm having a similar dilemma w/where to put my bike - what did you use to hang it?

did anyone find out about how the bike is mounted on wall?