hate to start this way, but a three story apt is a triplex.
nice place.

I love the blue paint in the dining room. What is that color? Also, very cute baby's room--- I would sleep there :)

NB: It is only a triplex if it is divided into three apartments, sometimes, but not always, one apt. per floor. It could very well be a duplex with three stories each.

Steve from Blues Clues anyone?

Really - can't it be a requirement to give the brand and paint color names when you submit a house too! Every submission I see has endless calls for paint colors. Including mine! What are those paint colors? I love them.

most obtrusive centerpiece ever.

I love all of your color choices!! The entire place just seems so serene and peaceful. I bet it's a pleasure living there.

"duplex" means something different in different areas. You're right that in NYC, the "plex" usually refers to the number of levels in a unit. But in other (most, I think) parts of the country, a duplex is a single structure divided into a two-family unit. So a triplex would be a single structure divided into a three-family unit.

I love that chair, just begging to be sunggled in with a book!

Cute house, love the colors on the walls, but must admit that the centerpieces in the dining room looks like they came from Land of the Giants! They look too big for that table and dwarf it somehow.

My grandfather's family had a house on Boardman St in Newburyport which has since been turned into a duplex. While it's sad to see all those lovely homes being chopped up -- it's nice to see people doing good jobs on the interior design! That color on the dining room walls wouldn't be Benjamin Moore's Newburyport blue would it?

Where did you purchase the living room curtains?

Don't love the green striped hallway, but do like the gigantic vase-things on the dining room table! Nice to keep some visual interest on a surface that may not be used all the time.

I really love the green stripes! I feel like the rest of the place needs to catch up to them. More bold colors maybe?

Your apartment is lovely! And 'goodskate', the LR curtains are obviously IKEA.

love the apartment. it's been gorgeously painted and furnished.

but where do those giant vessels go when the dining room table is in use?

LOVE the dining room color, and would love to find out what it is!!

goodskate- I am not 'guest' or the homeowners but I do recognize the curtains as IKEA. I look at them every time I go there and always want to get them but always say "next time". They are nice in person too.

It's lovely, but I am afraid the thing that jumped out at me is the overly large centerpiece vases on the dining room table. Is it ever actually used?

@goodskate, they are indeed ikea as vrobot said. I have them in my own living room and they're very pretty.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10112016

they come long, with a stitch-witchery type of hemming tape included, but you might want to use a sewing machine to hem them instead if you end up buying them.

ps, dear AT, why oh WHY can't you hire an editor/proofreader?

@kimbe: why can't you relax? It's a free site and we all know what they're trying to say. If it's so unbearable, subscribe to a magazine instead.

What a great place! I love the wall colors and the kitchen. Very livable yet clean and stylish as a whole.

Man, that kitchen looks yummy. Are the cabinets olive? Grey? Hard to tell but the darker color is very fetching and very furniture-like.

That is almost exactly what I want to do when I have a dining room of my own! Love!

Hooray, color!!! Thank god someone out there is mixing it up, and for the most part the colors are earthy enough to feel cohesive. But in the end- it might not be everyone's ideal, but all it is is paint, and its YOURS. Good job for taking the leap and making it undeniable.

@Josh - I don't see how AT being a "free" site means poor grammar and proofreading is excusable. If you want to produce a quality product, it shouldn't matter how much you are charging for it.

Thanks all for the responses to my question about where to buy the curtains. Haven't been to Ikea in years and I thought they may have come from Pier I.

Lovely! I recognize the Sleep Sheep on the crib. I kind of want one for myself.

Please oh please...I hope someone can answer my question...what are those pretty white, shell-like disks that hang on the string called and where can I get them They are being used as a sort of room divider in pic 1 here)??? I have been looking for those for a few years now and searching with the words 'shell mobile' does not yield the correct results. Much appreciated if anyone can point me in the right direction. Many thanks!!

oops...of all posts to have some botched grammer and punctuation...my above post should read (they are being used as a sort of room divider in pic 1 here). Hope no one tells me I need an editor ; )

It's so cool to see a home from Newburyport, my hometown, featured on Apartment Therapy. Awesome!

@Kimbe & Pi-- lighten up.

@Josh-- right on.

I like the polka dot curtains in the nursery. Where did you get them?

Thank you for all the compliments on our home! The paint color in the dining room is agave leaf by valspar; kitchen cabinets are a grey green... The porcelain disk room divider I found at a boutique in denver a few years back. Although if you are crafty you could make them with model magic! The curtains in the babys room are also Ikea. So many post's on the glass vessels! Ha! No we do not eat at the diningroom table with them on it, they are there for visual intrest..And yes, our home is a three story, two family. :)

@ shannont: I won those chimes in a contest, put them on my WINDY CITY porch, and they promptly smashed to bits.
http://rarebirdfinds.typepad.com/rare_bird_finds/2007/07/new-contest-moo.html