great place and it looks very ikea but still fresh. i'm moving to DC (500 sf 1 bdrm) and i know a lot of my stuff will come from ikea. but enough about me and back to you...i think that if your name is really charlie brown that's great and when i was small i thought maybe my parents were aliens and i was their adopted human child. :-| as for ur loft bed, i know it's really hard to make up ur bed 'cause the space is so confined. i bought a loft bed a few years ago when i shared an apt with a friend, but i discovered i was scared of heights and it was too wobbly and i was afraid that i was gonna collapse if i moved around too much, so i took it down and got a floor bed but that took up all my space! anyway....thanks for sharing all of your great ideas.

Very cool.

This could serve as inspiration for the dorm room contest.

Great advice! Have you ever seen "V" ?

love the fun and funky feel of it. i HAVE to know where you got the Amelie pictures. i have loved those pictures ever since i saw the movie and would love to have a set myself.

Love it! The bright colors, the fun atmosphere and I love that line of Ikea children's furniture (the red chest of drawers). First thing that caught my eye. I've been trying to figure out how to incorporate it into my place, but alas, my decor now just wouldn't admit it. So glad to see it fitting well in your place.

Good luck on the career.

I guess you have sex on the couch.

I don't quite see the concept, but still, the space works and "breathes" very well. It incorporates all the fun elements of a dorm-y, collegiate space.

Max - it's the desk all the way!!

By the way, love the place. Colorful, bright and happy!

max! LOL care to share charlie brown?

metro DC shout out! I love the colors...no one can tell you to add a pop of color in there! :)

Truly inspired use of a small space. Its very fun, thoughtful and functional. I would definitely like to visit. Dont know that I could live there cause I would always smack my head on the ceiling and I would have to be very neat.

Charlie Brown, where is the wood bookshelf from?

Also the cow vignette in the bathroom looks like those artisit pieces commissioned by cities across the country ( Boston had codfish, and I have seen elephants, donkeys and cows). Cute use in the bathroom.

i do believe we have the exact same bathroom tiling.

Great place Charlie Brown !

Where did you get your crystal curtains, there are lovely !

For paintedfish, you can get the cool Amelie pictures on Allposters.com.

is that an edgar allan poe pillow on your couch? where did you get it? i am envious.

Very nice place. Where did you get the coffee table from?

Charlie Brown, I totally get the "how an alien would learn how to be human from watching TV" vibe in your home. And it's an inspired interpretation! Fun!

Is the 9 shelf cubby bookshelf Ikea as well? Might you know the line?

Also, I was curious about the Amelie posters. Love me some Google because I found out that Michael Sowa is the artist behind the sick dog and fowl wearing pearls posters. I'm enchanted! What lovely finds!

Thanks for sharing your place, Charlie!

You're absolutely hilarious (as a compliment).

On another topic: I'm totally grossed out by the term "love sac," but I guess that's part of the point.

Cool space. I love all the color--especially the quilt on the wall.

(p.s. I have the same Sowa prints, and I purchased them from art.com.)

Cool place. I wish I could deal with all that color.

I just found out my pictures were up and I'm so flippin' excited. To answer a few questions. Yes, I've seen V. As stated before the Amelie pictures are Michael Sowa and can be found at any online poster place. I have sex on the futon, that folds out into a queen sized bed...or the Love sac when I don't want to prep. The love sac is basically queen sized and fits 3 people. I didn't name it the love sac it's the brand. I got the bookshelf at Target and I don't remember the name. I got the beaded curtains at www.shopwildthings.com. Just do a search for "Real World Philadelphia". I got the Edgar Allan Pillow online, from an artist. I'm sorry but I don't remember her name. She does one of a kind pillows of great literary authors like Hemingway, and Shakespeare. She's from Boston and you can see her other pillows on the Real World Boston. The coffee table is IKEA and it is great. It's 3 levels so you can have dinner for 4 if you keep the food on a lower level and eat off the top. It also has wheels which is great for a small space in general. I teach yoga at home sometimes and that coffee table's wheels are a necessity.
A few more things. I don't shop in the conventional manner. I watch TV and movies and pick out things I like that I later hunt down. This makes the internet invaluable.
Since the concept for my place is "aliens that come to earth disguised as humans" I watched a lot of TV shows that had that. Then I noticed a common motif in the decor. LAWN GNOMES. In Invader ZIM, and 3rd Rock from the Sun they both used lawn gnomes. Then I read an article about Joel Mozersky and how he designed the Austin Real World house. His concept was, "Space ship lands in Texas." That is so almost my concept. I don't begrudge him using the same one, it's a great idea. The thing that blew me away was that in the boys room for no reason they had lawn gnome side tables used as night stands. I had to have one for own. To eBay I went whilst I also scoured the lawns of my neighbors looking for one that needed liberation. Finally someone was getting rid of old merchandise and I was able to get the Starck stool for a great price. I don't know why I told you that but I feel I must justify the genius of adding a gnome into my decor. Thanks for all the love

Charlie Brown

Call this a plug but I was lucky enough to employ Charlie Brown's services to decorate my new under-600 square foot condo in Washington, DC when I moved in early this year, and he did an absolutely FANTASTIC job.

Admittedly, having seen his amazingly eclectic apartment, and knowing his taste, I was a little worried. But it was incredibly impressive to watch him turn my empty place into *my* home, just by listening to me. He's extremely perceptive, and so much fun to work with. He just knew how to make it mine. He's got such talent, and to this day everyone comments on my fabulous apartment.

Too much stuff, Too many colors, Too many patterns!

Every inch of the place is crammed with stuff! Your front room has 4 identifiable patterns: couch, textile behind couch, rug, and patterned floor - don't you think that's a bit much?

Also, you have a color pallette - every color. Can you tone it down to just three or maybe four in the same tone, or that go with each other? maybe just two complementary colors and a neutral?

i like how fun your place is.

i get a lot of personaility from it.

Hey Charlie Brown,

I love your place. Where's the loft from? Did you build it yourself? I like it because it seems higher than the norm. I'm thinking of putting in a loft, and because the ceilings are quite high (14-15') I could go a bit higher than usual. Suggestions?

I actually got my loft bed (surprise) at IKEA they don't make them queen size anymore. It came with an office especially for it but I decided on a different one. There's had a lot of shelves that would have blocked the windows. I'm 5'8" and I just fit under it without bumping my head. However I have taller friends that hit the "beams". The artist that made the Edgar Allan Pillow is named simply Leita. I googled her but I couldn't find anymore. She's done pillows of Shakespeare, Hemingway, and Beethoven amongst others. I know that Jason and other Boston Real Worlders took some when they left the house. If you really want one you can convince them to sell it. Those guys are always hard up for money and never seem to want to work.

Oh yeah advise on loft beds. Make sure it's sturdy. Last thing you want is it to move around. If you have the space make just make a loft, so that it is a little room.

So fun - great job of putting your personality into your decor. Very original use of IKEA.
But please tell me you removed the blade from the blender your fish lives in....;-)

The fish is actually in a fish bowl that looks like a blender. When you push the buttons it makes blender noises which is really funny when someone doesn't know what they're doing. It is in no way an actual blender. If it was it wouldn't be plugged in anyway. Right now it has more to worry about from my pussy than it's home.(which is why it's on that shelf solo, hard to get to)

I hope you weren't offended by my comment! Your fish is obviously well cared for and I was just meaning to call attention to it's whimsical, lovely home!

Oh don't worry about offending me. I'm from sturdier stock than that. I just wanted a segue to my pussy. You can see her on my bed. The fish in that picture is dead and flushed now anyway. They never tell you how old they are when you buy them.

Where did I get such fabulous pictures of my studio you ask. Well the good ones weren't done by me they were done by a local photographer Ann Ly. You can see other things done by her on www.annly.com . All the bad pictures were taken by me.

Your space is lovely! Where did you get the frame for the peephole?! Its from Friends! Too Cute!

I accidentally came across this page and had to post. I love this place and its clever use of space. What caught my eye was the rug and coffee table from Ikea...I just bought the exact same ones from someone off of CraigsList! They look great in your place, and you have inspired me to go a little more wild with color in my place. Great job!