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Your shoe boxes are amazing. Who said shoes can't be art.

What a wonderful, soothing space. I can't believe I missed this the first time around. Definitely one of my favourites.

I especially love the wall colour you chose--what is it?

The fan. Do tell wise one.

AWESOME VIDEO!!!!

We love your place it's like a sweet hotel. Let us know the next time you guys are out of town ;) We'll be happy to house sit!

Good Luck!!!

i love it even more the second time around. i hope you guys win! would you mind sharing the paint you used on your bedroom walls?

This is sharp. Where from is the bedding with the red stripe?

how do those shelves in the shower work? where are they from?
soothing is right.

This is one nice bungalow.
Not wild about the shoe box display but I like EVERYTHING else.

Tony G.

I second (third?) the request for the paint used, both in the bedroom and the bathroom. I don't think it's the same color, but the lighting could be throwing me.

This was one of my original favorites, and based on the new photos you have provided, in my mind you will be very tough to beat.

You took the additional photos as an opportunity to really show the ins and outs of your space without repeating views we had already seen before.

I must admit I am still fascinated by the desk/bed combo in the second bedroom, how does it work?

Again though, fantastic job.

Wow, do you have coved ceilings in the dining room? And are they painted light blue? Gorgeous. Maybe you should just list all the paints you've used :)

Might I also add I love the "pushed out tile" look for the shelving in the shower, and the grid in the bedroom is also very nice.

wooowww... this contest is getting hotter :-))

would you mind sharing the info on photo frames & the bed in the video. I was going to change my sofa and get a sofabed but this is so cool and I do not need to part with my old sofa.

Really nice. And I love the paint in the dining room! It looks great with the crisp white trim. I'd love to know the names of these colors if you get a chance. Great job!

I am so in love with the bungalow, I just do not have the words.

Wow...there is so much more to this than was shown in your original entry. Is that an upholstered wall in your bedroom?

This is such a beautiful home. Please tell me about your bedroom and office doors... Is that a glass inset? Whatever it is, I love the texture. Did it come that way or did you cover it with something to get that effect?

nice, but i really can't stand the copious usage of shelving...especially the shoes. dust, dust, dust...collecting on shelves above both beds. and is it really practical to store a million shoe boxes in such an out-of-the-way location (having to climb atop bed to reach commonly used items)?

i'm so over this trend of people "displaying" all their stuff. it's visually and psychologically overwhelming.

EDIT, people. and let a space BE itself a little more--stunning architecture or not.

Love love love love love this place! I'm a huge fan of the gray walls and am insanely jealous of how much natural light you get. Those black and white photos on canvas(?) are gorgeous. Love how you've mixed old and new. Well done!!

Fran, with such a small space and little storage, displaying things becomes a necessity. They don't seem to have much "stuff" to begin with, and I for one am very impressed at how tastefully displayed everything is. It adds personality.

Wow, so many people asked the question I'm dying to know your answer to: What color paint did you use in the bedroom/dining room, and the office/second bedroom (i'm not sure if that's actually a different paint color, or if the light just makes it look that way)!!

SWOON! I love bungalows and yours is beautiful decorated, the bathroom storage is awesome.

The shoe storage bugs me, especially over the bed, but I'm still in love with your bathroom.

I like it. The one thing that I noticed right away is that some of the groupings of art are hung really high. For example, the grouping in the bedroom next to the door are way up next to the top of the door. Unless you have a really good reason, I always start by measuring 55" from the floor to the center of the piece of art (or grouping). It always seems low at first but if you go to a gallery I think you'll find that seems to be the default height.

Your place looks great! It has such a clean, warm, inviting feel to it. I love the colors you used, and the pictures displayed on the wall. It's very modern, yet very cozy!

This entry is far more impressive that it looks in the original photos. Yet another reason to expand the photo limit for the competition.

Thank you to all of you who posted such nice comments. Alas, we weren't finalists, but the nice things you've said make it easier to take!
In response to some of your questions and comments:

The fans are artemis by minka. I've seen them a couple of places since we put them in.

The bedding on the guest bed is actually from WalMart and we sewed the red stripe on it. We couldn't find anything that worked quite right and didn't want to spend a lot of money. After lots of tries and returns, we finally found this one as a last resort and added the stiching with yarn. We ordered the red circle fabric sheets from dwell and cut them apart to make pillows and the curtains.

The shelves in the shower are something we made from mdf and covered with 7 coats of paint and tile. They've lasted 2 years now.

We ordered the bed from frontgate...you know, those magazines that you always read on the airplane? We found it on a trip back to visit family. It is very convenient and much more comfortable than a sofa bed. We definately recommend getting a memory foam top for it if you can find somewhere to store it. We slept on this bed for 6 months in various rooms while we did construction and it was great! This leads to one of the comments on the shoe boxes. They are actually quite convenient to get to, since the bed is out maybe 2-3 weeks total a year. Since it's such a small space, we needed to make use of every piece of area possible.

The upholstered wall was a consequence of our demolition, but it turned out to be a good mistake. When we tsldge-hammered all of the tile off of the original bathroom wall, we damaged the other side such that the only thing holding the plaster on the orginal lath was the paint. We didn't want to try to match the sand finish plater and didn't want the obvious replacement of smooth gypsum, so we made upholstered panels instead.

When we refinished the doors, we discovered the inset panel was plywood. We found this original Eames era wallpaper on ebay and ordered it from San Francisco. It was still in the original packaging.

As for the paint colors...unfortunately, I am not a neat painter and many of the labels are hard to read. From what we can tell, the bedroom, living room and dining room were shades of Frazee Touchstone 8762W and Lava Rock 8764M. The bathroom gold is Behr Goldfish. The blue-green on the ceilings and elsewhere was a comedy of errors. It went something like, "this is too blue, this is too green", so on the 3rd try, we dumped them both together and got the color we wanted.

Thanks again to everyone!

eric lauren, framework design