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Love the flooring! So beautiful.

I am seriously bored of the all white look. I used to adore it and would drool over a space like this (which I still think is lovely). But the color and richness of a space seem to be more interesting these days.

This look, however, seems to be sticking around for the long haul.

how lovely.

Add some art on the walls and a little personalization and it's perfect.

Fear of color is a sad affliction.

It's just staged to show off the renovation, right?

A bit dull if you ask me.

Love the table and chairs. Indeed, I love decorating in white, but think that the starkness is a bit overwhelming in the above space... for the purposes of showing off the renovation though it's great - a clean slate (with furniture placement visualized) for any would be tenant.

I adore that brick wall with the whitewash & firewood... but I have to agree that the rest of the room could use some life. It's blocking the beautiful walls and floor.
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I love the white! All I'd add is some books and maybe a large colorful painting on the wall. OH, and maybe a black cat.

wow...that's practical...not to mention warm and inviting

I love minimalism, but this is too much even for me. All the shapes are hard and unwelcoming. The white doesn't help matters. It's just too severe. I love my monochromatic neutrals, but a single tone of a single color as the only color attack turns the decorating into a gimmick.

I do want to point out two things:

1) Minimalism can be done in a warmer, more livable way. It doesn't have to look like a whitewashed prison from the future.

2) "Pops of color" is not the answer to every decorating question.

How utterly devoid of personality...
...and those dining chairs look like torture devices.

all white rooms can be very nice and refreshing - but a whole house decorated in nothing but white?! I wouldn't want it personally...

I feel so suffocated. Please add some colors!

too sterile and uncomfortable looking. Homes are meant to be LIVED IN

This is when my inner child is not liking all white rooms, way too linear and bland.

I actually find it kind of unnerving. It feels like the kind of room in in horror movie that you just KNOW is going to be the site of something awful...

I don't like being negative, but I think a straitjacket would go great with this room.

I love clean & minimal. This place takes sophistication to a desperate level.

This just looks...cold and unloved.

Leaving the brick unpainted, swapping out the dining set for something in warm wood, and adding some art and non-white accessories would make such a difference.

I find it funny that you guys sit around and critique extremely well-detailed works of modern interior architecture, as if your comments reflect anything other than the fact that you are all a bunch of bumpkins.

"Well, if this was MY house I'd paint two of the walls pink and let my fat cat shed all over the couch and... OH how about like a million throw pillows? That would be awesome."

lolz

Where did you get the sofa and chair? I like. Thanks!

Those are the most hideous dining chairs I have ever seen.

This is just to normal for me and way to show up with red visionaire and knoll seats and cappellini table/chair!
there is no special/ character about this room.
I only like the floor.

Not 'bumkins' Joey. This place is exquisite but contrived. It definitely has a one note point of view. Nice to look at but who can live like this? Who wants to?

Love the renovation but don't like the blonde floor boards. I'd prefer real white floors.

Also I'd prefer a black Togo couch and some colorful paintings. All white is a bit too cliche.

@joey joejoe: Just because we disagree doesn't mean you can call those of us who don't like the place "bumpkins".

The building is stunning but the interior design is a touch sterile.
And those dining chairs? Ouch.

all you need now is one of those Christ pictures whose eyes follow you wherever you go in the room. Creepy!