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I LOVE this! The colors are wonderful! This is definitely in the running for winning!! FAB!

Best use of color!

Love the accent walls! Your colored acccent walls, color and accessory choices are what I've been aiming for in me and the BFs new apartment as well (which might perhaps make me biased in the voting) but great layout and space nonetheless!!

Oh may I ask where your TV Bench/Stand is that from?

Love the colors! Where did you get that spotlight in the corner of the first pic? I've been trying to find something like that forever.

The living room is the exact color scheme I've been going for in mine - so good to see it in action! Tons of inspiration here. Love it!

Your green wall is yummy. Love the zebra on the floor. Real? The floorplan shows you have an odd configuration of space to work with. Good job.

Thanks for all your comments guys!

The TV stand is the Ikea Lack shelving unit. Instead of positioning 2 of the dividers vertically we placed it horizontally (adjoining the center divider) to look different and to hide some of our media items at the back.

The spotlight is from Potter Barn's Photographer's Tripod Floor Lamp. But bought on eBay for a steal!

And the zebra rug is not a real zebra hide. It's just cow hide =).

I think it's just great - except the white wall behind the tv/kitchen. I feel like it would better unify the space to keep the green going to not make the kitchen cabinets not look so boxy -- I think another green wall there would pull it all together.

But I love it.

i should also so stark white is just never my thing, so maybe it's just me.....

Is that ampersand a decal?

Although I really respect the adventurousness with colour (er, is that even a word), for me they clash a bit with the floor. Could just be the photos though?

Love it!! Is your couch from Ikea? I think it is possibly the one I'm considering buying.

Was the bar custom made? Its great! I'm looking for something similar for my new teeny rental.

I'm so tired of orange and green... If it's truly "your" look, then why pick the colors every single other hipster is using?

The colors are gorgeous, and I'm in love with the ampersand!

But, Josie what if they chose the colors because they liked it, not so to jump on a bandwagon? I don't see why it's bad to choose colors that everyone has used already. I wouldn't go out of my way JUST to have colors that no one has really chosen yet.

My apartment uses a brown, beige, blue color scheme - overdone and cliched but I love it and personalize it with my own choice if accessories.

Congratulations on having a colorful (as long as you like them), neat and coordinated (to a point of being too matchy) home, but this apartment really doesn't do it for me, to put it politely.

the ampersand is not a decal. it's made out of metal/bronze.

the couch (kramfors) and the bar are from ikea :)

thanks Lizz. it was precisely why we chose the colors -- we really like it and want to see it in our surroundings (esp. on a dreary NY winter day). it was even our wedding color scheme.

i think the colors are lovely and the design clean and well-defined. but i just don't see much personality in the place -- it feels like a very well-designed showroom. it does have cohesion, nice pieces, and an overall sleek look, but i personally would not want to live in it.

Really nice apt! However, I can't shake the feeling that this is an add for west elm; It looks like you went to one store and bought everything. However, that could be a compliment in that everything meshes really well!

This entry, I think, is somewhat blah for a 610 sq. ft. apartment. For one, I just don't think that the green goes all so well with the beautiful flooring. The place is a bit cold and monotonic. I like the airiness of the place, but it is, you know, 610 sq. ft. so it should be airy. It is certainly bright in the bedroom, but I think, perhaps too bright. Just way too much red. Perhaps with that red wall, a slightly softer color on the bed would have been nicer. Otherwise, evne looking at the picture, I need to turn away and squint a bit. When adding color, isn't the point to create some conrast? Color in and of itself isn't a panacea. I think the use of red in the bedroom is a tad overboard.

I do really like the spotlight tripod in the living room, though. I think it gives the place some drama.

Perfectly put together, just not my style.

I have to agree with biskinikill. It doesn't look like anyone lives there.

Will you tell us what shade of green you used? It's wonderful with everything.

i think it looks great! can you let us know the green paint color? i'm trying to do my bathroom in the same shade...

Hi fellow W@Wie Lynn! I'm amazed at how you got to maximize the space you had but were still able to make your flat look chic. The colors are fab. So are the furnishings. Overall, your apartment looks like Oprah's design expert, Nate Berkus, had a hand in it. Glad to be #67 to choose the Stellar! Insta-Finalist! button. :D

To me, this looks a lot like a CB2 or west elm catalog. in a not-so good way. I dunno... too much catalog, not enough personality, i think.

Love, love, love the green!

Interesting floorplan; I want to see that area in the back!

you should work for Ikea's interior team, you really know how to pull all their products together nicely.

Yet another entry rocking the red-green theme. I still like it, despite the fact that everything looks like it came from Bo Elm or Room & Barrell.

Hmm, seems everyone's got a zebra rug this year...
Love the orange.

I'm amazed to see an entry that possesses absolutely no originality. Sorry but, this competition should be about design rather than catalog shopping.....

I love it.

I just really wish there was a budget portion of the contest so the poor folks like me had a chance. haha

That being said, although the budget is obviously somewhat high, it is appointed to look like it was designed over time and not just a bunch of purchases from DWR. Nicely done.

oops the comment above was supposed to be for entry #30

The only reason that the bedroom is called an office is because it is illegal in New York to have a bedroom with no windows - but no one but once the building gets its C of O, no one takes that seriously.

If you love to travel, start buying unique objects and adding them to the decor. This will not only individualize the apartment but it will surround you with wonderful memories.

this apartment is just gorgeous! i love the modern-minimalist look. good blending and consistency of colors. it doesn't feel crowded. kudos! as they always say, LESS is MORE!!! would love to see the other parts of the apartment, i.e hallway, cr, door entrance, etc. definitely an insta-finalist!!!

The place is fab, and I too would LOVE to know what paint you used for the green wall.

bleh. looks too much like an ikea catalog. and i don't think that's cool.

There are only 4 things from Ikea that I can see - TV stand, shelves, bar and couch. And even if they enjoy Ikea - so what? It seems like there is a strange trend - either everything is too expensive (then DWR) or too cheap (then Ikea).

I think the place looks unique, and modern. They chose to use a number of "classical" things (the chair, the uber popular Lack TV stand, the shelves), but I think a lot of this is unique.

That is to say, this looks expensive. Which is not a bad thing!

IMHO, the shelves over the TV are way too empty. some books would look grand there.

and I love the Photographer's light!

i actually like the color- but i think the black is too much and there is too much of it. with all that color i would like some white accessories to create light- the dark furnishings and fittings are just too heavy.

I love love love your kitchen counter, please let me know where you get it. Thanks
Your apt is definitely a winner!!!

sorry i posted this late. the green paint is Dutch Boy Parker's Pick CC03.

kitchen counter is from ikea =)

Thanks so much for providing the paint color. We just closed on our first house today, and I'm starting painting this weekend -- I'm so excited!

Thanks again!! :)

The ampersand is currently on sale over at PotteryBarn.com.

http://www.potterybarn.com/products/p8246/index.cfm?pkey=csalnewall

Love your apartment!

Could you please tell us where you bought your zebra rug?

Cheers