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Love how you've used the space and the colors are fantastic.

I adore your teevee.

Love the orange and grey together. Looks great. Of course, you boys have to have a big TV... That is pretty ugly, but necessary, I suppose.

Lovely home! I'm impressed how two of you manage with what looks like about 4 sf of closet space!

What's with the floating head in the kitchen area?

Nicely done!

I have an apple green kitchen too!

Efficient use of space, especially in the office area. Like your coffee table and credenza. Nice!

Love the coziness and the shelving in the living room. Great use of space in the office area.

Supercool. But please, explain the floating head!
Love the bedroom lamps and the living room setup. What is the green sidetable in the living? Storage inside?
Great idea to pair the flatscreen and the 70s(?) tvs.

winner! what an amazing office set-up... I'm apple-green with envy.

YES. WANT.

Adore the shelving (books!!!), the office set up, and the credenza. Well done.

The artwork and floating head are throwing me off, but great use of shelving. The office is fantastic and the decor is perfect for you boys, lookin' good!!!!

Excellent. I love the Knoll credenza with all the different clocks on top.

lovely! i just bookmarked this for future inspiration - i really hope this entry places well so that we can see more.

wow, I am in love with this! awesome, just awesome.

It's really wonderful, I really love it.

The only thing I find out of place is the two tv's, kind of sanford and son but I still love the little tv.

good luck!

Wow!
Thank you all for the nice feedback!
Allow me to explain the floating head in the kitchen though.
It's a paper cutout that is part of our bulletein board. There are a lot of other things on that wall as well like notes, coupons, and a calendar. But, because the light coming through the adjacent window was so bright, it washed everything out except for the head because it had enough contrast. I kinda liked how mysterious and funny it looked in the photo so I decided to leave it in rather than crop it out.
And as for the green thing, its stool I made out of expanding foam and blocks of pine. The green part is solid foam so there is no storage in it. However, it is very usefull when we need to reach a book on the top shelf and it makes a great foot rest.
Thanks again to all of you for your comments. I'm sure you all know that small apartments are always a work in progress so keep the comments and suggestions comeing. Any criticism is greatly appreciated.

Just not my aesthetic. A bit too much of a hodgepodge and crafts look.

It's gorgeous, and totally my style. I'm so envious of your office.

This is my favorite so far this year. I love your style!

Love it all! Really love the credenza, pink & green in the kitchen and pretty much all of the decor! Very well done!!!

I like it! The layered bedding looks nice and I like the colors.

I love the old school TV under the modern plasma. Nice effect.

a beautiful and cozy apartment! and i love the bookshelves...

Love the shelves- we did the same thing in our house since we too have a lot of crap to store. The colors throughout are fabulous! And the floating head speaks for itself...

Lovely pieces...
Not my style but I think it is totally cool!

I really like the colors in your kitchen. The cookie jar (at least that's what I think it is) on your kitchen table is great. Where did you find the lights above your sofa?

i love seeing an inspiring rental!

Not my style but pulled together nicely. Though I have to comment that those shelves going over the top of that old doorway aren't working for me. either it should fit the space perfectly or it shouldn't try to look like a built in. The gaps between the end of the shelf and the beginning of the molding bother me.

this is awesome!
and its a rental!
can i ask where did you get your table top for your desk area?
thanks!

wow - totally impressed! it's very cohesive and unified. love the colors.

Very welcoming and fun things to look at, like, the sewing machine right beside the skateboard...

i really love your place. when i looked at it, i thought it was a good 200 sq ft larger than it is! i love the colors, use of vintage elctronics, huge desk, & clean kitchen.

Very cute!
Voted Super-cool.
But, why two tvs??

Great color scheme. Kind of reminds me of my own place. What color/maker is the green wall paint? I absolutely love it. Good luck!

buyersremorse - the reason the bookcases cannot sit flush against the doorway is that the moulding on top of the door is wider at the very top than it is on the bottom; it is not a 90 degree angle. If you go back to that photo I think you'll notice it.

A really wonderful and liveable space.

Love the bookcases and color scheme. Very nice!

Very cool! I really like the credenza and coffee table also, and just the whole style of the place : ) very nicely done

I hesitate to collect books because I have moved so much but you make it look so beautiful. I really like the colors.

Fantastic!

love the paint color in the bedroom. do you mind sharing?

this is probably my favorite so far! where did u get the bookcases?

it feels very spacious and I like all the built-ins and colour.

Winner! Love, love, love!! I really like the built-in bookcases in the den.

What an exquisite use of colour! The living room and the kitchen both look very restful, but in different ways. The kitchen's use of green, white and pink is very friendly.

But I'm disappointed that the Mysterious Floating Head is just an accident of photography. A disembodied head against a white wall, especially in this setting, is a really cool design idea.

congratulations on your gorgeous apartment! I really love it. Suggestions: I think a headboard would be a great finishing touch to the bedroom. Just a padded plywood board covered in gray fabric for instance, attached to the wall. Also, I would think that the light from the windows would bother you when watching TV: would it possible to switch the couch and TV positions? That way you could also look out the window when sitting on the couch instead of only always facing the wall.

i voted not my bag b/c of the redundant TV's and the floating head.

What a great space! I had the same living room wall color in my last house--I love how it works with practically any color scheme, and it really makes artwork pop.

I really loved it. Plenty of whimsy to keep it unique and fun.

I love the double-desk area the most; so straight-forward yet very nicely done.

A beautiful hodgepodge, the floating head is an intriguing surprise. First it scared me because I am haunted by the evil Anton Chiguer, but on closer look I realized it is not him after all and I enjoyed the mystery of it. A home that serves and expresses the residents. Great entry.

Normally I like big, dark and handsome but in your case I'll make an exception. Good luck in the contest.

Love it! This is one of the few places that I could actually see myself living in, with very little alteration.

Great job!

Such a warm, comfy and VERY SPACIOUS vibe, great job!

Most Excellent! All the way to Super Cool, thanks for sharing your space with us.

Lets see if I can answer a few more questions about our apartment:
• Like a dummy, I didn't keep any of the paint chips I used to select the colors for our apartment so I can't say what the names of the colors are. I do know that they are all Sherwin Williams colors. We painted our entire apartment in one gangbusters weekend. I guess that's ANOTHER advantage of having a small apartment.
• The lamps on the wall in the living room and the bed side lamps in the bedroom are all from West Elm and are part of their current collection.
• The desk is simply three Hon file cabinets with blank solid core doors. Rob has a slide out keyboard tray on his side so he can tuck his mouse and keyboard away whenever he wants. I do have a word of caution to anyone wanting to make a desk like this. You should definitely use solid core doors instead of hollow core doors. They are more expensive. But, there is just not enough support in hollow core doors and you'll have problems if you want to attach a keyboard tray to it. Also, be sure to either paint it, stain it, or put a few coats of polyurethane on it to protect the wood. It gets dirty fast.
• The book cases were custom built by a shop here in San Francisco that sells used books and unfinished pine book cases ( www.99sanchez.com ). I made a drawing for them and they built them to my specifications and delivered it all. I feel like it was worth spending a little extra money rather than trying to make readymade book cases work.
• Yes that thing on the kitchen table is a cookie jar. It's actually called a "cookie log" and has a little squirrel perched on top of it. My best friend got me that for my birthday one year. I think she said she got it at an antique shop in Alameda CA. The table is from Ikea. I like it because it's counter height so I don't have to bend down when I use it as work space. We have ZERO counter space in our kitchen so it comes in handy.
• And finally... the two TV's. I love that little yellow TV and how the color brightens up the room. I actually used to watch TV on that thing! I put it there next to the big TV in an attempt to draw attention away from the big TV. We watch a lot of movies so our big screen is important to us. Making a TV like that work is always a challenge. The little TV does do the trick for us at least. It's a fun little object to look at and I like the pairing of the old with the new.

Oh, and one more thing. I would LOVE to have a head board for our bed. I have some ideas for making my own. But if you all help us win this thing, we might be able to get something cool at Room & Board.

Thanks again!
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I love your place guys, it's just my style! The colors are Great and the workspace area is awesome. The TVs are sleek too. The Tate bed from Crate & Barrel is one I've wanted to get for a while or I've thought of making a tufted headboard you could mount to the wall. Thanks for answering the questions, I was wondering about the West Elm lamps.

I am a sucker for bookshelves. Love it. Where did you get the small kitchen cart that holds your blender and toaster I need something just that size? Thanks.

Here's that bed:
http://www.crateandbarrel.com/family.aspx?c=1012&f=26286

This place inspires me!

love the ultra kitsch painting above the bed!

beautiful use of colors and wood
great storage ideas
well thought out
stately, eclectic, and indeed, handsome

Now THIS is cool. Very much so, a bit kitschy, modern in places and just oh so cool.

I'm always a sucker for how people live and how they put together their spaces, especially when it's of 2 men of a certain persuasion. ;-)

Very well done.

BTW, love both the old and new skool technique ya got going there w/ the TV's.

You're almost there.....just edit some of that 'lined up" stuff everywhere......sleek it out a bit.......buy some cool covered boxes for all of those shelves and put all that stuff in them.
Paint the wall behind the tv a non-yellow shade
Buy just one big super cool pillow (search for juuuuust the right one...)for the bed and get rid of that "I'm at Macy's and I like lots of little pillows lined-up-in-order" look

And get one super sleek lamp (CB2 has that rip-oof of the arco yet in a bright green, cute) for the living room
Cheers,
fellow-sf'er

The little TV does distract from the big one, which I did not notice until I read about it in the comments. What is the make and model of the little one? (I'm curious and I could also do an eBay search.) Thanks!

Faboo! This is near perfection for me. Stellar job! I'm rooting for you guys!

My favorite so far. LOVE the workspace.

Great space. Wish I'd have seen it in time to vote! I love the colors in your bedding. Where is the throw at the foot of the bed from? Thanks!

I love this, totally.

I had that EXACT same tv, in white, when I was nine years old. Watched countless hours of American Bandstand and Mork & Mindy on it, lol