I'm sooo glad to see Philly represented.

I'm with your wife...i ADORE that oven and sink!!

yes, your kitchen is absolutely lovely! I want to stand in it and have a hot cup of coffee in the morning.

Brave color choice on the dining room walls. Probably too brave.

I love your kitchen!! Where did you get your round velvet throw pillows from? I love them! Nice work!

I love this! I love it when older fixtures are worked in with modern furnishings and features. How lucky that this apartment didn't go through a thoughtless Home-Depot type of renovation with nondescript features.

Very nice! I especially like the red room; i like the furniture, the color, the placement... well everything. Kitchen brick painted light blue is gorgeous too.

I'm confused with the layout.. Is the one of the rooms in the photographs, one of the bedrooms? Obviously the gold colored room is the dining room, but the red and brown rooms is one the living room, one a study/ bedroom?

@pasqual, i completely agree--i am a native philadelphian and that area is definitely known as "the art museum area" or fairmount/spring garden, depending on where you are exactly. there is no such thing as the "museum district" in philadelphia.

that said, WHEN O WHEN will philadelphia ever get it's own designated page already?? philly homes are featured enough that this really long overdue!

PS: great home, love all the color choices. and that kitchen is very sweet.

this kitchen is sooo cute

I like those dining room chairs.

gorgeous and well balanced, compliments for respecting the 'house spirit'!

Your wife has great taste ;-)
And that turquoise planter against the brown wall... fabulous !
I feel your pain when it comes to bringing furniture into your home. I liive in a 1st floor (2nd floor in the US :-) appartement and even if we were allowed to bring furniture in through the staircase (we are not!), it would be next to impossible to fit anything through the front door. So for the lovely MCM sofa and dinning table that I covet, I will need to rent an outside lift...

Absolutely beautiful... more or less the same colour scheme as my place...

You got my vote, excellent looking apartment with painted walls that are with vibrate colors, it helps the furnishing stand out. Thanks for sharing.

Just goes to show AT needs a Philly page to get schooled on our neighborhoods! We didn't name it "museum district" (yikes!), and as a Philly native I don't even call it the Art Museum Neighborhood. It's Fairmount!

The round velvet pillows are from Target. The brown room would normally be used as a bedroom but we use it as a tv room. Our bedroom in the back isn't shown.

Thanks for all the nice comments and good luck to all!
~Liz, "the wife"

Love the colors you uesd for all of the rooms. Fabulous job!

What is the name of the color you used for the dinning room?

I've been lucky enough to visit this house - its fabulous!!

@ ajsimone26:
The green in the dining room looks a little brighter in the photo than it actually is. It's from Benjamin Moore, but I can't remember the name. I'll write back if I find out.

love love love the retro planter in the living room!

you have some great furntiure pieces.

I sympathize as well with the narrow doorway situation. Both our front and back entrances are narrow AND have narrow winding stairways. When our landlord replaced our dying (and ancient) fridge, two of his choices were sent back because they wouldn't fit. Our neighbors have grown accustomed to the sight of us hauling large items in and our over the balcony with ropes.

Seriously lovely place! More pictures of that amazing kitchen, though please! Actually, I'll take a whole house tour, your place is great! And boy do I sympathize on furniture...I bought a couch before moving into my last apartment..well we had to hoist it over the front porch and then back down again when moving out because it wouldn't fit up either the front or back staircase to our 2nd floor living room. that was an adventure!

Wow! Your kitchen is my dream come true! And then i realize that you live in Philly too; you go neighbor. We got style here. Thumb up.

Yes, what paint and colors were used? gorgeous!

This home has a lovely warm vibe - it has that organic, done with care over time look that I love as opposed to let's go with every trend and/or throw money at it. I also love your retro kitchen and I know it must take quite a bit of discipline not to replace it with something more functional. Well done you deserve to be in the final.

Ahh! The second and last pix-- my bedroom walls are that color!

Lovely...and can you tell us where you got the turquoise planter? It looks fabulous against the brown wall!

As a fellow Fairmount-er I just wanted to say what a nice job you did! Your place looks really great!

The stove and sink are dreamy!