you're kitchen is great....love the retro feel with the table and built-ins are so cool. i like your choice of colors too, from the kitchen wall to the carpet and window treatment in the living. french doors fit perfectly.

once again the "keep calm and carry on". this is my only ding for this cute home.

Yeah, I'm thinking about mocking up "Keep Calm and Carry a Big Stick"

Keep calm till you see this annoying poster.

I propose that any photo submitted to AT which has a visible "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster have something photoshopped over the offending print so that it's not the only thing AT commenters want to talk about.

Anyway, I love your wood panelled bedroom. I wish I had my own cabin in the city.

Lovely job and cute pup.

Well, people, until you DO, I guess we still need the poster as a reminder.

For those keeping score, or on trend alert, in addition to KCaCO, we have globe collections, Chesterfields and the BluDot Buttercup chair appearing in more than one entry.

I love the blue in the kitchen, it looks really nice with the wood grain chairs. The rug in the living room with the orange curtains is nice too. It is the kind of house I would like to hang out in and have just the perfect amount of visual stimulation. two thumbs up!

I love the bright but not overpowering use of color. I also really like how each room has it's own distinct feel. The kitchen is retro and classic, the living room modern and clean, and the bedroom (my personal favorite) warm and rustic. Great job!

Love the bedroom!!

that bedroom is amazing!

Very Nice! Would you mind sharing what color blue you used in the kitchen?

@hiwelder: "you're" post is great....love the folksy feel with the rogue apostrophe and lower-case letters are so cool.

Once again, "you're" stands for "you are", not "Your". This is my only ding for this cute post.

It's all about the bedroom in this one. Can't wait to see more pictures. Hope you make the semi-finals!

ok, love that wall shelf in the kitchen. love the curtains in the living room... love love love the bedroom. very cool place.

The paint in the kitchen is Hallowed Hush by Behr. :)

My condo is 613 square feet too - Amazing how the same amount of space can feel so different.

Very west coast.
Sunny, colourful, lovely. Very poppy.

The use of Ikea pieces is so subtle it's practically seamless. I would like to see more color on the walls of the rooms other than the kitchen, but you didn't mention whether you had a landlord restriction or anything. Your kitchen is gorgeous. But add me to the list of people who'd be pleased to never see another "Keep Calm" poster. There's ubiquitous and then there is KCaCA.....

...KO

Why is there so much space behind the white couch in the living room? It's not like the TV would be too far away if the couch was moved to the wall.

I agree with thebean. And, I would suggest that the distinctness of each room is what makes this 613 sq. feet appear to be much larger.

LOL@ rapunzel

points for pups! i love the dish rack/built in sideboard in the eat in kitchen. i think it would be a better place for a great set of vintage dishes than assorted tchotchkes. you are very blessed to be in california where billions of california pottery companies made dishes that aren't corelle. get to thrifting!

I love that splash of turquoise/blue in the kitchen! Your apartment has a nice layout too. Great job!

I love it when people trash something they loved mere years ago because it was awesome then, but by virtue of the earth having since revolved around the sun, it now sucks. Especially ironic on a site populated largely by those who drool over all that's MCM. When, pray tell, does the switch flip back from "no longer current, therefore sucky" to "so far from current that now awesome again?" Get over yourselves.

This is why we're such ridiculous consume-a-holics -- we've been brainwashed into thinking that things actually have an intrinsic six-week coolness cycle, and that we have to cast them off and get all new stuff, a la Pavlov's dog, when the bell dings. Sheeple! Erin, good on ya for keeping what you love, no matter whether it's "in" today or not.

Love the bedroom. But I just can´t keep calm about this poster anymore...

Yay for shanalulu :)

I love the bedroom and the kitchen. Really makes me rethink blue instead of red for my kitchen in spe again.

Thumbs up!

Love it! And I seriously heart your kitchen table. (And I'm not usually a huge fan of MCM.) I also really like how bright and colorful your place is.

@ Heather C
I really, really want a "Keep Calm and Carry One" poster, so if you're doing mockups...

I really wish people would stop labeling and lumping all ATers as MCM addicts.

Before the internet, we didn't worry about whether our homes were hip enough or cool enough, because our homes weren't open to the public. We didn't worry about being "ubiquitous." We went to the store, we saw something we liked, we bought it, and we brought it home. End of story.

Imagine what life would've been like if we'd had internet in 1972. Imagine some of the comments you might have seen on a design blog: "If I see another peace sign or Keep on Truckin' poster, I'm going to slit my wrists!" Imagine people being shamed into trashing all of their little owl collections, and smiley face pillows, and peace sign posters.

Now let's jump ahead to 2010. Without all that crap from the 1970s, how would you people be able to decorate your apartments? Scary thought, right? So, keep calm and hang on to your posters. With today's technology, everything old will be new again in about 5 minutes, or the time it takes me to write this little blurb.

Love the vintage Keep Calm poster! It looks great.

Your place is great! It reminds me a little of my last apartment - I had french doors going into my bedroom there. Made me feel like my room was a very sexy place.

I'm especially a fan of your smaller pieces - the mid-century dining chairs, and folding chair by the bedroom in particular.

Thumbs up!

@patrick: a) I really wish people would realize that "largely" and "all" are not the same thing; much more importantly, b) if. the. shoe. fits.

Relax, babe, I wasn't even talking to you.

But I do understand the difference.

Like, "Your comments are largely annoying to me." is different than "All your posts are annoying to me."

Love Love Love it!! It looks exactly like someplace that I would live. It's happy and inviting.

I'm going to replace my "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster with one that reads, "Can't we all just get along?" :)

For the record, I am a renter and was told I couldn't paint the walls anything save white...ooops. :) Don't worry, I'll paint it back when I move.

Thanks for all the constructive feedback on my place!!

@patrick: oh, I'm sorry -- I missed where someone else mentioned something similar. Don't suppose you can point it out? (Or would that take time out from pointing out who does and doesn't annoy your highness? Good grief.)

Adore your kitchen Erin:) Thanks for sharing.

Why is everyone so fixated on a small piece of artwork? What makes you think your dislike for something is going to make people rearrange their personal style?

Seriously, if you love it, keep it.

Who cares if it's cool or popular. Maybe she bought the poster years ago before it was so ubiquitous, people. Quit being so harsh.

Then again, you have to be ready for people to get nasty when you're asking to be judged. Unfortunate, but inevitable nonetheless.

Your bedroom and puppy look very snuggly, and the lighting is warm and inviting. And your concept of buying what you need to fit your space, and slowly building a collection is brilliant and effective! I bet if you had your dream place, you wouldn't fill it with an IKEA klippan, but this fits your current living situation and probably, your budget, so good for you. -from a fellow Sacramentan :)

@rapunzel - that gets to me too (the your & you're) but I try to overlook it. Lord knows texting has skewed my vocab skills as well...

Anywho...Love your place!! I actually have some of the same furniture. Thumbs up from me automatically for repping Sactown! I bet your place is in Midtown? I love that 23 sign/poster in the room.

shanalulu--

I've got news, you're not the first to accuse the AT audience at large to be MCM-addicted. So, no, your were correct, there was no other comment... *here.* Yours just triggered my reaction, based on reading the same thing over and over and over.

So, you've called me a putz, you've called me dude, you've called me "your highness." At least we're FINALLY getting somewhere. :P

I think we are secretly twins...I have the SAME curtain rod AND curtains in my living room!!! paired with a sage green rug...spoooky : )

Imagine what life would've been like if we'd had internet in 1972. Imagine some of the comments you might have seen on a design blog: "If I see another peace sign or Keep on Truckin' poster, I'm going to slit my wrists!" Now that you mention it, the poster "War is not healthy for children and other living things" drove me absolutely insane. :)

The kitchen blue is terrific; on my monitor, it looks teal, not turquoise.

I'm extremely curious about your building. Radiators are not common in Sacramento, so I'm guessing it's a large and very old multi-unit dwelling.

Really nice!
It seems very cozy and laid back.
I really appreciate when people get things that they love for furniture, artwork and tactile items for their home. It really seems like the items in the apartment were accumulated over a long time, not just on a shopping spree to decorate.
Well done!

Re: The 'Keep Calm, Carry On' poster....some people need to follow its advice and move on. Also, the 'we' used in AT texts.... really not a big deal, I rarely even notice it. It's just not worth a second of thought in the scheme of things. I can see the vein popping out of some peoples' foreheads when I read the comments. Pet peeves off my chest now. I gave this place a thumbs up. It's very cute and love the colors!