Many of you (well, probably ALL of you) have seen the pictures of the bedroom I designed for the apartment with the striped walls. The drama of creating that dramatic space was detailed in this post, and if you're looking for a good laugh (and a pretty good before and after story) click on over. 

44 yards of Valdese Weavers Mattress Ticking and countless bottles of wine and curse words later - I had what was probably the most positively responded to space in the whole apartment. People couldn't wait to ask questions about the process, and were shocked to hear that not only were the stripes fabric, that the stripes ran horizontally on the fabric and this stripe was the process of railroading and sewing two widths of the fabric together. Talk about a PITA! 
The space ended up being one that I enjoyed spending time in, and worked wonderfully with all of the other design in the apartment. The space is only about 900 square feet, and all of the rooms are partially open to one another and easily viewed from space to space. So when everything was delightfully neutral, this space was the crown jewel of the apartment.

After I had my mini-melt down earlier this year and was minutes (literally) from throwing shoes, clothes, and dogs in the back of a uHaul and heading to Florida, I liquidated a lot of this room. Art, design books, the big mirror, probably everything from this photo. The room had been pulled apart and was only a shell of what these pictures showed.

But I...