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I agree the vibe is good! We love that blue so much we painted our entire building that color!

I don't get it. Isn't this a dorm room with blue paint and a sheet on the window?

And I thought the taste level on AT:LA was low. You can smell that bed from here.

Looks like the room I rented my first year in college. The sticker residue on the bed is a nice touch. I'm assuming the sheet is hung on the window with push pins too... how stylish.

Err .. I'm with kitties!.

Not getting it ....

Ok, I get it ! A nice blue color, which photographs well. But come on......the room is not good.......as a matter of fact, I would be upset if I were a neighbor and the window looked like that from the street. You usually see that kind of window "treatment" in the really scary, falling down projects.

Posting photos like this does not compensate for all the posts of multi-million-dollar mansions that a lot of AT readers object to. They don't just average out. Nice try, though.

I like the color, even though it's close to that 'blue sky' color.

..But the room...err...not so much ;)

That chair and desk combo looks painful for my knees.

OK, I'm out of here. First the roach dishes and now this.

There's absolutely NOTHING that I could possibly like in this picture. I'm an average 24 guy, and I absolutely think this stinks.

Sorry. NO. Is this really what Apartment Therapy has come to? This isn't style in any way, shape or form. Half peeled off stickers on the unmade bed, sheets in the window, chair that doesn't fit under the desk. No thought at all has gone into this room and yet it's being feature on a website about interior style.

Seriously, I get 20 updates in my inbox every morning and it's just 'delete, delete, delete, delete'. How about some quality well thought out posts and less of this stuff.

So. WRONG! In. Every. Way. Desk chair - NO (at that height it won't even work with that desk!)Window treatment - NO. Bed - NO. Paint color - irrelevant.

this room has absolutely nothing going for it.......

I notice the symmetry post disappeared from negative responses. I didn't want to jump all over this one, but come on. Could you be a little more discriminating in what impresses you?

Yes, KTG, I believe you're right. This post appears to be penned by the same person who thought those plaid chairs were "to die for" in the post ostensibly written on the virtues of symmetry. Can we have an "oy vey"?

I guess "minimalism" only works if everything is white and acres and acres of free space is around. It doesn't apply to simple spaces, eh?

Nice color... but I don't really like the rest of the room. It makes me feel sad.

Wall colour is too dark for me. The lamp belongs somewhere else in the room, instead in front of the window and all other things that are wrong were already mentioned.

Could look better with a few tweaks here and there.

The blue is awesome - but the rest of the room stinks.

I love the stickers on the bed. At what point do you come home drunk and decide, I am gonna stick this radio station promotional sticker on my headboard!!

gg - terrible.

I feel a little bad for the photographer, who probably didn't intend this photo to be ripped apart on Apartment Therapy when she posted it to her flickr account. Oh well. It is a nice shade of blue.

Seriously? I mean, come on, the 99 cent clock is lopsided for goodness' sake!

I would think the person who posted this would have to be insane to post a picture like this - was she wanting to freak out people on how horrible this room is? There's no excuse at all for it.

This is what the other side of her room looks like (well, how it looks when you take a picture of its reflection in the window):

http://flickr.com/photos/mioi/95626699/

Still a good blue - but a bad room

I guess "minimalism" only works if everything is white and acres and acres of free space is around. It doesn't apply to simple spaces, eh?

Well, yes, I think so. Minimalism is the most costly and elitist design aesthetic, because everything has to be high-quality and perfect-looking, including the floor. Otherwise the space just looks as if nobody bothered to decorate it.

We all could get more critical of this room. Like the duvet/comforter is messed up and the bed didn't get much of an attempt at making it. No decent pillows. The chair is totally wrong for the desk - mostly the seat being too tall and the chair being too chunky looking. The bed frame has sticker residue all over it. The curtain looks just like a white sheet has been hung up with thumb tacks.

Should I go on?

ugh.

^ Agree