My rooms are there. I think you should go for it! I think the relative anonymity of the site compels some to be nasty, but we all know that opinions of jerks don't count anyway. ;-) I received a lot of, "It's not my cup of tea, but you've done it well" type comments.

Yep! When I consider a room "done", I put it on there, just for fun. Sadly, I only have two rooms done, but I have a bathroom on the verge of being posted!

Here is a link that might be useful: Jeannine's spaces on Rate My Space

Ok that was more complicated than I'd have thought LOL I can't figure out how to rotate the pictures once posted...it has an edit option, but I don't see the rotate button...anyone know where it is?

Here's the room...it's already been remarked it's "very mature" (does that mean too old for my son? LOL he loves it)

Here is a link that might be useful: Igloochic safari room

I think she just means it's not "cartoon-y". Heh.

igloochic, the room is fantastic! I've seen it before, but not in such detail. The murals are simply wonderful, and your son must be the envy of his friends. I think the comment about "too mature" is simply inane.

Jeannine ~Not meaning to 'hijack', but your rooms are absoultely lovely. Classic, simple, timeless, tasteful, thoughtfully done, with great attention to detail. Bravo.

Ooooh. That room is really cool. I love the tenting. It is sophisticated but still fun with the animals. It's a room he can grow with. Did you tent the ceiling yourself? I would love to know how you did that.

Igloo, I've watched that room as a work in progress. Very cool! A dream room for a boy.

I don't look at RMS very often. The responders don't seem to think outside the box, too often. What *would* be a hoot, was if you were to post some pics of your kitchen with close-ups of your hardware. I remember some on the Kitchens forum who couldn't quite wrap their heads around your choices. That would be a test of the RMS posters' true mettle.

LOL parma I still chuckle when I remember that gals reaction to my kitchen description. I can see her backing away from the computer in absolute terror heh heh

It's ALMOST done! We're finishing the entire house in the next few weeks so as the rooms get done I'll have some fun and post them. Maybe I'll have a "spot the chicken" contest along with the posts LOL (There is one in every room...subtle in many but still there).

DS's room was finished first...at least we have our priorities straight. And WOO HOO He's moving into it today! (He's been sleeping in our closet and we want our closet back LOL)

I have to play with the new photo program before I post more so that I can rotate the pics. I didn't do it right for that RMS post.

Jeannine....I went to your rooms late last night and gave you high fives :) Wonderful spaces...I can't wait to see you finish more!

AuntJen already knows I adore her home :) I want to go paint shopping with her someday!

Oh and as to the "tent" portion of the room...I actually was going to do the entire room myself but when I broke my wrist so badly I wasn't able to do it so the artists used my design for the tent. We did a bit of modification for infant safety. They were great to work with.

So here's how it's built:

It's all soft muslin, very easy to bunch up and work with. Muslin was stapled to the back of the wood braces (supposed to be holding up the tent as they did in those days). It was left quite long to reach the center of the room, and the braces on the walls are mounted seven inches below the ceiling height (to give that feel of a tent ceiling). Then the pieces are pulled into the center of the room and stapled to the ceiling, gathered softly around the lantern fixture with LOTS of staples. You can barely see that in this picture if you look behind the light fixture area of the ceiling:

I was going to hide this with a wood disc but the artists (formerly known as starving) :OP wanted to do the sticks you see in the RMS posting ceiling. I have to admit they work very well!

I hate to say this...someone shoot me.....I got the idea of the tented room from......Hildabeast on Trading Spaces! ack

thank you everyone for the kind comments. We're pretty excited about seeing my dream for his room come to life. The artists did a much better job than I'd have done and he adores it.

I don't post comments on RMS, but this is has to be the coolest little boy's room I have ever seen! So much imagination and creativity. A little boy would love it. I can imagine reading The Jungle Book before bed with him.....

I am glad the lion looks friendly.

Thank you for sharing it with us all.

OK....never been on that site. So I tried it just now. I posted my kitchen and deck. Those people are maybe looking for lifestyles of the rich and famous before they're liking it!!! lol :0) That was just a test....now get out of the shark infested waters!

igloochic....the safari theme is really cute!
jeanninepc99......loved the bedroom, very professional! The dinning room is a 5 star also!

Here is a link that might be useful: My deck & kitchen on HGTV

"I hate to say this...someone shoot me.....I got the idea of the tented room from......Hildabeast on Trading Spaces! ack "

Or maybe you did not even realize, you were inspired by Shambala? Safari West? Wild Things inc.?
And to be clear, these are some examples of Adult Tents, I'm sure your little man loves his room far more than the adult versions.
http://www.pbase.com/mrskbg/my_home_tents&view=slideshow

igloochic, I had my rooms on RMS for more than a year and met many great people with whom I continue to communicate. You asked about thick skin? I'd say so, but you throw out the nasties and learn from the well intentioned. Your room is just a child's dream and I'm sure will be well received.

Oh, I would add your explanation of construction because there's always someone that has a spark of an idea...and what better flattery can there be?

I've never put anything on RMS - but then again, I don't have any real finished products yet! I'm so glad you had the "courage" to do so. I LOVE his room!! (Tarzan yell!!!) So much fun. Too mature for a 3 year old?? what?? Why, because it isn't Winnie the Pooh? weird. Anyway, I think it's fantastic. I love the closet doors, too - are there little knobs that are camoflaged? Great details. Enjoy your closet again :)

Nicole we have the same sink LOL I love your new kitchen and that deckk...wowsa what a space to enjoy!

Bodacia, when we actually went to the effort of making the room I pulled up a bunch of luxury african vacation web sites. They have great tents (if you can call them that LOL) full of wonderful treasures. I just need to add a bathtub for him in the room and I'd be right there.

When I came up with this idea he was only a couple of months old (we've been remodeling that long dang it). I was going to do muslin curtains all around the room and then paint the ceiling that color but then I hit a rerun of a horrible burgundy and purple velvet hildibeast room...and while I certainly wasn't going to do that I did figure out how to do the ceiling from that episode (probably the last one I have watched actually).

Oh what a great idea! Something like this?
http://www.karmans.net/ttc/safari/bath.cfm

I love that tenting!

Over at the other board I frequent, we have a thread just with out RMS links in it. I go through every now and then and rate everyone's rooms (the site seems to forget that you've voted after a while). I think that counters some of the negative nellies who rate rooms poorly to make theirs look better.

Here is a link that might be useful: The Design Board's RMS links

Nicole, that DECK! it's to die for (hopefully not to die *on* -- although black bears are not as aggressive as brown, right, usually, although a mama bear of any kind is nothing to mess around with). Did you all really build it yourselves?? Serious congratulations on that accomplishment. I can just envision what it must be like looking at stars out there...

igloochic.....the first comment I got on the deck was a guy saying he liked the deck,but didn't like the bears. He gave me "1" star!!!! lol :0) He rated the bears!!!

"We both have the same sink."
Ever wonder if we could have lived with a sink that didn't cost a thousand dollars? LOL

flyleft....yes, we spent about 6mo slaving over that stooooopid deck! :0) Spent $4k including tools/welder/buffer/diamond saw blades, but we were given an estimate of $3k just for the railing!!!! ya gotta smile when it's all done tho...

LOL Nicole...I did often wonder if I could have while we were under construction, but then it was installed...gad I will never go back to a bowl that isn't huge and deep! (Mine's the 12" deep one..is yours?) I can hide about three days worth of dishes in that danged thing (not that I do ummmm but I could) :oP

I love being rated for your bears...I wonder what this would get me?

Oh and I made the HGTV Main page :o) My son is a rock star...or his room is, I guess now I have to print the main page so we'll remember our 15 mins of glory heh heh

Here is a link that might be useful: is it still there?

It's probably gone. My dining room hit the main page in the wee hours of a Saturday morning. Within an hour, it was off the page. I honestly think there are a good number of people who "down rate" other spaces so theirs will climb to the first few pages.

Who has that sort of time to get THAT wrapped up in RMS?

You mean I'm not supposed to cancel my day job and rate every single room as a 1 to make mine look better? LMAO I will agree, I'm sure people do LOL But I just can't do it. I look at some of those rooms and they just cry out for high figures...gorgeous work :) There's a cute little Dr Seuss room now that's a hoot...or a whoot if horton heard it :oP

Yes, I just recently put this picture on Rate My Space asking for advice on backsplash ideas and my room got slammed - "too much going on", "color is too bright", "get rid of the plants" ...and on and on. I got a rating of 3 out of 5. OUCH!!! ..BTW the plants were my realtor's - she said I needed to "fuss up" my space.
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All of you have very beautiful and well-done rooms. I am proud of you all and happy to say you are a part of the gardenwebbers.

Colorblind, I've definitely seen people ignore a poster's question and go for the jugular. It's so mean! In a way, you have to feel badly for people who only seem able to see the negative.

Right after I posted my dining room, I got comments about how small it was. I felt like I was getting dinged for choosing to live small and simply...I'm a single girl with a dog and a boyfriend...I bought a condo I love that fits my needs and my means. The McMansion will have to wait. :)

Jeannine, don't stew in it, just consider what has been said to posters with absolutely gorgeous places. these people need a place to vent and if it is therapeutic for them, perhaps it is cheaper for them than a clinician, so move on and let us see your place which is very nice.

igloochic....just checked in. A moose....nah....ya need a mountain lion or tasmanian devil to get a "1" star rating....it's gotta be man eating! Congratulations on the front page, 15 minutes of fame, that's a lot of "5" star ratings!!!!!

My sink is only 10" deep. I have the grid in the bottom, poured hot water on it and melted some of the plastic coating off. Wish I hadn't done that! On the kitchen forum they mention a sink like ours on ebay for $350 that is just as nice....that's when I have buyers remorse....:0) I'm adding hanging pendants over the breakfast bar next.

Here is a link that might be useful: Halogen Pendant light

Ohhh lovely pendants! Isn't remodeling fun (ok only sometimes LOL Like when you find a great piece).

I only had a moment of regret when I had my sink welded to the stainless counter. The countertop people said if they made the sink, exactly the same as mine, they would charge me $400...ya that was painful, but since I already had the sink...well that was the one we used LOL

Theres plastic on the grid? Is it obvious? My grid is chrome or something like stainless...I'm not sure I've ever seen any plastic coating but maybe that's why it's so clean? LOL

We don't have mountain lions, but we do have a couple muscrats in the lake building a house right outside of ours :) Would that do it? Or perhaps the bear that was in the strawberries...no wait they don't like bears (or did you lose points for it being ON the deck verses under it?)

I just put our master bathroom on RMS. No one gets the tub LOL (It's a very deep japenese soaking tub). The first posters said "what's that thing in the corner" LOL

Oh! wow! How did I miss this? It came out beautiful, igloochic. I bet he loves going to his room and talking to all the animals..its so adorable.

igloo: your son is so very cute! You'll need a bigger tub however, 1 or 2 more kids and that tub would be too cozy! :-D

Jeannine: Love your DR & the chandelier. I think your DR is just perfect..so freakingly glamorous. :-)

What child wouldn't want that clever room?? Good for you!
Jeannine....very pretty indeed!
Colorblind...LOVELY kitchen!
Nicole...can't wait to check yours out~

Colorblind, my bathroom is coming out at a 3 as well because it looks "cheap, dark and overdone". It's actually kind of fun to read the comments. On my son's room one of the pics with the giraffe a woman beats the heck out of it...cheap trim (umm duh it's too look like tent supports honey, not crown molding) mean animals, needs a bunch of primer heh heh I am glad I have a very thick skin...although I wouldn't need it...just seeing his face when he walks in is all I need to know it's just perfect ;)

Oh and on the bath...Nicole there was a comment on one pic where I have my husband's bears on top of his mirror. It said "That looks like ivory you b*tch"...what do you think they rated me? LOL (And it's all antique ivory and horn purchased in native villages we've visited). We didn't go out and shoot an elephant :oP (If we did I'd have stuffed it and put it in my son's room heh heh) KIDDING!!!!

ARE YOU KIDDING?!? Someone swore in their comments? That takes the cake. People are totally insane.

I go to RMS for inspiration. I like diversity. If everything looked like a Pottery Barn or model, it'd be boring, but that's what gets high ratings.

If I had time, I bet I could create a predictive measure that would show you how your room would be rated ahead of time. For example, bedrooms with blue and cream/light beige as the primary colors get the highest ratings, dining rooms with eight chairs do better than those with six, etc.

(I just made those up as examples)

Igloo, I think the Kips Bay Show House has one of those tubs!!! That's the most prestigious show house in NYC. Big deal. Huge!

Here is a link that might be useful: Bathrooms in the Kips Bay Show House

Wow Jeannie...that show house is to DIE for!! Thanks for sharing it just so I could drool LOL

And yes, that's what my tub looks like underneeth the tile. I was going to go with an above deck mounting (like the kips bay tub) but I saw one done in an undermount style and fell in love. Part of that was also because my tub deck was going to be small and I wanted some space to be able to get into the tub via the deck. It's not very comfy to swing your legs into the tub with the exposed deck. Most of them are shown with step ladders next to the tub, but I didn't like the idea of falling off a step ladder naked and wine sopped (because you can't sit in the tub for long without a gorgeous glass of wine LOL)

I love the idea of the high score formula! Yes blue and turquoise rate a 4, and big chunky dark furniture rates a 7 and antiques....oh that's a 1 because they're old and stuff :oP

They're beating the heck out of the bathroom. I guess I have to remove a few things...I would agree the little stuff on the tub wall can go. I sort of threw them up there to get them out of the dining room where I'm unpacking everything. In person it doesn't appear overwhelming, but that's the fun of taking the picture...you see a different perspective. That said, I don't think it looks "tacky" and the person who attempted to insult with the DIY comment probably never visited some of the best baths and kitchens I've ever seen...all DIY on GW :)

It seems the meanest posters on RMS are all not posters who show spaces (I wanted to see what their places looked like). The comments are sort of funny ("what is that fire breathing giraffe all about?") DH and I are getting a kick out of it. I can't wait to post the library....the antique gun should get me a solid 1 score :P

igloochic....a soaking tub in the corner of the MB? I "HAD" one in the same spot in my MB when I bought the house. My first visitor said,"Look, you can roll right out of bed and into the bathtub!" That same person said the MB looked like an addition to the house, when I said it was original to the house,they said, "How can you tell?"

When I post here or on the internet I expect criticism/evaluations....but when people come to my house they critique "everything" and tell me about it. It's like they're visiting "my stuff", not me.

I'd be careful with the Franke grid, after the plastic melts off it rusts.