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Name: Kacy Paide
Location: Rock Creek Gardens neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland

I am an Office Organizing Expert who spends her days organizing DC's messiest offices. I always describe my home as "Mid-Century meets Southeast Asia." I'm proud of each room's perfect balance between these two genres.

THIS WEEK
• Vintage Tag Sale at the Kentlands Mansion
• Brookeville Studio Tour
• MGBW Book Launch Tour
• Atocha Design Sale
• Business of Design
• Fall 2009 Design House
• Smith & Hawken Liquidation Sale

COMING SOON
• Emile Henry, Duralex & More Warehouse Sale
• Georgetown Jingle

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THIS WEEK
• Atocha Design Sale
• NeoCon East
• Business of Design
• Fall 2009 Design House
• Smith & Hawken Liquidation Sale

COMING SOON
• MGBW Book Launch Tour
• Brookeville Studio Tour
• Vintage Tag Sale at the Kentlands Mansion
• Emile Henry, Duralex & More Warehouse Sale

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Thanks to our lone Philadephia-based contributor — Kristen — we have 3 unique Philly homes in our House Tour archives.

THIS WEEK
• Community Forklift Tool Sale
• ReStore Grand Opening
• Restoration Hardware Lighting Sale
• Business of Design
• Fall 2009 Design House
• Smith & Hawken Liquidation Sale

COMING SOON
• Michael Smith at the Corcoran
• NeoCon East
• Brookeville Studio Tour

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Name: Sarah
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Type of Home: loft rental

Color Inspiration: I have always loved color, but I had never gone all-out with painted walls and actual themes of color until my daughter was on the way. The color palette I used in her room came directly from a crib set a friend of mine used for her son. Since my daughter's arrival (nearly five-and-a-half years ago), I find that I gravitate to the same colors — which makes embellishing and moving things around that much easier to correlate.

Name: Toni
Location: Gainesville, Florida
Type of Home: converted 1920s parsonage

Color Inspiration: Even though I love calming neutral homes, my boyfriend and I enjoy searching Craigslist and thrift stores for interesting finds too much to resist a colorful palate. We're also inspired the windows and wood floors in our house, after living in a very dark and carpeted apartment previously.

Name: Kelly
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Type of Home: single family colonial

Color Inspiration: As a wife, mom of three boys, and a color fanatic, I desperately wanted just one fancy-schmancy room in the house where I could work and create surrounded by my favorite colors: lavender, aqua and brown. My re-designed home office became that room. I love the cool, refreshing effect that lavender and aqua create. The chocolate brown adds a contemporary elegance and it anchors all of the colors, including the splashes of 'funky' orange that I added for extra energy and fun — I didn't want my office to be too serious.

Here are 5 homes from Apartment Therapy DC's archives — all located in the popular U Street corridor.

Name: Catherine
Location: Davidson, North Carolina
Type of Home: single family home

Color Inspiration: I always get inspired by the architecture of a space first. This is my foyer and I want guests to walk into my house with a smile on their face (wry smiles are OK, too).

Name: Kristen
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Type of Home: warehouse loft

Color Inspiration: We moved into our loft a little over a year ago. It was a blank slate at the time, and we've been working on making it our own ever since. One Sunday, on a whim, we decided to paint the wall (which was white at the time). I pointed at a teal candle and said "let's try that color!" Once the wall was painted, the rest of the space started to come together around it.