Smaller Cooler 2009: The Semifinals!

Congratulations to our semifinalists! After three weeks of sharing wonderful kids rooms in small homes, we've found the readers' top three picks in each of our age divisions and now, you'll choose from this group of nine to find the smallest, coolest kids' rooms of 2009. From a custom mini-nursery structure in San Francisco to a room shared by two brothers in Saint Louis to a baby room carved out of part of a master bedroom in New York City, we've got it all...

...including your top choices in the international division, from Paris, Ottowa and Mumbai!

Take a look back at our 9 semi-finalists listed below (and shown above)...

Ethan & Oliver's Shared Space

Isobel's Carved Out Nursery

Irene's "Master" Bedroom & Playroom

Jake & Pete's Super Small Space

Roan's Former Factory

Olivia's Re-Decorated Room

Anna & Thomas' Car-Crazy Meets Artistic Room

Lyla Mae's Custom Mini Nursery

Paige's Pink Playspace

and then please give your vote to your favorite overall smaller, cooler kids room:

Voting is for ONE day only - in 24 hours (approx 1:30pm EST on 5/29), we will stop the vote and the top three ranked entries (regardless of original age division) will be our three winners of the prizes from Green Depot.

We have a separate final vote for the top 3 International entries. The highest ranked entry based on your vote today in this division will receive a Certificate of Recognition from Ohdeedoh:

Adélaïde's Reading Room

Liam's Dino Spot

Neha's Dream Room

Congrats to all the semifinalists and thanks to all who entered their inspiring, wonderful kids rooms!

Having trouble voting

posted by wein7296 on May 28th 2009 at 2:31pm
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Lucky Isobel

posted by darujest on May 28th 2009 at 2:44pm
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The most serene and soothing of spaces. This will be a very calm contented baby.

posted by pbrams on May 28th 2009 at 3:02pm
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I can't vote (i'm logged in)

posted by etrudeau on May 28th 2009 at 3:50pm
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It's not letting me submit my choice.

posted by inkstainedwriter on May 28th 2009 at 3:52pm
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Apologies to those having trouble voting -

Sometimes, due to the way web browsers work, the “answer survey” button gets stuck in the “off” state. After logging in on the comment form, you may need to tell your browser to full refresh the page. Usually, holding down the shift key and clicking refresh or reload will fix this. Sorry for the confusion—we hope to fix this (rare) glitch in the future.

posted by janel on May 28th 2009 at 5:00pm
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I love Paigey's room!! Where Butterscotch the horse??

posted by playgs on May 28th 2009 at 5:02pm
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great

posted by kevin711 on May 28th 2009 at 5:22pm
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AWESOME ROOM!!!

posted by cbrustman@surewest.net on May 28th 2009 at 6:47pm
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Lyla has a nice room

posted by rvera on May 28th 2009 at 7:48pm
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Jake and Pete's room is awesome !!

posted by tadie on May 28th 2009 at 7:56pm
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It's not letting me vote for Lyla Mai!

posted by blissful on May 28th 2009 at 8:25pm
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I can't vote either...

posted by birnante on May 28th 2009 at 9:15pm
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I love Ethan and Oliver's room
It rocks

posted by cmgeiger on May 28th 2009 at 10:38pm
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I love Roan's room... its so creative!

posted by chellebelle880 on May 28th 2009 at 11:41pm
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I adore Ethan and Oliver's room. So cute!

posted by MeganB. on May 29th 2009 at 12:41am
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it's still not letting my peeps vote. ugh!

posted by jayhwk1 on May 29th 2009 at 12:42am
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why can't i vote?

posted by bigjake on May 29th 2009 at 12:43am
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I love Neha's Dream room. It deserves more votes!

posted by ivmani on May 29th 2009 at 3:09am
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Wow...What a great place to live in. Wish i was Neha's kid bro :)

posted by Vamsi on May 29th 2009 at 3:18am
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A true winner...Neha's room

posted by amrita on May 29th 2009 at 3:27am
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Love Neha's dream room! It's definitely a little girl's heaven and definitely a winner!!

posted by priyaluckraz on May 29th 2009 at 3:35am
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Neha's room is the best... i wish i had a room like that!!! Neha's room deserves 2 win! " GO NEHA! "

posted by KittyL on May 29th 2009 at 5:35am
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Ethan and Oli's room is absolutely amazing. Vote it up!

posted by ocpeter on May 29th 2009 at 7:31am
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i know of lots of people wanting to vote for jake & pete's room! but they can't for some reason, even after trying the shift, refresh trick. this is SUPER frustrating!!!

posted by bigjake on May 29th 2009 at 8:27am
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Neha's Room is the Best....Deserve to be winner...

Go ahead and vote!!!!

posted by Karan on May 29th 2009 at 8:39am
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Hello!! Trying to vote for Jake and Pete's but it won't let me!!

posted by elmaelsiena on May 29th 2009 at 8:44am
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Lots of us want to vote for Neha's room and cannot do the same.

posted by lovedaddy on May 29th 2009 at 8:49am
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Repeated from above for those who are having trouble voting:

Sometimes, due to the way web browsers work, the “answer survey” button gets stuck in the “off” state. After logging in on the comment form, you may need to tell your browser to full refresh the page. Usually, holding down the shift key and clicking refresh or reload will fix this.

posted by janel on May 29th 2009 at 8:53am
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I just think Jake and Pete have the coolest room with really smart space solutions. It got my vote! (Tough choice, though!)

posted by mere1975 on May 29th 2009 at 9:12am
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For people who are having trouble voting -- can you describe in more detail what you are experiencing? Are you receiving an error message when you try to vote? Is the "answer survey" button enabled or is it "grayed out"? It's possible there is a bug in the system, but without more detail I cannot reproduce the problem.

I'll check in here occasionally but I'll be more likely to notice an email to scott@apartmenttherapy.com if you can send me more detail.

The only known problem with the system is, immediately after logging in on a post the "answer survey" button remains disabled. It usually becomes enabled if you reload the page. Sometimes, a browser might "cache" the disabled version of the button, in which case holding down your "shift" key and pressing the "reload" or "refresh" button on your browser will typically clear the cached disabled button. This is on our development roadmap to fix in the future, but this workaround solves this problem in the rare case it occurs.

posted by Scott T. on May 29th 2009 at 9:25am
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i've followed the directions to refresh etc., but i still can't vote. if i could i would have voted for jake and pete's room.

posted by unclebrent on May 29th 2009 at 9:28am
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I like Neha's room

posted by ajayogale on May 29th 2009 at 9:35am
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It looks like a ton of people registered on May 29th JUST to vote for Neha's room. Hmmmm....I wonder if it's the same person?

Anyway, I had no problems voting although I wish it were set up more like Apartment Therapy's small cool contest. Where we could view the rooms while voting.

posted by Megan in AZ on May 29th 2009 at 10:00am
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Neha's room is best

posted by Gyaneshwar on May 29th 2009 at 11:07am
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looks like someone doesnt like the votes to Neha..Thats what friends are for..

posted by kareenadunn on May 29th 2009 at 11:09am
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I have refreshed the page, cleared cache, logged out and back in, still the "answer survey" button is greyed out.

posted by luckymom on May 29th 2009 at 12:07pm
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This most amazing little princess nersery! Very lucky little Isobel who would learn how beautiful her world is early on!!!

posted by yoon223 on May 29th 2009 at 12:19pm
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Thank you to all those who voted for Neha's dream room! You guys are really awesome. Neha says thank you.

posted by ivmani on May 29th 2009 at 1:06pm
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Neha's room is an dream for any girl!! Way to go:)

posted by elmaelsiena on May 29th 2009 at 6:47pm
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