Plus, the lighting was exquisite....

Okay, you'll just have to try and picture this. Our Friday night dinner party? At one point, I walk into the bedroom (toward the bathroom) and the evening's best dressed woman -- swathed in exquisite thrift store black lace -- is passed out on our quilt -- watermelon pink with a black watermelon seed pattern. Next to her, a copy of Ethel Merman's autobiography. It works...trust me.