Most grad students don't live in "dorms," per se. Also, what defines a dorm, exactly? Must it be a single room? If so, some Columbia undergrad dorms (i.e. quads) might be off-limits ...

I agree with you, P2. New York can be amazing, but I don't like living here all the time. And not being independently wealthy. I still don't know what shannon means by "true grit,"...

simply lovely. I love posts like this! It lets the non-pro-designers of us see how we change our space!

There's a disconnect in Seattle? Give me a break; you want gleaming crap next to kids posing as gritty, just walk through the east village.

ooooh--I meant Vancouver, BC. I also must admit that, as a native Puget Sounder, I've never considered eastern Washington or eastern Oregon cities to be very "northwest-y." Sorry, Spokane!

Saying that SF is in the Pacific Northwest is like saying that DC is in New England. The big three Pacific NW cities are Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver. San Francisco is its own e...

Pixie, I definitely agree with you. When I started reading about two years ago, this blog was much more about ways to live/organize, rather than some new slick chair or lamp, etc. T...

ditto, Sparkly. dogs urinate on everything that's on the curb.

ha. bagging the knob.

is there room in the bathroom for a W/D unit? refrigerators should definitely stay in the kitchen, unless you can incorporate a small one into a bar-like breakfront. even then, as m...

my 2 cents: 1) find a frame for the document you have on the second shelf and hang it somewhere else. if you really value it, it definitely needs a frame. 2) I agree with...

sadly, I loved to vacuum as a child, and this would have been an amazing toy for me. they should package it with "baby's first toilet brush."

Speaking to the processing question (by way of addressing off-gassing), here's a quotation from the Build It Green website: "The process of agglomerating the cork requires binders to h...

chocolate brown on accent wall = yummy. love your shower curtain! where's it from?

does anyone else find it ironic that we're talking about cutting down on CO2 emissions and at the same time figuring out new and improved ways to introduce CO2 into our water? people are bizarre.

elchan--urban outfitters has some great deals on cute quilts and bedspreads. and if you can hold out, their sales can be amazing.

I'm chiming in with the rest of the crowd--when I realized it was time to get rid of 5 years worth of Martha Stewart Living, I went through all the mags with an exacto knife and took pages of pictu...

ah, yes. thanks!

oops. I must have mised it. link?

speaking of pics, there's a HUGE range of photo quality in the smallest coolest entries. It seems like some entries could get a better response if only their pics were more "professional."