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Bright strong colors, simple shapes, non-green striking foliage.

I would be tempted to go with gray shingles and white trim. That might be too beachy for your location, but it would look crisp without looking too modern, and it wouldn't fight the brick.

I can't imagine how often that white carpet must get cleaned - I would have liked pastel carpet when I was little though.

My dog is not getting shut up for visitors, and if people don't like my dog they don't have to come over to my house. A cat I would shut up if it was a risk of running out the door in...

I don't have kids and I don't design my spaces for kids - it's my own clumsy late-night or possibly even alcohol-enhanced ass I'm concerned about as I look at that table. Surely there's something g...

I would do a tone-on-tone white wallpaper. Check out Bradbury and Bradbury wallpaper and go to Art Deco (the era of Hollywood glam) and look at the "Moonlight" color - it'd be so perfect. They also...

Teal, aqua, pink-taupe and all the cool taupes, the pink-browns in general especially Band-Aid colour, pink-tinged gray, mustard. These are just depressing, life-sucking, anti-happines...

I want one. Yep, said it. Better for gaming, and maybe working without distractions (but probably only gaming) and I don't have to find a chair that looks pleasant AND is comfortable. ...

To be fair, the better chair has to be comfy, lightweight, and sturdy and in a fabric you like and still under 200 dollars for that to be outright better than the poang. Most new chai...

Depends what you want to do with the shed and how long you expect to be sitting in it at a time; I can think of lots of uses for sheds where you don't need heat/ac and I live in USDA zone 7 which i...

If you want a purebred dog due to size/temperment predictability (something I care a lot about myself, personally) there are a lot of purebred dogs in shelters and breed rescues. If y...

I hate squirrels and that is still one ugly mama-jamma of a pillow.

I am the furthest thing from a minimalist (okay not the FURTHEST thing but close to it) but these rooms feel busy, and hyperactive to me. And I can like that, if its cheery, colour-fi...

If you paint them they will look shabby chic and cottage, not modern. Do you want country instead of traditional or transitional? If so, paint away. Also add those darling hole-punched tin or coppe...

I want one with the portholes. Pretty sure the massive size is only right for somebody like my sister though, who wants to have nine kids. And could, of course, never ever afford a thirty thousand ...

Also for what it's worth these ARE my grandparents' synagogues. And plenty older synagogues still have rich, even ornate detailing? "Less frills" is a budget constraint or style choic...

I always heard the shape of Beth Sholom in Elkins Park was designed to evoke Mount Sinai, where the Commandments were received. It was originally designed to sit on top of a hill. Whic...

I'm confused as to how these people have seven year olds that can't eat dinner pleasantly without pitching a fit or landing on the floor, and who's reaction is to just give up on it instead of enfo...

I have more than thirty books in individual SUBJECTS I read more than every year. Do I need some sort of log-sheet in order to document them as useful/entertaining rather than pretentious?

I do this every day and I always have. Its not hard, for me. Well, its hard, sometimes, but its not difficult/complicated? It's definitely not impossible. If you think its impossible, that's pretty...