These are really cool. However, one should check with their municipality before buying. My city, for example, required that all fire pits have a grill, so these unfortunately wouldn't pass code.

I'm curious what the ground cover is in the first and second photos. I've been looking for alternatives to my (weedy) lawn, but so far haven't been able to identify any good alternative ground cove...

I have to second what labchick is saying, here. In my city, we have the option of leaving depositable bottles out with our recycling (for either the waste-management company contracted by the city ...

During the day, my cats like to sleep on some old fleece blankets near the windows. At night, however, they like to sleep on me! :)

Honeysuckle pieces. Also not free, but it has catnip-like qualities. Also shoelaces of any kind. Basically anything on a string that you can drag across the floor reeeaaaaalllly sloooo...

And, of course, you'd feel even worse if you accidently stepped on the polar bear!

That is, however, a very small drying rack. I have somethig similar to this , along with some clothespins to minimize ha...

I think it's charming, actually. (P.S. - Your survey thing still insists I'm not logged in when I am. This happens to me on both Firefox and IE.)

I actually have the very bread machine in your photograph! We got it when my partner's grandmother moved into a smaller space and was de-stashing. I use it almost exclusively on the do...

Only salad-making is taking place in the kitchen. Everything else is happening out at the back-yard fire pit: brats cooked on sticks, transferred into a toasted bun and dressed with sauerkraut and ...

I often cook with whole wheat, but find it's availability inconsistent in grocery stores in my area, so not always. It does taste different, to be sure - I find mostly that it's far more filling th...

Like laetitiae, I have cats wanting their morning feeding. In the winter, they respond to my alarm clock (simple beeping contraption) between 5:30 and 6:00. Now that it's summer and the sun wakes t...

I used this product but I wasn't very impressed. I wanted to re-use the bags, but it was impossible to clean them out properly after using them, so they are effectively single-use items. After usin...

Unfortunately the basement is the only place where there's room to keep my bike and yeah, there is a big "out of site, out of mind" issue. It's also really awkward to carry it up the narrow stairca...

I grew up on a family farm (primarily wheat and canola, some pulses, not organic though) so of course I've visited it a fair amount as an adult as well. Now, when I go, I see my dad pa...

Depending on whether you want to re-do everything or not, I'd either go with a warm brown for the wall spaces and keep the cabinets as is... or to a total redo and paint the kitchen red with espres...

In general I agree with this, but as the owner of an old, but very much *not* functional kitchen, I have to say that there are exceptions.

I have a USian (California) mom and a Canadian (Alberta) dad. My dad's meals would be: breakfast, dinner, supper. My mom's meals would be breakfast, lunch, dinner. To be clear, I just disposed of "...

I would never donate to the Salvation Army, because of their blatant (and in some areas of the world, illegal) discrimination against their gay and lesbian employees and clients. In Canada, they've...

I've started my tomatoes indoors (perhaps a bit early for May long weekend planting), as well as a number of other herbs, flowers and beans. Squash will be started later. I'm lucky to have a large ...