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We have bees inside one of the eaves of our house they have set up housekeeping this past spring. We have repeatedly used insect spray killer, and stuffed every hole we could find with steel wool. ...

My husband and I used to turn the lights off right before bedtime, but that was before we started living in our present location. We live along a mountainside and in my neighborhood t...

Wow... Amazingly ugly.

I love modern design, but I don't like this house. To me it looks like someone took lots of cheap, uncomfortable, yet great looking Ikea furniture and filled a house with it. And oh yeah the rest w...

I have hired decorators twice and both times they were rather ineffectual and expensive. The first one didn't have the same taste as I did. The second one looked down at my house and my furniture. ...

I have had a Frigidare front loader for a couple years now. I have always used the HE detergent. Mold has built up over time and it started to smell DESPITE me leaving the door open from time to ti...

There are positives and negatives to this design. I think the colors are too retro, the overabundant use of orange gives it a 60's vibe (not in a good way). I like the clean lines of the furniture,...

CREEPY! I have seen these before and every single time it has elicited that stomach churning creepy meter. It may matter if you have children of your own or not. I might have found them amusing bef...

I agree they are both somewhat bland and uninspired. If I looked only on the above photos the second looks to be the winner. The first photo has minimal color and punch (mediocre at best). The seco...

I also bought a wool rug from Ikea about three years ago. It shed like crazy for the first two and shed slightly less for the last year. I swore never to buy a rug from there again. Du...

I have also been on both sides of the fence. I cleaned corporate offices to support my way for the first couple of years of college. Here were the benefits to me as I saw them: -I got paid we...