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When I moved from Boston to Los Angeles I noticed a serious increase in dust bunnies. It's so dry and if I leave a window open for a few days... forget about it.

If there is so much stuff outside the cabinets, what's in the cabinets? Looks good but I don't want to clear a space just to make a sandwich.

Door closed always. Though my roommate pees/talks on the phone/and clips her nails all at the same time with the door open. Whose privacy aren't you violating at that point. I would l...

I am on my final leg of living with roommates. - Not wiping down surfaces after you use them - Don't just walk by the trashcans when you get home first, take them in - We h...

oh and... I wouldn't do anything "HUGE". You have a HUGE window that is beautiful already. You don't want anything to compete with that.

I don't think you really have to do much to this space. - If those are blinds in the windows on both sides of the doors I would put sheer cloth there instead. Not hanging, but the taut...

BED BUGS!?! Gross. I live in a 100 year old house in LA and we have pigeons in the front and a cuter bird family in the back (right outside my window). They are so loud I actually sometimes sleep w...

I love cleaning!

So pretty :)

What are these prism prints?

We found a pretty amazing deal in Echo park (more on the Silver lake side). It's a 3 bed/2bath house with a huge front and back yard for $2000. One bed (mine) is sort of small with no closet but i'...

Thanks for all the suggestions! A lot of these - mirror, lamps, rugs - I've been slowly trying to make happen but money is slowing me down. The paint job is bad in some sp...

Yes, I am willing to branch out. Anything and everything would be helpful. I'm having a hard time incorporating colors.

My coffee table is Lane too, but the water marks never go away unless I take an iron to them. I had tried Old English dark before hand but it didn't do anything.

This works! I've removed multiple water marks/heat stains from my darkly stained coffee table and they came out. I just used damp paper towels and an iron but some thicker cloth probably works bett...