Sort of, but not really. My relatives who live in the big houses (2500 sf plus) often tell me how much they save buying bulk TP and light bulbs and how I'm paying a premium for buying less. They d...

Since you have said that the kitchen is too small for an island, I am guessing a cart might be too large as well... I would probably make the dining table a multiuse piece and go for function over...

I agree with other got-marrieds. My single-girl apartment was always tidy (so much so that I once returned from a 3 week vacation where I visited my clutterbug parents, and thought I'd been robbed...

Please call the friend! It's the right thing to do. If you were sitting my cats, I'd give you this long song and dance about how they are strictly indoors only. And when you called in a panic, I...

Ah, that would be the time when I invited my dad over for dinner in a "new" house. Unbeknownst to me, the old propane stove had hot spots. And not-hot spots. The same pan could be hot in one sec...

Amyrosa, I was trying to mentally salvage this but now can only think of tighty whiteys! Thanks for the laugh. And yes, awful. I cannot for the life of me think of a good use of this...

I gotta love the Eeyore doll, with his terrified eyes peeping over the piled mess of covers. As a control freak (and friends call me a neat freak, though I swear I'm not), I would us...

I think we overpay a bit based on what I have since learned about the area, but we calculated the cost of moving to a cheaper apartment versus the knowledge we will only be here 1 more year (10-12 ...

Lovewantgimme... very hot.

That white lamp is the exact model of my nightlight from my childhood- it's a three way lamp that lights with a key turn! Maybe I shoulda kept that one...

I loved my first and third apartments, both corner units, for all the above reasons. The cross-ventilation alone was worth it. Actually, I also had a corner dorm room that I loved too, esp since ...

Anyone else see the Solar Decathlon this year? I read those are 800 sf houses, and some of them are so nice that I'd move in tomorrow if I could.

Yes, indeed. Pfau's in West Hartford Center. Lots of hardware knowledge with a good dose of random stuff (kitchen supplies!?). Walking distance for most of the apartment dwellers.

I hope this'll still be there whenI visit next week. I've got major ick-problems with spiders, but this is amazing.

Love Darlingcaro's poem. For ants, we lay down cayenne. That helps a lot.

Ah ha, timely! I am down recovering from a badly broken arm. A week after the accident, while still in the cast and sling, I got the flu. Not fun, do not do. We decided to hire a ma...

Whoever made the Portuguese comment is SO right! I thought my Portuguese relatives had the choke hold on the creepy crocheted dollies. Even now, the picture gives me a memory of that old-lady sme...

Didn't anyone else notice the scientific equipment and the body ..er.. doll? in the last one? Wonder if its a commentary on the standard american diet!

The first picture is reminiscent of an installation I saw at the Hirschorn a few years ago- I think it was called "Red Dress", essentially a gigantic red dress which was just draped all about the i...

I always had container gardens that went gangbusters (tomatoes, peppers, and herbs). This was the first year we tried a community garden plot. Next year, we'll ask for better placemen...