>So the clean, refined look marks the residents as the "professional" upper-middle-class (doctors, lawyers, architects, stockbrokers) rather than as people who inherited their silver along with the...

Pretty but AWFUL for damaging books.

>generra hypercolor shirts. It didn't occur to me when I bought one in middle school that it'd announce the shape of my bra to the whole world. Oh, well. *g*

The fireplace might be a part of the original building, but fireplaces were quite new in the 14thc and would have been really unusual for a room meant for sleeping in. And I totally ag...

BTW, installed correctly,wood floors have a small gap around the room to allow wood to shift a little as it gains and loses moisture throughout the year. So if you flooring guy installs it RIGHT, ...

You. Need. Baseboards. With a wood floor, you've gotta have them. I don't have any in some of my carpeted rooms in my modern house, and that's fine, but it's not going to ple with a wood floor....

The shadow's cast from another direction. It depends on how the place is oriented and what that window is to, I suppose. The house seems awfully squatty to me. They're squeezing 3 ...

Heh. I used to work for a company that was outsourcing stuff to China. Having known the conditions that the Chinese workers had to endure BEFORE they got the manufacturing jobs and having seen th...

Thanks, everybody!

There's no place for a pocket door--it would stick out into the adjoining rooms! I'm actually stealing hall space and a 38"x70" section of the adjoining room to add the tub, so it's not going to g...

C&B, absolutely. Just about every house I visit of 20 or 30-somethings seems to be furnished out of a C&B catalog--it's more furniture than place setting, though. For china, it's whit...

If they're standard, they'll be at 6'8", right? I guess that only gives you four inches to play with after 3" trim. In that case, I'd skip the crown molding, but I'd *still* use the picture rail ...

>I would NOT apply any sort of crown molding, as such a treatment would only serve to emphasize how short the walls are. Have you done it? I have. Guess what? It works. Like I said...

I'd put them right flush up against the edge of the trim. Put the curtain rods as high as you can without hitting the picture rail.

I honestly don't know how much of the tile is going to survive. It'll be a good six months, at least, until I'm elbow-deep in this remodel. Most probably will, since it looks like I can pop them ...

I know this one! *waves hand* Put up thick, simple crown molding with a picture rail another 6" below the edge of the crown molding. Paint the picture rail, the space on the wall bet...

Oh and the loft remodel is really cool! I like the floor. :-)

>Honestly, I think that in 50's bathrooms it's really the colors that stood out. Yup. And the colors were usually yellow, green, pink, or blue. That's my problem! :-) I just can't ...

I'm trying to stay away from subway tiles. Those are really 20 years too early, and they're so trendy right now that I have a feeling that in another decade they'll be out again. There's no way I...

Well, it's got to go for several reasons. 1) The tank on the toilet cracked. How? I have no clue! It's not like anyone lifted the lid up, but there you go. So the green toilet's g...