Thanks for a recycling of that post. What wonderful taste. I wondered about the wedding painting when I saw it at the top of the post. It was a great idea to commission it at the time. The comb...

I just looked into camping air mattresses. You can make yourself a lot more comfortable on a hard surface using high tech self-inflating mattresses that have tiny foam cores interspersed throughou...

I like it and I like the rest of the kitchen, too. I'm usually a big one for editing, but I don't feel this space is really overdone.

No! Not a porcelain deer head in a reclaimed space! Why? Everything else is charming -- except marble in the kitchen seems a little excessive and out of scale.

I moved into an apartment with light cream carpeting. The carpeting was definitely not my choice, but it beat my last apartment, which had grass green shag carpeting. I have good luck...

Paint the room. The current feeling is as if you dropped into a black hole. Leave the woodwork alone. It will never look as good anything but natural. I'm breaking with everyone here and recomm...

What a beautiful woman and she has some very creative ideas. She is somewhat reminiscent of the great Bebe Andersson as photographed in the films of Ingmar Bergman.

One of the most fun libraries I've ever visited in the library at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, near Grand Central. It's one of the largest law libraries in the world, and it...

One more travel tip I have is that plain cotton underwear is unbelievably cheap these days. Go to Walgreen's or wherever the plainest, cheapest, most simple cotton underwear is, and buy enough for...

If you take a regular regimen of medications or vitamins, don't go for those lame rectangular boxes that have SMTWThFS written on their little lids. It's much more fun to first, figure...

I love the Anthropologie couch, and congratulations to danielle223 on her canny buy. The blue and white lamp featured at Lamps Plus is a classic. It's much like Blue Willow china, whi...

I thought this was a very original house. I loved the recycling of the vintage sink in the kitchen and also the vintage kitchen cabinet. Same thing with the tub in the bathroom, although personal...

I liked the white brick wall, the shabby chic white table, and the Venetian mirror. Very beautiful. Antlers, oh dear God, no. Empty picture frames, a close second. In my...

I like the look. I like the romance.

About 40% of the images used above didn't work for me at all. I thought the rooms would look better without the patterned upholstery, particularly the floral upholstery. But do what m...

Thank you, birdseye, for posting the family heirloom weavers site. Their stuff is really nice -- really simple and old-fashioned.

The wonderful soft home furnishings expert Katrin Cargill, who has written a series of books explaining very clearly how to sew curtains, pillows, and tableclothes for your home, has kept alive the...

Okay, if you love living and sleeping among trees, there's an old-fashioned solution. Build a tree-house. This was quite a movement for those with ample grounds. No, I don't like the...

It's sad that people in such an ancient city that stands for so much have to live without parks. Hey, people, rise up and take back more of your birthright! Good luck!

Newport is a trip. It has such contrasts -- oldest synagogue in the U.S., intact Colonial America district, and then the Gilded Age piles that are built on the cliffs of the sea. Frankly, I find ...