Recessed speakers are a great idea space-wise but you'd think a tech site would point out that very few speakers are made to be recessed. Normal speakers need to be surrounded by empty air and they...

Nice and neat, but I have to agree with those who feel it looks too contrived. It lacks the soul and individuality you get from hand-me-downs and from art and souveniers purchased over time, and wi...

My first rule is to buy art you love. While I prefer original art, much of it is too expensive or in a museum and nothing I can buy. So if I love a piece, and there is a poster of it for sale, why ...

I like the white and it looks like it might work better with the other furnishings in the room (hard to tell though). But it is way too symetrical and that spray lamp needs to go. The ...

Gosh that is an ugly (and highly expensive) sofa!

Looks like it was made for a breakfast nook, but I agree with the concern about people tipping backwards off the edge. The library idea is the best. Too bad you probably can't remove that chair rail.

Nice loft but it does not look like a book-lover's home to me. No bookcases to speak of and virtually no books that I can see.

I don't understand why you installed clear glass in the first place. Even with solid doors, you would have kept the light by leaving them open and gotten privacy by closing them. I agr...

The storage bin idea works, but the grey plastic bins seem completely wrong for your space. How about a variety of natural fiber bins and baskets from Cost Plus? They would add a lot of texture and...

timmy jr: The best solution I have seen is putting a wall of French doors a few feet in front of your speaker/component wall, replacing the glass in the doors with audio-permeable fab...

For people who live near an Aaron Brothers, they are currently having a 1 cent sale (buy any frame or canvas for full price and a second frame or canvas of the same or lesser value is 1 cent). That...

Not true about the washer door having to be open to avoid smells. We did much the same thing with our full-sized front load washer and dryer about five years ago and the washer has never smelled th...

I purchased two of these to act as wardrobes in my bedroom. I scuffed them up a bit with sandpaper and then sprayed them with very thin layers of paint from an automotive paint store (in a very dar...

There are all sorts of earthquake proof wall hooks on the market. I have never had a problem with any of them and I lived within miles of each the last two big quakes we had in California.

An earthquake will either destroy nothing in your house or it will destroy your entire house. If you lose the whole house, it won't matter whether you had shelves or not. Just don't put anything on...

You can't just ignore it. And drywalling over it seems a bit excessive. And cupboard doors would look odd. I'd go with the prior suggestions of books (and a nice library ladder up to them) or spell...

There is a happy medium between IKEA and High Design. Or at least there should be. I don't think anything can claim to be good design if it carries a silly price tag. It can claim to be art, but it...

We have a large coffee table with a shelf underneath the top. We store our DVDs in wicker baskets on the shelf (you can only see the edges of the baskets; the top of the table blocks you from seein...

My go-to tuna recipe is Pâté di Patate, a recipe from Mara Allavena in Italy that was in Saveur magazine some years ago. While the recipe may sound a bit strange, it tastes great and e...

I agree. This is all pointless until you can upload your own photos. While there are programs on CD and DVD that will let you do that, I have not heard of any online that do.