Don't walk Coney Island Ave!! It sucks!! Ocean Parkway is MUCH better for pedestrians - they have a whole long sidewalk between the main street adn the side street - it's BUILT for pedestrians. ...

I have potholders like that - I have a duck and a shark. But they don't work well at all! Cute sight gags, but totally useless in the kitchen. You can't grip anything, and the heat goes right thro...

I've had this couch/bed (or it's earlier IKEA incarnation) for 3 years now. The bed is VERY FIRM. We ended up buying a mattress pad to go on top, and it's much better. You should also be aware th...

We did this with a long skinny desk from Ikea. It's perfect. So often we want to show one another the things we've found on the internet, and now you can just lean over to see. It works well if ...

I like the idea of a nice warm terracotta beige or orange.... it will keep the Seattle basement cozy! Then you can add pops of red throughout to echo the barstools, and detract from the diner mot...

We're a 2 cat household also, and we use the crystals because of superior odor control. We tried regular clay (and they tracked it everywhere), and then we tried the sawdust pellets that break up ...

Stick a potato in it. I'm not kidding! They are the hardiest plant, and can survive changes in temperature and odd watering schedules. If kids in grade school can do it for a scienc...

IKEA has several sizes of the regolit paper shade. We had the big one at first, but then downgraded. It's not super clear on the website or in the store, but ask, and I'm sure you'll find a smalle...

Sorry.... Springbok, not springbox!!

I think it's a pity that you have a gorgeous springbox skin on the floor - if you put it over the back of the chair you'll see the "mohawk" for which they are famous pop up.

Are you kidding me? ANTS on my dishes?? That would be NO NO NO NO NO with a bit long EWWWWW at the end. I would completely freak out every time, and my guests would totally freak out, every time...

Hope4, I'm with you. The importance of staging is totally lost on some people. I thought this place looked kind of scattered, the white made it so washed out, and the furniture placement was just a...

I would NEVER want to put my toilet cleaning sponge anywhere near my utensil sponge.... do you know how fast bacteria can travel across sponge material? Even separated by the fabric of the "house...

I guess I should have also said that we have a metal bed frame and love it. I really like the circles in this bed frame, and I think with a really bright, modern-art-esque throw or duvet it could l...

I have one reason (and it's a really good one) to have a metal bed frame. Bed bugs find it harder to live in them, and have a harder time crawling up the legs of them, than in/on wooden bed frames...

I have a Turkish one on my desk at work. The guy who gave it to me said it was for protection from "blond and blue-eyed devils!" I'm sure there is history about that somewhere!

Oh my god! 3 years I interviewed for a marketing position with this architectural firm. The 2 lead architects really believe that by surrounding yourself with the "proper" physical forms you will n...

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heatherleaf, I thought you couldn't take cats inside the cabin with you on international flights? We're moving to England next year and have had a hard time planning on a way to get our 2 cats ove...

They look like nipples. Bizarre, robot-like, futuristic, maybe even a little Austin Powers "FemBot"-ey.... I'm frightened.