Will either Rit or iDye stain plastic? Our washing machine has a plastic tub -- as opposed to enameled metal -- so I've always been afraid of staining it.

Thanks for the suggestions. The chairs are plastic, but I don't know what kind of plastic. These chairs are an original set from the '70s (or so we were told and have no reason to thi...

Hooooly crap, the chairs are $1k each?? Someone please tell me that I'm reading the pdf incorrectly.

milk b/c my SO is addicted. random seasonal fruit(s) for snacking. random seasonal vegetable(s) as a side dish. we're fortunate in that we have room to buy in bulk if we ch...

Diatomaceous earth, to be puffed along the baseboards as an insect killer. Strangely, I had a really difficult time tracking down these bottles in the fall. Apparently many retailers ...

I agree with buffalogirl : I'm saddened by our march to paperless reading materials. I love reading design blogs, but I much prefer flipping through a magazine. I almost never impulse buy m...

As much I love that bowl/knicknack/appliance, chances are that the HC won't love it, so my default is a gift card for Target (assuming that they have easy access to one). Totally unromantic and ge...

To be honest, I've never been sold on this concept b/c I prefer that the texture be on the outside of the dish with a smooth interior. It'd be much easier to clean that way, and you would also get...

Great idea in theory. I agree that it's a bit too lopsided to work quite right. Maybe a banana leaf would be better?

practicallydone , it's very mean to taunt our lack of delicious fresh cucumbers! I think that you need to share with the rest of the class. ;)

Chilled cucumbers are great as a snack or a compliment to a spicy curry dish. Tomatoes are multipurpose and can be used in almost anything. Pasta dishes, burgers, baked in the oven, w...

Love it, but we redid our entire backsplash in seafoam green glass tile so I'm a bit biased.

I'd like to be a hider, but I'm a packrat in practice -- piles of stuff everywhere.

I can't even begin to imagine what those feathered wall coverings cost. I'm guessing that it makes the $200 votive with faux matchstick a bargain though.

FWIW, I saw them on a top corner shelf in my local Whole Foods in the cleaning supplies section.

Does anyone know the designer/group that produced the chair in the "before" pic? That's my dream dining chair! IMO, the matching woods and lamp make the "after" nook, not necessarily ...

Lovelovelove the design, but the price? Oy.

*squint* Does anyone else think that the opening looks a bit too small for adult hands? If I'm snacking, it's usually done while working on a computer (i.e. want to snack with one hand), so I don...

FWIW, we don't rinse our dishes anymore either. As long as you have a decent dishwasher & run on an appropriate setting, scraped clean dishes get just as clean as rinsed dishes. Our Miele does fi...

We run our dishwasher 2x/week max since there are only 2 of us filling a full-sized dishwasher. I noticed that in order to keep things from getting smelly, we have to: 1. leave the di...