I'm a big fan of celluar shades. They are clean looking, and help your house both thermally and acoustically. You can buy lots of differerent styles based upon your needs (acoustic, thermal, blac...

Mine already was covered in the front, so I just retiled it with white subway tile. I think it looks great, but it would fill in the fireplace.

The Michigan Riviera? Glad to hear I'm not the only one lost.

Quote of the day (from lahomoowner): "Who cares about champagne on cowhide. Darling I have seman on the finest silk from asia."

How about these clamps? http://www.irwin.com/irwin/consumer/jhtml/detail.jhtml?prodId=IrwinPro...

http://www.booksathome.blogspot.com/ has some good ideas. They have pictures of my hungarian shelves there too, though I think something more tra...

Can the plywood fad please die? mkthxbye.

icanhaz?

"Renting is paying off your landlord's mortgage..." After 4 years of a 30 year mortgage, you'll only pay down around 5% of the principal of your mortgage. If housing prices remain sta...

Was supposed to be a " " between stairs and wheels...

Running down stairs wheels of stair/counter being unlocked = bad.

Functional? Yes. Ugly? Yes.

It will look good once the front door is done. Probably out of the budget, but it would look great if you had some windows in the garage door to help balance out the starkness of it.

Doesn't look like the cabinet is an obstruction to the fan any more. :-)

Wow. I can't believe this is only 650 sq ft! Not sure I could handle the Jill Greenberg pics in my house though. While I like them, crying babies aren't something I want to look at all the time....

Oops, delete the "with it" above.

Looks like a weeping norway spruce ( picea abies 'pendula' . They naturally grow that way with it if staking when you start them out.

I really like my canopy living pillows from walmart, of all places. There are too many grammar nazis on this site...

Wow, this place is so cool and fun.

I would use this to clean my new floors... When they are actually installed. :-)