I am loving this thread. I'm someone who's not a good cook, and is plagued by poor planning -- i.e., I never have anything around to whip up, and end up eating out, or nibbling on potato chips. Tha...

If you are short of space, consider an 18-inch-wide dishwasher. They're about half the price of the drawer models but still fit plenty.

It's possible that those tiles were covered up because they are in poor shape, or there are some missing. So I'd have a Plan B: what if you remove the wallpaper and the tiles are in a bad state?

When I had an ugly fake wood and brass ceiling fan in an old apartment, I took off some of the brass detailing and painted the blades beige to match the ceiling (I had my landlord's permission, I s...

It looks like something the Collier Brothers would have done....

I bought this faux-wicker model a few months back, and it looks great and is easy to clean (also doesn't look as "litter box-y" as many of the above models):

I just found this thread after Googling about smelly, rubbery rugs. I bought a rug from Pottery Barn in early 2005, and it developed this problem several months ago. Today I called Pottery Barn's n...