If either way would fit with your decor, I would vote for stripping the wood. I am admittedly a bit of a wood fetishist, and think a lot of the furniture redecorations that involve painting over p...

Those are all very nice, but why are so many mobiles you see these days hung symmetyrically along one axis? I have a couple Flensted mobiles, and a lar...

Not that this is bad advice, as it is very solid, but I would like to point out that it is quite possible to rent tools for jobs. I tiled my bathroom floor last year by renting a wetsaw for two da...

This is in no way retarded. Non-noise canceling earphones allow a decent amount of ambient noise to enter, but still block enough to make riding a bike unsafe. Normal earphones still physically b...

I'm going to echo littlebrownbird here. I have a couple flensted mobiles I love. Part of what I love is the motion of the mobiles. These may be nice and "grown-up", but when you hang everything ...

@Kathryn Hill: This has been my experience too. Potatoes are mostly water, despite what it might seem, so anything too sharp can disintegrate them pretty easily, leading to glue-like textures. I...