For knitters, I recommend KnitPicks, an online vendor that sells their own brand of yarns at very low prices. Their color choices can be spotty and the yarn isn't as interesting or beautiful as th...

I want that fainting couch for my home office! Wouldn't that be great for reading or have a matching pillow made to hold your laptop?

There is only one question to ask when decorating - are there enough bookcases!

If I had a kitchen just to look at, and maybe drink coffee and munch a muffin in the morning - I'd go for farmhouse in a heartbeat. But I can't imagine actually cooking in one or keeping it clean. ...

We do one blanket (big fluffy down) in the winter, two (cotton weave) in summer.

Don't know if you have one in your city, but The Door Store is often able to put custom wood stuff together for people. My parents shopped there first time Danish stuff was in style. I don't now,...

Not so hot if you read in bed, unless you get a big, heavy headboard.

Actually, I think it will be really common for people to have NO photos of their childhood due to a hard drive crash or what have you. Also - look at that photo. Would you have saved ...

My first assumption when seeing books with the spines turned in is porn. If I see a book on someone's shelf turned backwards, I'll take a peek. Nine times out of ten it's either porn or self-help.

Are you sure the recipe calls for gelatin - reads more like it would use pudding. Grew up in an all-natural house, went through an all processed out-of-the box phase. Then I learned t...

There was a great segment on the local evening news a few years back. They went to a doctor and asked what they should do to avoid germs. Got a list much like the one above. ...

We keep a spoon rest next to the coffee maker, so that everyone drinking coffee can use the same spoon and not muck up the counter. It goes in the dishwasher every night. I had a garl...

Doesn't surprise me at all. HOAs seem to bring out the worst control freakiness in people. Lots of green things are banned by HOAs - solar panels, outdoor clotheslines, vegetable garde...

I think that a home office type set up instead of a bed would be really amazing and useful.

Seconding the quilt suggestion. If you don't sew/quilt yourself, you can contact a local shop. They usually can put you in touch with someone who can make one for you.

Get over yourself. It's a rental and life isn't a magazine.

We had one of those in our house built in the 70s. Intercom system with radio. It wasn't that big a house, so it wasn't very useful. You could "answer" the door from the kitchen, but since the f...

There is a knitted furniture group on Ravelry.com (facebook for knitters) if anyone really wants to get into knitted furniture. One thing - does anyone know of inexpensive stuffing m...

sally 305 - I'm live and let live on neighbor noise, too. But someone who sets up a playhouse in the building's shared space without checking with the neighbors first probably underestimates their...

I would go with a skeleton in tattered pirate clothing, festooned with cobwebs, but that's just me.