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that blue is the most amazing color, I'd thought about painting my hallway blue, but was afraid it would be gloomy, but the deep blue just looks magical

there is no "try:, there is only "do" I used to hate it when my friend Cheryl would say that... Now that I am older, I understand what she meant though Nonetheless, i thi...

I lived in Olympia before moving to Portland, and I would see those mushrooms all the time while walking in the woods. Amantita muscaria (Fly Agaric, red cap with white spots) not Amamita phalloide...

A friend once used some lovely thin wool military surplus blankets as curtains. They weren't from the US(ugh, olive drab) but some other country, were light grey with one red stripe, and looked ver...

What a great idea. I had wanted to do something like this above my front door, where the walkway "ceiling" meets the front of the house, but couldn't figure out how to paint a design upside down! D...

This is charming and clever, a nice change from the (pleasant but more common) 2-D art wall. Hmmm, something similar might look good at my home.

Most cats would have a hard time successfully taking on city rats. In days of old that is what "rat" terriers were used for. Small claims court may be simpler, but there is no assuran...

I for one think this is actually both very useful and attractive. I'd love to have the blue mat for my kitchen, but then I'd love to have matching blue real linoleum instead of the nasty old vinyl ...

Based on the size of the bathtub, I think that bathroom is bigger than my living room...

I have a little DeLonghi convection toaster oven, which does almost all my baking, sweets savories and roasted meat. It was under $100 at Target, we bought it when we moved here three years ...

If I am understanding your question correctly, you want to replace your current "set" of identical chairs with a "set" of four different chairs. I've been trying to do just that thing with our dini...

Does anyone know where she gets the 1/4" slabs of paperstone... all the places I've seen it for sale it is only available in countertop thickness. I'd love to acquire some that was less than the 3/...

Ditto on the comment from lightspeed. Running electrical cords underneath rugs or carpet is not a good idea, as pressure on the wires can cause shorting out and fires... I do like the ...

Oddly, since there is no oak tree in the yard, my house is named Acorn Cottage. I formerly lived in a house that was called Fjord's End, since it was at the very end of one of the many fingers of ...

We have a very small kitchen, and I do have these IKEA graters. I've had them for several years, and they have held up very well, and I really like the "grate directly into the box" aspect. ...

The only magazine that I keep forever (I have almost all the issues from #1to the current #139) is Threads, the Taunton Press magazine about sewing and textile arts techniques. I keep them as a ref...

Your photo makes me so nostalgic for the Olympia Food Coop, I was a coop member-volunteer worker there for over 20 years and I really miss it. (The coops where I live now are nowhere near as friend...

Most review sites say that laundry balls/disks are an expensive scam. And while the Laundry Balls are "soapless", they do contain"non-ionic surfacent" which is another way of describing...synthetic...

What if instead of upholstering the bed, you cut a headboard and footboard from plywood, upholstered them, and attached them to the head and footboard of your bed. You could paint the parts of the ...

Oh Oh oh I need these. They are in the very colors that I am using to make my tiny house look more coordinated. But the thing that makes my tiny house beautiful is that it is MINE, I can paint and ...