A word about FLOR tiles-- we have two rambunctious dogs that love to wrestle together. FLOR tiles are great, but they have spread apart (at the seams) under the activity of the dogs. This was les...

You can order prints from the New York Public Library Digital collection. Click on Nature & Science. They are fairly inexpensive and you can get them in a variety of sizes and framed, or not fram...

In my new house, the walls in the kitchen and family room are painted a light, creamy shade of yellow that I hate. It looks like it was supposed to be cream but came out too dark. I hate cream to...

In a certain neighborhood full of older (1920s and 1930s) homes near where I live, houses commonly have what are call "airing porches" off of the second floor, which I assume were meant to air out ...

I agree with apf.

We also have bamboo flooring in our townhouse and had the same experience as linbo. We have two large-ish active dogs and the floors are quite scratched up from them.

I would have happily lived on all that stuff when I was a kid except maybe the chickpeas, and that's only because I didn't know what they were until I was around 20. I have always loved pickled car...

Yes, please price it correctly, as opposed to "make offer." My offer won't seem nearly so insulting to you if I know what you are expecting in the first place (because I won't make one if I'm not ...

I have bamboo in my current kitchen, but believe it or not, we covered it with FLOR "house pet" carpet tiles. Any time the slightest drop of water would get on the floor, it would look filthy. An...

We had a coffee table once. The dogs liked to stand on it. No more coffee table. It works out well.

Mushrooms. I've tried and I've tried-- button, all kinds of wild, shiitake, portabellos, they all just taste like slimy dirt to me. I will continue to try. Hopefully someday I will be able to st...

Laying IN his crate, of course . . .

My Clumber Spaniel sleeps on the floor of our tiled stall shower at night (we use an extra long shower curtain instead of an ugly, flimsy shower door) when it is too hot in the bedroom for him-- he...

I usually just add up all the calorie contents of the ingredients and divide by how many people I intend for it to serve (or how much I intend to eat, ha). I use labels for prepackaged ingredients...

The red would be perfect with my empire red Kitchenaid Mixer and my red Ultra Bellini chairs.... please please please. And I would play The Christmas Song-- that is the "chestnuts roasting over an...

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I did a whole room in Sherwin Williams jalapeno. It will be the nursery, eventually. It's a bit darker and more laid-back than the color on the front of the AT book.

patrick (the other one)-- the fact that there is a vent in our closet is one of several strange things about our townhouse! But I'm starting to think from the comments that maybe we should get som...

Boomer- thanks for the link-- those look like they are worth checking out. I tend to agree with sammie2 that curtains can look a little post-college but was hoping to see some attractive examples,...

Thanks for those hints, but the airflow was the first thing we checked-- vents, slats, including the valves that shut off the airflow to the conduits themselves in the basement. Nothing has worked...