These are a joy -- and trotting out my ancient Norwegian is rather fun. Not that I know Norwegian, but listening to adults talk over and around you as a child does give you a little sense of the od...

The fun of this is that you'd be able to scale this up to make a larger bow -- if you kept the ratios the same, you could make a bow a foot across, or larger.

LizinCO -- I second the spelling thing. I've seen so many "dinning" tables for sale on Kijiji and CL that I've taken to misspelling search terms, just to see what comes up. Problem is...

Agree on the blandness issue. Change the artwork, and paint the trim, if you really want to keep the wallpaper. And put up some curtains with a color that talks to the trim & the artwork.

Please, tell us the paint colours! I love the little Russian Grey cat, too.

The space is already pretty well divided: it's ingenious and quite fun, but not really necessary. That said, there's a real difference between violating the fire code and breaking the ...

Looking in Toronto, a town with a consistent 0.01% vacancy rate, I put together a "Rental CV". Since almost every landlord had a long, detailed application form to fill out, I made up ...

Yeah, the Abercrombie and Fitch SPAM posts are *really* annoying. Please, get rid them!

This is sad, not stylish. The story about him stripping his Mexico hotel room suggests that he has the reverse of a hoarding disorder. What does he do, sit in the dark on the hard pl...

I have always had plants: love them. However, I just got a new kitten who has destroyed three plants in as many days. I removed all the plants that were toxic to cats before she arriv...

Oh, for the days before bedbugs when I decorated entire apartments (fabulously) with the Gifts of the Garbage Goddess. Alas, alas. There's just no way. Even thrift stores are just too...

Although many of these comments are funny, they're not right. Most major cities forbid landlords from refusing to accept a sublessor, provided that person is qualified. Talk to your l...

Blinds at night, everything open during the day. I avoid flashing my unfortunate neighbours, but I don't care if people walking by can see my furniture.

I use vintage train cases -- two or three of them.

I'm Canadian, too, and while I usually take boots off if it's snowy, wet or muddy, I always have 'indoor shoes' to wear when I do. I've noticed that people keep their shoes on in the ...

Biggibilla, Sprouting Easy and Local Knowledge are fascinating: "Tooth and Claw" is an awesome installation but very, very disturbing. (that's often one of the jobs of good art, though).

I've just gotten my first car in almost 20 years: after decades of living in large urban centres (Toronto, Montreal, London, Paris, NYC) with good public transit and readily available taxicabs avai...

Second-hand stuff is the solution, as many others have already said. And yes, older IKEA stuff (and some of the newer stuff) is well made and well priced. The point in the Globe and Ma...

I think my parents still have a set of the tables on the right...somewhere in the basement.

It's a magnificent use of space: wasteful? Yes. But beautiful.