A sure sign that you are ready to move on and get your own place is when the disadvantages of communal living become greater than the advantages. You've just grown up, that's all. Enjoy!

Oh yeah, we have a guest book! The most entries are from our postman. The guy who came to unblock the toilet also made an interesting contribution.

What's next? Decorating with children?

The only real solution is to get your own place.

Thank you for the ideas, we are just planning to commission some stained glass windows for both upstairs bathrooms and this is a great help!

Before is just fine for us. After is definitely anal.

There are portable dishwashers your landlord need not know about. A paper plate by any other name is still a paper plate.

NOBODY would make me to use those stairs - they are an accident waiting to happen.

Equality does not mean sameness. Yes, gentlemen, you may open doors for us, kiss our hand and bring flowers and emeralds to our pedestal.

Is the model supposed to wear a burqua, then? Really, this is political correctness running amok. Are you going to smash the Venus of Milo, too?

Serenity equals institutional look? We think not.

What's wrong with just a smell of a clean house plus whatever is cooking? When we walk through a room at a party, we want people smell OUR perfume, not some silly candles.

We never gave flowers to a man and don't plan to. Nothing sexist about it, it's just that the men we know don't drink flowers.

saramarie, this would make us wonder what smells are you trying to mask.

We have a friend who used to offer to check on our place when we were traveling. She's no longer available as her extramarital affair is over. Generally, we would not be comfortable with having som...

We just wear distinctive lipstick.

A stiff drink will get the party going much better than a candle.

We put bottles of liquor on the men's table instead of vases and never had a single complaint. Love the picture!

Annicka, we had a beautiful jasmin vine on our balcony once and it was a great sweet smelling success.

We’re also always impressed by people who are able to make disparate styles feel right at home together. Even more so after all these examples of people who are not.