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It would be nice if they credited Isaac's Living Structures from the fifties ( I briefly looked at the link and did not see a reference to it.) Read more here

Maybe if you sand everything down like someone else suggested and use whitewash instead of thick paint it will look good. Hopefully you've got wood under the carpet, if not get wooden flooring and ...

My post above got mangled and Frederick Marryat's name slipped out.

I don't think it looks too bad but I can't help but think of what the English author and and contemporary of Charles Dickens wrote when visiting America: I was requested by a lady to ...

Living in Boston since college some decades ago. Never had a car here. In the large cities, need a car, get a rental. Things are much easier now with Zipcar, there are a few permanently parked ("l...

You know, the sound quality of most speakers you can buy since the advent of the "listen to music through your computer" era has gone down tremendously. There are many excellent audiophile speakers...

These can be a lot cheaper, e.g., http://www.firgelliauto.com/default.php?cPath=108&osCsid=18d21f...

Depending on your location and size of the space you can convert it to a smallish coworking space. Basically, you rent out desks so that people (regulars) can come and work instead of going to a c...

Been using my own image for ages and you don't need an app just to change it. The image for the desktop lives here: /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg, just overwrite it with som...

Hey, what happened to the nicely crafted DIY door/fence at the top of the stairs?

If you have the room, you can get a large table ( door size ) and get extra tall legs so that you can store the bike underneath and use the top surface for other things. In my case (I'm the fello...

Unfortunately I've come to the conclusion that the only solution to this predicament is to make more money and move oneself out onto bigger quarters. Believe me, the artsy type solution ( that is i...