We use Chili 9000 and loooove it. It seems brighter to me, somehow. Chili 3000 is great, too. Basically, I just adore Penzeys. I drive an hour and a half to go to the store but it's worth it!

@ithink, they make privacy film you can cut out and apply to your window.

This is the only style sofa for me: tight back with English roll arms. I'm sitting on one in dire need of reupholstering - thankfully, I'm about to get an almost new one as a hand-me-down!

My two words would be: slow cooker. An oven still needs you to be present for two hours; slow cooked beans require next to no attention and are ready when you get home from work.

Beautiful. I can't get over the art - it must be a treat to live with all of it. The net result really looks so comfortable - easy to live in and welcoming.

I really love the style, but some of the vignettes strike me as too... precious. It would make me really anxious to be around them, because they seem so precarious. Ceramics balanced on top of bo...

We have white carpet in our apartment, hence no shoes indoors. It's sometimes hard to get the fiance to comply. After I lugged up a Rug Doctor carpet cleaner up three flights to clean the dirt pa...

Aww, thank you tylr61 - that's so thoughtful!

I had a snowglobe that I adored as a child - it was a really gorgeous one with a heavy wooden base and a pegasus. I kept it by my bed, and one day I woke up and there was shattered glass and water...

We have an entry level soda stream. I absolutely love it - it is easily one of our most used appliances. The glass carafes are pretty, but we can live without them.

lotusmoss, we have a seltzer maker too and there are few appliances that have made our lives so much better! My fiance has always had a serious seltzer addiction - he almost only drinks seltzer wi...

I use calorieking.com - nice, clean interface. It's designed for people trying to lose weight but you could certainly use it just to keep an eye on your calorie/nutrient intake. It's $9 a month (...

firebird, could you use the childproof latches on the low cabinets? kdkaboom, those cherry floors are gorgeous. My kitchen is bigger in some ways than my first apartment's...

I would check out Ikea's fabric first because if you like something there, it's guaranteed to be cheaper than most of your other options.

Liz, I would recommend that you read Grandin's books. It's entirely possible to raise cattle in a humane way and meet the demand for meat in this country. It's not rocket science. Cattle farming...

I come down on this issue with Temple Grandin, who is both an advocate for providing animals a high quality of life, and a designer of humane slaughterhouses. She writes very persuasively that qua...

I misread it as "$200" for that sofa! It's just about my favorite style of sofa and we DESPERATELY need to replace ours, and I was THIS CLOSE to renting a van and hoofing it to NY, but $2,000? Th...

I've been coveting a particular sofa. It has a tight back with English roll arms. I've seen versions of it everywhere from $1,200 to $5,000. It's pretty much the exact same sofa we have right no...

My rent is $675! And for six inches? That's so incredibly dinky. I agree that it's beautiful, just gorgeous. But $675 for a six inch lamp?

My boyfriend and I switched our huge livingroom with our tiny bedroom to create a small, cozy TV room and a larger bedroom. It ended up working out really well for us and suits us at this time in ...