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Stores are bad enough but there seems to a creeping tendency for residential Christmas decorations in November. A condo association puts up a tree in the social room before Thanksgiving--"because p...
Give Metropolitan Home credit for having floorplans -- which I find endlessly fascinating. Elle Decor is aspirational but most houses/apts. shown do seem to have some personality and not be the d...
One thing that's always puzzled me is that apartments (and houses) likely to be bought by older people don't have layouts that make it easy for couples to control whether they are within earshot of...
Check with your state geological survey or outfitters like REI -- they may stock and sell local quads.
Large research libraries (think NYPL 42nd Street or your state's most prominent univ...
Our Christofle silverplate is used every day and goes through the dishwasher (segregated from stainless steel implements). It shows no marked ill effects from the regime. I polish it about three t...
Fresh flowers are one way the apartment dweller (especially the northern apartment dweller) can acknowledge the passing of seasons--a potted mum in autumn, a bunch of supermarket tulips in the spri...
A book on such cases in New York:
Holdouts! /Andrew Alpern; Seymour B Durst
1984
English Book Book xiii, 172 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
New York : McGraw-Hill, ; ISBN: 0070013772 :...
One of the mysteries of recent condo buildings is that larger units still often have only a stacked washer / drier in a closet only big enough for the machines. Like many of the earlier posters I w...
Set the table. This holds not just for guests but for family. If the table is set and there's some semblance of activity in the kitchen people sense they are, indeed, going to be fed.
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Stores are bad enough but there seems to a creeping tendency for residential Christmas decorations in November. A condo association puts up a tree in the social room before Thanksgiving--"because p...
Give Metropolitan Home credit for having floorplans -- which I find endlessly fascinating. Elle Decor is aspirational but most houses/apts. shown do seem to have some personality and not be the d...
U.S. Code 4 USC Sec. 8 http://uscode.house.gov d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery........ The...
One thing that's always puzzled me is that apartments (and houses) likely to be bought by older people don't have layouts that make it easy for couples to control whether they are within earshot of...
Check with your state geological survey or outfitters like REI -- they may stock and sell local quads. Large research libraries (think NYPL 42nd Street or your state's most prominent univ...
Our Christofle silverplate is used every day and goes through the dishwasher (segregated from stainless steel implements). It shows no marked ill effects from the regime. I polish it about three t...
Fresh flowers are one way the apartment dweller (especially the northern apartment dweller) can acknowledge the passing of seasons--a potted mum in autumn, a bunch of supermarket tulips in the spri...
A book on such cases in New York: Holdouts! /Andrew Alpern; Seymour B Durst 1984 English Book Book xiii, 172 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. New York : McGraw-Hill, ; ISBN: 0070013772 :...
One of the mysteries of recent condo buildings is that larger units still often have only a stacked washer / drier in a closet only big enough for the machines. Like many of the earlier posters I w...
Set the table. This holds not just for guests but for family. If the table is set and there's some semblance of activity in the kitchen people sense they are, indeed, going to be fed.