I think it's also complicated by the fact that it's all your roommate's stuff. If there's something you want to add to the room, you could use that as a lever to rethink the layout. O...

Maxwell, I think you have an NYFD fire code violation in your hallway. By law, no combustible items (cardboard, cloth, etc.) are allowed to be stored in hallways, and there are also re...

I used to have two large shelves full of cookbooks - on my last move, I donated almost all of them. The ones that I only ever use for one or two recipes, I saved the recipes in an electronic file,...

I love the idea, HATE the rubber.

Except for that bathroom, I want to move into all of these rooms, immediately, and never leave.

I find it thicker than the store brand I'd been using before! Definitely will buy again.

I am all about the Macintosh. Always have been. Like 'em as sauce, in pies, and all by themselves.

Vitsoe wouldn't be so ridiculously priced if it weren't for the strength of the UK pound. If I was living in the UK and getting paid in UKP, I'd start stocking up on it. As it is, I ...

Freeze them for a later session making bourbon-vanilla peach jam. Best thing in the world.

Oh, I love black blum; their work is always so gorgeous.

I own the Target 600-count non-organic sheets, which I bought on a "I really need sheets for the new bed, stat!" sort of tear, and I liked them so much I bought two more sets. On sale, they cost l...

Seconding m! on the value of a mandoline - I learned about them from a professional chef with knife skills up the wazoo. He swore by his expensive metal mandoline - I swear by my cheap plastic one....

Check out the Benjamin Moore historical colors palette - they have some very nice creamy-ish colors that would be warm and light, which I think could work in this room. I might conside...

Bon Ami is THE BEST. Cheap, effective, and eco-friendly. I've been using it for years.

You want an upholstery cleaner. Macy's has a service, I'm sure there are other reputable ones as well. They'll clean on site. They may not get everything out, but at this point I doub...

I used wicker indoor/outdoor furniture very happily when I was a grad student, but it certainly shouted "grad student." And the sidechair broke before I finished my degree... Most pati...

Another vote for Ikea's 365 line (GREAT pots!) and Billy bookcases. Target has surprisingly good house-branded sheets: I bought one set in a "I need some NOW" sort of way when I move...

1. Judges and a separate people's choice award, I think. 2. Separate categories, as students have resources indies don't, and vice-versa. Drawing the line on indie is harder, as there ...

The oddly-shaped ones look like the beginner's practice samplers from Jacqueline Fee's knitting book The Sweater Workshop .

I would love Girard for the masses, if it came from somewhere other than UO/Anthropologie, whose corporate leadership are donors and supporters of right-wing, anti-gay, anti-choice causes and polit...