I live on a hill with a burm hiding my house from the street on one side and on the other, no neighbors in sight. I keep the curtains open during the day on the street side and the only close the k...

Hooray for a happy loving sweet home ... and hooray for a home where 3 children live! I'd love to have a cup of tea while the kids play with that lovely doll house.

Bravo Laura. Great job using a minimal palate, paring down to essentials in the especially & creating a serene place for yourself. One thought I had, maybe you can find a beautiful door knob set fo...

I made a real menorah (props to Lisa) and I have a small rosemary bush a table with small silver balls on it as a "holiday" tree. It smells fabulous and I can plant it in 2009.

Eh..... it feels contrived. As most of the homes on AT do. I prefer homes that look less staged and more lived in, even if that means they're not "perfect." I'm attracted to the more rustic/earthy/...

i assumed spoiler was being... a spoiler, and not serious. anyway, i thought it was common knowledge that bacteria does not live very long outside of the moist & 98.5 degrees of a human body. so on...

Windex: my thoughts exactly. With 2 kids under age 3 that look would last about 3 seconds.

we breakfast, lunch, snack, and dine in our dining room. it is not particularly "formal" but it is a dedicated room for dining. we also have a breakfast nook where we sometimes breakfast and snack.