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I'd vote for keeping it assembled. I had a really unfortunate time trying to reassemble my Expedit post-move, and the top slat hasn't sat flush since.

Almost never. But I'd like to start!

Tensioned wire. I believe Modern in MN has a tutorial, but I can't seem to find it.

Can I be a language cop for just a second? Thanks. The verb is "work out." The noun is "workout." "I work out in the mornings." "In the mornings, I just do a short workout."

Yeah, not real surprised that he doesn't know what DIY is. "If I Had a Million Dollars" started running through my head as I watched the slideshow. Not to say that it isn't skillfully curated--ju...

Love that teal.

I'm thinking anything flat and round (an LP, a large plate...) stumps the system.

We have a sweet little pen-and-ink drawing of the home my boyfriend grew up in, with the family dog sprawled happily on the lawn. It was a present from his brother-in-law. Love the stationary idea.

Hello , sailor.

Love it. Would love it even more against exposed brick.

I used to chill at the Bins in Portland--when I went on my own, it would be like, "Oh, look...here's a cute shoe...half-size too small...wonder if there's a match around here somewhere...guess not....

I can't get over the bathroom association--my first thought on looking at the photo was, "Why would you put a computer in a bathroom?"

My boyfriend and I put up a pair of framed photos in the little staircase-adjacent hallway of our little four-unit building (it's just us on the floor). The hallway itself is really, really drab....

1. Price (people may have been treating this like it goes without saying, but...) 2. Location (neighborhood vibe, proximity to useful subway lines) 3. Light 4. Hardwood floors (ca...

Why not just paint it? My mom, whose design sense is eclectic, would do stripes of bold color as suggested by rows of cinderblocks, or would go one further and paint the whole thing on...

Fin-de-siecle Viennese and the Pope have one crucial thing in common here, though, Aulaire: household staff .

The Trader Joe's knockoffs of Carr's are great, and cost something like $2.29 a box.

Make meringues with the extra whites, then drizzle the meringues with the curd. Yum.

Tuna salad (a can of tuna mixed with cottage cheese, curry powder, and half a diced cucumber) on a whole wheat english muffin.

I like my steel-cut oats with diced tart apples, raspberry coulis, walnuts, and brown sugar. I've never toasted them, but maybe I'll give that a shot! As to instant oatmeal, I'm havin...