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Good. For $16.84 million, no one should be considering it a tear-down anymore.

Can anyone ID the bed in the post?

get the proper hardware for your wall (anchors or molly bolt, preferably, for sheetrock) and for the wood. get two pieces of nylon webbing (like backpack straps). screw through one end of one pi...

Quarter-round moulding is used to cover up sloppy floor installation. For that matter, baseboards cover up a lot of sloppy sheetrock installation. It takes more time, skill and attention to insta...

Here's a twist: the Verner Panton "knockoff" chair is listed on Target's website for $259.99. The Panton chair at hivemodern.com is $245.

Den outermost layer: brown/beige vertical 80s stripes Middle layer: can't recall Bottom layer: large-scale harvest gold and avocado green houndstooth Bath outermost lay...

no way....daddy long legs....spiders....ick....

I think that red is the tone of the wood. My first suggestion: take down the lace valance. Get a Venetian blind with 2" slats for that window, if you need privacy.

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

So here I sit on my 21-year-old sofa, which has morphed along with me from Bombay-Company fake-Brit mid-80s chintzy style. It now keeps company with my 40th-birthday Eames LCW, a "Wassily" chair, ...

Paint it to match the wall. hang small pieces of art on the slats. I have done something similar with my furnace closet door, which is in my entryway. I think you would be disappoi...

oh, I love "bulky trash" day

re: hydrogen peroxide, assume you mean standard drugstore 1%-3% solution leave the caps off the bottles. it will "decompose" to water (the extra oxygen having released into the air). you c...

I've seen this done with what appeared to be plain old roller shades (my mom used to get them from Sears). Screw an eyelet into the top center of the window frame (directly above the shade). Dril...

lisa2 in austin irony indeed! ;)

Austin. BTW, DC is in the south. Maryland is also a southern state.

dusty plum

Roomba. Best money I've ever spent. Shouldn't have a problem going up over the edge of your rug, and great for hard floors.

make the bed make sure the toilet is not running take out the trash feed the cat/arrange for her to be fed close the blinds make sure the dishwasher has finished runni...

you can use liquid starch instead of sugar