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You can basiclaly copy my setup using a wireless remote. It's here in AT. I won third place that year:

If you don't want to pull up the tile, you can do a non-skid epoxy resin. It is sold in cans like gallons of paint. You can "paint" the floor or pour it to self level (carefully, making sure to p...

We bought a drop-side rail crib and the first thing I did when I put it together was drive screws through the drop-side to make it permanently fixed... Everyone I know has had near-miss accidents w...

It is the Scandi Dropside Crib from Babi Italia: http://www.babiitalia.com/html/bi_sc.html We purchased it at Babies R Us.

You posted my clock! Cool, thanks. FYI, Rene = he, not a she :-p

Thank you all for your thoughts. I was leaning towards a striped shade sail because I like the way the C&B umbrella looks, but sticking to solid colors sounds like a smart move. "thep...

Sorry to be the party pooper but I hate multiple pendants on one canopy. If you are using a canopy, there should only be one lamp hanging from it because the large canopy required for the cluster ...

Use a flexible "hospital curtains" track attached at the two ends. This has been covered many times at AT. Search the archives.

...so you can PUT [not "but"] a colored bulb... I have a red bulb behind a leaning mirror that i turn on for parties.

Everyone else already addressed the smudge, so I'll just go with the "what if none of those worked?" assumption: Lean a large framed mirror against the wall in front of the smudge. I'...

It's pretty easy to upgrade any roller shade to be motorized really. Just need to get a motor and remote control and pop the motor into the tube of the shade. See the parts and how it's done here:...

Your setup is quite nice as well, RandallB. It's all a matter of taste obviously, my wife doesn't like seeing the equipment so that's why we hid it. Heat build up in the stack hasn't been a proble...

from #6 - Rene's Museum Minimalism on April 19, 2007 08:24PM

Mat, You do have to go to the closet to change DVDs, which is all the way to the right of the TV. But that only happens if you're watching more than one movie back to back, right? It's not a big de...

from #6 - Rene's Museum Minimalism on April 17, 2007 10:08PM

Thanks for the nice comments. Designaddict: The cable run is about 50 feet including the closet. We went straight down from the TV inside the wall, horizontal until we got under the d...

from #6 - Rene's Museum Minimalism on April 17, 2007 03:23PM

It's not taking it too far at all. Many famous designers have pulled the white on white approach with amazing results (e.g. Philippe Starck and the Delano Hotel in Miami). The trick is to use colo...

from Inspiration: Minimalism Meets Technology on April 11, 2007 11:53AM

Thanks Pixie!!! That's perfect!

Help hanging pictures!!! Does anyone know where I could buy a picture hanging wall-track system like the one at this link? Sometimes referred to as gallery track? I've found distributo...

Hanging pictures: Does anyone know where I could buy a picture hanging wall-track system like the one at this link? I've found distributors in Australia, UK and Asia but none in the U...