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who doesn't turn the water off while brushing???

paint it white!

when my pet mouse died one winter when i was in high school we put him in the freezer to bury at our summer cabin the following spring... 11 years later when my parents moved from the house i grew ...

yikes! don't forget about the importance of balance... i think the weight of the saturated colors is too great. while the colors are fine together i think that the dosage of the blue is pretty stro...

if someone handed me a drink with an old sock wrapped around it i would literally barf. but hey, i have feet issues. gross.

fill with books and be done with it. it isn't so bad - at least it isn't peeling laminate which is what i will be left with in year or so!

canal plastics has a ton of weird stuff... might be worth a trip down there!

i say a creamy beige color... something light but earthy with maybe an undertone of yellow. in my experience when you have a strong floor you need to keep the rest of the big colors (walls, upholst...

i have said it before and i will say it again - if i weren't already married i would marry my miele! with 2 cats and a dog in a 2 bedroom apartment i don't think i could manage without it. it is ha...

big giant mirror - then the other stuff will be totally in scale.

i'm totally with you GHB. i grew up in a house that was heated by a wood stove and there wasn't even a gate around it and both my brother and i managed to make it to our adulthood without burns. oh...

why don't you just be sure to keep an eye on the baby when he is cruising around the fireplace? i'm not sure what the issue is since the fireplace doesn't work. maybe i am missing something. i don'...

interesting, "snobby classist" remark. i grew up on a poor farm in rural maine where we didn't have running hot water in the house and i was still raised to appreciate good design... how far i seem...

JenPDX i like where you are going with this! two small loveseats facing each other near the windows with a coffee table would be so cosy! and then the dining area could multi task as a work space w...

totally trashy... might as well grow a mullet and call it a day.

i have whatever the highest level miele vacuum is (capricorn? one of those signs!) and while it cost more than my monthly maintenance payment it was the best thing i could have done for my apartmen...

if this isn't your final home i strongly suggest keeping it relatively simple. i know it isn't right to always think about resale as you have to use and love it while you are living there but while...

i say sheetrock it and then go to a salvage yard and find a cool old mantle. that's what i would do!