Laughing Tiger -- I agree with you about the shiny green paint, it is not ideal as it's too dark and too glossy for my taste, particularly given that it's such a dark room with north-facing windows...
The washroom mosaic! So glad to oblige with information. Rachael took an EXCELLENT photo, it looks nice in real life but nothing as nice as it looks in the picture.
I worked on the in...
bumblebeechicago -- thank you so much for the kind words! And thanks to Rachael for coming and taking pix of our house.
For those who want to know, the paint color on the EXTERIOR of ...
Yeah, I vote with the people who don't bring a lot with them on vacation. If I do not have any clothes with me that need to be hung up, most often I'll leave the clothes in my suitcase. I usually...
This seems cool -- I'm part of a nice Sewing Lounge in DC, DC Threads , but it meets only once a month and because it's mostly focused on sewing-machine sewin...
The Obama Factor is definitely making DC a reality-TV magnet! Real Housewives, Real World, and CW's Blonde Charity Mafia are all making shows here.
I'm kinda curious to see what sort o...
I am COMPLETELY with the "don't paint" crowd and think all the landscaping, trim-painting pieces of advice are 100% correct. The windows themselves look like they may be metal, so you might not be...
First, I would totally second the movingscam.com recommendation. The cross-country moving business is FULL of scammers. On my cross-country move in 2005 the less-than-reputable movers held our th...
Advice I've read suggests that it's a bad idea to remove your showerhead to clean it, because in the process of unscrewing it, sometimes forcefully, you may loosen the connections of the pipes behi...
I think Violetsrose is right. One problem I've had with the silicone blanket thing is that you usually store it folded, and those folds become impossible to smooth out, and then you've got an infe...
I couldn't find a better picture than this one in my brief search, but I think that hanging a fairly stiff curtain at a height about six inches above the door, from a wire, would be a good choice (...
Lovely apartment. This apparently owes an almost incomparable debt, given the photos shown, to Corbusier's Cite Radieuse in Marseille, which I love, that goes unacknowledged in this article.
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As for the self-cleaning feature, a recent story in the Washington Post Home (or maybe Food?) section suggests using it sparingly, because the extreme incinerating heat of the self-cleaning cycle s...
I just got back from a trip down to the Tidal Basin to appreciate the blossoms. So far the weather this Cherry Blossom Festival has been sub-optimal, and the wind today is crazy! But the blossoms...
oooh, I saw this earlier today on another design website, thanks for sharing it! I haven't really done cardboard construction before but would love to give it a whirl. Where would you go to buy l...
I like both of them and think the shapes complement each other well. You could do really fashion-forward upholstery for them that matches, or you could do a plainer linen-type upholstery and use p...
You might paint the fireplace mantle a glossy black or near-black, which will give it an art deco feel and would work good if the marble sill is carrera or alabaster, I think.
Or, go f...
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Laughing Tiger -- I agree with you about the shiny green paint, it is not ideal as it's too dark and too glossy for my taste, particularly given that it's such a dark room with north-facing windows...
The washroom mosaic! So glad to oblige with information. Rachael took an EXCELLENT photo, it looks nice in real life but nothing as nice as it looks in the picture. I worked on the in...
bumblebeechicago -- thank you so much for the kind words! And thanks to Rachael for coming and taking pix of our house. For those who want to know, the paint color on the EXTERIOR of ...
Yeah, I vote with the people who don't bring a lot with them on vacation. If I do not have any clothes with me that need to be hung up, most often I'll leave the clothes in my suitcase. I usually...
This seems cool -- I'm part of a nice Sewing Lounge in DC, DC Threads , but it meets only once a month and because it's mostly focused on sewing-machine sewin...
The Obama Factor is definitely making DC a reality-TV magnet! Real Housewives, Real World, and CW's Blonde Charity Mafia are all making shows here. I'm kinda curious to see what sort o...
I am COMPLETELY with the "don't paint" crowd and think all the landscaping, trim-painting pieces of advice are 100% correct. The windows themselves look like they may be metal, so you might not be...
First, I would totally second the movingscam.com recommendation. The cross-country moving business is FULL of scammers. On my cross-country move in 2005 the less-than-reputable movers held our th...
Advice I've read suggests that it's a bad idea to remove your showerhead to clean it, because in the process of unscrewing it, sometimes forcefully, you may loosen the connections of the pipes behi...
I think Violetsrose is right. One problem I've had with the silicone blanket thing is that you usually store it folded, and those folds become impossible to smooth out, and then you've got an infe...
Ah, dang, the picture link: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sf/designer/photo-print...
I couldn't find a better picture than this one in my brief search, but I think that hanging a fairly stiff curtain at a height about six inches above the door, from a wire, would be a good choice (...
Lovely apartment. This apparently owes an almost incomparable debt, given the photos shown, to Corbusier's Cite Radieuse in Marseille, which I love, that goes unacknowledged in this article. ...
As for the self-cleaning feature, a recent story in the Washington Post Home (or maybe Food?) section suggests using it sparingly, because the extreme incinerating heat of the self-cleaning cycle s...
I just got back from a trip down to the Tidal Basin to appreciate the blossoms. So far the weather this Cherry Blossom Festival has been sub-optimal, and the wind today is crazy! But the blossoms...
oooh, I saw this earlier today on another design website, thanks for sharing it! I haven't really done cardboard construction before but would love to give it a whirl. Where would you go to buy l...
ooooh, total interiors-lust on my part. Thanks for sharing!
I like both of them and think the shapes complement each other well. You could do really fashion-forward upholstery for them that matches, or you could do a plainer linen-type upholstery and use p...
Don't forget the plastic bottle bottoms that you featured back in May: http://www.apartmentthe...
You might paint the fireplace mantle a glossy black or near-black, which will give it an art deco feel and would work good if the marble sill is carrera or alabaster, I think. Or, go f...