ChrisGal: thanks for replying in a civil manner. I was feeling snippy the day I wrote that and your "scared or lazy" comment hit a nerve. Sorry my reply was so harsh. Guess we'll agree to disagr...

ChrisGal: I guess you wouldn't understand, because you clearly don't care whether you offend someone. Ad hominem much? Actually, I don't have large groups of guests over often, -beca...

Looking over these comments, the guest issue is especially divisible into two camps: 1. It's MY house! 2. They're my GUESTS! Being Southern (no, we're not all...

Wow modtramp, do you just really have something against fiction? "A load of BS?" Wow. I wouldn't buy the dogs. That particular story doesn't trip my trigger, but I have purchased thi...

This is a good idea. Just like attractive plus-size clothing is a good idea--feeling comfortable in home, clothes, and body is a good thing. And the standards for who is "obese" or no...

You cut your landline before you cut your satellite tv and your internet? What?

"Could work for an adult movie decor, otherwise, no thanks..." Would that porn decor was so stylish.

I like it--it probably looks basement-ish because there's just the one little window high up. I'm getting ready to move into a basement apartment myself, and this is about how I'd like it to look!

"be offended by poor treatment of people not color names..." I'll thank you not to tell me what I can and cannot be offended by. One way to treat people poorly is to ignore them when ...

Definite packrat. I agree with Star Princess--this is what I feel comfortable in. Though I'm also trying to get the basement cleaned out in an older relative's house, because that's w...

Horrible horrible horrible. What will they market this as when it's sold? Modernists won't like the front, traditionalists won't like the back, people in the middle (like me) will jus...

Don't they have glasses more or less exactly like that...everywhere?

I have books. I have beautiful old tchochkes that belonged to my late grandmother. I have a record collection that belonged to my parents, and a number of small jewelry boxes that I love, even wh...

At first glance, I thought it was a bundle of cured tobacco leaves.

It's not exactly how I would choose to decorate, but I would still feel pretty comfortable in that house. Whether or not it makes me feel comfortable is my measure of good decorating, ...

darkpassage.com is a site devoted to this sort of thing--urban exploration, abandoned subway spelunking, modern archaelogy, whatever. One of their more haunting adventures was a trip through an ab...

To those who mentioned products by Umbra as cheap original design, as opposed to Target's evil evil knockoffs... What happens when you buy Umbra Loft from Target? Does the design impl...

Um...books ARE art. Literary art. This should be titled "books as visual art" or "books as decoration." *Lit geek mode off* I love the octopus and the gun. The pulp fic...

I have never in a dorm that has a wood floor and a chair rail. Not to mention, in the rest of the set it shows a fireplace on the other side...and a kitchen in a separate room...and another bedroo...

I agree that most -actual- homes of young single men have zero style. The most "bachelor-paddish" guy's room I've ever been in had a huge bed (a full and a twin pushed together), a bean bag chair,...