Use brown packing tape to cover old labels, etc. I do that all the time and the post office is fine with it. You'll use less tape than if you turn things inside out and your box will be stronger, w...

Velo isn't badhttp://www.modernfan.com/velo.html - but what's with a fan named PENSI???

Sorry for the double post but I just went to the Green Dimes FAQ and found this "We can't reduce mailings you receive as a result of a relationship you have with a company or organiza...

I get 100 catalogues and registered all of them at Catalog Choice - some vendors "refuse" Choice's notice, a few accept it and most ignore it. Catalogue Choice then gives your 800 numbers to call b...

I love my memory foam mattress topper - and I'm hypersensitive to chemicals. I let it outgas for a couple of days before putting it on my bed and now have it in a cotton cover. My che...

Salt and pepper shakers - a dog with a leg up, and a hydrant - collected by a farmer's wife in rural N.H. and given to me by a friend who bought their house and found the collection. ...

Tell your husband that you can rip CDs to Apple Lossless or similar formats and ditch the CDs. Apple Lossless is NOT proprietary. An audiophile programmer friend explained how different the quality...

Sorry for the double post - but look at the brown and cream interior posted just below yours on AT today.

I'd go for cream, so there's contrast with the wall but not too much contrast with the color of the wood. I wouldn't want to add another color to the mix. What you do with the ceiling depends upon ...

And the printer goes where?

The color doesn't go, at all, with the hanging above it, so one of them needs to move. I second the idea of different pillows and rug.

In New York, check street fairs - there are vendors who sell crewel rungs BUT the ones at Anthropologie were adaptations of Central Asian textile designs, among other things. The ones sold at the f...

So... let me get this straight. Middle class people, which is Target's demographic, don't deserve nice things - and people shouldn't buy mass produced decorative objects without a complete genealog...

The staircase rule is HUGE in New York, where the real estate developers are a much larger power block than is obvious - everyone thinks it is Wall Street, but it isn't. One of the re...

Make that "want a cabinet facade, door, curtain or visible storage"

I'm all for building something around it to hide it - but you need to ensure that it vents properly - both from the front and whatever heat build-up from the compressor. If you instal...

I would NOT worry about re-sale - that's nuts - you just bought the place. If you don't like the cabinets, do something to them - it is your place and you should enjoy it for as long as you live th...

My friend had a similar problem with awful beige cabinets, counters, appliances and floor even though he bought his apartment. I got him to paint the walls a deeper color, which was an enormous hel...

I once told an Orthodox Jew that it was odd that I felt so comfortable having animist masks in my apartment but couldn't imagine a "bleeding Jesus" Spanish painting. There was a momen...

Styles and tastes change. Go with something neutral. Get color from your accessories.