I think Rachel's Grad School Getaway is not a good example: there's a weird interaction between the metal headboard and the dead space in front of the window behind it. Having the bed pointed into ...

I didn't say it can't be real, but if you actually read the original page it's fairly clear that it's not. Good explanation on the bits, slithytove2, I totally drew a blank on B...

This was a bad post the first time around.

Does anyone have the assembly instructions for the Ikea ALG mirrors ? They're not on Ikea's site, and I think I can figure out how t...

Um, this is only a mock-up by an artist: it isn't actually functional. And it's hard to imagine why the cards would have 4x11 bits?

You know, until there actually is some rust, throwing around "wabi sabi" is kind of wannabe.

These are art, not houseware. You don't get it.

An hour to clean up every morning ? Gee, must be nice to get paid to write common-sense tips online instead of having a real job...

My security system: living in Canada.

Geeze, is that wooden place really yours? Maybe all you need to do is sand the walls and the smell of fresh wood will overpower anything else...

Never mind oxygen accounts, plants can remove a significant amount of toxins from the air, which is more important in the bedroom than any other room of the house because you spend so much time bre...

What is the minimum size of a bench to comfortably seat two at a dining table?

Wow, you Americans live in an incredible amount of fear! If you asked this question to any person on the street in Canada the response would be "a bat? in case I want to play baseball in my bedroom?"

The back of a chef's knife works much like a spoon and is more convenient.

I've missed and hit the knife edge doing this before: the result is much less worse than you'd imagine. It was a small, thin wound barely deep enough to bleed. I've also used a cleaver...

Isn't this illegal? Seriously though, this is one more argument in favour of getting rid of the penny.

How long does it take heavy-duty rubber bands to wear out?

Who are you to say Monika cannot use the royal we ? Anyway, the first-person plural* made me think that Monika did this project with a significant other or friends. * That is a g...

Can these be removed?

What's so great about the Umbra Metallica? It's just a metallic decal on a plastic can. It looks very cheap up-close.