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Unfortunately Luca and Marco will be drawing the short end of the stick in this move - unless the kitties had a lobotomy, they will try to explore these fluffy cuddly things, whether to eat or to p...

Hollie, running a polyacrylamide gel is not toxic. You just need for acrylamide to solidify into the gel and then it is a safe substance. Besides, that is if they ARE running high-rez polyacrylamid...

Plants will block the view form the street during the day really well, but come night you will have light on indoors and the plant's foliage will not really block much of the view the way blinds wo...

What about using cabbage leaves as wrappers for all kinds of stuffing? There is a traditional Russian/Ukranian dish, called "golubci", where cabbage leaves are scalded with hot water briefly to mak...

I say this is a great set up for a Betta! Also, since the topic of oxygen competition between Nemo and the philodendron has been brought up - Bettas have the labyrinth organ for breathing surface a...

I think cow rugs look awesome with wooden floors and modern furniture. I think bleaching and painting zebra stripes on them is tacky - the natural spots and stripes are much more interesting, while...

While being a bit "overplayed" what about compromising on having him paint one of his walls black, aka "focal point wall" (or whatever it is called). And the wall to pain black would be the wall a ...

You can't mention Russian cuisine without a key ingredient ... MUSHROOMS! Aside from that - onions, buckwheat, rye and honey.

This is energetically ludicrous.

Buckwheat is best prepared as a side dish for meat when it is first cooked and then lightly fried together with caramelized onions and mushrooms in butter. This mixture also makes excellent stuffin...

Dumb. A hydroponic set up should include a high power grow light, since that is the most essential requirement for a plant's life.

from Apartment Therapy Re-Nest | Prepara Power Plant on September 18, 2008 03:50PM

Didn't the AT:Kitchen used to have a "Single Use Kitchen Gadget you do not need" section? Since when did it become "Handy Product you gotta buy" ... I'll use a small knife to pit those plums, thank...

Regarding the "cloned beef on the market" story: Cattle is cloned to "copy" champion bulls in order to use their sperm to breed cattle with best meat qualities. The cloned bulls will not be slaught...

Yeah, one day without hot water is nothing. I was home to Ukraine for a month and there was no hot water in our part of the city for that entire month. And that was the very nice part of the city, ...

For being so famous among the fish enthusiasts, Old Town Aquarium is actually a rather small store. If you are in Old Town I highly recommend just stopping by - their tanks are just beautiful - wel...

from Apartment Therapy Chicago | Old Town Aquarium on September 16, 2008 04:04PM

The integrated plumbing set up is a great idea, but keeping coral reef fish as a decoration is irresponsible since all of them (clownfish aside) are wild caught and most have expected life spans of...

I am not sure the adjective "recycled" can be used when talking about driftwood, since it is a found object, not man-made. It's a wee bit greenwasher-ish ...

I second that - I bike to work every day and I wear heels and skirts very frequently to work. Biking in heels is just as easy as biking in sneakers, since you are pushing with the balls of your fee...

I second the quality of Lhasa Karnak's spices. Their teas are fantastic as well!

Well, that's weird - how can you make borsh without cabbage? That is, like, the main ingredient. And in all the Russian family dinners I have partaken I have not seen mushrooms in borsh. Also - in ...