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Centralia has a really excellent old bowling alley that hadn't been remodeled in a lonnnnngg time. It's a real gem.

We usually DIY. Sometimes we hire people because we don't have the time to do it ourself but there's ALWAYS something done wrong that we have to fix ourselves later. And that's aggravating!

you could really jazz that up with beads! maybe even stick seasonal toys on the end of it (rubber duckies, shamrocks, turkeys etc..) for theme parties.

leopard: kinda tacky leopard with bow tie: TOTALLY AWESOME!

To use the search function, you've got to know what you're looking for!

if you're going to give a guy a candle, why not give him one that smells like strip club (I guess that means it smells like fried foods and cigarettes.)

lizzykewl, some people do this so people won't park in front of their houses.

I think the cabinets are cool!

You could fake this pretty easily by buying some vinyl letters and sticking it on a regular shower curtain. Although there's something appealing about the crinkly sound of dacron. Chev...

We have a vintage crazy quilt hanging above our bed (safer than something framed with glass!) I sewed a casing along the back and ran a piece of copper pipe through the casing. Then I ...

We bought one to use in the bathroom so our daughter could reach the sink and see in the mirror. We painted ours with oil based enamel before we assembled it (using glue to reinforce ...

call Kay, the Lightbulb Lady at Sunlan Lighting . She knows her bulbs!

Our bathroom was remodeled in the 1970s with smoked mirror tiles and a acrylic bathtub and surround and a dropped acoustical tile ceiling. yuck. We put in a cast iron tub, subway tiles, a pedestal ...

I manage 100 apartment units and our policy is to replace any toilet that needs repairs with a new low flow model. We also put in low-flow toilets on turns. A basic toilet is cheap ($100-$200) and ...

I'm guessing the owners are ex-hippies who sold out in the 1980s. The "bonus kitchen" and "bonus" living room make me think that this perhaps is an illegal duplex?

Can we see where McCain really lives? (because I'm guessing that he's got a big place in/near DC.) I once appraised a senator's condo. It was clearly not his primary residence even tho...

More drunk reviews, please!

I made my daughter a dress and a kimono out of that same sheet. I bought two sets at two different e...

from Apartment Therapy - #16 - Emily G Goes Nuts on October 12, 2007 08:49PM

This is a really great company. I bought one of their alphabet set at a thrift store. When I called asking about buying two missing letters, they said, send us $2 in postage and we'll send them to ...

from Melissa & Doug Food Groups Play Set on June 27, 2007 02:15PM

I like it. Of course, I have my two most often used pans hanging from nails next to the stove. (I'd love to have Julia Ch...

from How To: Make a Bicycle Wheel Pot Rack on June 27, 2007 02:01PM