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Wooden stairs probably contribute to more broken hips and elbows and fractures than you can imagine. Nothing like smooth bare wood to give you a nice runway landing from your stairs. I don't see anyway carpeting could make you slip unless it is installed poorly and coming loose? Could you explain how it is making you fall? Is it not attached to the flooring or walls or baseboard?

BTW, in Chicago I think the new city ordinance calls for metal, after the large party where so many people died after a wood porch collapse a few years back here in Lakeview.

Everyone pays taxes! Oh wait they don't have to pay for what reason? I can't think of any! Amazon uses the roads to deliver your products the schools to get trained employees etc. They should pay something. Everyone pays and everyone takes from the public sector. It is completely unfair for some group to do business and claim they don't use the public roads, laws, courts etc.

There are chin straps called "Sleep Angel" which look like atheletic protection head gear for sports. They keep the mouth and jaw from relaxing and opening. If the snoring is just a weak front jaw they should work fine and are cheaper than all the suggestions except for saline nasal sprays to clean the air way passages before bedtime. You can find their website online and order direct for the sleep angel.

Great IDEA! I have noticed most nightstands come in a standard size that is way too large for the limited amount of space I have available. I can now see way to get smaller ones that are going to fit and probably better made.

I bought the Webster from Room & Board about 2 months ago. I had it delivered with the white glove service for only $75 dollars. I got it in natural steel but you can have any color of the rainbow if you want to special order. It is beyond sturdy it doesn't move, doesn't rattle, doesn't squeak or wobble. The headboard is gently curved and you can stack a few pillows for reading or watching TV. Pictures do not do it justice at all.
http://www.roomandboard.com/rnb/product/detail.do?productGroup=7561&catalog=filter&menuCatalog=room&menuCategory=191&menuSubcategory=135
I would not bother with the metal beds at Overstock. The comments about bent, scratched, wobbles, doesn't line up holes with instructions really clued me in to stay away from the overstock beds. Cheap metal beds could easily dump you in the floor or cave in on you as some of the reviews point out.
Good Luck! Enjoy your new bed.

Good for you funstraw! Older cabinets are probably REAL WOOD and much sturdier than the Ikea glue and sawdust models.

I had the same tiles in my condo. The condo was built in 1968 in Chicago, home of Montgomery Ward. They are not asbestos. They are asphalt. However, you will need a lab test to confirm this fact. Do a few web searches and you can find a lab to send a small sample of one tile and get a complete report. If you do put the tiles down SAVE THAT REPORT as every home inspector will jump to the conclusion that you have asbestos not asphalt tiles. They do make reproductions of those prints in natural new linoleum in 12" by 12" format and that would save you a lot of headaches and explaining down the road. Everytime anyone in the building has a home inspection or contractor in we get the same speech about the dangers of asbestos and even the buildings orginal papers showing the material to be asphalt are not acceptable to most people. The lab test have always proven them not to be asbestos but it causes lots of problems. Most people get them taken up illegally because of the hassles.

Just a quick comment to the reader who has bought 'used' R&B pieces and found the parts were made in China. I spent all the money and bought a new metal bed from R&B. The Webster. None of the parts are made in china. It was made by Bell Manufacturing in MN. I was trying to save money and checked craigslist every few days hoping to find a parsons or perspective in used furniture-by-owner. Only a few real R&B products were ever in the used furniture listings and they were offered at only 200 dollars less than the new pieces. Now there were tons of cheapo R&B beds advertised on craigslist and you could see even in the grainy poor pictures on craigslist that the beds were just crap from Overstock.com. Considering how prized R&B furniture is you might ask them to show you the orginal receipt if you are doing a craigslist deal. There are a lot of less than honest people peddling their used furniture on the web as R&B pieces and you can see they are NOT R&B pieces quite easily. Especially beware of the sellers which clip the photos off of the R&B site commenting in the ad that the photos from R&B just look better (and their bed is almost like this but R&B changed somethign recently ROFL) or that their digital camera phone broke last week. Ultimately, save up your money and head to a Room and Board store, the experience from entering the front doors to sleeping on the Webster the last few days was the best purchase experience I can ever remember.

It is a fantastic place. I have been getting coffee and tea there for about a year now. It is cheaper than Whole Foods and the best I have ever HAD period. Why did I wait 30 years to go in and get a few pounds of coffee? I have no idea! A coffee place surviving one block from Starbucks and Caribou, and staying in business since 1975. This place is amazing.