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I have the all-plastic version that Oxo seems to have discontinued, and I love it. I got it looking for a tool to make chocolate curls off a marble board without scratching the marble. It's great for that, but I find I use it a lot more than I'd ever have thought -- cutting or trimming dough, lifting cut cookies to the sheet, clearing from a cutting board or counter, scraping a bench or a pastry cloth... The plastic one can do pretty much everything the metal one can do except chop harder things, and it's kid-safe... and doesn't scratch marble. 8) Every single friend who has tried it wants one of their own.

This isn't for me, either. In addition to what others have said, chicken wire has little wire twists that I'd think would be hard to clean. If I were really hunting for hexagons, I'd choose hexagon-etched glass over this any day.

I had an apartment with an all-pink bagthroom -- tiles, toilet, sink, bathtub, counter. A friend quickly dubbed it "the Pepto-Bismol Bathroom," a name that inevitably stuck.

I would not want an all-pink fridge, or any other major appliances. Nobody ever wants to have to replace a major appliance any time soon, and I'd much rather have something a little more timeless (to whatever extent an appliance can be) and to choose it based on other factors, such as functionality, features, and size.

Now, if it had removable pink panels/facing, maybe then I'd give it a shot.

Magmel, options abound! What about, for a more grown-up theme, stylized plants/flowers/birds/whatever in the color(s) of your choice, both for the marker and for the underlying color? Or your favorite stencil pattern, perhaps done with spray fabric paint? Or pretty much anything else; you could use less-cartooney artwork or a less-whimsical style, or do a single big striking design instead of a lot of little ones, or stitch smaller designed pieces into a quilt, or....

What a fun idea! And with the magnets each thoroughly stitched in under a layer of cloth, there's not even any worry that they'll get eaten. If you use a serger on the edges (or make each piece so the raw edges are all inside), you could even run them through the washing machine. And if your family members have repeated letters in names, no worries, just make more of that letter....

It's a neat effect, but I'm with Julesh; even if I were the least-messy cook ever, I'd dread the day that something would somehow explode. Last month I accidentally knocked over a full canister of flour, getting flour everywhere.

That caramel cherry tart sounds kind of incredible.

Fergmilk, it says it can rotate 180 degrees. If you can only turn it a half circle in either direction, rather than around and connection-twistigly around, I'd think they could get away with longish, flexible, hidden connections, like electrical cords and washing-machine hoses.

(Heh -- Kaete, my father, a research scientist in neurochemistry who retired to start a sheep farm, once called a vet to come see a sick ewe only to wind up teaching the vet how to do an injection into the spinal column.)

My workplace has a social mailing list on which people regularly request and post recommendations for service providers. General local discussion fora can also good for such things.

3M has a bunch of cord-control clips in their command-adhesive line (the stuff that comes off cleanly, without residue or damage) -- they're great for holding cords accessibly out of the way wherever it's most convenient to anchor them, even if that's on a painted surface or an antique desk or whatever.