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oh oh oh I cannot believe that anyone would work in bed with a cup of coffee on the tray table. Heck, I fried a pc with a cup of soup, and that was on my desk. The person in the photo is braver than I am.

Truly a low point. Had to click the link just to join in with the expressions of disgust.

ok, I'm going to Ikea asap. I might even get **two** of those carts. MWAHAHAHAHA!

Lovely and livable.

Most of you who post here are the 30-something crowd, I am, let's just say, older than that. So I see descriptions of houses and the sources are always West Elm, DWR, Ikea, Crate and Barrel and so on and so on. My stuff includes Scan, Woodward & Lothrop, that-wonderful-Scandinavian-design-store-that-left-Pittsburgh, husband's-grandmother-from-her-trip-to-India, ... you get the idea. As you get older, your stuff mellows and gets more protein-y and interesting. It's one of the few up-sides of getting older ... :)

Thank you all for the comments. A day or so after I sent in the question, I just googled it, and of course found that the exact same question had been posed on AT 4 years ago. And at Houzz.com and innumerable other places. The general answer is 28 to 32 inches. But y'all have given me much more specific and detailed thoughts. At the moment, I don't have any exceptionally tall friends, but I myself am exceptionally short - which is probably why I have problems with other peoples lights, with pictures, and especially with counters. Anyway... I am really looking forward to getting the Poulsen lamp, to me it is just beautiful.

Cheers,
Joanne, aka realcalm

If #10 is going to have an icosahedron, a dodecahedron and an octahedron, then the last two should be a cube and a tetrahedron.

This sounded like it should be fabulous, so I went to the website and took a look at some of the offerings, specifically, crochet and jewelry. There was a little crochet flower, a first-time how-to, a cap for a person with a pointy head. The level of expertise in jewelry was similar. For the money, buy a book.

I especially like the dining room, the blue chairs are to die for.

Now the dogs had to make me laugh - with those expressions on their faces they look just exactly like the standard pair of proud homeowners. A case of body-snatchers!

I'd go with the professionals - either sandblast & powder coat, or a car body shop. Otherwise you'll sand and sand and sand and in the end you won't be happy, so you'll take them to the sandblaster anyway. They *are* nice chairs - worth the effort. Lucky you!