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I love this... and I might even try my hand at making it. Other tutorials for similar mirrors are either way too difficult or not as nice looking.

Clever uses of mirrors. I am swooning over the distressed (mercury glass?) mirror behind the nightstand in the 5th picture.

@ Autum, what the deuce are you talking about?

I dig this style! A blog I read featured something like this back in January and it's just adorable: http://melissaesplin.com/home/2010/01/the-nesting-pens-scalloped-border/

It's simple, really. Everything needs a home if it is really going to get put away. I have a rule that I "only touch something once." Like when I get mail I read it and take it to its home (trash, file) immediately instead of flopping it on the entry table, and then picking it up to read and throwing it down on the coffee table. Then two weeks later if someone is coming to visit, that same piece of mail needs to be picked up and put in a pile that will rest somewhere until all of the papers are collected and ready to be thrown haphazzardly in a closet because now you're in a tizzy to get everything done. See, that's 4 times touching the same paper and wasting your own time... and it's still not properly filed.

Cut out the middle man (er, middle storage places) and if it doesn't have a home - get rid of it! Shoving unwanted documents that have social security numbers into a shredder takes seconds when done individually instead of moving it 5 times and then deciding one weekend to spend hours shredding documents that have been piling up for a year.

I also have the "touch it once" rule about shoes and other household clutter. My house was constantly a mess until I realized I read about the technique on some blog and realized how much time it would save me. For example: instead of piling up 10 pairs of shoes by the door, I take them the shoes from my feet to the closet so I won't be bothered by them later. Seriously, try it.

This is one of my favorite tours! As a fellow renter that has gone trough great pains to make my place look like a home, I really appreciate what you have done here. Although, I harbor a little resentment because I wish I could snuggle with Bruce...

hmm... the picture shown isn't of the hammock described. Any chance you can actually show a picture of it because the way to fold the blanket around the ropes is slightly confusing.