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Merewether, you must not be a native Utahn if you think it's spelled "UtahAns". :-) But you are right that Utahns are lucky to have Kouign Amman at Les Madeleines (though they spell it Kouing Aman there). It's been popular there for several years now, and they actually sell them online at http://store.les-madeleines.com/kouing-aman-4-pack-p1.aspx.

I found something in my new area that's not *quite* the same but can satisfy my craving. Crossroads Bake Shop in Doylestown, PA (far outlying suburb of Philadelphia) has something similar that they call the Morning Roll. I have to add a little sprinkle of sea salt when I get home, but the texture, flakiness/chewiness, and caramelized sugar are there.

loufromlou-

I hope you're just trying to be funny. The house tour you are referring to is the new home of this same couple. So yes, they have the "same crap arranged a little differently" as they do in this, their previous home.

My linen closet is shallow and triangular. Whose idea was that?!? There is room for it to have been built as a regular rectangular closet. You can't fit many sheets or towels on a triangular shelf. Grrr.

I have a very large one in my main living space. It has 72 drawers, and I have all but two of them labeled and filled with everything that would be scattered about the house otherwise. You know, the stuff that my husband would be asking me about multiple times per day: "Where is a pen??? Where are the scissors??? Where is the [insert whatever here]???"

Now I can just tell him it's in the card catalog, labeled under pen, scissors, etc. I love it so much, I would love to have one in my bedroom and one in my kitchen, too, but that would probably be overkill.

Since maybe I want to have the longest AT comment ever, here's what I have in mine:

1. Address Book
2. Batteries
3. Bills
4. Business Cards – Others
5. Business Cards – Ours
6. Buttons
7. Cables - AV
8. Cables - Computer
9. Calculators
10. Camera
11. Candles – Long
12. Candles – Tea lights
13. Candy
14. Cards – Index
15. Cards – Note & Thank you
16. Cell phone
17. Change
18. Chapstick
19. Checks
20. Colored Pencils
21. Coupons
22. Crayons
23. Elastics & Twist Ties
24. Envelopes – Large
25. Envelopes – Small
26. Ephemera
27. Erasers
28. First Aid
29. Flashlights
30. Glasses
31. Glue
32. Gum
33. Hand Sanitizer
34. Hard Drive
35. Hardware
36. Hole Punches
37. Ink cartridges
38. iPod
39. Keys
40. Labels
41. Lighters
42. Lint Roller
43. Markers
44. Matches
45. Measuring Tapes
46. Medicine
47. Nail Clippers & Polish
48. Needles & Thread
49. Paper clips
50. Paints
51. Pencils
52. Pens
53. Pins
54. Playing Cards
55. Post-it Notes
56. Receipts – Household
57. Receipts – Word Queen
58. Rulers
59. Scissors
60. Shoe Polish
61. Sidewalk Chalk
62. Stamps – Ink
63. Stamps – Postage
64. Stapler
65. String
66. Sunglasses
67. Tape
68. Tools
69. Toys
70. Voice Recorder

I was wondering when/if this would be covered on AT, because the condo we bought and moved into four months ago has an open bathroom in the master bedroom. A large soaking tub is adjacent to a glass-enclosed shower, with a vanity opposite. Beyond that are a toilet in its own room, and a walk-in closet. All this can be seen from the bed (well, not the toilet, luckily). The room has very high vaulted ceilings, but the footprint of the "bedroom" area itself is quite small, and would feel much smaller if a wall separated it from the bathroom area.

Like the property bought by a commenter above, our home was on the market for quite some time and we purchased it for less than would be usual for its age, square footage, condition, etc. When we first viewed it, I was turned off by the bathroom situation, and guessed that other potential buyers were turned off, too. Judging from the comments here, it looks like that was probably the case. I figured we could enclose the bathroom with a wall before selling the home, even though this will make the master bedroom feel much less spacious.

But for us, we love it! My husband prefers baths to showers, so he uses the generous soaking tub several times a week. In past homes/apartments I would often sit by him during his bath and talk about his day. This is so much nicer now that we are in our own bedroom and I'm not perched on a toilet. I take showers, myself, but I very much enjoy a long, luxurious bath once in a while. Giving my kids their baths is much more enjoyable in my room than in a cramped bathroom. I can get ready or put away laundry while my son is in the bath. The room is well-ventilated, and there haven't been any problems with moisture/mold. The tub is large, so water rarely, if ever, splashes out of the tub.

On the other hand, I can see how it could be perceived as icky, like the "adult" resorts advertised in the backs of magazines, with the heart-shaped hot tubs. Yeah, it's a little weird, but I prefer to think of it as luxurious.