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I have been drooling over this desk since I first laid eyes on this post and I finally made it! I used a salvaged door from the street and about $80 of pipe from the hardware store. I've been using this desk every day for 6 months and can't see myself ever giving it up.

http://artingstarvist.blogspot.com/2011/04/diy-pipe-desk-with-salvaged-door.html

I am so jealous of everyone here who learned while they were young! My parents divorced early and as single parents never had the time to clean. My mom hired and cleaning lady and my dad's house was just...filthy.

I am definitely still learning, but a few neatnick roommates along the way have helped a lot. Unfortunately, I am now living in a fairly large but also super rundown apartment with a depressive bipolar roommate. It's up to me to clean the whole place because she just sleeps all day. The problem is compounded by the fact that a) she really didn't clean much in the 3 years since before I moved in, and b) before her our place was a flophouse with 10 adults living in it. I am doing my best, but cleaning here involves a huge series of major chores, instead of just upkeep. It's a bit overwhelming.

Anyways, she is moving out soon and I am really looking forward to my chance to repaint, rearrange all the furniture, and do a MAJOR deep clean. It's going to be a huge undertaking, but this apartment could actually look great if the proper time were put into it. I've been here for a year and it's already a lot better, but learning how to manage the routine of keeping your house sharp is definitely something that is taking me a while to catch on to.

Hm - this gives me the idea to use a hanging fruit basket to hang plants. I have one lone bright window, and would like to have a little herb garden growing near it. Any thoughts on if this would work? I prefer metal to the awful macrame that seems to be the only other budget plant hanging option.

I found composting a pain in the *** because we got so many fruit flies until I started putting my compost in the freezer. I bought a small garbage can with a flip-top lid at the dollar store. I only need to walk out to empty it about once a week, it never smells, and NO fruit flies. I lose a little space in the freezer, but that reminds me to eat what's in there.

Palmetto - I'm no expert, but I think the issue is that food in a dump breaks down very, very slowly. The example I heard from a lead researcher on it was a bun he found that was 60 years old. Because things break down so slowly the dump fills up much faster than it would if all the organic waste was first removed.

Wow, I must be the only person who likes this. I have never owned a TV and probably never will - in part because they *are* hideous! I have never understood why electronics design hasn't gone in a more..aesthetically pleasing...direction. Flatscreen tvs are better than the old ugly boxes, but still...ugh. I would way rather look at a piece of nice fabric.

I really like your fishing line curtain rod idea and may use it for other purposes in my life (such as installing a curtain rod from a weird ceiling that will block off my studio mates ungodly mess!).

Thanks for this.

Oh my god, I was just about to sew pillow covers this week. THANK YOU for this - it is about one million times smarter and easier than the way I was going to do it.