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My fridge has stainless doors, but black sides. It's the perfect thing for me. Where it sticks out past the cabinets I can post whatever I want, but I'm limited to that space where it isn't as much of an eye-sore...like the doors. The doors are just nice sleek stainless. :-) Love my fridge.

My mother would never let me do this, although I wanted to. I was left with a 2'x3' bulletin board to cover with photos. The "movie star" collage only lasted about a year and a half in junior high. After that it was all art and photography.

Bamboo. Green, clean, airy, and fantastic!

My husband and I do laundry seperately most of the time as I'm allergic to tide and we got a LOT of it from my parents (so he uses it for now). I use cold on all my clothes to save on electricity since my clother are never THAT dirty anyways. Depending on how long I've procrastinated, it can range from everything in one load to whites, colors, reds. I will wash my towels with my clothes (which load depends on the color of the towel). Bedsheets get their own load unless I don't have many whites. I just kind of go with it. Whatever fits in the washer without overstuffing it gets washed as a load.

*drools* Exactly what I want for my next home. (If only my condo was worth it... :-\...)

@I Love Upstate Yeah, the comments were quite nasty. Not everyone does DIY projects the same. Using a quality material and foam can make for quite an amazing bench. Sad that MargotA from Style at Home had a comment saying just that which got completely overlooked.

I just got my first really large bookshelf (finally convinced the hubby that the books were just dying to get out of the tubs in the basement!) and I am so glad to come across this article. I'm at the beginning phases of organizing. I had a smaller shelf (cheap 2 shelf Sauder) that I had trash picked as a pair (second one is for my husbands books) and I organized by subject with larger books towards the outsides and further down if that makes sense. It worked okay for a shelf that size, but now that I have a full size Billy, I'm really stumped! Will keep an eye on this posting to see what other organizational ideas people have!

Wow, this post came about a week late for me. Our cats have been treating the landing at the bottom of the basement stairs as a litter box for some time now. We'd tried the Woolite pet stain remover (don't use it, it doesn't work!) as well as a few other brands. Part of the problem is cats like to pee in the most akward place...corners. We're having to replace trim and a door frame because of it! It was so bad it got into the concrete and we couldn't even get out the smell with vinegar. We put down vinyl tile (sorry eco-friendlies) mostly because a. it's easy, b. it can handle the leaks our basement is prone to, and c. it makes cleanup easy for repeat visits. We moved the litter to the laundry room and they seem happy now. Hopefully it stays this way. I will make sure to pick up a bottle of cleaner for the future though!

I'd say go bold. Turquoise.

Simple to do:

1. change outlet covers and the outlets for white...we did this in our condo which had outlets that were grubby and off white and it made a world of difference!

2. Peel and stick tiles on the floor...cheap covering that will make the whole space feel new and clean

3. New hardware for the cabinetry...simple way to change the look of the space.

4. Paint the walls and soffits...it will add contrast and interest. Depending on what color you choose you can even visually alter the color your cabinetry appears. My recommendations would be a nice blue-gray (more blue than gray) or perhaps a sagey green. Nice and neutral, but will add some interest to the space. Even a nice tan would look better than the off white.

All this could be done inexpensively. Another idea that I just thought of is black soffits and walls with black hardware on the doors. That would be sharp as well.

Lots of potential. Be glad you have slab style doors to work with. Working with veneer paneled and raised paneled doors is a little bit more complicated to "update" and personalize.