Lisa S.'s Profile

I'm neutral on the mural, but can someone point me in the direction of that chair? I want to learn more about it!

And, uh, "phone" should be "floor." This is what I get for surfing on conference call.

Seriously? $150-$280 per month?

Get thee to a farmer's market and spend that much PER YEAR on beautiful, local flowers instead! Or spend that kind of dough redoing your landscaping.

Good lord. I love plants but seriously, $150 for ONE arrangement per month?

So cheery! And if you've got the space, why not display a collection like this in a kitchen?

Also, I love that this kitchen is in Newport News. When I was growing up there, the entire region was under the sway of the Colonial Williamsburg aesthetic. Great to see branching out!

Monkeyme, I think this site is for people in all living situations to get ideas. Lord knows I can't afford everything featured on this site -- but I can use it all to develop my own style vocabulary and to better understand what I like and don't like.

MrGreen, what I should have pointed out: books only get as dusty as other items in your household do. They'll only accumulate dust if you are not regularly wiping all the items/surfaces in your household clean of dust on a regular basis.

I am sorry my pithiness obscured the real intent of the message. In the future, I will endeavor to make all my messages hew to a specific reading level.

boomer, I was very curious about your Prius/Hummer-related statements, so I began looking for cites to confirm for myself.

Might your statements be linked to the CNW Marketing Research firm's report? The veracity of those claims is being quibbled in a few places:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/04/EDGI7Q63U01.DTL
http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/24/questionable-report-claims-hummer-is-greener-than-prius/
http://www.thecarconnection.com/Auto_News/Green_Car_News/Prius_Versus_HUMMER_Exploding_the_Myth.S196.A12220.html

and so on.

I have a pretty open mind about the impact of either car -- I just want to see cites behind some of these statements, that's all.

Oh, Chris, I made that commute from Alameda for 1.5 years and yes, it does indeed SUCK.

We've got 832 SF, 2 ba/1 br, 1920s Spanish cottage with a perfectly petite front and back yard. We got it for ... less than the median price in the area at the time. The tradeoff, of course, is that we'll be working on it for the next five years because previous owners made the windows smaller (why?), plastered over and filled in all the lovely inter-room arches (why?), paved over much of the front and side yards (why?), and covered over all the original redwood trim in 5 layers of paint (why?).

But we have location. Both of us work in SF, so the commute's easy, and that was the No. 2 priority. The No. 1 priority was to live in a great neighborhood with plenty of amenities within walking distance, and that is pretty much Alameda in a nutshell. I figure the wood floors (refinished after a flood) and the satisfaction of restoring an older place to a beautiful, functional home are tied for No. 3.

It could be really great in some rooms.

Painted furniture doesn't always have to equal Kute Kuntry Kraft.