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Display Name: aabbbiee
Member Since: 11/29/07

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Nice work! It looks really good! I wish I would just stop dallying around and just do this in my house, which is full of shiny oak.


Apartment Therapy Chicago | Charmaine's Painting Projects Before After Good Questions Revisited
9/22/09 11:41 AM

The abacus is fantastic.


Apartment Therapy New York | Geeky Artwork and Decor
9/16/09 9:45 AM

Birdhouses should give access so you can remove the old nests, but I can't see that this one would. Also, they should have more than one hole for air circulation, otherwise the birds could suffocate. Not to mention the heat mentioned by others here.

Also, there's no justification for a $142 birdhouse.


Apartment Therapy New York | Bird Bottle by Julie RooneyDesign Showcase 2009
8/24/09 5:25 PM

If you don't like the ornate light fixture as it is, please don't paint it! It hurts my heart to think someone would paint that.
Sell it on eBay or Etsy (there are plenty of us who would love it as is) and use the cash for a new light fixture that you do like.


Apartment Therapy Boston | Good Question: Affordable, Temporary 'Fix' For Kitchen?
7/13/09 10:55 AM

@alexis: Apparently, if we're not the type of travelers who carry lemons with us, or have easy access to lemons wherever we go, we're not the intended customer of this product.

No, sorry. Ridiculous. I have a cell phone alarm. I can also use a clock with rechargeable batteries that I already own. If I must buy a new product, solar alarm clocks would work better and easier. And they don't require lemons.


Apartment Therapy DC | Bedol Eco-Friendly Water Clock
7/1/09 12:57 PM

It's cute, but I would worry that it would leak if I was travelling. And if I'm not supposed to be carrying it while full, where do I get the lemon juice on the road?


Apartment Therapy DC | Bedol Eco-Friendly Water Clock
7/1/09 9:25 AM

The only thing that doesn't make me cry here is the fact that it's just a G series kit lens. Even still, though, I couldn't do it.


Apartment Therapy Unplugged | Digi-Garden Hack: Using Broken dSLRs as Plant Pots
6/19/09 11:00 AM

I like most of the galleries here, except the hallway gallery. I have a long dark hallway in my house, but I think that it would feel oppressive to line it with pictures like in that photo. It makes the hallway feel even narrower than it is.

I've had a hard time deciding how to make my hallway feel lighter and wider, but I don't think that dozens of large photos is the way to do it.


Apartment Therapy DC | Roundup: Stylish Ideas for Displaying Family Photos
6/15/09 2:48 PM

But it's my house, stt64. Of course I think my family is magnificent, thrilling, and beautiful (and I don't even have kids). I take a lot of photos, and I'd rather have the pictures hanging on the walls than sitting in shoeboxes or filling up hard drives.

Why not? It's my house, where I live, and I like to see pictures of the people I love the walls.


Apartment Therapy DC | Roundup: Stylish Ideas for Displaying Family Photos
6/15/09 2:44 PM

We lived in a lot of small towns when I was young, and we used to sometimes take 'old homes tours', where we would drive past the houses where we used to live. Now I'm still pretty nomadic, but I like to drive past my old apartments when I'm in the area, just to see how things have changed.

And hey! I now live in Columbia, Missouri, not very far from Boonville.


Apartment Therapy Chicago | Snapshots of Your Childhood Home
6/12/09 3:36 PM

I agree that pink (and mustard yellow/black or avocado or harvest gold) bathrooms should be celebrated and not hidden! If your house is old enough to have that kind of character, you should embrace it. If you update it with current fashions, it will just look dated in a few years and then will need to be 'updated' again... a huge waste of time, money, and environmental resources.


Apartment Therapy DC | The Power of Distraction: Hiding Eyesores in Plain View
5/21/09 3:46 PM

I stayed here a couple of years ago and loved it.


Apartment Therapy San Francisco | Flickr Find: Bedroom at the Hotel Max
5/21/09 1:27 PM

In Missouri, we could still get a cold snap into late April, so I have erred on the side of caution so far. I did think of doing the switchout this past weekend.


Apartment Therapy Chicago | This Week: Make The Seasonal Closet Switch
5/4/09 2:03 PM

I recently bought a Better Water Drinking Water Filter bottle from the health market that I keep on my desk at work. I am so pleased with it because it keeps me drinking water at work, but not buying bottled water. The bottle is made from corn-based resin and is compostable (though it looks like clear plastic) and it has a filter built into the sport cap for the chlorine. It can be reused 90 times. It was a little pricey, but once it gets too nasty (as reusable bottles always do) I can just throw it in the compost at home. I love it!


Apartment Therapy - Survey: How Do You Take Your Drinking Water?#comments
11/29/07 8:47 AM