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Maxwell, you are being disengenuous in the extreme to suggest that AT uses one photo when it steals from the NYT. Your editors do not use one photo - maybe one photo before the jump, to encourage your own readers to click through to a second AT page, and thus increase your own ad revenue, but I ran a search on NYT on the AT site and found an astonishing number of posts where the AT editor took a large percentage of the total photos from the NYT story, which for AT readers, means there is no need to click through, since they have seen the best photos and been given a synopsis already. yes, posts do say there are more photos on the NYT site, but so many are already at AT that there is no point in clicking through.

8 photos, in this one, and it isn't unusual, I don't think: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/blogging/house-tour-color-pattern-in-israel-nyt-31208-045199
that isn't a 'visual taste', that's making money off of other people's work.

If the NYT doesn't want you to use their content to earn your own living off of their work, why not just respect their wishes and stop using their content? Surely, you'all can find EVEN MORE stuff at Ikea and West Elm to link to, instead.

The problem with pretending it is ethical to use 'vintage' skins is that it encourages people to want to emulate the look, which necessitates killing animals currently alive to do so. Also, all that 'zebra' is cow and often pony. As in, you are killing horses today to pretty up your floor, to emulate real zebras killed a hundred years ago and being used as vintage skins.

Mothballs don't repel rats - they cause cancer in the females, and interrupt the breeding cycle. And as Anna pointed out above, this couldn't be a more dangerous bit of advice. More specifically, mothballs are often paradichlorobenzene, and the chlorine atoms can convert to hydrochloric acid. Hey, get rid of the middle man and just pour hydrochloric acid on your engine!

Next up, in the advice files - grease fire on the stove? Throw gasoline on it!

Ummm...this is the OPPOSITE of no possessions. This is getting rid of all of the current possessions in order to buy new possessions. Homesteading, as rockabyemama aptly points out, requires all the tools of farming, including a new domicile. Catamarans require buying and maintaining a boat, and buying everything necessary to live on a boat.

I love how books are 'clutter', but some mass-produced piece of crap from jonathan adler or DWR or whatever else is cutting edge for this season is somehow a desired, nay, required, personal design statement that reflects a great example of 'editing' one's surroundings.

Eric, my point is, AT is not Craigslist:
http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/rfs/610614231.html

or Postlets:
http://www.postlets.com/res/452026

Which have pretty much exact duplicates of this post - AT used to be about finding great stuff, first, and now it is a pale imitation of craigslist, which at least had the distinction of having this copy posted first.

Its great that you are looking to hustle for your clients, especially an odd looking, overpriced flip like this one in a brutally soft Chicago real estate market, but AT used to be about showcasing interesting and beautiful design and innovative small space solutions, and posts like this, that aren't even written as posts but as a blanket list of RE features, spammed across multiple sites, are disturbing. After all, AT does take paid advertisements, and this post is nothing more than an advertisement. This should be (and who knows, probably is) a paid advertisement, not a blog post.

I am not suggesting you should be ashamed of anything, but somebody should, for posting a word for word craigslist ad and trying to pass it off as a design story.

Love the closeup on the birds. I can definitely see either of these in my own nursery!

The set of photos on flicker is amazing - it is hard to see the depth of participation in these small pics, but in the larger ones, that is a lot of children over a long period of time. I wish this had existed when I was a kid. it looks magical.

Don't fall asleep near the pods...

Enjoyed this idea when presented last month on AT:

http://nursery.apartmenttherapy.com/nursery/how-to/how-to-making-ice-cream-in-a-bag-024340