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My son had the schoolhouse and the farm. As an only child he named all the people and the animals and played with them for hours -- he talked to them and supplied the voices for the LP and the animals. It was soo cute!

Whenever I have to purchase a gift for a young child I check out the Vermont Country Store website or catalog and buy something that my son or I played with as children: Lincoln Logs, Fischer-Price telephone or pull-toy or top or a LP set if I can find one.

This is a pet peeve of mine -- and I'm not just picking on you -- but, when you're going to submit a photo of a room, I wish you would take a look first and unplug that lamp cord and tuck it out of sight for the picture. I know we all have to cope with cords all over the place, but the photo would look so much better without the cord hanging out there.

The room is quite attractive, but without the cord showing, the room would look more polished.

JMHO.

What paint did you use in this room? It's a lovely shade!

That cobalt blue floor in the dining area is lovely! And taking out the wall and opening everything up was genius...

Ask your grandfather.

@anusha -- I agree that the artwork is hung too high for my taste. My rule of thumb, since I'm of average height, 5'7", that art should be hung at my eye level. Otherwise I feel that I have to look 'way up at it...

I don't mind the painted tub, but I would not have chosen school-bus yellow. The Victorian wallpaper was just too overwhelming for me, although I love the Victorian style of fixtures. The chevron curtains and the beadboard are great!

Great ideas! Thanks for writing this article.

I hate to mention it, but the kitchen sink is usually the dirtiest, germiest thing in the house -- even worse than the toilet...

When you said to frame a postcard, all I could think of was Ennis's postcard of Brokeback Mountain....

When we moved here we had a lot of stuff. We had not been able to purge because our house sold so quickly we were taken by surprise (one week!). Luckily - or unluckily - this place has a barn, so we had the movers put a lot of boxes in the barn, thinking we would go through them when we finished arranging furniture, etc., in the house. Eight years later, those boxes are still out there. However, now those boxes are home to many, many creepy crawlers, everything from beetles and spiders to nursing mice -- I know, I saw that poor mousey mother run from me with baby mice still attached! Ugh!!!! I'd say just drag the stuff out and take it to the county dump, but we don't have a truck and I don't want those critters in our SUV. And, there are some rather important papers out there somewhere -- I'm in Tennessee, anyone want to drive here and go through those boxes and remove the critters, alive or dead, for me? I'd even pay someone, but so far haven't found any takers...