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We have the Thackery Chesterfield from Anthropologie. We got it in the gray this summer, and while I wouldn't say it was worth full price (we paid $1200), we are really happy with it. A couple of the reviews mention that the cushions are hard. This is true when you first sit on it, but they soften up after just a couple of days of use. I'm sure it depends on your preference, but I find it a million times comfier than our old overstuffed couch.

If you look at the pictures of the closet with stuff in it, you can see the scale of the pipe a little better. It looks like 16 inch pipe, maybe even 18. That can definitely take a bath towel, no problem.

Meant to add, you had to call for this no charge delivery. It wasn't advertised anywhere on the website. I'm not sure if she ordered it from the houston store or a warehouse, but I'd suspect the latter.

I painted the walls and ceiling in my stairwell TWO YEARS AGO. Except I couldn't reach to get the corners up near the ceiling with my ladder. It has taken us two years (to the month) to get the motivation to figure out a ladder solution and fix it. We had big plans to do it this weekend.

Last night my husband called me and said there was water soaking through the ceiling and down the walls, right where we were going to paint. Our air conditioner is the culprit. At least we didn't paint it last weekend?

Whoa. I know this post is way old, but we have one of these tools at my pottery studio and I had no idea this was what it was for. I've just been using it to press spiral=-ish patterns in the clay. I can't wait to use it with glaze!

We replace our sponge pretty often, because I get grossed out by them pretty quickly. Good to know I can clean them in the dishwasher! And I'm going to use the pillowcase trick on our ceiling fans tonight.

We go through a lot of kitchen towels. I keep one by the sink - "the clean one", and one by the oven "the dirty one". The sink one is clean enough for wiping hands and dishes, but the one by the oven only needs to be clean enough for grabbing hot pans, wiping up spilled sauce, etc. When one of them gets a little too dirty for its job (once a day at least) the dirty one gets tossed in the washer, which is right by the kitchen, and the clean one gets downgraded to oven duty. We get a fresh one out for dishes/clean hands. It's really worked well for us.

We have a cast iron cornbread pan that belonged to my husband's great grandmother hanging on the kitchen wall.

I still use it (and her recipe!) every time I make cornbread, but it's nice to have it on display everyday as a reminder of love, family, and the warmth of homemade bread.

I really don't like this as a replacement for the Craigslist roundup. I realize you're wanting to get the AT Classifieds off the ground. But in doing that you're missing a huge portion of the country. The entire South and huge swaths of the rest of the country are completely left out.

The Craigslist round up used to be the only post I reliably clicked on every day. Now I'm not sure if I need to keep AT in my reader.

Love this post! Wish it would come back as a regular feature.

One of the notes says they'll be closed for renovations, so they may not be worried if they're repainting or doing something with those walls anyway.

Either way, painting over an area that size is easy enough. It takes less time than putting up and taking down an actual Christmas tree.