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I love this whole place to pieces ... so bright and quirky and airy and cozy at the same time. It's hipper than I can pull off, cleaner (read: whiter floors) than I could maintain, but it's totally gorgeous. I love the kitchen view toward the windows, the bathroom is killing me, lots of fun stuff, heaps of personality. It's great.

I can't get Wayne White out of my mind:

just a picture
shunned by scholars
now it's worth
ten thousand dollars

Tracy Melton .... didn't you go on Martha Stewart a year or two ago and demonstrate to the audience how to make tree ring paintings for themselves? You can't exactly be surprised that some people as a result decided to ... make tree ring paintings. And unless you've trademarked /copyrighted your title / design then you don't have much claim to sour grapes about others doing similar work.

If you think you have a really unique, original product, and don't want anyone to "copy" you, then it's probably best to at the very least avoid going on a major television show, where you purposely show people how to diy. I don't mean that sarcastically. It just seems like common sense.

In a similar vein, I use the plastic rectangular containers that so many mixed lettuce and greens come in, for the same purpose. I buy them once in awhile when we have lots of people coming for dinner, and I keep them stacked and put away until I need them. I flip them upside down, just set plant cups etc. on the lid, and then sit the overturned container over that... it works great!

We keep ours in a few of the low Ikea PS lockers on wheels. If you just don't put the divider shelf in, they're perfect, and really sturdy too.

Standard square milk crates are generally too small for 12" records. It's also a little bizarre to accuse people of being "suburban" for sourcing places to buy something rather than stealing it. Why buy anything? Just go where people have some and take them. Tah-dah.

I love this style of wall calendar, and love that star map one!

To add, spoonflower ( the custom fabric printing site) holds a contest every year to design a quarter-yard sized calendar to print on fabric (like dish towel calendars). There's a ton of them there, if you search. I've ordered a couple on canvas that I love to bits.

jeannemarie, if you delve into the designsponge and blog article, it does say that her little one is just under 2 years old, and there's photos where it's clear there's a hinged lid under the mattress.

It's important as all get out to keep kids safe. It's also good to keep a sense of perspective ... boy did I love jumping off the porch roof into snowy drifts as a kid, with my dad right there. Just a couple of latches and simple safety products deserve mention (rather than vitriolic commentary), and beyond that it is a positively dreamy little space. I want one.

I'm a Tiffany, also growing lettuces and nasturtiums in gutters, on the tops of my wooden balcony railings in BC, Canada. Tiff's with gutter gardens are in fact all the rage. :)

Oh. My. Goodness.

This is such a simple idea but my head is now swimming with the possibilities. I have a couple of those vintage Lopez ceramic planters that are shaped like San Francisco houses (with plants in them, of course) on my window sill ... it would be neat to work little lights like these in, all in a row, for evening lighting.

Really neat. I love them.

ThreeAcres, that's exactly what I thought. You wouldn't just want to put a little bracket on there and be done with it, but huge expanses of heavy wood cupboards are mounted to walls in houses, full of heavy breakable dishware, and nobody questions that. If you do the job properly then you're fine.

That said, the space under this is really big and therefore it looks kind of weird. Good inspiration, though. :)