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I have a good friend who works at Spoonflower and the company as a whole is really legit- everyone there loves their jobs, loves fabric, and gets really exciting about crafting. Plus the fabric itself is great quality and there's about a bajillion different prints already!

I really want to do a cost analysis breakdown of how much you'd have to pay yourself per hour to make this in order for it to actually come out cheaper than Anthropologie but it would involve charts and graphs and whatnot.

By my calculation, if I could make this in less than 12.5 hours total, then I would theoretically be saving money by making it myself. However, as cool as it would be to make it myself, I think it'd be a hugenormous PITA. Maybe if you got together with three of your best friends who all wanted one and spent a Saturday sewing squares while watching girly movies and then gave everything to someone's grandma who really liked to quilt.

My parents live in a very moist house, so they combat it frequently. Vinegar solution works, but the best way is to get a steam wand, like you'd use for clothes. If it gets hot enough it will kill the mold.

I'm an impossible pragmatist. There's no way the bottom of that thing is insulated enough.

Another option would be to take it to a lamp store and see if they have any suggestions. My aunt runs a lamp store in Raleigh, NC (has for the last 30 years) and is a wizard with lamps. So a lamp shop might either know how to finagle it so that it works, or they might have some European fittings running around in the workshop.

I love the variety of things that are on the NoVa Craigslist listings, but I am SO HAPPY that someone else shares my irrational hatred for misspellings, crappy (or absent) photos, and complete lack of acceptable price points!

Hooray for moving on! I totally agree with "Do I feel good when I look at this object?" It took a long time to get to the point where I realized that if it didn't make me feel good, it needed to go, no matter who gave it to me or how much I paid for it. I think that's the first step to turning a house into a home- making sure it's filled with what YOU want, not what someone tells you that you want!

This is really neat, and seems like it could be done DIY if one was short on cash.

WOW! I am weeping that I live all the way out in souless Reston and praying that one day I'll have a city apartment as cool as that!

I love all the touches of bright colors balanced by the black furniture, and the light colors used to balance everything else. I love how you've got Ikea stuff but that it looks sophisticated and intentional and not "Oops I need a TV console better get a cheap one". This is seriously one of the BEST house tours I've seen and I love everything!

Although, that towel rack/cabinet looks like it's puking blue terrycloth :)

People have clean closets? I thought the whole point of a closet was a place to put all the crap that you don't want out for the world to see?