hikatie's Profile

I've had open shelving in the past and am in the process of renovation my kitchen, and I'll have open shelves again. I use the items in my kitchen so they don't have much of an opportunity to get dusty and greasy - and if they do, I wash them. It's adds a minute to a process every few months, maybe, but it's worth to have easy access, to enjoy the appearance of my pretty things, and to not feel boxed in in my kitchen.

this was an issue before the city council in kansas city a year or two ago, and in the end, they decided that it is perfectly legal for people to grow vegetables in their front yards. they placed some limitations on growing row crops, like corn (involving placement in the yard and how much there was), and there's still some language about it needing to be tidy and subject to grass being reasonably mowed... but you're still left quite a lot of room for planting. i also learned around that time that the city has an ordinance on the books that allows for farming/gardening on unused vacant lots - so if there is, say, a vacant lot that the owner is not actively using (or perhaps maintaining?), the public has the right to plant there - for some length of time, at least.

i also live in kc, and between our car, scooters, and bikes, not much *needs* to be within walking distance. i'd call my only MUST greenspace - a good park or route to walk or dogs in, and luckily our backyard abuts gillham park. but i'm a much happier girl in a walkable area, and am pleased we're within walking distance of several bus routes, a grocery store, and all the shopping and dining of the plaza and westport.

i've bought dozens upon dozens of things on etsy and only had one bad experience, but oh boy was that experience bad. no product, no refund, and the woman finally went MIA. luckily it wasn't an expensive purchase and was literally the only remotely bad purchase i've made on etsy in years and years now.

i like the lighter color a lot - and i have an even paler green in a room in my house and it really pops against clean white trim. don't worry about that at all.

And are you considering the emissions and the complex chain of events involved in manufacturing a new car? I think the answer is, there's no right answer. If we assume that the vintage Bug (or Vespa, or whatever) is a massively inefficient polluter, does that really outweigh all of the factories (and their emissions, and water usage, and petroleum usage, and other impacts), and the pollution and impact of shipping that new car to wherever you are?

I used binder clips and pant hangers on a few prints for awhile, but found that they started curling badly - definitely not the look I was going for. Pretty much everything gets framed at this point.

huh. i live in a good-size city (no new york, but you know... a big city aside from that) in what i believe is a kind of marginal area (some believe it's not good) and i pretty much always open my door. husband home or not. there's only been one time i felt really uneasy about doing so (it was about 11 pm), but i'm glad i did - it was my across-the-street neighbor coming over to tell me about something he'd spied going on next door and to tell me he'd called the cops.

so... yeah. reckless, trusting, or sensible? you pick.

my husband and i are on the verge of starting a similar project - basically renovating the back half of our house to have a bigger, updated kitchen. i too love a bright, clean, modern kitchen, but want to be sure that it fits in with our 1900ish house and that it preserves its resale value. please post pictures after your project! we'll need some inspiration for our own!

surely there's a local source for you? i live in kansas city and we've got some fantastic local, organic tofu-makers (and soybean growers) within about 50 miles of the city.