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Strongly disagree with the statement "Repeating the same pattern on multiple surfaces... gives the illusion of more space." I find the result completely claustrophobic.

The banner for The Color Cure at the top of the page is in violation of the 80/20 rule....

And if you live in Houston, you can see part of the Eckel collection donated to the Museum of Fine Arts from August 20:
http://mfah.org/exhibitions/spirit-modernism-john-r-eckel-jr-foundation-gift-m/

I third the magic eraser. If that doesn't work, try a real eraser next (a white one--an orange pencil eraser can leave a mark worse than what you had.) If that doesn't work, try a steam cleaner (cautiously--I don't think the heat would be enough to affect the plastic, but try a little bit at the back first to be sure.) Distilled water is a much more effective cleaner than regular water. You could try rubbing the marks with distilled water on a q-tip. Also rubbing with spit on a qtip--digestive enzymes can be the very best thing to break down organic dirt.
I wouldn't try anything with a solvent. You can start out with a solvent on plastic thinking everything is fine, and then suddenly after ten minutes work, the plastic goes all funny, sometimes nowhere near where you've been working--it can travel down the polymer chains, I think.
If it's truly a stain, i.e. penetrated through the plastic, just give up, you're never going to pull it out. If it's on the surface and just stubborn, keep trying things. Good luck!

While I quite like some of them, there's something fundamentally wrong about tailoring a painting to go in a space. I usually really like his designs until we get to the painting, and once that's added, it so perfectly matches the room that, despite the vivid colors, the total effect is a sort of overdesigned hotel room blandness.
Of course, no danger of that when you're buying a print of his for a space you've designed. But with so much amazing and affordable art on etsy, do you really want the image in your living room to have a print of something done by the hot HGTV guy?

King Spa in Dallas, which is Korean--scrupulously clean, entry is cheap as dirt, and good for 24 hours, hot rooms, cold rooms, baths, steam rooms, a Korean food court, a movie theater, fast-food style play area for the kids, even karaoke, if you've ever wanted to do karaoke while wearing pink pajamas and your hair in a towel! Plus the decor is unbeatable...

Charming. And my god, what a bed! I don't normally go for pop art style, but the way you do it, I'm loving it.

cvgmiami--so rarely does LOL actually involve literal laughing out loud. But I just LOL-ed. A lot.
Yes, Luke clearly has actual sh*t to do.

I had very handsome unscreened windows when I lived in England, and I loved the unobstructed view, so romantic. I did not, however, love the five or six months of bug bites. When another girl in the building complained about ladybugs in her room, I thought she was being a bit whiney. I mean, what's so terrible about a few adorable ladybugs? Then she showed me...and I had to agree. Five or six hundred ladybugs is really too many for one bedroom.

I love it. And less than 1000 sq ft is less than 1000 sq ft is less than 1000 sq ft. It qualifies, it's beautiful and unusual, and not everyone in America lives in a city.
(I especially adore the living room, by the way. Can I move in?)