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Check with the city code enforcement and with the building manager or management company if there is one, sometimes buildings are required to have a certain percentage of accessible units and yours might be one of them. If you start doing away with the accessibility features, it might backfire for the condo association or building management company.

Glad I'm not the only one that thinks they're tacky. The shape is that of a classic, but It's a stinking plastic chair for $400/ea? No thank you.

If you're still having problems after treatment, have the pest control guy put powdered insecticide in outlets, cable and phone jacks, etc. if he hasn't already. I manage a complex and we couldn't get a handle on them until we figured out they were using the electrical wiring as a highway.

I'm more interested in that couch...

I saw these on amazon a week go and immediately regretted starting a collection of penguin classics. I'm abandoning them for these, pronto.

All that work and you rent? As a landlord I'd be super-appreciative for all of your hard work and the money you've invessted, but as a renter, I'm hoping you're planning on being there a while to make your investments worth it. Gorgeous space though.

Does anyone have a good way to hang a tapestry so that it doesn't pull and damage it? I have a gorgeous one my sister brought me from Spain that is very heavy, and I can't figure out how to hang it so as to not do damage.

There are many many different kinds of secondary window locks that are invisible to someone wishing to break in and do you harm. Some have keys and work like a deadbolt, some are just an additional pin that sinks down into the window frame. These are readily available at any home improvement store. The broomstick/dowel works excellently for a sliding glass door that you don't use often.

Ask your landlord to do these modifications, or ask before you do them yourself, but since you're on the 1st floor, they should be OK with it.

an entire focaccia and a diet coke, of course

My mother remodeled her kitchen in 1996, and a kitchen-aid was her favorite part of the whole renovation, as no one had one in those days. It got used weekly. 14 years later, I'm still using it, hoping and praying that it will die so that I can get a new pretty one. alas, it's still working like new. I'll keep hoping though.