KerryNM's Profile

First: Make coffee and bed, feed cats, turn on laptop
Last: Load & turn on DW, feed cats, turn off laptop

Grew up with line drying, can't imagine not doing it. Sure I do use the dryer, I can't stand crunchy towels, but I dry many thing in 'plein aire'. I have a wall mounted foldable, a floor standing foldable (which was my Mom's when she was in college in the mid50s!) and a collapsible umbrella type for outside that I can bring inside when it get too windy.

DovieAnn, I don't think the crunchiness is soap. It might be if too much is used or if the washing machine is not performing well, but mostly it's due to the fabric fibers aligning with gravity when they dry. Or at least that's what my old physics professor said it was.

Lovely...and I like it best w/out the shutters. Homes should evolve and not be frozen in time and this home has certainly matured well!

I try to avoid my mother giving me anything. at. all. period. It never, ever turns out well. It's a case of minimalist vs maximalist.
Taste differences and her 'keep everything even if you don't use it' mentality buries her in stuff. If I can't use it or don't like it, I sell it or donate it or better yet, just don't buy it!

Staging makes such a difference to the 'story' of a home. Xtina, it's not blah, it's neutral, and it's very intentional. If there is too much color in a staged home the prospective buyer has a harder time seeing their own things in place.

LauraE...actually backless stool/chairs are better for your spine. They make you sit in a more upright position, stacking your vertebra over your pelvis. I switched to backless after learning that from my chiropractor and it does indeed help my back problems.

And I agree that the price seems insane...but that's NYC for you! Where I live that amoutn of money would buy you 3000+sq/ft on about 10 acres!

Well, I defnitely don't share a design aesthetic with Corina, but I sure do appreciate her abilities. The place is beautifully done and perfectly curated. And of course, anyone with kitties and Santa Maria di Novella in their house has to be one OK person!

Here we go again with compulsive cleaning claptrap. Begbugs, 'wet accidents' and other such yuckiness aside, just washing the matress pad and sheets regularly is more than enough!

Beautifully done. Chris is a man after my own heart, if you don't use it, get rid of it, regift it, donate it, or repurpose it! Life is much nicer and easier to manage when you only have what you need. As william Morris once said, (and I paraphrase here) Have nothing in your home that you don't know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

My feedback, though...I agree that the fridge hinges should be switched, it would be MUCH more practical that way! The red curtain DO cover both windows and the wire shelving on the entrance wall need help. The wire make al lthe cool stuff look cheap. Maybe just a thin layer of luan noard painted white? That would give them more prescence and thus upshift the whole layout.

As much as I love the careful use of color, this room is a little TOO neutral for me as well. I applaud the careful well executed design, though.

But unlike Kellylc, I find the unmade bed 'off-putting'. It speaks to me of someone with a general lack of interest in hygeine. However, maybe being married to an engineer has made me 'rigid', but I never thought that the only place for 'sexy times' was a bed, made or otherwise!

FYI...not everyone who snores has apnea!! Geez, so alarmist!

Small dinner....not NO dinner! And I'm having a glass of wine, dammit!

ko2 you need a pillow speaker!

Does anyone know what he heck knifemouth is talking about???