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I second the Cistern, absolutely awesome.

My favorite restaurant in the whole world is Asitane. Amazing. Highly, highly recommend the stuffed melon.

http://www.asitanerestaurant.com/English/

Drink tea!

My husband I and bought an older home last year (the french door style windows wooed me.) No central air at all, but I have to say, the radiant heat is so, so, so superior to the forced air in our previous, newer home. It's consistant, and because the air isn't moving, it feels warmer in spite of setting the thermostat 5° lower than we did with forced air. Sure, we have a few rough days in the summer, but there are plenty of air conditioning solutions to be had.

Renting, that's a tougher one, I went for charm, but when you're less free to make changes it makes it a rougher choice.

Amazing. So very well thought out.

Love it!

Especially that there's a "library."

mines a gorgeous turquoisey color. I carried it a mile and a half home from an estate sale I stumbled across.

Be still my heart, that blue lamp is GORGEOUS.

I've gotten mine, multiple times over the years, at either Tuesday Morning or Marshalls. Great sheets, small price.

I found a great one at Target on clearance. LED's were important to us, and the prelit version didn't have em', so we bought the unlit, separate LED's ad put it together ourselves. Still easy to take apart to store. It turned out to be a pretty great tree. Multiple people seemed to think it was real, and quite frankly, even though it'll never compare to the gorgeous $600+ tree I wanted, it was an amazing deal.

Someone down the road is always going to lament some decision you made, whether it was faithfully restoring a feature they don't care for or altering one they do.

I personally am all for painting woodwork if you like the look (and yes, it's reversible. Time consuming, but paint can be stripped and wood can be refinished. I just toured a gorgeous bungalow where they have done just that very nicely.)

#5, our problem was the agent selling the house we put an offer in on (through our very capable and awesome realtor.) She thought she should be privy to our most intimate financial details. When we wouldn't give her more details than she had a right to know, she called our bank and tried to weasel it out of them. When she couldn't get what she wanted, she declared us "unfit buyers" and told her client not to waste his time writing a counter offer.

6 months later, the house is still on the market, currently listed at less than our original offer.