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I live in the UK. No box springs here. Mattress goes right onto the slats. It's fine.

This seems like a great use for soured milk, since the lemon juice turns the milk sour anyway. Has anyone tried this?

Things we did were: -
-made our own curtains to over up the horrible Venetian blinds
-lined the windowsill with different-coloured glass vases
-cut the handle off a paper Chinese parasol and hung it upside down over the flickery florescent light in the centre of the room. We then used plug-in incandescent lights to provide lighting that didn't give us a headache
-my roommate hung one of those mosquito nets on a hoop you can get at Pier. At the time they were new and not a horrible cliche.
-hid a mini fridge and a microwave in our closets
-brought in a folding screen so if one of us had to stay up studying the light didn't bother the other one
-added a massive area rug made of a big carpet remnant which I taped to the lino with double-sided tape
-I found you can hot glue any lightweight objects to the cinderblock wall, and remove said hot glue without a trace using a hair dryer. It was hot melt, as cool melt had not been invented. Test this, but it worked for me and I put up all sorts of stuff in a collage and changed it from time to time. You could do an upholstered wall effect with squares of foam core covered with fabric.

Old scaffolding board would be a good choice and would be free of nails.

You just need a deep drawer and the type of pots you put silverware in on the draining board. Then you can take the pots out and clean them.

I'd consider mid-tones for the floor. I had a white kitchen floor and it was the very devil to keep clean (and black would be similar, I suspect).

You could do BOTH your kitchen and dining room in greys, if you chose quite different shades.

It's beautiful, but the cutesy tone of the how-to made me want to strangle somebody. 'Hubby,' honestly, in 2011?

Fantastic ideas for cords (not chords). Thank you so much.