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Thank you for sharing in this article and for the posts above me :) You've already boosted my happiness level and I plan to share you words with my friends, husband and my 90 year old father who is hospitalized at the moment and impatiently waiting to come live with me, and I think we all need to hear and do our own work with some of these tips. xoxo!

Though I did not read all the replies....I just have to say how happy I am with the advice given here. The first thing I thought of was..."Whose house is this...?" All the posters at the top said exactly what I had first thought and I am amazed that so many of you had such good sense! (Reading the news, I often wonder where that good sense has gone in this world and now I see it's here at apartmenttherapy.com) I am thrilled to know it is alive and well in the world!! Thanks to you all, you've made my dayyyy! okay, YEAR! :D

And to the girl who asked the question, please take this advice from everyone...your life will be MUCH easier and you have a great mom to help you out like this...know this and cherish it. xoxo

(One thing that I have learned in life is to listen to people who are older than you...we have no agenda and we have lived through a lot of life and our wisdom is given to you only with good intentions so that you will learn from our mistakes and we can help your life to be more peaceful and calm.)

Good luck to you ! xoxo

Be well...

Nancy

Well, I'll be the first...I'll pass. :)

We live in a different time. In the past, when we had no answering machines (I KNOW! and we lived through it! ;) ), the only way you could receive a call is if you answered the ring. If you missed it, you'd wonder who was calling, so if someone was within arm's reach, you would say, "Pick that up for me, would you please?" Now, with cell phones and answering machines, I wouldn't answer unless someone asked. :)

A lot of these ideas "look" good (especially when just planted), but really...in the long run, some will not do well at all. Plants DO need drainage. Some of these ideas need almost constant watering as the soil area is so small, they will dry out quickly. And if you have too much light, it's a good idea to use containers that you can move around (or put inside when it frosts).
I am a farmer and have a half acre greenhouse where we use my husband's Senior Project from Cal Poly University to grow basils, bell peppers, green beans, etc (all short plants) in PVC pipe hanging (horizontally) from the cross bars. We have holes in the top and the roots stand in the pipe,the plants pick up what they need from the water we run through them. No waste of space!
I'm always telling my Farmers Market customers to "use your vertical space" if you don't have much room in your home/patio/yard.
You can see our set up at a youtube video or on Facebook. (not advertising here, just trying to help everyone to see how to use their vertical space).

Nancy at SLO Grown Produce

I love photo/closet #5 *blissful sigh* ;) I have draperies for my closet now and even though they are there because my landlord would not put up a closet door :P I now love the look and love the beautiful folds of golden fabric when I climb into bed each night ;)

Matt! This is my dream house! We are simply, perfectly alike in our tastes! I'm bookmarking this page so I can come back and borrow some particulars (the things I have not YET done that are already completed in your space). Your vision has been in my head, and I have been working toward it, and it will soon be a reality ! Enjoy your space!

:D xo

I love how the table turned out!
Good idea....hmmmm...*thinking*... ;))

Oh... and we used them outside to line our walkway for our dog who was partially blind. He would walk right along the edge and follow the lights home :) We called them "Buddy's runway lights" :)

We used to have a canopy of netting over our bed. It started one Christmas my husband, Philip said, "Where did we get all these twinkle lights?" , as he went though the boxes of decorations. "They were on sale last year for a dollar a string, so I bought extra...", I said. He disappeared into the bedroom and finally I went in and here he had all these lights going around the room... LOL :D We eventually got a canopy of netting a draped them over the netting and behind...put them on a dimmer and they were really pretty. Hmm...I'm thinking we need to do something like this again....