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Agree with @katie.currid ! I hate when diy instructions assume you just have a random set of hairpin legs lying around.

That being said this is a pretty rad console.

I completely agree with opening up the drop ceiling, but I gotta say I miss the knotty pine. If this were my house I'd try to find a way to stick with it in a fun way. And to be fair, the updated decor is simply not my style and that's a personal thing, but I kind of agree that although the house is now "beautiful" it's not interesting anymore.

It's like 90% me, and I'm just gonna go ahead and say that it's because I have better taste. If it were up to him everything would be steel, gray and navy blue. In all seriousness though, he doesn't look at blogs or magazines or books, he's just not that into it and doesn't have the reference point to imagine what my ideas will look like when executed (not that I always do either!). But luckily I've made enough good decisions over the years that he trusts me. And of course anything he hates can be undone.

Ugh, this is the story of my life and the reason why after 5 years my house still isn't anywhere near where I want it to be.

One thing that I always try to remind myself is that most things are not permanent, and your home is constantly evolving. Don't assume that rug will have to be in your living room for the next fifteen years, even if you LOVE it you might want to switch it out. I forget that there probably will never be that moment where you're straightening a framed picture and then step back and declare, "Done. FOREVER."

Love this topic, I struggle with it all the time. I think the issues of music and home design are two totally different circumstances with different causes behind the "ick" factor of popularity. I think with design it's more a factor of getting sick of looking at it, whereas with music I think the feeling is a little more intangible.

One thing I will say is that having grown up in an era where if you wanted to know about cool music, you had to know cool people or go to the record store and actually purchase things (that many times turned out to be crappy), I feel slightly cheated at the fact that the presence of the internet means it takes so little effort to be "cool" anymore. Music and design trends blow through like wildfire, and I sometimes feel like by the time I've heard of it, it's over already. It makes me feel so overwhelmed that I wind up just sticking with my old standbys because I'm too afraid to dip my toe into the culture.

I work at a company saturated with hipsters (although I hate the negative connotation of that term, probably because I remember when that was kind of a compliment). I do find that in my younger days, people who looked cool tended to BE cool (similar interests in music, books, movies, etc), whereas nowadays I constantly come across people who look the part, but if you actually talk to them you find that they're all fashion, no substance. I guess I just feel that if you're going to wear dark rimmed glasses and skinny jeans, you should at LEAST own a couple of Sonic Youth or Velvet Underground albums.

We caved and bought one when my mother-in-law gave us an Acer tablet for Christmas, so we decided to trade up in favor of the gold standard in tablets. In all honesty I don't use it for much, but it's amazing for blog surfing, so I think if I only ever use it for that it will still be worth it.

That being said, the biggest shortcoming is that it's not easy to share with people - my husband barely uses it because every time he tries to use any apps I'm already logged in.

Wow, this is so exciting!! I can't wait to really dive in. And as someone who works on the technical side of an ecommerce brand, I fully empathize with a huge change like this one. Kudos!!

I tend to agree that with 3000sf, there MUST be another place to put the litter box. That having been said, I love that they're keeping it real by leaving the litter box in the bathroom for the photo. Sometimes when I look at some of these house tours, I feel like there must be something wrong with me that I need my big tube TV to be the focal point of the living room, and that my cat needs a utilitarian plastic box in which to do her business.

I've seen their place on a bunch of other blogs, and it's still one of my favorite things ever. They actually work at my company but I've never spoken to them, and every time I see them around I feel like I'm celebrity-spotting.

We have a few of those white square-ish plastic flip-top bins from Ikea, I think they're actually more for laundry, but we have 2 big ones (for trash and recycling) and one smaller one for dog food. They look very nice and neat all lined up in the kitchen, and were only about $15 each. I wish I could find the link, but they don't seem to be on the website.