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We re-did our kitchen two years ago with Ikea and love the whole thing, especially the fact that they have spacious drawers. I would use Ikea again if I ever had to do another kitchen.

Also, my house is pretty much party-ready at a drop of a hat, which is a good thing, because my house is usually either the go-to party house or the emergency back-up party house because the rain has cancelled the party at the park, due to the relative size of my house and my affinity for decorating with shiny, sparkly "party" items (actually, decorating for parties and then not taking down some/a lot of the decorations). It's also not bad to come home to after a long day of boring, uncreative work.

Looks like there's a door stop at the top of the door in pic #2...

Same here. A tomato is a tomato (composition, that is) - but whether or not there is a sheen of pesticide on that tomato that may or may not wash off is what drives me to buy organic versus non-organic.

I grew up eating salad with dinner and now I do the same in my own home. However, when I go out to eat, I have a salad before the main course and a salad after, because I love salad. (but it doesn't keep me full for long, so I can't have just salad as a meal)

@engineerchic & hrhprincessfiona

Hey hey now, there are those of us who LOVE to eat but unfortunately our bodies don't show it; doesn't mean I couldn't share a thing or two about some good grub. Don't judge a book by its cover. :-)

Pleated Poppy did a similar thing with a lamp shade redo but she used a variety of bright-colored fabric and tied the fabric horizontal and covered the whole frame instead of 5% of the frame - looks WAY BETTER. Check it: http://thepleatedpoppy.com/2011/02/scrappy-lampshade-tutorial-and-long-story/

@amandakbw

There's a downloadable calendar on the front page of the 20/20 cure.

I'm all for being aware of what sort of business practices you're supporting when you shop, but how do you know that that vintage piece that you found in a secondhand shop or on CL or ebay is free didn't originate from a company that may have followed the same practices or worse than those that you accuse Ikea of following? Just because it's not directly from a big box business anymore doesn't necessarily mean that it was responsibly produced and sold in the first place.

If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all...

Just bc there's a comments section doesn't mean you're obligated to share a comment. And I'm sure these people aren't offering a tour of their house bc they care what AT readers think, or that they're going to change anything bc of what some reader commented. I think that's for another sort of post (the ones actually asking for advice/opinions). I don't understand all the negative criticisms that people like to offer here. If you don't like it, stop reading the post. And if you don't like it, and you continue to read the post, then that's on you; don't take it out on the homeowners, AT staff, etc.

And if you don't like the "direction" that AT is taking in posting house tours of homes larger than some arbitrary square footage that you think constitutes the "apartment" in Apartment Therapy, then STOP READING AT. Why do you keep coming back and then complaining that it's not what you thought you were getting when coming to this site? Seriously, do you think you're the one who's making or breaking this site? I'm pretty sure this site is supported by plenty of readers who don't feel the need to comment on every single post, and come here for the content and take away what they can from it, and don't complain/criticize when something doesn't exactly match *their* principles or *their* particular "design esthetic".

Get over yourself...