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RichardinLA - oh man that is a fantastic idea, totally something I'd love to do... maybe I could even do that someday, it'd free up so much more counterspace in my little kitchen.

I always wished the fridge and freezer spaces were swapped in my fridge, I freeze lots of leftovers and I love ice cream, but it's always stuffed full. I always have to make sure I have room for ice trays to lie flat. Annoying! It just takes too much planning for me to figure out what I can eat before it goes bad in the fridge, I'm just not that organized. My ideal situation would definitely be two counter height freezers and one fridge...

Arg. I read more of the reviews and I can't reccommend the h2o mop in good faith anymore, just because it works for me it looks like the vast majority of people have had issues with it.

The bissel steam mop gets decent reviews on amazon, though. I figure if my mop conks out I may replace it with this one.
http://www.amazon.com/Bissell-1867-7-Steam-Hard-Floor-Cleaner/dp/B000RPVHZU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1237272015&sr=1-1

I really dislike cleaning the tub :( It's my own fault because I love salt scrubs and they make the tub disgustingly gungy. I try to use more environmentally friendly bathroom cleaners but then tend to give up and use comet because less scrubbing elbow grease is needed. Sigh.

My dream is to have one of those bathrooms that are all one molded piece, sink and toilet and shower integrated with a drain in the floor. When it got dirty I could attack it with a high pressure hose and some soap and just rinse off :D I saw a stainless steel one a few years ago in an Ikea in the UK and I never was able to find any info about them on the internet. I think they are made for boats?

I hate folding clothes too... so I don't. Hahaha, I hang up everything that can fit on a hanger (and many things that can't...), and the rest never seem to make it out of my clean laundry hamper *cough*

MFlick, I hate mopping as well (I once had a summer job as a janitor, too bad they dont make mini floor buffers) and bought a steam mop, holy cow it makes mopping SO EASY. Totally worth the money, best impulse infomercial purchase ever (yeah! no regrets really!). The one I got, H2o mop, has an attachment for cleaning carpets but I don't really understand what is useful about that. For steaming spills I guess. I basically never mopped before I got one of these, now I don't mind it at all.

Yeah, you have to wait for the soil to dry out completely before you re-water them. Overwatering is what tends to kill succulents. I haven't been able to grow any plants that I like because my single apartment window is northfacing, but Im moving to a new place with southfacing windows soon I am *so* excited I can grow things now!

Yeeeeeah I don't really understand why people have such a problem with tvs. I don't own one but that's because all my favorite shows are on premium cable so I just rent them on dvd (netflix is cheaper...) and watch on my laptop. But the attitude that a tv in the house, and *gasp* possibly somewhere other than the living room, is somehow bad and wrong makes no sense mang. The "it distracts you from interacting with PEOPLE" reasoning clearly does not apply to us singles.

While we're all measuring our pe- uh I mean apartment sizes, I'm living in less than 350sqft and a dining table was more important to me than a sofa (floor plan is also actually too small and awkward to fit a sofa in). It depends on your priorities, that's all.

I have an ikea fusion dining table because it is small AND super cute, it was more important to me to have a place where I could eat with guests than to have a sofa. On the other hand I don't own a tv so that affects furniture choices a bit. It took me a while to find a small scale armless loveseat so my guests wouldn't have to sit on the dining chairs (they aren't comfy at *all*).

Here is my couch :D
http://www.flickr.com/photos/questionstar/2457755722/in/set-72157606727670547
It's not that comfy either but I don't have guests that stay for long periods of time anyway.

Half of the time I eat in bed though... I should probably be more embarrassed than I am to admit that. :p

I am in love with the lighted flower branches in the fireplace... very burning bush ;) SO cute!

OMG amandacollier that online catalog is amazing. I am SO going to order a sheet of quilted chrome for my backsplash.... when I can afford it anyway.

I was looking at the ACP "metal" backplash panels for a while (you can get them at home depot and lowes, etc) but they dont have chrome... and when you have to get so many panels there are lots of seams, who knew you could get a 4'x8' sheet of that stuff! I guess the cheesy faux 50's diners have to get it from somewhere...

Thankyouthankyou so much for the link!

Oh man this is awesome, I'm planning to paint my kitchen (blackplash) applegreen and (walls) teal in shades similar to the last picture. The room doesn't get much light so I figured I'll go with loud! crazy! colors!

I have orange cookware as well... bwahaha

This is a really weird question... but I'm moving soon and I want to do a really quick and simple makeover to the new place's grody kitchen. It has a gross peeling-up vinyl floor and I can't afford to replace it with anything nice for the time being.

I'd like to get some vinyl stick-on floor tiles but my neighbor tells me they don't last very long, about a year or so? Would it be possible to coat it with a polyurethane or floor wax of some sort in order to seal it, make the gaps between the tiles "stick" more, and make it more durable and water resistant?

Or if anyone has a better idea for replacing the floor (its 35 sq ft), it has to cost less than $50 though ;)