Greige's Profile

You are not supposed to soak a pizza stone. The water can stay trapped in the porous surface of it, expand when heated, and crack the stone. You should also be careful about buying an unglazed tile from the home improvement store because some of the tiles have lead in them. To clean your stone, you should try heating it and scraping the hot stone.

Guess I should have been more specific. Little Green Notebook has a good tutorial, but you should add some polyurethane at the end, unlike her project.

Curtains for a quick fix especially if you're renting. Construction and building a door if you own. Carpets for noise.

I really really want a Richard Phillips, but I already have some prints or originals of some name artists just because no one really seems to want to collect African artists in my area. So when they pop up at auctions or in galleries, I can get them for a relative steal. My mother, however, has a Diego Rivera. Not a print. A painting.

I got a Gucci skirt and top from their first women's wear offerings from 1961 for $5 at a thrift store.

I vote daybed, good mattress, and decently big pillows so that it isn't a crap sofa when you need it to be.

seconding the recommendation to get a gelpro mat. They are not pretty, though the company is making strides in making them not ugly, and definitely not cheap. I had to get them for my kitchen because having tile on a slab foundation killed my back.

I live in Austin and there are some pests you'll never escape--roaches, lizards, ants no matter how much you spray. But things like insulation are an absolute must. The energy costs to heat and cool your house without it are enormous. Insulation in Texas isn't even so much about comfort as it is about fiscal and environmental responsibility.

This is possibly the worst name I've ever heard. Also it too closely recalls urban outfitters (which is the parent company for anthropologie), when it should better align itself with Anthro.

I'm goiong to have to agree with bepsf on this one. I've been looking for greek key that look sort of like the ones pictured and have come to the conclusion that they probably don't exist to buy off the shelf.

You may want to try searching for vintage hardware to find something you might like.