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Absolutely my favorite house tour EVER!

And I think my absolute favorite part of my absolute favorite house tour is the vignette at the top of the stairs, with the little table and that amazing mirror.

It's so light, bright, calming and cheerful, and looks as though it smells wonderful.

This kitchen is fabulous! I love the zinc countertop; never having considered it as an option before, I just googled it and priced a small counter for my butler's pantry. Heart. Attack.

Is there a budget breakdown anywhere in this diary?

This is so beautiful; it's modern but also classic and I think the zinc is perfect for the age of the house. Nothing in the photos appears to be 'trendy' (earthtone granite counters, hello) and I think we could look at this in a hundred years and still say it's fab.

I love this house so much! It's masculine enough without being all 'dudebro', but I could also see myself living there. It looks so clean and comfortable, and all that wood brings a wonderful warmth to the place. The outdoor space is fabulous.

And props to the house tour photographer, for really showing us the house instead of close-ups of a bunch of little mincy bits of things sitting around on stacked books.

I was at a coffee roastery a few years ago where the proprietress was making iced coffees from cold-brewed coffee. I'd never heard of cold-brewed coffee before so I asked her about it; she then started trying to sell me some $50 complicated-looking, bulky gizmo so I could make it myself at home. Figured my french press would work beautifully, and it did, and it makes a liter of cold-brew at a time, enough for a week of iced coffees.

I tried to imagine gold too, and all I could come up with was badly pitted cheap brass from the 50's.

A few years ago I painted a bunch of florist's vases I had laying around the house with white rough-textured spraypaint... sort of a hack, mimicking Jonathan Adler unglazed white porcelain.

This spring I've been updating some of the rooms with mercury glass accents but I've been frustrated because I can't find things in the shapes I like at prices I'd want to pay. I have an unloved colored glass lamp I've been keeping in the attic that will be perfect for this treatment. I've kept it around hoping I could find something to do with it, because it works perfectly well, it's just not very attractive in its natural state.

I would love to have seen this seven months ago... It would have saved a lot of grief for us if the people who robbed our house and stole our Mac had left behind this raggedy looking tape deck instead of snatching up our sleek modern backup drive.

The piles of things everywhere are giving me hives. How do you clean anything with all that clutter?

SeanIRL - The boy will transgress, but if he hasn't been told the rules, it's not fair to come down on him with a hammer if he breaks a rule he didn't know about.

I think it's right of the mom to tell him the rules and the consequences, and let him live by them or break them as he will.

Slangevar - you need oxygen bleach and washing soda to get out the yellow stains, not chlorine bleach.