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Those textiles are so beautiful. But I don't think they're actually quilts; I believe they're felted pieces that interlock.

@Skipping Daisies, I remember that image, too! I think it was in one of Terence Conran's Home tomes. It still seems like a wonderful idea to me in the right circumstances.

While I use my salad forks and teaspoons all the time and treasure my cream soup spoons (thank you, Battra92, for naming them), I think could adapt to a 3-piece set. It would just have to have a spoon a little bigger than a teaspoon and a relatively dainty fork.

This is an interesting post. I have a nasty vinyl sheet floor in my kitchen that I loathe, but I don't like any of the examples given here either. To me, they're all too busy.

I keep running into religious iconography - saints' medals, tiny crucifixes, and in my current home, a cache of letters to the former owner from a niece in a convent who was being visited by the Virgin Mary.

On another note, I cleared out my mother's handmade home some years back to prepare it for sale. As a thoughtful gesture, I gathered all the drawings and blueprints of the house, put them into a binder for the new owners and left them behind on the kitchen counter.

A few days after the possession date, I fell upon a letter my mother had written to me years before when she was building the house and gasped when I got to the part where she described with glee that she was adding a super-secret hidey hole behind a false wall in a closet. Oopsies.

Tarnished, beaten up, hammered aluminum, tin, pewter, silver. Oh, and cast iron anything.

I love the look and the notion, but I'd be sans eyeballs within a week.

I live in a small 3-bedroom home and I sleep in the smallest bedroom because it has the nicest morning light. Luckily I have a bed with drawers underneath or else I'd have to throw away my clothes.

@AlaskanFrenchie — what a nice simple reuse! And the fixture looks so fresh and modern now. Thanks!

I have an ancient Osterizer and the original small Mason-type jar that came with it. It actually doesn't work all that well for anything other than liquids even though it is shaped in the way Slow Lorus describes. I use it anyway, but it's a bit frustrating.