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Towel = YES. Although we rented a furnished apartment, we had a frantic search for a store that sold towels and pillows for the first night there.

Also, when you travel with all your important documents (@ATLIZ), make sure they are in your carry-on not your checked luggage. I carry a small expanding file with passports, a copy of our marriage certificate, and copies of my kids' birth certificates and tuck it into an inside pocket of my purse or carry-on. When we were living overseas I also kept photocopies of our visas in there. So far the only immigration office that has asked to see them is USA Homeland Security :)

Agree with everyone. We bought our first house earlier this year and eliminated dozens of potential houses because some estate agent had told the owners that they needed to update the kitchen to sell, and they did, as fast and cheap as possible. We ended up buying a house with a new-ish kitchen that doesn't need redoing, but was clearly done to the owner's taste and high quality.

I too have the 80's bright peach-pink tile, with matching sinks, tub, and laminate vanity (with, of course, the pink tile as the countertop).

I keep looking for articles about incorporating it, and finding articles where the "offending" item is, well, not quite so blatant.

For the moment I am trying to pretend it's more peach than pink and think orange thoughts.

@ melissaann - now I want to do this so I can tell people my garage *does* open by magic :)

There was one in our house when we bought it (in the form of a built-in plastic tray by a window in the dining room). We ripped it out the same day we took possession of the house because
a) we have little kids and the rocks would never have stayed IN the garden and
b) the previous owners' cats had been peeing in there. We have a cat too and won't ever do an indoor rock garden because he doesn't need a huge, permanently installed litterbox.

we built one ourselves that looks a lot like #9 using plans from Ana White. We modified them to make it wider so it would fit our space and we could set travertine tiles in the center to act as trivets. We also did a dark stain and paste wax finish.

Admittedly, we didn't try to source reclaimed wood, but it will just have to develop our family's patina.

@lillielechic we have the ikea chair in white in our daughter's room. The ceiling joist is more than sufficient to hold our swinging toddler (who takes a running start to really get it going) and/or her parents (we bought hardware for it rated up to 250lbs). It's a great option, although to have enough space to swing it really takes up exponentially more floorspace than a regular chair.

lol! two of the four walls in my bathroom are basically window which we don't cover because of the beautiful views looking out, looking in not so much. Our nearest neighbors would need binoculars to see us though, so I figure if they are going to that much trouble to get a glimpse of my flabby, pasty ass then let em!

man, I have that same "mid-century" pink tile ALL OVER my master bath... that was built in 1991.

I think it could be made of this yarn:
http://www.yarnmarket.com/yarn/BagSmith_Yarn-Big_Stitch_Alpaca_Yarn-5971.html

Which I have been watching and wanting to crochet my own mega-plush rug, although not in doily form :)