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Happy to see the same fridge and the same kitchen chairs. It might be 'safe' but its well executed and a huge improvement!

I do like a white kitchen- It seems more classic to me than wood. I guess this is probably because I grew up in a 1950s Cape Cod style house with white and yellow (and later white and... white) painted kitchen cabinets.

I only shop at two grocery stores- Market Basket and Trader Joes.

A lot of Trader Joes produce is overpriced for what it is. Market Basket are a no frills (no loyalty card, 1970s store decor, no union) New England supermarket chain that plain ole' ROCKS. HUGE selection, including tons of flavors of Polar Seltzer. Great bakeries, and the one near my work happens to have the BEST mark down bakery items I've ever seen- totally fresh french bread for .35 cuz it broke in half? Perfectly soft fancy 'ancient grains' bakery bread a day away from its expiration for... .35! Produce is generally good and the produce managers are (I hear) willing to order special things for you. They do tend to pre-package some by the lb produce stuff, which can be annoying, especially with stuff like fresh ginger that I only want a 4 inch piece of at a time, not 3/4 a pound!

There are certain things I shop for at Trader Joe's- they would never be my 'primary' supermarket though at this point I think I spend more money there weekly than at Market Basket. Trader Joe's catfood is great- .69 for no-byproducts no-corn gluten wet food! Its better quality than Iams (the best you can get at MB) for half the price.

My other options, btw, are Stop & Shop (wayyy overpriced, total time sucks of stores with their giant book/magazine/seasonal sections, and crap produce, plus they don't seem to have actual staffed fish counters anymore), or Shaws (also overpriced, but good international sections, and a good bakery, usually the stores are pretty low-key- not a lot of shoppers) plus various small markets like Foodmaster and Hannafords. There are a few Super WalMarts with grocery but they are plain AWFUL, I don't trust them at all for perishables.

Oh, the post said all that. Ha. Thats what I get for paying more attention to the comments than the text. (I'm mostly here for the pictures!)

The Shakers made some pretty clever things. I like the clothes-pegs all around the room thing, too, with candle holders and such that you can hang from them as well.

and.... ? and sewing. :)

Unfinished legs are easy to come by online- there MAY be an issue with metric vs US bolt threads, but there are a few solutions (such as buying proper metric 'hanger bolts' and replacing the bolts in the legs; or screwing on US threaded plates to screw the legs into.)

Here's a look at my own leg-redo that I submitted to Ikeahackers! http://www.ikeahackers.net/2011/06/little-country-for-kilippan.html

I use the Sleep Cycle app too, but don't tuck it under my sheet. I didn't realize you were supposed to do that. It goes face down next to my head. I'm probably going to get brain cancer, but hey, at least getting up for work has been easier.

Um, is that a sex swing in #4? :D

I have a white quilt as a bedcover and a throw at the end of the bed is pretty much MANDATORY. Right now its a black & colorful granny square afghan my great-grandmother made. It ties in with my sheets (a rotation of colorful solids), and provides a safe place to drop my purse, shopping, etc. (I live in a studio and the bed is near the entry). It also protects the bed from my darling cats.

Best things about throws at the foot of your bed-
- size doesn't matter, you can use 'throws' or 'twin size' blankets on a full size bed
- or if you want to hand-make an afghan or quilt, you don't have to make a giant 90x90 one!
- rotation of the same throw- I can refold mine a few times to get a 'clean' (no cat hair) side before having to wash it
- rotation of style- easy to have more than one and switch it out

re rolling kids: when I was a kid we had metal things that hooked on beween the mattress and boxed spring to keep up safe when we first moved into our 'big kid' beds. I was so scared of my 'big girl' bed and having a whole bedroom to myself when we moved to a larger house, my parents also let me keep my toddler bed mattress on the floor under my bed, and then we would push my bed against the wall, so on one side I was blocked by the wall, and on the other I had a mattress to fall on. Then in the morning we'd reverse it and I'd make up my pretty white eyelet lace bedspread and arrange my 14 dolls on top.

I don't recall ever actually falling out of bed. I'm sure I was most scared of being alone- I had shared my room with my younger brother up until then (I was not quite 5 when this moved happened.)

I've lived in many crooked old houses and I've found that putting a rug under a desk chair usually does the trick.

I think the plastic under-desk mats are meant to make it easier to roll around on wall to wall carpeted rooms?

Or ditch the desk chair and get a chair without wheels, but put some really good floor protectors on it.

Next time you're at a hardware store look for a pack of "shims"- they cost $2 for 16 or 20 wooden shims that are meant for installing windows, cabinets etc but also are indispensable for leveling furniture in older houses. They're easy to trim to size and paint to blend in with the furniture.

I actually had an issue once with a crooked floor and TV stand on wheels that liked to creep towards the center of the room- I ended up nailing shims to the floor under the front wheels to act like those mail-truck wheel blocks. :)

Since then I've acquired a set of round brown plastic things that go under table legs, which work well under castered furniture- they are under the front legs of my (castered 1930s) kitchen table.