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Nice bait & switch, on the utility cart.

Clicking the link reveals that $165 buys a far less attractive, less tricked-out utility cart. Having shopped for these from restaurant supply houses, I knew that low-low price smelled fishy.

Gorg.

The "limed" fireplace is a vast improvement.

Assuming you don't use the white fireplace, why not put the TV inside it? That would be a much better viewing height.

The spine-in books make me cringe, as do books organized by color. If appearances supersede utility for you, knock yourself out.

The ironic thing is that people who choose to organize books in nonsensical ways do it strictly for appearance sake (I mean, why else WOULD they-- it certainly doesn't facilitate locating books to read... which, last I checked, is the purpose of owning books); yet it never seems to occur to these people that the appearance they've worked so hard to create maybe ain't so flattering.

That was once an attractive dresser, before being painted green & white.

Some chutzpah to ask $300 for an insanely-specific customized castoff, seller. Someone might adopt this & go to the trouble of stripping & refinishing if it were free though--

Actually, I worked with someone who claimed to be mortally allergic to peanuts, who apparently wasn't, and ate them on the sly.

He chronically windexed all keyboards before using, just in case they'd been used by someone with peanut residue on their hands. (He cost us hundreds of dollars in electronics replacement, as a result of his chronic windexing.)

Imagine our shock when we fished a wrapper from a nutrition bar he'd just eaten from the wastecan, and read that it contained.... peanuts!

If the kids need something additional to occupy themselves; I like to give them genuinely productive tasks like spit-polishing my shoes, sorting & folding my socks, or cleaning my rifles.

Gaidig-- People's religion is far less a personal choice than vegetarianism.

The vast majority of followers of the old religions have passively inherited the religion from their parents. Vegetarianism is a newer religion that most people actively join.

Shorter harp (the metal hoop that the shade is screwed onto), shorter similar drum shade of similar circumference.

I agree-- ditching the wall hanging would also do wonders for this attractive lamp.

Regarding ideas about jerry-rigging the windows so they only open a "few inches": Don't overestimate the size opening a cat can get through-- cats escape skills are on par with Houdini.

I was fostering a cat & he was about to go live with someone in a modern 12th floor apartment-- the windows were screenless & opened out (about three inches max), like doors.

Although the cat was a big orange Goliath, we were still worried about the lack of screens, so we took an exact measurement of the window opening vis-a-vis his head. Seemed like he'd be too big to fit.

Nontheless, I tried an experiment: we marked off on the floor where an open closet door would stop at 3" & put a heavy piece of furniture at the 3" spot to block the door from opening any further. Put the cat in the closet... opened the door... sure enough, the enormous orange cat had no trouble escaping through a 3" open door.

Cats are like slippery eels, they can do anything.

What's "cat net", Zimtzucker?

Your solution looks great, but those large holes look as though a cat might be able to push their nose through... then perhaps their head... then their shoulders (?). Is it indestructible, or something?

The advantage of window screen is that it prevents cats from getting out, and also prevents most insects from getting in.