luckycharmer's Profile

I just gave up a mindspring.com email that I had since 1999. I would have kept it, but Earthlink, who bought that domain, kept raising the price to keep just the email (I quit using them as my ISP several years ago). I used to move a lot, so keeping that email was important to me. But now that people can find me via Facebook, I feel less worried about changing my email.

16 addresses. I would consider 6 of them homes, in that they have warm feelings and a sense of nostalgia attached to them. And except for my first (family home) and most recent (with spouse), the other 4 were places that I lived by myself. Anyplace I ever lived with a roommate just didn't feel like "home".

I love the Hastens catalog. It's total bed pr0n. But if I ever have an extra $10k to spend... that's where it's going.

East Nashville has really embraced the urban homestead movement. While some neighborhoods. are fairly gentrified, there are plenty is plenty of cool, cute, affordable housing available. We just bought a 970 sq ft brick cottage with a quarter acre lot for $87,000. It's a somewhat walkable, very bike friendly, and there are amazing shops and restaurants. Check out these links:

http://urbangreenlab.org/ (an new community center dedicated to green urban living!)
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/02/24/travel/26surfacing.html (NY Times profile from this past weekend)

That's a great paint treatment for the paneling!

After an ongoing clothes moth issue, we dumped all of our wool rugs for synthetics. We love them! We have some of the sisal looking ones, and some traditional looking tufted ones, and a couple of "rag" looking ones. All of them feel pretty good... not at all plasticky. And they are a cinch to clean. Spill and accidents that would have caused a crisis with our old rugs are no problem now. I got most of our rugs from Overstock. We've had lots of positive comments, especially on this one we put in our guest room.

The trick for my 70+ year old white porcelain tub and sinks has been the magic eraser. They were very dingy, stained and paint splattered. After taking a razor to the paint, and using lots of the above mentioned techinques, I still wasn't happy with the results. But using a magic eraser every week as part of my usual cleaning routine has slowly taken out the deep stains, and has given the surface a lovely luster. Perhaps it's damaging the porcelain, but when I leave this apt, it will be gutted and these fixtures will end up in a trash heap, so I'm not overly concerned. They look much better!

I see Doug in the Flower District sometimes. I still remember the master bedroom that he "redesigned" into the interior of a train sleeper car, and I think he painted a woman's Chippendale style dresser white. It was awful.

Ah... Hildi. I do remember her horrible flower bathroom (stapled them suckers right to the drywall).

Was it Hildi or Laurie who covered an entire kitchen wall with labels from wine bottle (for a couple that didn't even drink)?

Mindy Paige Dave Page (that's her name for real) was a great host.

Actually, I just moved into a newly renovated apartment that had one of those vents in the kitchen. A friend lived in the apartment before me, and I knew that you could hear everything that was happening in the neighbors bathroom (yes, everything!) through this vent. So during the renovations I asked the landlord about it. Since there was a window in the kitchen, the vent could be covered up. They covered it with a square of drywall, patched and painted.