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Realize that antique beds are going to be full beds. Larger beds (Queen and King) were only introduced in the 1960s.

Depends on the parent's finances, but the best practice among my parent's friends is to put together some sort of monthly payment, that then gets "rebated" to the child when they move out.

Having someone outside the family to be able to talk finances with the child helps, too. In our case, this is a woman who was my Girl Scout leader and is a real estate broker. She gets an enormous amount of business when her ex-scouts and their friends go to buy houses or look for apartments.

I want that fainting couch for my home office! Wouldn't that be great for reading or have a matching pillow made to hold your laptop?

If I had a kitchen just to look at, and maybe drink coffee and munch a muffin in the morning - I'd go for farmhouse in a heartbeat. But I can't imagine actually cooking in one or keeping it clean. How often do you have to wash all those jars?

Don't know if you have one in your city, but The Door Store is often able to put custom wood stuff together for people. My parents shopped there first time Danish stuff was in style. I don't now, but a friend had them make something to size for her entry and said they were great to work with.

Actually, I think it will be really common for people to have NO photos of their childhood due to a hard drive crash or what have you.

Also - look at that photo. Would you have saved it when "cleaning out" your hard drive? It's not a good photo of her face. She was probably mortally embarrassed by the dress or the posters at some point. But it is the sort of photo which is so important later, the casual, unposed record of a life.

Are you sure the recipe calls for gelatin - reads more like it would use pudding.

Grew up in an all-natural house, went through an all processed out-of-the box phase. Then I learned to cook tasty food that happens to be healthy.

We keep a spoon rest next to the coffee maker, so that everyone drinking coffee can use the same spoon and not muck up the counter. It goes in the dishwasher every night.

I had a garlic peeler, but got rid of it when I started smashing with my chef's knife and chopping. Replaced it when I started making Chicken with 40 cloves of garlic as my go-to weeknight dinner for guests. Makes the dish doable. And is kept in the occasionally used gadget box at the bottom of the basement stairs (most of which is holiday and baking equipment).

I think that a home office type set up instead of a bed would be really amazing and useful.

Get over yourself. It's a rental and life isn't a magazine.