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Sometimes you do get what you pay for - and sometimes you don't. The trick is to shop smart and know what you are doing. My parents bought a sub-zero refrigerator when they redid the kitchen when I was about 12. I'm 41 now, and the refrigerator is still great (It's been serviced no more than 4 times).
My friends bought a Miele washer/dryer that I covet - I have never used a washer that cleaned as well. Other friends bought another model Miele, and they are honestly pieces of crap.
I have found that Maytag makes a great washer, but I have had horrible experiences with their dishwashers.
Some of it is luck, I think, but some of it is also research.

@sasha2 So, rescuing a building is taking from the poor. Thanks for showing me the way. I know that would be the only acceptable way to use a church building now.

Churches are the only places where judgment and minimization are found.

It's all about balancing between 'lived-in/warm/real' and 'cold/sanitized,' I think.

If anyone ever has the luxury of designing a new kitchen, these are the things that can be addressed. If you create a new kitchen, if it's done right, there will be space for the serving plates, the tablecloths, the dry goods, the fruit, the landing strip (if necessary) you use, all of the pyrex/stoneware casseroles you use on holidays (all eight of them in various sizes, in my mother's case). Your kitchen should be designed around the way in which you live, cook, and store - and also take into account how much clutter you want. If you finish your kitchen, and after the novelty wears off you find that your life isn't better, then you wasted your money.

Lovely. The thought of living with art is just a dream, and makes me want to renew my eight year old self's request to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to sell me the Cloisters. Now if only I could find that letter.

Why would you want to do this to your beautiful sink?

If I could find new, green construction that had charm, interesting and unique architectural details, that included the same quality of workmanship that most old buildings have, then I would consider new construction. I haven't found it yet, and I have looked.

except for the name, it sounds great. I am a .Mac member who is happy about most of the changes (I'll miss the iCards), except for the ridiculous new handle.

My current iPhone is, without a doubt, the best thing I have ever purchased or owned in my entire life. I held out until September, but I am so glad I succumbed.
I don't care how expensive it is, I am buying the new one as soon as I can. $10/month additional? Okay. It evens out. It is the only phone I have anyway.
(of course the Air comes in second, but still...)

Several years ago, I became a kitchen consultant for a short period of time because I wanted professional cookware and just about everything else the PamperedChef makes, and boy, was it worth it. (I fulfilled my agreement, plus a bit more)

The red tablets are not always easy to get, but they are still available:

http://www.just4teeth.com/Butler-Red-Cote-Dental-disclosing-tablets