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My mother found two Wegner wishbone chairs (the real deal) at a Salvation Army for $10 each. My best finds have come from estate sales, but I have found a number of pieces of industrial steel furniture curbside.

How do you set up alerts for craigslist? I'm looking for lounge chairs on craigslist now, and have found that I need to search under every possible misspelling to see all available products. It's depressing to discover the number of ways that one can (mis)spell ottoman.

I like it, but my favorite element was there before - the tiled columns, which beat the ugly gray ones that are in my basement. I agree with a previous comment about water in basements and ruining the pretty furniture and lovely rugs. I like my basement unfinished, because even though we spent a fortune on grading, drainage and watertight windows, it could still get wet in a heavy mid-western rain or thaw.

I second St. Vincent de Paul - they will pick up, and have wonderful people working for them and do great work in the community.

We're renovating the interior of our mid-century ranch this year, and are starting on the exterior next year. While I think we might be stuck with our asphalt driveway, this is a fantastic alternative to our current brick walk, which is hideous. My only concern is that the brick walk is already terribly uneven from rodents (mostly chipmunks) burrowing around underneath it. Do you think this would fare any better?

We are in the process of moving from our 8th rental in 10 years into the first place we've ever bought. We've lived in this rental for only 9 months and I kept the boxes - throughout the entire packing process we've been so thankful that we did. For our last cross-country move we spent weeks driving around LA to different box cast-offs (craigslist) and sorting through boxes that were too damaged to be re-used. This will be the third move for a lot of these boxes and we've had to deal with a ton of spiders, but it has made the move so much easier.

The first thing I do when I move in is change the light switch plates. I have a collection of funky light switch plates that instantly make it feel like home. In our last rental we couldn't change anything, and even though it was a pretty great place I hated the saloon style ceiling fan in our dining nook.

so cute!
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