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In Dallas: You're Being Ridiculous

Both are great programs!

Your place is cute, and I love that you redesigned to give yourself more storage space. I would like to see your shoe shelves!

I was determined to buy a 3/2 Craftsman bungalow. No way was I going to have less than three bedrooms and two full baths. We ended up with a 2/1.5 Austin stone cottage.

We did end up selling it and getting a 3/2 (this time, a cute, mid-century brick house that is full of light), but we loved our cottage and lived in it for over four years.

Maybe someday I'll get my Craftsman.

When I commented earlier, I totally forgot about the most intra-neighborhood move I've ever made. My first post-college apartment was on one side of a duplex, and after a year, my roommate and I moved to the other (larger) side. There was a connecting door, so we didn't even have to go outside to move.

Hooray for color! We are in the process of buying a house, and we just picked out wall colors yesterday. The Color Cure could not have come at a better time for me!

So sorry for the loss of beautiful Beethoven!

Our house just would not be the same without our dog Murphy. He brings such a happy energy to our home, and it would just feel wrong without him. The house is on the market right now, and somehow Murphy ended up in nearly half of the listing pictures. It hasn't sold yet, but we've had so many comments on how cute the dog in the pictures is (and the house, of course!).

No - but I might use it as a vacation home. It's on a cattle farm, and the home itself is about 150 years old. However, it was last renovated in 1980, and it shows. It would have to be completely gutted.

I've done all three. Back in student days, I was all about hostels and/or crappy student hotels/pensiones. These days, my husband and I fly standby on last-minute trips because he works for an airline. So we usually end up getting a hotel online the day or two before we leave, since our plans are always so up in the air (so to speak). We've actually booked a hotel while boarding a plane to take us there... yikes.

We did manage to rent an apartment in Paris for a short trip last year (we used Frenchy Rentals on advice from a friend, and they were great!). We truly enjoyed the apartment and neighorhood, and getting delicious food from the market was so much cheaper than eating all of our meals out.

We just went to St. Lucia over the 4th of July, and our hotel was split into little private villas (sounds expensive, but it's hurricane season so therefore prices are cheap). Ours had a full kitchen, so we hit the local grocery store and made all of our breakfasts and lunches from local foods. Cheap and tasty! We enjoyed the fact that while we had so much flexibility and privacy, it was still a hotel (i.e. maid service, shuttles to the beach, etc.).

That being said, I'd probably choose to rent a flat if it was convenient and affordable.

Oh, and Jessimuhka, you can often find about about apartment rental services in guide books like TimeOut (our favorite brand of guide). The rental services' websites list the apartments or rooms you can rent for your trip. We rented a room in someone's house for a trip to Amsterdam this way.

I want it!

Beautiful! I grew up in that area and spent many of my formative years in Fayetteville. I remember when the Keenan TowerHouse was built... it seemed like one day it wasn't there, the next it was. I even drove all over that wooded hill trying to find it and figure out what it was.

ah Arkansas, I miss you sometimes.