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Whattha. I left a design blog recently over her overtly religious posts. Don't make me leave Apartment Therapy over unnecessary and irrelevant posts.

Triple agreed! Yuck yuck yuck.

Check out this post on Curbly about why we shouldn't be using pallets!

This feels really, really silly to me. "Your friends think you are tough"??? Ugh. This "Your place looks more attractive"... Doesn't matter how tough your friends think you are or how "attractive" your place LOOKS... if it's 90 degrees inside, your snobby friends aren't going to care how attractive it looks inside... because they're going to stick around the apartments with A/C. Not to mention that I've done a damn good job of making my apartment attractive looking, a/c or no.

And: "summer sounds are more noticeable"?? I sleep with TWO sound machines and a fan year-round to drown out the sound of reggaeton and cat-calling on my (beautiful, wonderful) street while I sleep.

All in all, I'd much rather have a/c and have the TWO benefits of: being able to sleep more than one hour a night, and not sweating out all of my body's water in one hour, than engage in a contest with my roommates and suffer these five "benefits."

Bitter? You bet. I've spent two summers in NYC without A/C and I can't stop talking about how awesome it is now that I have it.

I had no idea that Duke's was a southern thing. I grew up in North Carolina and can't STAND any mayonnaise but Duke's. Hellman's tastes like death in my mouth.

Veganaise tastes very similarly to Duke's, and was my topping of choice when I was vegan. Still eat is occasionally (more often than actual mayo, in fact).

this is ridiculous. that's like saying that the eggs in my ovaries are fetuses [simply because they _might_ be half of a fetus later on].

eggs aren't meat. eggs are eggs.

if you're a vegetarian that eats eggs and dairy, you're a lacto-ovo vegetarian. if you're a vegetarian that eats dairy but no eggs, you're a lacto-vegetarian (or "pure veg" in india).

and for the record, a vegetarian that eats fish isn't a vegetarian.

"Family's" or "families' ", not "families." Make it possessive!

I second elvedon's comment. I use Swheat Scoop, which is biodegradable and flushable, and I don't use a liner. I replace the litter about every three weeks - once a month and each time I do that I clean out the box with hot soapy water. Not so hard.

Oh god, please no clear shower curtain! That reminds me of a dorm room. I'm sure you can afford a nice cotton shower curtain. I'd get a white shower curtain and a white curtain for the window above the toilet. White bath mat, as well.

This is about the same size as my bathroom, which happens to be painted a nice light blue color, and I have white towels, white bathmat, white shower curtain, which makes it look very airy instead of busy and claustrophobic.

I'd also suggest having some sort of medicine cabinet if there isn't already one so that any bottles/cosmetics could be hidden away so that the little space that you have isn't cluttered with stuff everywhere.

A couple of simple, muted prints (check out etsy.com for some great, cheap artwork) for the wall, in a symmetrical pattern (maybe four prints hung 2x2?), and that's it for artwork.

Hope that helps!

yellow! it will brighten up the darkness of the purple and it is purple's complementary color.

WAHAHAHA WHYYY. Please. "Balconies." Not "balcony's". :(