LilyC's Profile

Gorgeous shelves. Love the rounded angle when my first instinct would have been to do a right angle.

5 years on and I still have boxes in some rooms that haven't been unpacked. I don't understand how organized people do it.

I live in southern CA and I don't have earthquake insurance. No one I know has it. Most people here don't because it's incredibly expensive (only about 12% of Californians do). It probably ought to make me nervous, but my family has lived here for nearly 70 years and never had earthquake damage to one of our houses. I currently live in a newish house built to current earthquake standards which makes me feel like that money is better off in my 401K than down the insurance drain. Now if I lived in a historic house built out of unreinforced brick sitting on a fault line, then that would be a different story.

Knock on wood......

They make box springs covers that are like big tube tops:

http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?order_num=-1&SKU=109053

If it's too big, look for bedskirt pins where you can pull it taut and secure it. http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?sku=10995680& Or safety pins would probably work too.

Try Calibricoa too. It comes in a ton of colors, is super easy to grow, and trails with hundreds of flowers. I've got deep red ones spilling out of a black windowbox and get lots of compliments from the neighbors.

http://www.provenwinners.com/plants/detail.cfm?photoID=8722

With two who like to launch their tennis balls at the wall and scratch their backs on the corners, flat paint is out for us. I've come to love the cleanable qualities of a low sheen/eggshell paint. While the walls above are beautiful, I find I'm drawn to the color rather than focusing on the sheen level. I'd think they were pretty with any sheen level.

I'd add:

Give yourself more time than you think you'll need to pack up your boxes in preparation for the move. The first time I moved, I estimated the time it was going to take me based on how quick the early boxes were to pack. What I didn't factor in was that the early stuff I was packing was the easy stuff - squared off things like books, cds, dvds, etc. That's the easy stuff. It's the weirdly shaped large stuff that's hard to pack and takes forever, not to mention requires way more boxes than you anticipated. I was scrambling at the end to finish and that just adds unnecessary stress to the whole situation.

It comes down to someone else profiting from your original idea for me. If a homeowner copies an idea for their own home, that seems okay. We all copy ideas from magazines, books, blogs, etc. But when someone faithfully recreates your work and makes money from your ideas, that's stealing.

Oh dear. Well, hopefully as locals, your guests will be somewhat acclimated to the Texas summer heat, but if it were me, I would ignore the fan noise (put on music to drown it out) and get some of those fans that hook to a water source so they blow out mist. Or try something like this http://www.amazon.com/Misting-Cooling-Evaporative-Mist-System/dp/B000JMN9IE (I haven't tired this, just did a quick search).

It still comes down to men being able to use it in both forms and women having to do something to get the toilet into a usable state (the button and turning in this case). It jsut changes the argument from, "why can't you put the seat down?" to "why can't you turn the toilet back around?"