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Hahaha... so it isn't just me!

@hooloovoo,
"So, if the restaurant isn’t classy enough to chop your salad properly, take a knife to it."

This is a great suggestion, though, is it appropriate to be silently, patiently cutting your salad for 5 minutes while everyone else is indelicately digging into their beautifully arranged salad?

There is this one Thai restaurant that serves up the starter salad with very big iceberg lettuce leaves (no like!) piled really high on a very small plate. I invariably spill the julienned carrots everywhere, and manage to finish the salad only because no one else is at the restaurant, so I proceed to stuff it in anyway I can.

Yeah... I just checked the Target site too, and it's $35. They probably wised up to all the DIYers swarming the stores to buy out these rugs.

Seems like the problem is that the backsplash tiles are too shiny for the pink countertop. Maybe something more matte OR darker gray to match your cabinets. Gray + pink should be a good look.

Oh.. the horror. Isn't this a bit like cutting off your nose 'coz you have a cold?

Yeah, why would anyone think we sleep with a cell phone close to us because of a need for *communication*?! What are we doing, mumbling in our sleep to update Facebook statuses? Same here as the article suggests - as my alarm clock, my only phone, and night-time flash-light.

I just moved out to my first apartment too, and I've been agonizing about poking holes in the walls even though my landlord has said any holes 'smaller than a golf ball' are okay. I bought the really small command hooks for frames, keys and put a couple of them up, followed instructions and gingerly placed a light wall clock on one of the hooks. It seemed to stay.... for 2 days. Third day I came home and found my clock on the floor.

I agree with DipDipDive... looks to me like your (excellent) table's wood has so much character, you might want to paint the chairs something totally different (blue, white, coral..) so it doesn't remain brown and end up clashing with the table.

Great tips... and very timely. I'm moving out for the first time, and I'm having to think about things I've never paid attention to, ever. This is so helpful!

A simple metal pipe about 3 feet up, in the same tone as the base of the steps should do it. One anchor at the top, one anchor where the stairs turn, and one at the bottom will maintain the airy feeling.

And some potted plants or books / tchotchkes on the other edge (in the last photo) to make sure people know where the stairs begin, saving them from accidentally walking off a precipice.