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And why doesn't the map show all of New York City?

Good score. I have something similar in my bay window and I got these light-boned iron chairs with leather drum skin stye seats and it looks great. You'd get a similar look with the campaign style chair (good pick!). I agree that there's something about the weight and line of the ikea chair that wouldn't complement as well

The first apartment I ever bought was in this great Deco building. I knew I was going to take up the wall to wall carpeting that covered the nice parquet floors. Well I moved in without a bed or very much other furniture, so the next few days I kept exacto knifing up as much carpet as I could fit into the building's little trash room. At the end of four evenings I ended up with a cot sized rectangle where I'd put my pile of quits and duvets to sleep...

The floor with the carpet was in perfect condition, not so much the foyer area. Well I had no money to rent power tools, so I ended up refinishing the foyer floor with a sanding block..

Sounds like an adventure. Is that the house? If not, you should at least be able to see the outside on a satellite map.

There are some technical inaccuracies in the quiz. For example, all houses need to have footings placed below the frost line, not just those in the north. The frost line just happens to be lower the further north one goes. There are plenty of older buildings with cellars throughout the south, though shore areas with high water tables or mountainous regions with high organic matter in the soil substrate or even places with a lot of clayey soil don't lent themselves to conventional perimeter footings.

These fake stone over brick applications were very popular in the 1970s and 1980s and were often used to cover damaged brick fronts.

I recommend going with tinted stucco. And match the house you're connected to color-wise.

Mice behave differently than rats. They're not as smart and more impulsive, just like the cartoons. The advice about blocking holes is good. Just stuff steel wool in the area around pipes.

A couple of years ago I had just come off of a serious issue with rats digging boroughs in our tiny front yard (we live on the same block as a subway station and several restaurants) and I kept hearing this rustling in the evening but hadn't seen any droppings. Well the next day I was home from work with a cold and I must have been sitting very quietly, because this mouse popped out from under the stove and came right near me. I was so mad at yet another pest that I grabbed a broom and kept shoving it toward the baseboard and yelling at this cute little gray mouse. Well a day later I found its dead body. I'd scared it to death.

I'd go with dkl's suggestion for furniture layout and put the tv on the stair wall.

This may not won't leave enough room for a full sized dining table, but it would be best for focal at either tv or fireplace while allowing for tv viewing from the kitchen. Stick to a fairly low backed sectional.

I just want to make a clear counterpoint to all those on this site that keep saying "paint the woodwork." Painting this woodwork would definitely decrease the value of this space.

Btw. - What do the etched glass doors lead to?

I always started a move about 6 weeks in advance. I'd go to some local stores and get as many good boxes as I could and come home and pack stuff in those until they were filled and stacked in neat order. I'd wait 2 days and do it again, repeat. It's easiest to start with something like books - all you have to do is keep a couple out and anticipate the surprise of seeing them all again 6 weeks later. Food stuff and toiletries go last. It always worked out pretty well, but I never had a ton of stuff or other people to move. For local moves I'd always try to set it up with a few days overlap, always take paintings and special breakables on separate trips my self. Twice I had to wait so long for RE closings that I had to put everything in storgage and scramble for a short term sublet.