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I used Super White by Benjamin Moore in my living room (which lacks natural light). It is so much better than the beige that came with the apartment. Before the Super White, the room looked super yellow.

@Spacesha: Diatomaceous Earth

Silverfish/Fleas: Diatomaceous Earth (nontoxic for people and pets, natural)

Grain moths/weevils: Add a bay leaf or cinnamon stick to your flour/grains/pasta because these bugs hate the smell but it won't affect your food flavor.

Check out the Natural Home Pest-Free article at

http://www.naturalhomemagazine.com/natural-remedies/pest-free-naturally-natural-pest-control.aspx

Craigslist is an amazing resource if you have the time to be on it constantly (I'm talking the ability to sit there at work and at home and press "refresh" every minute or two). If you are not the first person to email or call a seller, you will miss out on the best furniture deals of your life.

My success story came after weeks of searching for a bed on Craigslist in Denver/Boulder. I would find an awesome Room and Board Platform bed, email the seller a few minutes after the post went up and alas, it was already sold. Then one evening at work, I was searching for the words "modern" and "canopy", pressed refresh and my dream bed was the first posting. A modern, stainless steel canopy bed originally from Desiron for $200. I emailed the person within a minute of the post going up saying I would take it (thinking in my mind that she must have left a zero off the end of the asking price). She emailed me back immediately saying it was mine and that, since I had responded so quickly, she would give it to me for $175. It was the best luck I've ever had in my entire Craigslisting life. a $2300 beautiful canopy bed for $175.

So, it really is a matter of time and obsessively refreshing the page if you want to get the deals on Craigslist.

I wish every house tour had a Resource list as comprehensive as this one!

Seems like a regular curtain would be less costly, less time consuming to make, better looking and easier to clean.

goghgirl:

Kohler Greek Soaking Tub

List price: $1,489.85

Her advice for small kitchens is not exactly what I would do myself. I would keep the dishwasher (there is an in-counter model that can double as a second sink) and ditch the traditional refrigerator for fridge drawers.

I do agree with her that cabinets that end short of the ceiling are a huge annoyance!

Amazing! A new spin on Kafka's The Metamorposis.

I just read about her in the New Yorker. Her maximalist design is overly ostentatious. These photos show her $28 million dollar house plus however many million more she put into its flamboyant, would-have-been-great-in-the-80s interior decoration.