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Hi bette frankel/arthur f./popop cookie. Nice sock puppet fail.

Next time try spacing out the creation of your accounts over more than a day, not posting with the same signature style three minutes apart, and ACTUALLY SIGNING OUT OF ONE SOCK ACCOUNT before trying to leave a comment with another account.

You obviously like the design (may be the designer or at least a friend of the designer), and that's certainly your prerogative, but you're not going to win anyone over to it with this kind of ham-fisted attempt to drum up the appearance of more popular support.

That said, I could see this having some appeal in a retail setting, as part of a display with square pegs to hang them off of or specially designed racks. The combination of the square hook and the relatively shallow depth of it makes it look like it would easily be knocked off of a traditional round rod. Given all that, I'd stick with the more traditional (and more gracefully curved) wooden hangers.

The cat I grew up with absolutely adored our live Christmas trees. She wouldn't climb them but considered them her personal watering dish and napping spot. After one year of mangled elves we learned to hang some of the knitted and wooden ornaments higher lest she gnaw on them, and heaven help you if you somehow blocked her access to her preferred crash spot with presents. Some of the last photos I have of her are her sprawled under the boughs and twinkle lights.

This is my first Christmas with my current cat, so we'll see how he reacts to the living tree I'll be bringing in over the weekend. I anticipate that the main temptation will be the light wires, as he's fond of going after them when he feels he's not getting enough attention.

Honestly, the veneer doesn't look that bad in these pictures. It's the clutter that gets in the way. The butterfly picture in front of the fireplace could be a neat idea if it was actually the size of the fireplace opening, and while you could certainly prop some pictures up on those shelves the one on the right is far too big.

I'd strip everything off and go minimal with the accessories, all in a unified color (white or light blue could look nice if the wood is as gold-toned as it looks in these pictures). A larger picture could be hung in the alcove where the guitar is currently propped, and you could fill in the bottom alcove with enough shelves to use as bookcases.

Play *with* the wall, not against it, until you're certain you've got the budget and skills to deal with any disaster that might come with removing it completely.

I'm always amused during any debate regarding the sustainability of Ikea and similar furniture because all of my dressers were originally purchased by my grandparents from what was essentially the 1950s equivilant of the Ikea catalog. With their clean lines and tapered legs all that it took to update them from the dressers of my and my mother's childhoods was a new set of drawer pulls. Certainly 50 years of use can't be expected from every piece of customer-assembled furniture--especially things like beds and upholstered seating--but it does make me wonder what sort of use and abuse others are putting their furniture through if something like a bookcase or dresser (two Ikea items I've purchased) is considered a "throwaway" item after only a few years.

But then again, I'm in my first place so other than the mattress my Ikea items are the only "new" things I own--everything else is from second-hand stores or hand-me-down furnishings older than I am (including the couch, which is in amazingly good shape for being a knock-off showroom sample from the early 80s) so what others might consider only a temporary solution have a much higher value for me as they represent a relative indulgence given my tight budget.

If I don't see prices, especially for larger items, then I don't buy. I take it to mean that the item is priced more than I'm willing to pay. Bargaining is part of the yard sale experience, but having a starting figure saves both the seller and the buyer a lot of BS and lets buyers know what you're looking for in regards to a serious offer.

You don't have to stick a price tag on everything. Group things on tables with a sign declaring everything is X dollars or assign a uniform price to categories of stuff (all paperbacks a dollar, hardbacks two dollars, shoes five dollars, etc. etc.). Anything exceptional that deviates from the pattern price individually (ex, all dresses are four dollars apiece but this prom dress is forty dollars).

Unless he was joking around about the "floating" complaints... yeeeeeeah, no. If any of his inventions had actually managed that then he'd now have more than enough cash to move out of the apartment, what with having broken all the known laws of physics and stuff.

The stuff has a neat, almost sculptural look to it, but I can't imagine living anywhere near him whenever he moved things around to tinker with them. CLUNK. SCRAAAAAAAAAAAAAPE. BANG BANG BANG BANG.

I grew up with wall to wall white carpeting (leaning towards a very light grey, which helped cover up any traffic paths our bare feet would wear) and only had one major mishap that Spot Shot couldn't fix (a giant rubber cement stain that now sports a rug). Have it in my apartment now and the only real trouble spot is right in front of the front door.

I really like carpet as far as comfort goes but honestly hate the look of it in any color BUT white. I'll take any frustrations that come with the upkeep over hating the look of my floor altogether.

Love the orange one, but the rest look like something you could snag just as easily off of etsy, especially the corset one. Main problem design wise for me is that the chosen images don't flow well with the shape of the chairs themselves.

If that were the case then not only would such items be limited to people who could afford to travel to such places, but it would be further limited to people who could afford the costs of bringing those items back with them, especially when it comes to larger pieces of furniture. Some of us are stretching our pursestrings just getting to these places in the first place!

I say don't lie about where or why you procured an item (ex: "it's from X local store but it reminded me so much of the things that I saw in Y"), try to pick items that are as true as possible to the culture you're drawing influence from (still nothing wrong with picking up an "inauthentic" piece if you genuinely like it in and of itself, though), and use pieces--authentic or not--becaus you honestly enjoy them, not because you think they give you some sort of "worldly" status.

I've been saving my pennies for this rug for a bit. Love the crisp edges of the primary orange damask and the overall oversized pattern. No experience with Ballard Designs, though, so if morina is right in that the quality is unlivable I'd love any other recommendations for similar items.