Cashew's Profile

Those floors are GORGEOUS. Please don't alter them. PLEASE.

If you really, really, really feel that they aren't for you, I wouldn't buy this condo. A) It would be a shame to remove something so lovely. B) It would be very expensive to replace it with something of like quality, if the square footage is large, as you said.

Agreed, fun straw. It's hilarious enough to see just the first one.

I prefer waterfall, but underhand isn't a deal breaker for me.

I want that bunny lamp.

lol By the way, it made me laugh that Restoration would suggest buying a new mirror. It's a freaking screw - you should *definitely* be able to find something that works for you.

I have an urge to avoid something I know is trendy, but I ignore that urge. People around here are bored to tears by anything chevron, but I don't know a single soul IRL that actually has chevron in their home. If I choose to include in my house at some point, it'll be because I like a nice, simple, graphic print, and chevrons are easy to paint. And the people I know WILL (optimistically speaking) be blown away by my originality and ingenuity. lol

If you really like something, do it. Who cares about the naysayers?

Looks great! The wonderful thing about white subway tiles is that they can be purchased so cheaply - big statement, little budget.

We ourselves went with the all-fridge option: most of the things we kept in the freezer weren't all that healthy for us, so I don't mind having to run down and up stairs to visit the deep freeze. :) Can definitely see how it's not for everyone, though!

We've never bothered with a blu-ray player. Our DVD collection is large, but we've never bought Blu-rays, so what's the point?

I love our apple tv, though. It was originally purchased because we wanted to be able to play our music collection on the nice living room stereo system without having to run cords all throughout the house. Honestly, at just a little over $100, it was a sound purchase. We prefer the Netflix menu to that on the Wii, and for how often we rent movies, the iTunes rental store is just fine.

I'm with you Dana: I strongly dislike granite, and would never install it. However, my preference is entirely due to appearance: I looked at SO MUCH GRANITE, hoping to see a slab that appealed to me, but had no luck. Nothing appealed to me. Instead, I installed a beautiful grey quartz with recycled glass and mirror. It was hard and cold, but easy to keep clean, low maintenance (no sealing required), and lovely to look at.

I also love our stainless steel countertops, and the butcher block counters my parents had when I was growing up. But I've never liked granite.

When looking for a new house, it drove me up the wall to see all these quickly reno'd kitchens touting 'GRANITE COUNTERTOPS!' as a plus, when all I wanted was ugly laminate that I could rip out and maybe re-use in a work shop. Hard to justify ripping out something that cost so much money.

Beautiful!

Personally, I lived for so long without a linen closet of any kind that I could NEVER bring myself to remove one, but perhaps this one was only used for towels and 'other.'