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Best of both worlds! I'm in a house, but we're 52 stair steps up the hillside. I love the view, the light, the quiet, the safety, the green, and still being close to the ground. :)

I did the same thing a few years ago. Beautiful studio at the right price with decent light and hardwood floors, crummy neighborhood with dirty building. It was somewhere between a midday police standoff, half eaten cheeseburgers in the stairwells, and insomnia that came from fighting bedbugs nightly for months that I realized it was the wrong decision. So I vote no. In the end, it's not worth it and there are better options available.

The last person that lived in my current bedroom installed a 1x10" board on brackets about 8" from the ceiling, and it stretches the length of the wall over the closet and door. Best shelf in the room! (And it fits almost all of my heels perfectly.)

I love Pinterest too! I've never been organized enough to have a tactile inspiration board (save for fabrics, paints, and wood stains- don't translate well on a monitor.) I think Pinterest still is in the tail end of their beta phase and has some kinks to work out as far as programming and code, but being able to think of something I remember seeing somewhere online and then easily find it with a quick glance to my pinboards is priceless.

@herms Yeah they were definitely pillbugs- I watched them munch away with a flashlight until sunrise to check and make sure! They had laid eggs and were living in the decomposing hay that I was using to mulch, but seemed to prefer green plants as opposed to brown or rotting ones. Apparently they will eat young living plants too, as I found quite a few people on message boards stating the same issue. Almost destroyed my pole beans, assisted the slugs in chomping lettuce, and leveled a few squash seedlings as well.

We do the "garbage soup" in my house too, but only vegetables, herbs, and cheese rinds since one of the roommates is vegetarian. I'll also chop and freeze veggies for stir frys (although if the produce in question can be pickled or turned into jam I tend to take an hour out of my sleep schedule and do a couple of quick jars for later!)

Wow. This turned out so gorgeous. Really love the fact that they designed it so well for the space.

I had these on my kale too this year! I just look for the holes, then find the little buggers and pull them off. Sometimes they are super tiny, so you might have to look really carefully. Good luck!

I haven't tried it, but I'd worry that the slugs and pillbugs would eventually take over and start eating plants. Maybe not as much in some parts of the country, but this year I mulched my raised beds with straw, only to have an insane infestation of pillbugs munching on everything in sight a week later! They really seemed to like the cool, damp habitat that the straw mulch provided. I had to tear it all out and go without mulch in order to have any squash survive. (Granted, my bales are over a year old, so maybe the bales work well the first year and decompose/attract too many insects the second?) Still, definitely an interesting alternative! :)

Agreed with Naturally Handy. I will also occasionally find herbs that I've never seen seeds for. I've started doing more cuttings though, from hard to germinate herbs, and have had moderate success with those. I've even had some luck rooting a few cut herbs from the farmer's market!