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I'll contribute to the whining - there are plenty of wedding blogs on the internet, please don't let this become one of them.

This is great, and also totally echo the comments - a majority of those MCM children seemed to survive, no?

We have a 1920s house and I'm always kind of taken aback when people comment about the steepness of the stairs - "You'd better watch out for those when you have kids!" or even as bold as "I could never have those stairs with my children!" Really? I mean, yes, when/if we decide to procreate, I will put a gate up when necessary and, you know, watch my children. But seriously, children have learned how to navigate stairs throughout history, right?

My gawd people are cranky on the interwebs today. It's a funny post guys, lighten up. There's nothing remotely "WE LOVE THE KARDASHIANS" about this, it's just poking fun at Kanye's absurd tweets about tacky renaissance home decor.

I have those exact chairs! We put ours around a warm wood rectangle shaped MCM table with similarly shaped legs as the chairs. I don't think the current table you have looks bad as-is, but I do like the idea of keeping the top and replacing the legs with a more MCM shape to mimic the chairs, or tulip table, always like a tulip table + warm wood chairs.

I painted quite bold colors in my college apartment (deep red, green,and royal blue to go with all of my gilded super baroque style at that age). I used drop cloths/good tape/rollers, I knew it was not allowed, but I figured if I was being charged $1200 a month for a two bedroom serious piece of crap (water stains, popcorn ceilings, yellowing 70s linoleum, bathrooms with seemingly permanent mold) I would beautify it as much as I could and hope for the best. The landlords quickly found out (you could see the red from the street) and just as quickly started using our unit as the showcase unit for all future tours. Most common thing we overheard "Ohhhh we can paint??" "No." :) We asked before we moved out if they wanted us to paint it back and they said the renters requested we leave it up.

Now that I'm a non-college kid/semi-adult I see where this could have gone horribly wrong and was fairly inconsiderate, but I don't know if I can honestly say I regret doing it? I stayed in that apartment for two years and I had some great times in my overdone boudoir 70s hole of an apartment :)

I had two goals when toilet shopping - dual flush and I was sick and tired of cleaning the crevices of the shaped "pipe" look on older toilet designs. Cleaning behind the toilet is not something I enjoy in the first place and I never understood why something so gross would have so many curves to clean. We went to Toto dual flushes and they are so much easier to clean AND more efficient.

http://www.homeperfect.com/toto-toilets-cst416m-01-aquia-ii-close-coupled-elongated-dual-flush-two-piece-toilet-in-cotton.html?cvsfa=3932&cvsfe=2&cvsfhu=746f746373743431366d3031&gclid=COSphfLHsbUCFYFxQgodayoA3A

I've had very light colored bamboo in a previous home and it definitely showed scratches from my little cat. I believe that it was fairly cheap and thin bamboo so maybe if you go up a grade in quality you won't have this problem. If you do go bamboo I'd go with a darker shade, I saw every flaw in that floor.

We recently moved into and remodeled a 1920s home including the floors, and where there was carpet there was only plywood underneath. We ended up getting a really good deal on overstocked oak hardwood ($7 installed/square foot). Maybe if you're patient, flexible, and make friends with a supply company or a contractor something similar could come along for you?

I'm a naturally messy and disorganized person. And an artist naturally ;) What I've found out about myself is that a completely organized and meticulously clean space actually prevents me from starting in on a project because I stop for a minute to consider what a mess I will make and decide to leave the room clean and presentable.

Right now I'm trying to figure out where the balance lies between leaving things messy and keeping the room clean vs. being productive creatively. I leave my paintings and supplies out while I'm in the middle of a piece, but I do a deep clean once a week to wipe down surfaces and arrange the clutter in a more manageable way.

We have a red knit poof, it's delightful to look at, but unfortunately our cat decided it was her new bed. These things are impossible to clean cat hair out of - just a warning!

We keep folded chairs and a cheap folding card table in a closet - there's a slight height difference between the card table and our long formal dining table, but if you throw a table cloth over the whole thing it really doesn't make a giant difference.