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Here's my best small space tip: Keep it clean. Yes, that works well everywhere, but is especially important in a smaller space where your can, for example, see the kitchen from the living room and where, for another example, a pair of sneakers left on the floor become more of a health hazard and eyesore than a minor annoyance.

That, and keeping the noise to a reasonable level, seem to make all the difference.

Cheers.

I had one, once, in black. Used it to hold my stereo and speakers and music collection which fit the stand like they were made for it.

I moved. It, alas, did not.

It's both ugly and a desecration of the noble book.

Donate the books to the library. Go buy real art.

Diminutive? You call more than 900 square feet in San Francisco diminutive? In any major city - San Francisco, LA, New York, etc. - 900 square feet is a castle. If you think this is diminutive, then either you are very wealthy or you live in a very tiny town, indeed.

Here's hoping it is the former and not the latter.

(He did a nice job with his ... diminutive ... budget.)

I agree. I won't bring home anything with fabric for fear of bugs. But I have found an old 1940s banker's chair, tables and vanity chairs from the 1950's, and an enormous mirror. But my best finds are always books. I'm a voracious reader, so that is always a delight.

Even if you have a smaller place without a ton of furnishings and boxes and you are doing the packing, you are well into thousand$ territory. And that's not the real concern. The real concern is finding reputable movers. Movers who won't ruin / ransom / hijack your belongings. You might want to do what we did when we faced a similar long-distance move. We did the garage sale / donate / giveaway / recycle boogie and rented a u-haul for a few hundred$.

Everything showed up when we did, and in one piece, and surprisingly little of what was left behind is missed (but let's not discuss my enormous and insanely heavy Crate and Barrel couch in the perfect, perfect shade of ... no ... we won't discuss it).

And the trip we actually remember fondly - picnics and all.

Good luck!

I adore the galvanized steel pipe Menorah. Texturally brilliant, creatively great, and, well, just adorably fun.

It might not translate into reality (someone mentioned rain, I believe ... !) but it is oh so clever.

At least give her a gold star for creativity. And patience! She deserves it.

Funny, redebega, how when I originally checked your very recently opened profile, your comment about the chairs was not there. I know. It is in my history.

But it's there, now.

Hmmm. Did you, say, scroll back to an earlier post to create a comment?

Alas. So interesting.

And the box is still $180.

This is a wonderful looking box, but I really think these things are designed by people who have never had a cat.

Problem #1: $180. For a litter box. $180. Plastic. Litter. Box. $180.

Problem #2: Plastic is porous and should be replaced periodically for sanitation reasons. Say you do that annually. Say your cat lives to, oh, 16. That's 16 years x $180. See problem #1.

Problem #3: Smart that they have a roof entrance to avoid kicking litter. What do they do to avoid tracking litter? Rather unsavory underfoot if your litter box is in the dining room, as it is in the picture.

Problem #4: The scoop. On the outside. The scoop that was just in the litter and, alas, is probably not spotlessly clean any more. Again, not so nice in the dining room.

Problem #5: The noise of kitty going to the litter as you are eating.

Problem #6: The smell of kitty going to the litter as you are eating. Oh, the smell!

I could go on and on (Reusable liner? Great in theory, but in practice? Not so much.), but time is too short. Suffice it to say this is another great idea that just does not translate into reality, much like those silly litter boxes that pretend to be, say, a fake indoor tree or a side table. An indoor tree or side table that, at least periodically, smells like cat feces.

Remember, form AND function. It has to look good AND be practical. Otherwise, no.

And $180? Really?