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Thanks, AT, for your work on the previous and current incarnation of the site. I look forward to additional changes as you work out the bugs and respond to your readers' concerns.

As a daily user, here are some specific changes I'd like to see:
1) For those with accounts, a way to personalize the site to see only relevant post categories, with no duplicates, in chronological order. Personally, I'd select everything but scavenger and family, but I know we all have different preferences and it would be great to be able to customize the site by channel and/or category. Bonus: you'd probably get more account sign-ups if this feature was promoted on the main page for folks not signed in.

2) A "reply to" feature on comments. This seems like a huge oversight for a community-driven business.

3) A better solution to navigate through thumbnail images - a pop-up image window ala facebook seems appropriate, and could give users another option for comments on individual images

Thanks!

Hi Zoee,
I posted some more "after" pictures in my previous post. The shower is small (38x38 neo angle), but bigger than the old version, which was 30x30 square. Putting in a larger shower would have meant a totally custom job, and a square wouldn't have worked because of the clearance between shower and sink on the diagonal. The whole bathroom is 68" by 76". Here's a link to a couple more pictures: the shower before, and the old shower as we were taking it out. http://img823.imageshack.us/g/before2u.jpg/

Thanks guys! The door track came from Lowe's - we used two, one for each sliding door, and the side panels are stationary. I can't find the tracks on the store's website, but they were in the same aisle as bi-fold closet doors.

The hardest part was getting the fabric just right without wrinkles - we used double-sided tape to stick it down to one side of the frame, stretching and adjusting as necessary. Then we put down a line of wood glue over the edge of the fabric all the way around. We covered it with the other side of the frame, creating a wood-fabric-glue-wood sandwich. We clamped it overnight (and by clamped, I mean put paint cans and other heavy objects on top). The only problem is if the fabric gets dirty - there's no way to get it out of the frame to wash, so spot cleaning will have to do. We considered velcro, but the thickness of the velcro would create a little gap between the doors.

Anyway, I appreciate the positive comments and also really like the original post - it offers more privacy and is certainly easier to clean than my version.

An alternative design that my husband and I just installed spares the floor entirely and makes it easier to use in a space with uneven floors. We stretched and sandwiched muslin between frames built of 2x2s - they're slightly shorter than the full floor-ceiling length. Then we attached them to a door track mounted on the ceiling. Voila! They can swing forward and back just a bit, but they work fine for closing off a space and the muslin provides privacy but still lets light though and looks like a shoji screen. I like this more industrial look too, though, and might try it for a future project.

I think the after is a nice update, but one that will need to be revisited again soon-ish. The kitchen went from one version of (admittedly outdated) trendy to a current, but still trendy, style. Hopefully the owners enjoy re-doing the space every 10-15 years.

This is great! You've managed to modernize without losing the old farmhouse vibe. I'd love to see some before/after shots. We have the same bathroom sink - how do you keep the skirt on it? We tried magnets, but they didn't quite do the trick.

1) buy nice clothes that don't wrinkle easily - synthetics or wools
2) hang everything up on appropriately shaped hangers instead of folding. for pants with a crease, hang so the fold is at the crease
3) if you use a dryer, take clothes out right away.

I don't own an iron and hope to never own one.

www.relishrelish.com! I have no affiliation with this site other than being a loyal user. It is the absolute best thing I've ever found for meal planning, and their recipes are good. You can also add your own recipes, keep favorites, etc. And they have excellent customer service.

For the BIG kitties and cheapskate owners (like me):

*Large rubbermaid bin (the roughneck comes in several sizes)

*Litter tray that is almost as wide and about 3/4 as long as the bin

*Tablecloth

Cut a cat-sized hole in one of the ends of the bin. Put the litter tray in, pushed all the way to the opposite end. Cat uses the litter tray, has to walk across the extra space INSIDE the bin before exiting, kicking off all litter in the process. (It helps to put a carpet scrap in this space if you have one.) You can also keep the scooper and a roll of bags in the extra space between the tray and bin. Cover the whole thing with a tablecloth that reaches the floor, and voila, a cheap litterbox that looks like a table. To clean, just take off the top of the bin and scoop or remove the tray.

I'm in a 480 sq ft house (yes, freestanding house) with 7 ft ceilings. I also laugh at 100 sq ft homes described as "small."