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The German that's spoken on the History Channel WWII documentaries isn't that beautiful a language... but the German spoken by my high school German teacher, who was from a part of Germans with a much softer accent, IS a beautiful language. Sounded totally different - for example the softer "ish" for ich.

Anyway, I like the shower :-)

Wow, that sideboard IS amazing!

Do mean to store, or when you get home from work? For storage, I have a thing on the wall with a row of coat hooks (I don't have that many purses, only 3-4).

For my everyday purse/laptop bag, I have a designated chair by the front door where it goes. Kind of like a landing strip annex.

The Scooba is the best thing ever for keeping floors clean. I would have thought we'd have flying cars by now, but a robot to clean my floors is just as good!

I use it on my bamboo floors and it works great. I think it actually gets the floor cleaner than mopping, because instead of spreading around dirty water, it puts down fresh cleaner and squeegies the dirty water into a separate tank. Genius :-)

litter box. I toss it a buy a new one.

I love the wallflowers from bath and body works, especially when they're on sale for 6 bucks. Eucalyptus is my favorite :-)

Non-fluorescent lighting and a comfy bed are the most important things, at least in my experience. And inexpensiveness.

Do they still sell those halogen torchiere lamps? They may not be up to AT design standards, but nothing lights up a room like it. With the right floor lamp, you'll never have to use the overhead fluorescent light. Just try not to burn the place down by tossing your dirty clothes on top of it...

Make your bed a comfy place for sleeping and reading. Get similar bedding to what you have at home. (If you sleep under a cotton quilt or chenille bedspread at home, you'll never sleep comfortably under one of those synthetic fill comforters that come in those bed-in-a-bag packs.)

Get an eggshell mattress and a pillow-top to put on top of it. Then get oversized pillows so you can sit up and read on top of your made bed. And get a reading lamp for the head of the bed.

Re the decor:
- get a bulletin board or other photo board type thing so all of your photos are contained in one spot, rather than taped all over the wall
- Bring one or two nice prints, then decorate the rest over the course of the year as you come into your own style. Then your room will reflect your personality rather than a design magazine or target ad.
- plants are awesome :-)

I agree - these are funny!

I wonder if any of the humorless posters above are related to the person(s) who stole my pirate flag and replaced it with an enormous American flag a few years ago...

If you like a little more color, I recently got one of these space-dyed cotton throws, and I like it a lot. It's nice and lightweight for summer:

http://www.blankets.com/space-dyed-cotton-throw.html

I have always slept under chenille and am just not comfortable sleeping under anything else. I tried matelesse but it wasn't the same. Something about the way the chenille breathes...

Anyway, I recently replaced my traditional patterned chenille bedspread with one of these more modern ones, in moss green. I think it looks great: http://tinyurl.com/lvpb76

I don't get the hatred that some people have for chenille, but ultimately, it's my body that's got to sleep under it, and no way I'm sacrificing a good night's sleep for someone else's design aesthetic! :-)