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Holy Cow, this is good!

Good for you. When I left NYC and travelled for a year before relocating to Charleston, SC I stored MOST of my apartment furniture, only to spend the additional dollars to move it down here to realize it totally wasn't going to work in my new house. I think I could have saved just the memories and been better off!

Holy Awesome.

I have always thought if you have duck tape, wd-40 and a staple gun, you can pretty much accomplish anything.

It definitely prevents any squeeks, gets rid of rust in a jiffy, uncruds bike chains, removes crayon, ink and glue from most surfaces, and maybe best of all it takes off the medical tape, old bandaid, adhesive crap stuck on your arm/hand/fingers. Hate that stuff.

Oh and lets not forget that it makes sleds go realllllly fast (Pam no stick works well too).

ha, usually the hard way. I have painted a dark brown bathroom which looked very bad, and immediately painted it back to the pale green go-to color, and a kitchen dark brown twice, finally hitting on the right shade that was what I wanted. If its a big room, like the living room though, I now know to stop at one wall and let it sit for a week before continuing.

All of the above, particularly the things you can't change: lot size, location and neighbors.

But I have another very specific, learned the hard way tip: If you are buying an older house, run your fingernail across the wood work. So many owners, trying to slap a fresh look on dirty wood, put latex over oil or varnish and it will be coming off in chips in a few months. Its super important for older homes, as some of the oil paint coats on woodwork will contain lead paint, and remediation costs in the 10s of thousands of dollars. I hand scraped every single inch of crown moulding, doors, wainscot, chairrails, fireplaces and an entire staircase. It took 2 years. And it all could have been uncovered with a light scrape of the fingernail....

I am not a TV watcher, and I too gobbled it up in about 2 days on Netflix several months back.

Yeah, I'd be keeping it too!

Big fan. Not your usual run to the mill cookie cutter apartment therapy space. Really like the kitchen vibe.

I think you need to go ahead and paint the walls first and see what you think. Where your pipes are fitted, its a call (assuming you still want to have them blend), between matching them to ceiling or matching them to walls. For high pipes, I prefer it to 'be part' of the ceiling.

They are going to be a little bit apparent no matter what you do, but honestly, after a few months in the space you won't even notice them unless you decide to make them stand out with a contrasting paint color.