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I think we've gotten spoiled-- I'm not even that old, but I can remember the days when I had to try to get a picture by fiddling with a dial-- lots of static and no remote in sight. Even the upgrade from that TV was still housed in a wooden cabinet. Anything's an improvement since those days to me.

At our house, our son's old action figure-size toys + jewelry-size eyehooks = xmas tree ornaments.

I have a feeling parquet will gain the respect it deserves again any moment now-- just keep the floor clean and in good repair, and find a nice area rug you like the break up all that pattern. Are you near one of Canada's new Target stores? In college, I found a rug there I actually liked enough to still have it in my living room today. Or try Ikea. Or urban outfitters/ overstock.com/ ebay or local auctions/ estate sales/ flea markets/ antique shops/ craigslist near your location. I think the trick to decorating on a budget is persistence + luck. You don't need all the stuff in the world, just a few key things that you like-- and there are lots of resources for little money!

I've had good luck with borax and hot water-- and then you can dump some more in the bottom of the pail after it's clean and dry too.

lol@sabrina-- Yep.

Unless perhaps you work in the plumbing industry, I think it's kind of difficult to get excited about a toilet, provided it's there when you need it and it does what it's supposed to do. I mean, you can't really show it off to your friends (let alone ask them for feedback) the way you can with the new sofa. And you (hopefully) wouldn't send out announcements as though there were a new baby in the house.

I’m a Gen-Xer, and I want to garden the way I remember my grandmothers doing it (more organically, with heirloom plants, etc.)—just on a smaller scale, due to time and space constraints, and because I don’t want to get into canning and my freezer only holds so much. I want to garden for the fun of it rather than out of necessity, I suppose. They grew a wide variety of vegetables and flowers, while my boomer-generation parents were more of the type to bomb the whole yard with chemicals, plant a few annuals, mow the grass, and call it good. Big box garden centers seem more geared toward that kind of “gardening,” which is more about the lawn than beyond it, and they don’t make it easy to do organic.

Very stylish! Note to self: Must stencil curtains...

This place has lots of great things going for it. I especially like the z's by the bed, and since so many have mentioned the rug, I'll ask instead, where did the tiny deer head come from?

Great view!

Love the use of prints in this place. And now that I think of it, I used to hide the vacuum that way too, once upon a time.