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Jeez, how long would it have taken to adjust the color balance in those photos so they're not orange? Why run such ugly photos on a design site, particularly after AT has featured a seemingly endless number of photo editing apps?

How and why can someone expect a bunch of strangers on the internet to be able to answer this? There is no substitute for your own good judgement about what a person is like. Meet the guy. Or at the very least, ask other tenants if the neighbor's warning makes any sense to them. It should be fairly easy to meet the guy if the place only has 4 apartments - knock on his door and tell him you are a potential tenant and you have a question about XYZ. He doesn't need to know that you also have a question about him as a person. To be sure, having met a person once generally does not give a complete picture of who they are and what they're like, but it should give you some idea of whether he's totally unstable or what, and it's much, much better than putting yourself in the position of relying on someone else's opinions with none of your own to inform your thinking.

The other thing I'm having trouble understanding is, why don't we know what this neighbor called the cops for? There are many reasons why someone would do such a thing. You need to find out what happened.

The third thing I don't understand at all, what is a "vintage" apartment?

I am bewildered that people would invite "friends" like this over at all. (I'm putting friends in quotes because people whose behavior appalls us in ways we don't know how to deal with are really more acquaintances than friends, are they not?) If your friends can't put this sort of relentless and vacuous self-promotion on hold to socialize at your house, it's time to get new friends. It's probably also time to stop going to concerts with those "friends" who hold their phones out the entire time and can't stop chattering about what great footage they're getting. And to stop going to the movies with those "friends" who loudly stage-whisper "what's going on NOW?!" every 15 seconds during suspenseful moments. It's OK to have friends whose company you actually enjoy. That's how friendship is supposed to work.

I generally like really busy, almost-cluttered spaces and there are some great pieces here, but I'm puzzled by the way some of this is set up. The vanity seems to have too many lamps and other stuff on it to actually be used, ditto the desk in the bedroom. I don't get the idea of having a desk with a bunch of orbs and a giant rolodex clustered in the center / most usable part of it.

No offense intended, just an honest question: Without having some sense of the aesthetic of the cabinet owner, how are a group of strangers on the internet supposed to decide what would look "better"? Some people like dark wood, some people like white kitchens, some people like colorful kitchens. If this were my kitchen I would paint the cabinets white and add color and pattern with other things in the room (art, curtains, towels, etc.). I'd also maybe add some interesting hardware. I really dislike the look of two different colors, one for the inset panels and one for the borders, but that's just my personal preference.

Gorgeous stuff. Haven't been to the shop yet but I love browsing their website, it always makes me want to take better care of my plants & bring home more of them.

I don't get what's so green about a "green tea & aloe fragrance mister" -- wouldn't the greenest option be to not buy a product to spritz the air with?

I also don't really get why the marketing of these various mattresses needs to be part of the review (for example, the mention that this one lacks "big brand marketing"). I'm sure that sort of thing is of interest to marketing people, but to people who are not in that business and are just looking at mattresses . . . speaking for myself I couldn't care less. Is it really going to be much of a factor in you guys choosing a favorite? If yes, how come?

I can't disagree more about giclee repros -- I've found plenty of great vintage prints for next to nothing on ebay and etsy and various other places, and to my eye faux vintage is worse than plastic covers on lumpy grandma sofas. Yes, that bad. I also disagree about framing being hard to find. Even people who live in the sticks have internet access, if they're reading this, and there are all sorts of relatively inexpensive framing options available. framesbymail.com is ok, not ideal but certainly not going to cost hundreds and hundreds, and major chain art stores tend to have inexpensive options too. I just discovered these, haven't tried them yet but they look ok:

http://www.dickblick.com/products/nielsen-bainbridge-frame-kits/

In my opinion it's better to get an inexpensive frame around something you love rather than settle for something less interesting. You can always have whatever it is re-framed later on when you're feeling flush. If someone hasn't got enough for even a cheapo frame, numbered map tacks are a more stylish option than plain old push pins -- I'm pretty sure I read about that idea on AT a long time ago, actually! -- and they're about $5 per box.

Come on AT. Other commentators have already touched on this, but since when are "leftists" and "Marxists" lumped in with "misogynists" and "anti-Semites" in terms of unlikability? What's next, a post about the decor of Glenn Beck's set? And as long as we're on the subject, since when are misogynists and anti-Semites merely "unlikable," the way someone with poor table manners or dull wit might be?

Oh, and Ansela, I think it is quite possible that your experience with leftists says more about you and the sort of people you meet than it does about an entire section of the political spectrum. Your willingness to vaguely cite some pro-religious "studies" about happiness to support your argument makes me wonder what sort of education you received, as does your reliance on cliches and platitudes. It is at the very least possible that the leftists you've been coming into contact with are simply your intellectual peers. There are others above and below them in terms of happiness, intellect, and everything else. Just the way there are in all large categories of people. Generalizations aren't necessary and are best avoided.

Please, someone who is handy with this sort of thing, a Venn diagram showing the overlap between AT commentators as a whole / AT commentators who clench their jaw when they see the word "shit" in print / AT commentators who clench their jaw and leave a huffy comment about "resorting to profanity" / AT commentators who freak out every time a post shows books in a bathroom because all they can think of is how they're collecting massive, massive amounts of gross, gross, super-gross germs.

As for the expression that something cool is "the shit," my mom in suburban Connecticut has used it once or twice so I think it's safe to say it's been around for a long time now!