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by half-@$$ed, i mean that I haven't given up beans and potatoes.
I'm allergic to everything... so taking away more foods from the few I can have to begin with is just too much.

#6 is counter intuitive but true!
I have the Soho sofa from Z Gallerie in a very small living room.
when it was delivered to replace the old loveseat I had in the space, it took me about a month to get accustomed to the size - worried it was too big for the space - until I got used to it.

My mom came to visit for Mother's day, and her first words upon seeing the living room were, "The whole room looks bigger!"
I didn't realize it until she said it, but she's right... it really does!

When I first moved to Denver, I lived with relatives in Lakewood/Golden (suburbs, one might say) for the first few months... and it just never felt right. Too quiet. In fact, I was deciding that I didn't like Denver.
Then I moved downtown, in the Cheeseman Park neighborhood (just two blocks from the park) When I was settled into the tiny little apartment on the second evening there, I suddenly felt a sense of peace wash over me... "Home" I thought. That's when I realized I could hear a helicopter buzzing over my building. That's what felt like home.
I hadn't put it together before then, but in my last two cities, my apartments were either in the flight path for the hospital - or the flight path for the police chopper.
Previously in Omaha, I could hear Able One (police chopper) take off every night just as I retired to bed - to start it's nightly rounds, and it became a comforting sound, like a lullaby.
So when I was making an offer on my condo in Denver, near the hospital - and I heard a Life Flight Chopper pass over, I knew I had found my home!
That hospital has since relocated, and I don't hear helicopters on the regular any more, but it was a gradual weaning.
Occasionally, I hear one on the way to the other hospital and it always makes me feel at peace... and I say a prayer for whoever it is arriving for emergency care.

The phrase "nitty gritty" just bugs me - can we please phase it out of our vernacular? Please.
Do you know that "nitty gritty" was originally a reference to a woman's pubic area, particularly in a derogatory reference to black women.
Please think when you use words.

Catiaelizabeth... the CENTER of the art is at 57" not the top of the art.

Oh, the party box!! I just call it the party closet!!
Mine is less about decorations and more about party supplies.
I keep a bunch of supplies in one of those tubs used to chill drinks.... BBQ Skewers, checked table cloth, those spikes that go into the ground to hold your wine glasses and a bottle of wine, outdoor silverware --- that sort of thing.
Then along side it on the shelf is my flat of wine glasses from World Market, stacks of dessert plates (I refuse to use paper plates.) and other party-having-supplies!!

ha ha. I'm pretty sure that "Southwestern Tapestry" is from a latchhook rug kit from the late 70s early 80s.
It's the equivalent of a paint by numbers painting.

Pi - I think she's saying Tiffany blue seems feminine to her because it's associated with jewelry. So she liked the femininity for a girl, but didn't want to put a boy in a Tiffany jewel box - girly-looking room.

Where did the space for the bed nook come from? Was there a closet behind that wall?

I must be another with no imagination, because I couldn't figure out how they made the kitchen bigger - I thought that closet was the door to the outside!!!

I find it SO annoying when I go to shop for toys as gifts only find the toys completely separated by gender! It just ticks me off.
I was fortunate to grow up on a ranch, surrounded by animals, tractors, tools and rough stuff - even with my mom as a housewife, doing the cooking and cleaning.
Of course girls are going to imitate their mom with play of household chores and cooking... but thank God I had a brother and got to play with toy cars, trains, tractors and loaders and blowing stuff up!!

I'm not a mom, but if/ when I have a daughter, I don't want any pink crap infiltrating my home (until she asks for pink herself!) Yes, I personally hate pink and that's my thing... but shouldn't we have more selection? These days why should anything but tampons be for girls only?