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Ok, why the heck isn't Notebook listed here? It's a totally awesome note taking app (and I actually have a sneaking suspicion that Microsoft's onenote is actually a rip off of Notebook, but that's a knee jerk reaction so it may be totally wrong). It's by Circus Ponies and can be purchased and downloaded online and when I first got it there was even a decent free trial period. I've also heard about a version for the iPad, but I don't have one so no comment on that from me other than its existance.

Just because the materials are recycled doesn't mean they are free. Recycled materials actually move on a commodity's market behind the scenes. Even if you pretend that there are no middle men involved someone still has to pay the people who collect the recyclables and process them, not to mention the facilities needed to do the processing. In some ways recycled materials can cost more to process than virgin materials. If you make something out of your own discarded coke bottles, you might consider it a no cost project, but if you think about it even then, you (or someone else) paid for the bottle, you didn't get it for free.

The last one looks kind of tacky to me, and I partially agree with thorndale on number 2. The mirrors in the second photo do give a cluttered effect in several places. A mirrored backsplash requires a very carefully curated countertop.

The mirror by the dining table just seems inappropriate. In most restaurants I can think of that use mirrors they have an entire wall, which creates an illusion of space, not an identifiable single mirror which, as le_sacre says, seems a bit narcissistic.

The tiled mirrors for a window just don't seem to quite pull of what they are supposed to imitate. It's interesting to look at, but it doesn't get the effect that the text says the method is going for.

The collection of red framed mirrors, the mirrored upper cabinets, and the layered mirror bathroom seem to me the best uses in this whole round up, although like ckhoover I wish there wasn't the confusion around which photo goes with which chunk of text. One and two match up but then there's some sort of disconnect and there seem to be two photos for tip 3 and none for tip 6. The photographers did an amazing job of staying out of the pics. I wonder if photoshop was used in any of them (particularly the second photo).

"let's review one of the most common issues in all of apartment-dom: working with oddly-colored tile in bathrooms"

Umm... as a recent dorm dweller and current apartment-dorm (as in apartment style complex run by the campus housing department), I've got to say: how the heck do you expect actual dorm or apartment-dorm dwellers to get away with most of this stuff? When I lived in an actual dorm there was no way we could get away with painting or in any way altering the space. Heck we couldn't even really hang things up since we had to use sticky tack or tape. The apartment-dorm is a bit looser since we are allowed to paint as long as we revert back to the original paint job before we move out, but that raises the question: what dorm or apartment-dorm dweller has time to do stuff like this? At the longest you're going to be living somewhere for four years. The investment is hardly worth it.

"you can make your own by plying — take many different yarns and hold them together as it they were one, cast on and knit carefully."

Um... that's not plying. Actual plying requires a bit of spinning. Ever notice how most yarns have at least two distinct bits wrapping around each other, that's an example of plying. Yarns are slightly over twisted held together and allowed to wrap themselves around each other.

A lot of people seem to be saying that they love the fact that their money is going directly to the artist and not to a big company. I hate to burst the bubble, but you have to pay to list items on etsy (only about 10 cents from what I've heard) and etsy does take a commission. Etsy itself is a business and seeks to make money.