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Heh. Husband just convinced me to buy new door hardware for all doors in antique brass. I indulged him. Now I realize he's just cutting edge! I have been feeling weary of brushed anything, lately, so this is a good thing.

Love my KitchenAid. My freezer allows me to set the temp, and I drop it to -5 if I'm going to be making ice cream later that day. With the bowl that cold, if the ingredients are chilled, I can freeze two batches, enough for a birthday party.

Any way you slice it, though, if you like ice cream, you have to try making your own with whatever maker works for you. It's a whole 'nother world of culinary fun. Our favorites include lemon gelato, triple chocolate and fresh strawberry. We want to see what we can do with yogurt, too.

Revisiting your place again. Still love it.

Yay! A post about What's Wrong with Granite. I have never understood why people like it. It's too hard for a kitchen countertop (for the clumsy), you can't tell if it's dirty, it's shiny (!), expensive, and now ubiquitous. We had Paperstone installed in our itty bitty kitchen, in black matte, and like it a lot. Yes, it does show dirt. I keep it clean.

Also agree about the floors - we opted for cork in our last home, hardwood in the current. Much more forgiving of dirt than other choices.

Floors are wonderful! And I'm a brick fan but that was just not OK. Good job!

Loooooove this. Only my second ever bookmarked AT post. It's not a recipe any more than 'flour, water, salt and yeast' are a recipe for bread. It's great reminders about balanced, depth, texture and meaning. I know I tend to over focus sometimes on color, scale and fashion of the moment, but the elements you spell out here are really more fundamental.

Around these parts, we call studios that size, 'houses.' Looks GREAT! More photos?

Yeah, what a few people above said. You've got a catalog (either paper or online), use it to narrow your choices ahead of time. Set a budget. The store has shortcuts clearly marked - don't need dining furniture? Don't go through dining furniture. Don't go on a Saturday afternoon or, god forbid, holiday Monday. Eat before or during. And remember, it's just frikkin' furniture.

That said, I have one in between home and work, and my favorite technique involves stopping by on the way home from work (empty) and going in the exit door and straight to what I need.

Seriously, what is AW's problem with blenders? Your basic toaster? Surely she doesn't think we should toss our Kitchenaid mixers. And I wouldn't trade my hand blender for all the organic hand-picked arugula in Berkeley.

Not that I have anything against toaster ovens, I'm just peeved that I'm supposed to feel bad about owning appliances. But living as close as I do to Berkeley, I feel peeved a lot.

We don't filter our water, but go visit some 'bad water' parts of the USA to understand why some people hate tap water. So far, imo, the Orange Cty/Anaheim area wins for the most undrinkable tap water ever. But we've had some gross water in parts of the Midwest and South, too. If I lived in those places, I'd be filtering or paying for water delivery, too.

Count me as a vote for the coal, if I was going to filter water...I think it's pretty neat.