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Martha Stewart magazine years ago had great instructions for building wide shallow boxes from wood (or particle board) and putting wheels on the bottom of them so you could easily slide them under any bed you wanted. Build four yourself, say, two feet square each, and you'd have your under bed storage with whatever stylish bed, new or antique, you like!

You can try going directly to major corporate landlords, such as Equity Residential, Archstone-Smith, AvalonBay and Glenwood. These places all have hundreds of apartments in their own buildings and act as their own brokers, so no fee! The first three all have Web sites. Glenwood you may have to look up a number for. None of them are for cheap rent, however. All three I listed tend to have places that are truly for middle to upper-middle class professionals.

Mr Green - Guess what? Own the book. Read it three times. Was a regular poster on this site before you ever heard of it. I've stopped visiting very often because of how far it wanders off topic. My vote to keep it on topic is as valid as any.

I LOVE it! All the colors are great, but the kitchen is really soooo wonderful. You should see this pink hounds' tooth I'm thinking of covering a chair in. Really nice. I love that it's so much more comfortable looking than some of the too-polished places. That coming from someone who strove for polish for too long and am turning more toward homey. I hope you do GREAT in the contest!

I may feel compelled to write this in more than one place. Be forewarned about taking architecture advice from a bunch of architects. (See the AIA thread below.) I renovated my small kitchen in Manhattan about three years ago. Set out telling my architect that I had a $20,000 budget and was VERY serious about the figure. $7,000 later I had plans that weren't quite finished and no work done on the kitchen at all. I fired him and finished the design job myself (redesigning a hanging cabinet he conceived from his $15,000 version to a $2,500 version that looks exactly the same. The cost of the project doubled in the end and I realized later that my contractor could have done exactly what the architect did. We're only talking an 8 X 10 foot space. My bad, for being woefully inexperienced.

I may feel compelled to write this in more than one place. Be forewarned about taking architecture advice from a bunch of architects. I renovated my small kitchen in Manhattan about three years ago. Set out telling my architect that I had a $20,000 budget and was VERY serious about the figure. $7,000 later I had plans that weren't quite finished and no work done on the kitchen at all. I fired him and finished the design job myself (redesigning a hanging cabinet he conceived from his $15,000 version to a $2,500 version that looks exactly the same. The cost of the project doubled in the end and I realized later that my contractor could have done exactly what the architect did. We're only talking an 8 X 10 foot space. My bad, for being woefully inexperienced.