joey c's Profile

Primer plus 3 to 4 coats...c'mon.

I would not use the sticky tiles that someone else suggested - over the stove. I believe the heat will melt the adhesive, very slowly and unexpectedly you'll have a vinyl tile fall on your stove when you're not looking... and could be dangerous.

I like the plexi or glass with wallpaper or something behind it.

I've been making this for awhile, just like this (but not with so much vanilla). I make this with soymilk. Blending doesnt make it as frothy as I like, sometimes I'll take half of it and put it in a french press and pump it a few times (this is the BEST way to froth milk).

Pro-tip: If you're cracking open a can of pumpkin to make this - alot can go to waste. I take all the leftover pumpkin and put it in an icecube tray and freeze it. It lasts for months. 1 tablespoon fits nicely and so now its dosed perfectly. You can take a cube still frozen and throw it into your milk on the stovetop and it will melt pretty quickly.

I like this. I just installed hardwood floors in my tiny kitchen. I have white cabinets and I've been thinking about what to do with the counters. I've been putting a lot of consideration into white on white (there is a nice white quartz with flecks of shiny quartz in it)- but the grey stone backsplash doesnt do anything for me. Hmmm.

That big kitchen and they have that garbage pail out there like that..! I just bought an in cabinet garbage pail and I LOVE it, But my kitchen is tiny so I needed to hide it

If you dont like it, and its nothing charming or useful or original to the house, why not just close it up. 15 minute job to sheetrock it. I have one of these in the house I moved into, I found it useless so I put a chalkboard over it... also useless, but I like the look of it better than the shelf. I dont like everyone's suggestion to install a mirror in it - that sounds tacky and '80s' to me. If you want to roll with it... paint the inside a different color - either contrast or tonal to your wall color, maybe just hang a framed photo in there and some small (if you can even fit anything) vases with some long reeds or grasses or that sort of thing

Ikea sells those snap together wooden deck tiles, You might not need TOO many, you can probably get away with just covering the offending area. Not sure how you'd level it to get them to sit flat - perhaps some fine gravel.

Another idea, depending on how handy you are and your access to tools, you can probably make a pretty simple landing, that is a few feet wide and shimmed up precisely.

If you are dead broke and unhandy, and you just want to reduce the trip hazard and the drop-off .... maybe something like a pallet (a European pallet preferrably - they have tighter boards) - or a modified american pallet with some extra boards nailed into it to make it more solid. It sounds ghetto - but I can picture painting it the same tone as the floor, and then tack on a decorative doormat onto it. Lay something underneath, like some rubber grip mats so it stays in place.

Lastly, in all honesty... it looks weird but really is that what is stopping you from using the space? Stick a cafe table or a picnic table out there, maybe an outdoor rug... and once you have some stuff in there I think it stops looking so weird and you'll realize its probably not as big of a problem as you think

Not sure why you try to cut the pit out of the mango. Usually I eat it by shaving off slices until you get to the hard part, holding it how you'd hold a potato you were peeling. Pretty safe and controlled. I wouldnt try to cut it up like an apple and try to core it.

They did a good job - but honestly it just looks like a home depot standard .... nothing too creative .. not hating, its definitely a big improvement.

I'm surprised to see a half a dozen comments from some 'older' people (sorry - I dont mean that in a bad way) saying "I'm glad I dont have to worry about this anymore". This reminds me of people who say "I've been married for ten years, we don't do anything for Valentines day anymore". Or who choose to wear sweatpants everyday.

I'm young (a sprite 31 years old), but I recognize that these things are MORE important as time goes on. When you're early in a relationship - romance, hugs, kisses, handholding, surprise gifts, and dare I say.... sex... is usually more frequent. So when you get later into the relationship - its just the way things go ... and they become less frequent. But they are never less important. If you are far along in your relationship and you aren't tending to a little intentional romance - you're leaving yourself and you're partner unfulfilled in SOME way. Perhaps he or she might never say it, maybe they wont ever even realize it (maybe you dont realize it), because we're all creatures of habit and tend to get complacent with things. But its still important to keep that fire-a-burning. :)

I'm not a relationship counselor or anything - maybe a more romantic and sentimental guy. But I hope I never get to the point where I feel its unimportant to be putting effort into being romantic, and into doing something simple like making sure your bedroom is a romantic sanctuary.

After reading this post - I cleaned up my bedroom, put up new curtains and am planning a whole bunch other stuff. Great post.

I just bought my first house recently its an old house from 1931, its painted a pale green. I thought I wanted to change it and choose a new color. But when I was talking to neighbors at a garage sale a woman who lived in the neighborhood since she was a child (in the 1950s) said 'the house has always been green' ... so I'm keeping it how it is. I plan to update the trim, but I want to maintain the history of the house. Maybe this doesnt help - but its just my personal house painting story.