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Etsy Find: Gift Tissue Box
There are few things uglier and more space-hogging in a bathroom than a toilet paper stand. Worse are the racks that clip onto your toilet. But if your home isn't equipped with a built-in TP holder, whaddaya do?
Casa Quickie: TP For Your Tech
I just spied this inventive idea on Real Simple and couldn't help but pass it along, considering that my gadget cords all look like a messy ball of yarn. If you're anything like me, and you've got cords for your camera, iPod, computer, BlackBerry, blow-dryer, speakers, television, DVD player, etc. clogging up your outlets, God bless you.
Would You Use Black Toilet Paper?
The concept of "designer toilet paper" is a kind of akin to a Swarovski-encrusted nose hair trimmer; you just can't make nasal weed-wacking look glamorous. So, I would never venture to kid myself by buying Black Toilet Paper ($12). But, I do think if you were going to go all out hosting a Halloween party, it might then be acceptable.
Casa Quickie: Limit Your TP
An electric toilet paper dispenser by Kimberly-Clark Corp. automatically doles out only five sheets (squares) of toilet paper to those who use it away from their homes (in airports, schools, offices, etc.). According to one article, they believe "most people will be satisfied with just five sheets — and use 20 percent less toilet paper in the process."
Casa Quickie: Give New Life to an Empty Vase
Your man is in the dog house again for whatever reason, and brings you some beautiful flowers in a standard glass vase. They adorn your kitchen counter for a week, and once they wither, the vase collects dust in your cabinet with all the others — a reminder of all the times you've received "apology" flowers. Learn how to renew those dust-collecting vases when you read more
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How-To: Keep Your Household Safe and Sane on the Fourth
While the Fourth of July can offer a lot of fun with friends and family, there are also some obvious hazards, from barbecue burns to out-of-control sparklers. There are many ways to keep your house, and your loved ones, safe on the Fourth, with a little common sense and prep work. Here are my suggestions:
- Keep a fire extinguisher close by.
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- AT:SF shares a creative shade solution.
- YumSugar's found a marble floor made of salami.
- Craft shares an adorable solution to fixing a cane chair seat.
- Decor8 rounds up her flea market finds.
- Shelterrific's feeling the lack shelf love.
- Shak in Style wants your opinion of this chair.
- Treehugger discovers a depressing truth about Kimberley-Clark tissue and toilet paper.
- Re-Nest wows me with these green-certified copper panels.
- Dwell makes some surprising garden discoveries at Maison et Objet.
Su Casa: A Spruced Up Bathroom
Su Casa member Tweet Hotpants recently posted some great pictures of her bathroom renovation. She writes, "These are some before and after shots of our downstairs bathroom. When we first moved in, it was painted a boring white, so we decided to spruce it up a little and paint it brown .
Open House: Your Partner's Most Challenging Home Decorating Ideas?
Moving in with someone is always challenging, whether it's a new roomie, a romantic partner, or a new husband.
The home decorating ideas and habits of two different people are often sources of friction between newlyweds. I know that when I moved in with my fiancé, we had countless arguments over furniture arrangements, new linens for the bed, where to store the toilet paper .
Home Away From Home: Be an Eco Chic Guest
Even if you're not sleeping in your own bed and eating out of your own fridge, you can still be an eco chic guest when you're home away from home — and that doesn't necessarily translate to skipping showers or toilet paper. I've outlined a few ways that you can be environmentally friendly when you're on vacation or a business trip:
- Stay in a green hotel. Environmentally friendly hotels initiate programs that save water and energy and reduce waste, while saving money, and engage in many of the same activities you do in your casa verde.
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