When we bought our house in the wintry beginnings of 2006, the very first thing we did (well, after paying someone to take away all the junk that was behind by the…
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I decided to stain the fruit crates black. At first I thought I’d want to leave the wood bare or oil it, but after giving them a good cleaning and sanding, it…
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The vegan pecan pie I made for Thanksgiving was completely delicious. The recipe is definitely a keeper. Remember that overly-ambitious to-do list I drew up a couple of weeks ago? Yeah, well,…
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Our little Manhattan apartment is way, way uptown—further up than even the Upper West Side and Harlem—in a neighborhood that, depending on who you talk to, might technically be part of Hudson…
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I’m a big fan of the coffee station (even though I hate words like “station” in relation to areas of the home—e.g. “gift wrapping station”). Everything all in one place: coffee maker,…
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This is an overly-ambitious list of things I’d like to accomplish this weekend. I realize the wallpapering is probably not going to happen, but hey, I can hope. SATURDAY: • Stain the…
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Okay, first of all, I have to apologize to the French—and all other living humans—for unleashing the horrible, hybrid pseudo-word “fauxdenza” on the world. I actually Googled it before starting this post…
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I just put this little shelf up in the kitchen in our city apartment, and it’s made such a huge difference in how I store things. So much cabinet space has been…
