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Dilute vinegar(even 50/50 vinegar/water) should not take the finish off a wood floor, assuming it is a recent polyurethane type finish. I foster cats for a rescue, and have had the occasional sprayer in a newly neutered former tomcat. I have found that I may have to treat and retreat a pee location ...

*SPAM BEGONE ! * Please, please, please heed the advice that many people have given you. When an original detail like a window or other architectural feature is gone, it compromises the integrity and value of the property immensely. Replacement windows will cost a fortune, and they will not be of th...

I think a really common error that people make with old things, including houses, is the desire to refinish everything so that it looks like it is brand new. Yes, clean the wood trim, gently. No, don't strip it down to the raw wood to fix all the minute imperfections. It is almost impossible to refi...

Beautiful 1952 matching aqua fridge and stove in Toronto for...$ 200.00 ! Total steal -- not my colors or era, though.

http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/atq/3433102039.html

That is patina. Please leave it alone.

I think the theory about the comfort height toilets being less good for elimination (while perhaps more good for sitting height) is that squatting has been the most common human elimination posture. A company called Squatty Potty that manufactures a type of bathroom footstool has a video that explai...

I really loved ( and still love) her book on linoleum. Hope her passage was smooth, swift and peaceful.

Don't buy a Kohler is my advice. Nice styling, seductive advertising -- but the workings are proprietary, so when it stops working properly, you will have to purchase specific Kohler parts which are many times more expensive than the generic plumbing parts from the hardware store. There has also bee...

Even the name Swamplawn was perfect. I had a big crush on that house, too...

This blog is art oriented, but the author of the blog just made a nice post about loving the old glass in her apartment's windows. If only more people could see and understand this perspective instead of cramming some vinyl windows in:

http://parenthetically.blogspot.ca/2012 ... light.html