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6 Fabulous Home Designs Inspired by Your Favorite Games

Posted by Amy Keyishian
on Mar 17, 2012 at 8:58 PM

scrabble throw pillowsBefore I had kids, I loved using kitschy childhood favorites to decorate my home-space – Muppets, Hello Kitty, Raggedy Ann. It was good fun at the time, but since my extended adolescence finally ended with a “Push!” and then a “Waah!” three-odd years ago, it’s become a lot less appealing.
 
For one thing, SpongeBob appears on every available surface even if I don’t want him to. Hey, I love the little absorbent, yellow, porous fella as much as anyone, but enough is enough – I do like having décor that isn’t fuzzy, neon, or enhanced with googly eyes.
 
And yet: There’s something cheering about a home inspired by play. Emphasis on “inspired,” as in “I did more than just stick a Monopoly throw on the couch.” Here are some neat ideas that remind us, with a wink, that work is for work – and home is for fun.

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Home & Garden Twisted

Khloe Kardashian's New Bathroom Won't Gross Out Her Guests

Posted by Mary Fischer
on Feb 7, 2012 at 1:28 PM

Urinals in public restrooms are beyond disgusting. Not that I make a habit of venturing into men's rooms or anything like that, but they still have a major yuck factor even though I don't use them. I mean -- dudes pee in there. Gag me.

But apparently Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom don't agree with me. They're gearing up for their new reality show by remodeling their home in California, including a bathroom redo complete with a mouth-shaped urinal. Yes, I said mouth-shaped urinal. As in a big set of open lips for their male guests to have the pleasure of relieving themselves in.

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Home & Garden

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Posted on Feb 1, 2012 at 6:24 AM

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8 Alternate Uses for a Toilet That Only a Mother Can Appreciate

Posted by Jill Smokler
on Jan 19, 2012 at 8:22 PM

toilet

Remember the days when the toilet was used for one thing? Well, two things, I suppose, but, one theme. The other day, as I was conducting a conference call while hiding out in the bathroom, it hit me how multi-functional that room has become.

Does this look familiar to anyone else?

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Home & Garden

6 Easy Ways to Flu-Proof Your Home

Posted by Amy Kuras
on Dec 21, 2011 at 6:30 AM
Cold & Flu Guide

During cold and flu season, most of us know to swipe the kitchen counter with an antibacterial wipe and clean our faucet handles frequently. But germs lurk in some surprising places, and despite those precautions, you still might be missing a major source of viruses and bacteria that could make you sick.

If you want to reduce the chances of your family catching a cold and/or the flu this year, follow these six easy steps to germ-proof your house:

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Home & Garden

Man Who Destroyed Hotel Room Over Toilet Paper Might Just Be a Dad

Posted by Amy Keyishian
on Nov 21, 2011 at 11:00 AM

toilet paper storageA man staying in a low-cost motel in Charlotte, North Carolina, found that his room was out of toilet paper. His rage-filled reaction -- causing $2,000 in damages to both his and a nearby room -- is being characterized as crazy by most news sites reporting it.

Never mind that the guy is living in a no-tell motel reserved for the homeless and those living on the fringes, like the place where the guys kept house on My Name Is Earl. I seriously doubt if the whole place is worth $2,000. But even if it were a Holiday Inn, I can think of a lot of situations in which this is a perfectly normal response.

What could lead a man to such a desperate reaction to a lack of tee pee?

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Home & Garden

Bring Fresh Fall Scents Inside With These Fresh Ideas

Posted by Amy Kuras
on Sep 16, 2011 at 6:00 AM
Fall Trend Watch

While fall has many wonderful aspects -- warm, sunny days coupled with cozy, cool nights; dappled sunlight; crisp, changing leaves; apple orchards; football; hay rides ... I could go on and on -- there is one downside. No matter how much you like cooler weather, at some point, you just have to close the windows and lose the powerful air-freshening aspect of, well, fresh air. And given that we tend to enjoy spending more time indoors in the fall, pet odors, kid messes, sports equipment, and generally stale air become really obvious really quickly.

If a good cleaning doesn't improve matters as much as you'd like, it's time to take out the home fragrances to make the air inside your house smell as good as the air outside.

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Home & Garden

Wedding Designer Vera Wang Says 'I Do' to Home Décor

Posted by Amy Keyishian
on Sep 14, 2011 at 4:02 PM

Simply Vera Wang PlatinumDo you love your home? Do you love it enough to marry it? Well, if you do (or even if you don’t -- yet), you’ll soon be able to drape your domicile in bedding and bath products from the legendary wedding dress and skate costume designer Vera Wang.
 
But here’s the thing: Though I appreciate the elegance of her wedding ensembles, I find Vera Wang's home décor collection, which I checked out last weekend at Kohl’s, to be a bit too subdued. In fact, I don’t want to marry my home, wedding-style; I want to be married to it every day, which means it has to hold my interest, and consistently be new and exciting. With few exceptions, Simply Vera Wang is too … simple.
 
So here are five designers I would prefer to have gussying up my habitat:

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Home & Garden

10 Tips for Saving Water (Irene or No Irene!)

Posted by Amy Keyishian
on Aug 28, 2011 at 12:00 PM

Low-flush toilet saves waterThe East Coast may be in the middle of the floodpocalypse, but the South is still suffering through some of the worst drought conditions on record.

Even when there’s no shortage, saving water is just good policy. As a child, I used to watch my dad shave. Rather than running the water over his razor to rinse it, he would fill the sink with water and swish the razor through at top speed. He said that serving in the Navy taught him how precious water is. 

“Why don’tcha save some for the fish,” he’d mutter, if I was letting the tap run too long.

We could all stand to preserve a few drops this summer. Here are some tips for saving water at home. Some are strange, some are easy, and some will save you buckets of cash on your water bill, for reals.

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Home & Garden

Don't Mock Gwyneth Paltrow for Needing a Bathtub in Her Bedroom

Posted by Amy Keyishian
on Aug 17, 2011 at 3:47 PM

Bath in the KitchenOn the one hand, Gwyneth Paltrows recent list of things she "can’t live without" in Elle Decor sort of stretches the limits on the idea of "can’t." A retro handset for her BlackBerry shouldn’t really occupy the same mental space as, like, her pancreas.
 
On the other hand, one of the things she lists is a bathtub in her bedroom, and she’s been catching a certain amount of flak for that. But Gwyneth is a New Yorker, and every true New Yorker has been in an updated tenement with a bathtub in the kitchen. I’d even go so far as to say you shouldn’t call yourself a New Yorker if you haven’t eaten dinner off a plywood bathtub cover.
 
Of course, I say that from San Francisco, but my point still stands.

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