I know what you mean, most of my internet search experiences end in frustration... I put in a search for kitchen wallpaper and end up with sites for Desktop wallpaper... A search for the medicinal uses of Aloe turned up thousands of sites that sell aloe plants... A search for info on black walnuts ended in a list of black adult sites... Lately I find that I usually have better results if I use the one on Internet Explorer... It's http://search.msn.com/ ( but if you type that in you'll get http://www.live.com/ ) A lot of it depends on how you word your search... Although I haven't figured out the correct way to ask for anything yet... lol About the only tip I can offer is to put your search in quotes, that weeds out a lot of useless sites... And never pay attention to the right side of the screen... LOL Rita

Thanks jojoco. I found another national site that I think I really like - Trulia. Not only can you search for active listings (and by lot size!), you can also find sold homes in that same area. It gives you all kinds of stats about the local market and such. I wonder, though, how accurate and up to date that info is. It says no homes have sold in my area in the last 60 days; however, I know of a couple of homes that have sold recently or are at least pending. Another site I found is homes dot com. It seems to be good and like realtor dot com sometimes gives addresses when local sites won't disclose the address - which I really appreciate. Has anyone used Trulia? What are your thoughts? Here is a link that might be useful: Trulia

k9, I know, I can do 18" deep..."ideally" it would have been 15" or less but I measured and the 18" is okay. Anyway, I did order the Pier 1 cabinet yesterday and I think it should work out well. I am hoping my new window shade arrives soon so I can finish up this mini facelift during our downtime between Christmas and New Years. DH is taking exactly one vacation day after Christmas and I want him to hang up new towel hooks, new roller shade, and new curtain rod! Yes, the whole thing should take him maybe an hour, but he will carry on as though I asked him to re-roof the house in a day.

I think if you search for "set decorator movie Blended", you can get the set decorator/designer name. Then maybe search on that person's name.