Thanks for the heads-up.....found a couple of good ones there.

Yes, this is true. I checked the Barnes & Noble website and found the coupon. Unfortunately, I would have to drive 23 minutes to the next town for this. Therefore it would cost more (total of 46 miles worth of gas) than the free cappuccino although Starbucks is not one of my favorite coffee. Here is a link that might be useful: Coupon at www.barnesandnoble.com

Hi everyone, This is Jim from Your Home Supply. ( got the full disclosure out of the way :-) I have to apologize to everyone. You are correct, there is not a place to enter the coupon code on our website. We are about to launch our brand new website in about a week and when I responded to Beekeeperswife with the code, I created it in the new site. ( having 2 sites is driving me a little crazy these days) Sorry BeeKeepersWife!!! So, if you can wait until we launch the new site, you can use the coupon code then. If you want to order before then, you can give us a call 1-800-471-0581 and speak to Amanda. She can give you the discount over the phone. The code will be good until July 31st. I don't usually comment on posts that are about us out of respect for the forums, but thought I should in this instance. Thanks everyone! Jim

How do you plan to use your basement? If you are storing cleaning supplies, pantry overflow, extra school supplies/curriculum materials, holiday items, costumes, you know, the stuff you want NOW and what if it's raining? It does open it up but totally changes how you use it. The basement will house the mechanicals, some seasonal storage, and dh's wood shop. Our big freezers will be down there too. We're planning to put a wood furnace in the basement, which will require loading about 2x per day during the heating season. We will still have a few animals at this place, which will require us to be outside a couple times per day, regardless the weather. I don't want the stoves too close to the corner, nor do I want the aisles to be narrow, both b/c of the amt. of bodies that can be in our place at any one time. I think 45-48" would be my personal minimum aisle width, especially when there are things like dishwashers and ovens and fridges opening into the aisles. I'm revisiting an idea I had earlier of adding on a small mudroom space along a portion of the north wall that would envelop the basement door. The roof of this room would be below the stained glass window. (I do not want to lose that!) This would get our family stuff out of the main living space...and then maybe I could use some of the entry closet for even more pantry space. Heeeehheee. ; ) I will have to wait til DH gets home to double check our stairwell-landing-basement door measurements to see if there is any way to work that door back into the kitchen if we don't do the add-on. There are three bedrooms upstairs, and there are stairs to the attic. We plan to turn the entire attic into the girls' domain, including a bathroom, since we have 6 girls and only one boy. That gives us a room for ds, and then we can use the "extra" bedroom for more flex space- sewing, library, office, nursery... we have all kinds of ideas of how to use that extra room, LOL. The 4th bedroom was turned into a laundry/full bath, but we've figured out how to work that space a little bit harder to make it into a master bath in one part, and the laundry-1/2 bath in the other part. This place is full of potential. Your comments and drawings are helping me to think this through, thank you. : ) This post was edited by laughable on Mon, Nov 18, 13 at 8:38