Ugh, this seems to complicated for me :( Well, i'm a quick learner! Good thing all my container plants are in 4in pots or smaller xD. Well, except for a large rosemary (too large) that i cannot bring my self to prune, or get rid of...i did just repot it a week ago. Al if you aren't going to make a video...can you write a book? You just have so much information to share, and this tiny website can never seem to hold it all. You could put it up for how ever much money (or free, even) on amazon.com without having to worry about getting it published or anything (which it should be) Sir Andrew of the Lemon, Recalcitrant Teenager, Newb Extraordinaire, Slayer of Gnats, Pruner of Trees, Broke as All-Get-Out, and Stabbed by Thorns

I was extremely careful. All clothes were washed and sealed in plastic ziplock xxlarge storage bags. All wool (and I collect cashmere vintage and new) was always kept in special clear plastic drawers from the container store, but to be safe I washed all and sealed in 2 gallon ziplocks for months after. All linens etc.. were washed on super hot water, placed in xlarge ziplocks and only taken out as I used them. My mattress and boxspring were placed in dust mite proof bags upon arrival to the new place. The movers helped me do that. I only took one upholstered chair and that was throughly vacuumed and steamed before being placed in a large black bag and sealed with tape and not opened for a month then re vacuumed. My table was vacuumed carefully. I replace all other furniture. In the end I had placed a cashmere scarf, gloves and hat in one of the plastic drawers without cleaning it first and that was the only place I ever found any damage. I threw out those items as they were damaged way beyond saving and cleaned that one drawer and never had a problem again. I have moved again since then and have never had a problem. I do want to say that I owned very little at that time and was able to move in one trip in a large van. I am not an owner of decor items, though I now have several art pieces. I believe that stuff gives the little buggers places to hide. Also another thing about those little holes in cotton t-shirts, I rarely if ever found them in my shirts 6 years ago, it is only now that I find them. My holes are without a doubt, not carpet beetles. Material quality in the past several years has taken a real nose dive. I currently place all my newer shirts in mesh bags when washing them and that is making a difference. Anything I have bought from the Gap is almost guaranteed to have holes after the first wash, so now I don't buy from the Gap. Good luck with getting rid of those nasty carpet beetles.

yes- you are right! Back to your OP--I say an open, standing invitation to kids to visit and a sorry but dad's travelling days are over.

I hadn't seen the DWR kitchens. Remodelista and Apartment therapy have the same press release. The cabinets shown look heavy to me, probably because of the edges that stick out. The Viola Park and Henrybuilt above are much cleaner looking. Both of those photos look really dated to me, in a way that other Modern cabinets, especially the Euro ones, don't. Perhaps it's just a matter of what I've seen. The above look like kitchens that I've seen in houses they were original and new styles in. ... Come to think of it, though, for all that Modern is enduring, Poggenpohl and Pedini are showing different looks within that now than the ones I was seeing fifteen years ago. Maybe Henrybuilt just needs to update their advert photos? I absolutely agree that their forms could work in just about any house if detailed right. Modern endures unless it's '80's red or blue lacquer. :) In a neutral material/color, inc. the Henrybuilt woods and the Viola white, it is very little black dress. I think the most "insistent" thing about the Henrybuilt, however, is the hardware. That absolutely plugs it as Modern, whereas the flat slabs of the Viola could be any flat slab Euro, across many decades. It's all pull doors, but otherwise doesn't look much different from my own bamboo, which is much quainter looking. Of course, the other thing that makes the Viola Park is the lack of clutter with the flush cooktop, hidden hood, and, presumably, integrated everything else. I've always agreed, in general, about the age of house/period of kitchen thing, though sometimes the locale and/or style of the house have more to say about it. Even when I was thinking white kitchen, it was never going to be Peacock Scullery-ish, and certainly not inset with cup pulls. That would look really off in my 25 year old house. So would a lot of Art Nouveau. The house is rectilinear, and too new. OTOH, the little A.N. details, work, and help make my kitchen look grown in place rather than slapped on top. I think it's a case of what a colleague called "instant ancestors". That was about using clipart photos in a collage. The portraits give a sense, in the collage, of a community, with history. It doesn't matter that they're not the actual people from an actual community. They convey the message just by their presence. Using some details from days gone by in a kitchen (whether salvage or repro), like using old family pieces and/or antiques in another room, will give some temporal depth to the room and make the date much less obvious.