That's a BS response. Americans don't knowingly put melamine in products for babies in order to boost the protein content.

Thanks for checking in on our progress, patty_cakes! Unfortunately, with all of the rain we've received over the past month or so, progress came to a standstill and we are still waiting for our foundation to be poured! Construction crews all over this area are so far behind on jobs, and I'm trying to have patience. At least we presently have a house in which to live. I know that there are many who work construction here who depend on having those regular paychecks and when they stop rolling in, they really suffer. My heart goes out to them, and I'm trying to keep this all in perspective! As it now stands, our projected completion date is mid-October at the earliest. We have made all of our selections for the house, and I think I've got photos of most everything we've selected here in my "idea book." (Can you view it?) My vision was to keep things as classic and timeless as possible. We've chosen hardwood flooring throughout, with the exception of the bathrooms and the laundry which will be tiled. My kitchen will have white cabinets (with a couple of lighted Flemish-glass fronted cabinets to display my blue and white Cornishware), black granite countertops, and a glossy white subway tile backsplash. We've added crown molding throughout the house. Will have a stacked-stone fireplace in the living room (which is open to the kitchen - a concept that will be quite different than we are used to!). The bathrooms will be simply styled with white subway tile in the showers, white integrated counters/sinks, and we'll have brushed nickel hardware throughout the house. The walls will be painted a very neutral off-white -- certainly different from the Crayola box that our current house used to be! I'm yearning for simple, classic, clean. And new. Never, EVER thought I'd be saying that, but well ... here I am. :-) We'll be buying new furniture once we're in. I'm leaning towards a sectional in the main living space, and we'll need new bedroom furniture for the master and the upstairs bedroom. The little "game room" upstairs will be a space for TV watching and reading, and I'd like to furnish it sparsely but comfortably. I plan to use my paintings as pops of color, and it will be fun to figure out where to hang things once we move. I'll have to sell a few pieces, but I think I can use most of my favorites. We have already committed to plantation shutters in all of the rooms requiring window coverings, and I'm really happy with that decision. I've loved that look for ages, and am also just tired of dealing with curtains. Right now it still feels a little like a dream that's a long way off ... But I know we'll get there eventually!

I saw that and, it all being green, made me think of "Mr. Wonderfull" on Shark Tank: all he cares about is the $$$. (Houzz?) (I love ST.)

I am a programmer..... not for Houzz... but some of the issues that programmers have to deal with is different operating systems and environments.... for example the real estate to view the screen on computer screens can be 10 inches to 60 inches (though only few people have 60)..... but office management normally give their programmers large monitors to work on the programmer (newbies.... and sometimes oldies) forget to test on different monitors.... what appears really well on a 60 inch monitor or a 32 certainly isn't going to work well on a 15 inch..... Then you have tiny cell phone screens... they behave in a WHOLE different way... the cell phone is use to expanding the data on the screen.... that doesn't transcend well to fixed size monitors... There really needs to be two different portals for the interface to work... and different approaches, but many who look at a site from both cell and computer want them to work the same... then when it seems to be going well someone like MS updates their operating system..... and of course things break.... then of course you have people putting in their ideas... like someone thought it might be nice to have the latest post at the top... but if you go into the same thread to see new post.... you still have to scroll down the thread to find the last post you read.... come back to the top of that said post and read down threw that post to the end.... scroll back to the top of the next post and read down and then back up... makes it cumbersome .... the premise was great.... but the execution not so great.... I am just glad that someone is working on fixes..... because it is important to me to read others comments... I now have ROSE friend even though I have never met most... I still feel connected