Q: I'll be closing on a beautiful, vintage condo in about a month. I know that I want to paint the whole place - mainly whites - but I'm not sure when to do it. Between the time that I close and my rental lease ends, I'll have a about a week and a half…

Q: I am moving into my very first apartment in August, and I have some questions for decorating, furniture placement etc. I want to make my new apartment feel cozy and adult. I do not want my new home - although temporary, because I can still go to my parent's on the weekends to do laundry for free (yay!) - to feel like a dorm, or a college student's place.

Q: My husband and I recently bought a corner terrace lot and we are loving the extra yard space around the house. The house is blessed with many windows and two huge sliding doors (front and side). Unfortunately, the height of the sliding doors and windows are not the same.

Q: We were just transferred overseas and moved into a furnished rental apartment. We need a new vision to work with, since the furniture is all dark and heavy and too big for the space. We bought a cheap cow rug and a bargain small coffee table, added some pillows from home, and found a cute wooden deer head to give it a fun twist, but the already existing brown leather coach and cream walls and curtains are still too formal for us.

Q: I currently live in a rental with no soundproofing at all (no exaggeration). I didn't realize how bad it was until after I moved in. While I've lived in other apartments with varying levels of soundproofing, this apartment is far worse than anything I thought possible.

Over the last few weeks, I shared with you my dream kitchen and my husband's, noting how different our tastes are. Several of you, however, were convinced we could come to a happy compromise, so we set out to try (in our dreams, of course). Here is our mashup:

Q: What are the best plants for this area at the front door of my house? We want something that won't ruin the facade from moisture (we just removed a flower bed which did just that).

A recent transplant from a 400-square-foot apartment in Brooklyn to a single family home in the midwest, I'm on a hunt for something I haven't given much thought in my adult life: garden hose storage. And it ain't pretty:

Q: I am looking for chairs similar to Michelle's from her Small Cool entry. She stated that she got them from Pier 1 a couple years ago, but of course they don't have anything similar. Anyone seen something similar?

Q: Advice please! Our old apartment was dark and full of rich color. Now we're in a sunny place and I'm flummoxed about fabrics. We need to re-upholster the settle and window seat, and recover the throw pillows.