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Question about the showerheads featured a few days ago (the rain type ones). Does your head have to be under the water the whole time, or can they be slightly angled to wash your body and not your hair (is there enough pressure to do this?)
tia!

I'm sorry I'm going to have to miss the drinks tonight, but I simply MUST make progress on my newest wall treatment project, no kiddin'. It's already on its way to looking wonderful, but it's just not going to paint itself.

Curtis,
Do tell what you're working on!

Pixie -

In order to reconcile a Japanese screen, some Prussian blue Formica bedside tables, some traditional furniture with woven cane headboard, a pink Formica radiator cover, some pink tiles surrounding a jacuzzi and the client's love for Art Deco, I think I've come up with a wall treatment, based on a horizontally stretched version of an Oriental fretwork pattern which will from dark at the bottom of the wall to light at the top of the wall in 2-inch alternations of pinky-brown and bluish green on a grey background, which I believe will create the illusion toward the bottom that one is an a generously proportioned Oriental wedding bed, but which, at the top of the wall will feel as if that pattern has been the clear part of an otherwise frosted glass window, through which one views a sunrise or sunset, depending on when you're awake.

I think it will be a strange flavor of epic glamour.

You have to kind of picture what a Japanese businessman might have in his Miami Beach home. Except that it's not.

On the topic of bathrooms...I rent and have an ugly seashell shaped plastic-type bathroom sink that's cracked and just plain hideous. Since I rent I don't want to invest in a new sink. I have been on the lookout for a free or cheap giveaway on craigslist. But I was wondering if it's possible to prime, paint and finish a sink. I remember a similar question asked about tiles. A sink gets a lot of wear, so it's probably not
possible to maintain - anyone? Here's a pic, but it doesn't show the damage near the drain.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kittykittymeowmixhead/438851891/

Curtis - wow! Hard for me to envision, but I'm sure it'll blow us all away as usual.

Does anyone have any experience with hanging paper art in small (often steam filled) bathrooms? I'm intending to do so with a poster and I'm thinking that if it is dry mounted it probably won't ripple or get moldy. Am I right?

All hail Curtis.

There are days when it's not that I want to know Curtis, so much as that I want to be Curtis.

My husband and I are both designers - I cover the digital/3d/interior side of things, and he covers all things graphic. For years, he's been talking about how he very badly wants some large letters to spell out "kitchen" to put in our favorite room of the house... but, alas, we have searched forever and can't find anything that suits our fancy.

We'd like the letters to be all different typefaces, so we've tried antique shops and flea markets in the hopes of finding something really special, but we keep failing. Anyone have any tips?

I don't know if this is the right forum for this question, but I was wondering if anyone records episodes of the HGTV show "Small Space, Big Style". I only learned about it this year and I'm hooked on it, but it really sucks waiting all week until Thursday to see it, and for just 30 minutes. (Thank goodness for the availability of Apartment Therapy the website). If anyone has an interest in this show and happens to record it, please let me know. Thanks!:)

April

Dear Michael:

I've had a profesionally framed and dry-mounted poster in my windowless bathroom for about ten years, and it still looks perfect.

Good luck with your artwork!

jen, why not do it yourself? have letters of fonts you like (free fonts on dafont.com) blown up and printed out. then use them as stencils to paint, or templates to cut out either salvaged wood, thin ply, cardboard, etc. then paint, stain, dye, distress, go at it.

Thanks scaligera. I'll go for it.