What is confusing about it? I prefer sleeping alone but I don’t find it confusing if other people prefer sleeping with a partner. Different people like different things.

“Estelle’s got the Jimmy Arms.”

My girlfriends thought I was crazy, but this is why I never, ever cooked for men I dated. I didn’t want to start those expectations. I never did vacuumed or did laundry or whatever at a house I didn’t live in for clothes that weren't mine. I always made sure to keep domestic duties separate.

YES - as someone who went from a tiny apartment to a home home its been amazing creating something I LOVE, NOT HGTV worthy either...

The only advantage to the cloistered kitchen is the greater ability to hide one’s messes from guests.

You’re right, but I do love these columns. It is partially about responding to wealthy consumer trends, but I think it’s more about homeowners wanting the crazy shit they see on HGTV rather than what actually works in a home.

I’d argue less for the island as status symbol but more of a practical move for women (or any household head) to multitask and be included in family life. As a mother living in a fairly untouched 100 year old craftsman in Oakland I can tell you our kitchen was built as a lonely, isolated room. Women were originally…

From what I’ve seen of socialite-y-WASP weddings so far around here, including a couple of brides I’m no longer hanging out with, their “coronavirus precautions” literally amount to, “we put a sentence up about it on our website that if you didn’t want to come you didn’t have to,” and “we put a mask on Nana, maybe.” 

I mean this completely seriously, but how did you manage to stay with him after he voted for Trump? I can barely stand to be in the same room with a Trump supporter. I can’t imagine living with one or being intimate with one. 

This is an insane, cruel, moronic comment (i.e. exactly what I would expect from a Trump supporter). A quarter of a million people have died from the pandemic—that is a quarter of a million sets of families and friends permanently deprived of a loved one. Millions more people have been infected with a disease that…

Well I lost my grant funding due to his administrations sabotage of the ACA, so had to change jobs and can no longer help people obtain health insurance in rural areas with limited options. 

As if the pandemic is somehow not connected to Trump. Hilarious. So you’re cool with 200K + dead people so long as your 401 K performs?

People tell you he may have been “just checking out the house” as though that’s not a sketchy thing to do? Should we expect tradespeople to wander through our houses, exploring all the floors, opening hard-to-open doors because they’re just curious? Bloody hell.

I swear I’ve read this one before- did you post it last year by chance?

#4- He’s on a nice farm upstate, where he can run free with the other Spectrum Children.

Open concept is bullshit. Here’s why.

She rules. Really glad she provided some insight, even though it was incredibly grim.

You should be ashamed of yourself for posting this utter nonsense.

That being said, they very well may have stolen elements of her design, I’m just not convinced it’s directly related to the eviction. Sometimes it’s best to fly below the radar...

My parents thought they were just going to have one chid-me. My mom had my brother the summer before I started fourth grade. I was *relatively* okay with this. My mom had a c-section, and her mom came to stay because my baby brother was freaking huge and my dad had to get back to work.