
Now that the turkey has been stuffed, slow-cooked, and sliced into nice, juicy pieces, and the pumpkin pies are long gone, perhaps along with your guests, I thought I'd get the intel on your Thanksgiving décor. If you were a host this holiday, how did you decorate? Did you simply dress the dinner tables, or did other areas of your home undergo a festive facelift as well?

Like a lot of you, I love Ikea. I would never want to outfit my apartment solely with Ikea products, but there are a lot of items in the store that are so versatile that I can easily integrate them into my house. The issue with Ikea products, for me, is that there's often a huge range in quality among items.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, I rarely have to worry about a frost, which means that I can leave plants out all year round without incident. I know that's hardly the case with readers living in the Midwest and on the East Coast, though.
Steve, over at Gardening Gone Wild, recently
wrote, "I overwinter a host of plants in my cold dark basement.

Now that
Halloween has passed, and your face paint and witch hats are inevitably bound for the costume closet, it's sweater time! Fall is finally upon us, and I'm sure you all have your own methods for preparing for it. Last month, of course, was
House Warming month, and I showed you a plethora of ways to keep your toes warm at home this month.

Home theaters have almost become a requisite for Americans building mega-
McMansions, and they're quite common in
the homes of the Hollywood elite. Personally, I just find them excessive. And since going to the theater is one of my favorite pastimes, I'd never give up popcorn and Slurpees in favor of a leather La-Z-Boy, even if ticket prices are well above $10 these days.