Thanks so much for your responses. My3dogs, I too saw that post regarding the Weird Grass cloth project, she is going to do the same project as me, just wanted to see if any of daring and wonderfully helpful Gardenweb folks had taken on this project (or had got the look using fabric). Sweeby, I too thought of vinyl, but the papers I saw were too shiny : ( . It's a console table, so if I use the grass cloth or fabric, I am going to finish it in low luster poly to give it some durability. Thanks again for the responses! : )

When my dad died, I used several of his plaid flannel shirts to make two star quilts - the brown tones for my brother, and the red tones for myself and my sons. With the pockets from the brown shirt in the upper right and lower left of the nine-square wall-hanging, I then put a picture of my dad, my brother, my nephew & his son in the middle. (Representing 4 generations of our family name.) Upper left dark brown flannel had the word "Legacy" embroidered. The lower right had the names of the four generations embroidered - with the year born & died under my dad's name. I gave that wall-hanging to my mom, who lives with my brother. Then, after my mom is gone, my brother has a matching set.

We have an old Sunbeam Steam Iron that has a great feature: Automatic shut-off. If the iron if left in its flat, working position, a sensor checks for motion and if it detects none for a prescribed time, it shuts off the heater. If the iron is parked in an upended position, the time out period is longer. This feature has given me great comfort becasue I am the worry wart of the family when it comer to fire hazards. Over the past 20 years, I have found that iron left on twice. It only takes once to burn down a house. I believe that the Sunbeam Corporation no longer exists, but, surely this feature can be found in other irons, possibly the same iron made by another manufacturer.

I am so super bummed I found this article! I wish we would have made our one-sided walk-in closet narrower as we ended up with a very small bedroom! We settled on 40" deep after reading this article the closet took valuable space away from the bedroom which is 10' x 11'. I would have done ANYTHING for an extra 5-6" which would have made the room 5' x 11.5" and the closet 36" deep which is plenty for a side-entry walk-in closet. We wanted to do walk in instead of reach in because of the flexibility of the bed configuration and gaining more wall space in the room. But we ended up with a small bedroom and a large closet. Don't make the same mistake we did!