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im 14 years old & am going to decorate my room to have a beach theme. i’ve come up with all things having to do with the beach… how can i incorporate these ideas into my new room? any help would be great!
-clouds, sky
-sea glass
-light walls with one darker color wall
-surf board
-pictures
-signs and stuff
-beach towel
-shells
-star fish
-sail boats
-white furniture
-t.v.
-run
-”welcome to the beach” door sign
-flip flops
-wall border
-sea gulls
-sunset-
sand color wood border things that go on the floor lol-
-punch buggy
-fantasy island
-ice cream
-mini golf
-hermit crabs
-dolphins
-light house
-bathing suit
-beach calendar
-curtains
-book shelves or normal shelves
-day bed maybe
-floor lamp
-short shorts
-volleyball
-tan, sun tan lotion
-new jersey
-jersey girl
-straw chair or beach chair
-fruit & lemonade
-friends
-something to put my money in
-license plate
-tiki masks
-bamboo
ANY CREATIVE IDEAS? or anything else?

I’m redecorating/rearranging my room, and I had a few questions.
We’re putting in new floors, so the ugly blue carpet will be replaced with a dark hardwood floor. (This is not my room, but this is what the floors will look like: http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/2552/…
I’m tired of the way my room is arranged now, and I was thinking about moving things around since it will all have to be moved anyways for the floor to be put in.
(These are a few pictures of what my room looks like currently: http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/8086/… )
I was thinking of rearranging everything to look like this:http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/2585/…
(I’ll eventually paint the room a really light beige color. Also, my bed spread is very old, and I’m trying to look for one that will go with my theme. There was a perfect silk comforter at Target, but I don’t think they’re carrying it anymore. The windows are going to repainted, and bamboo blinds will be put in. My screen doors on the closet are painted blue, but will be removed, and my dad and I were thinking about putting bamboo there instead-like blinds or a curtain)
Please let me know what you think, or if you have suggestions/ideas/plans throw them out there! ^^

would you rather be in a room with a little water dripping from a sealing and your tied to a chair that is cemented on a floor with no way out or be chained to the ground over top of bamboo that’s still growing? Why…

Our carpeting is 13 yrs old. It started out “oatmeal” varigated in color, but despite regular vacuuming and paying to have the floors power cleaned, it looks horrible and everyone’s a bit worried what could be living under it…eek! We all know we need a replacement (the whole house, likely, but money’s *more* than tight.
Does anyone know of any product, esp. green, esp. easy to clean *super well*—maybe carpet alternatives with some “cush”/”spring” to the step (the alternate to carpet padding) to help tame the pain that would come with very hard floors? We live in the southwest–I’ve read bamboo is mostly termite free, esp. when impregnated with boron. But really, money’s the “make it or break it” point. Suggestions? So many thank yous: )

I have trained dogs for many years and I trained my own service dog to boot. He does 55 commands, so although I don’t know everything, I have a pretty good clue with dogs.
I adopted a Shepherd from our local dog pound some 2 weeks after he had been found, on last Friday. Nobody claimed him. I went in and saw him during the week so he knew me.
He has attached himself to me alarmingly too much.
At first, I took him around town and today I left and came back to a broken front screen where he went through our window. A neighbor found him running back and forth in front of the house looking for us. She opened her van (like ours) and he went right in.
He was in a state of panic. Tonight I returned again and he pooped, tore blinds off, broke a bamboo room divider down, glasses all over the floor because he was on our counters, and he must have had an awful time. Back door open the entire time and he could have gone out.
I love him already. I fear he’s been terribly abused. more below

I walked across the dance floor, unsure what I was doing here. What was I doing here? That was the question that I was afraid of. “Hello Catherine.” The voice said. I was spinning in circles trying to find the voice. It was storming outside. The lightening flashed and I caught a glimpse of what he looked like. Tan, with short black hair, and with a small scar next to his lips. It is very noticeable. You could probably see it miles away. “What do you want?” I asked him. Trying not to shiver with fear. “You’re afraid. I can smell it.” He stated, ignoring my question. So I decided to repeat the question. “What do you want?” I asked once again. “You see this bomb?” He asked. I nodded. Even though this room was dark, I could see it very well. “I press this button and we all go up in flames.” He threatened.” You wouldn’t.” I told him. I knew exactly where my gun was. In my car, in the console. It was then when I realized who it was. “You killed my parents.” I accused him darkly. “Yes. But I had no clue that you would take your father’s place as a FBI.” He finished his sentence with a darkly smile. I didn’t trust the smile, one bit. He took a step towards me. I was backing up. In one swift moment, his face was right in front of mine. I lifted my leg and kicked him in the face. Forcing him to go to the floor. I learned that in mine ten years there. He got on his knee’s, touching the place that I kicked him at. It was bleeding fiercely. He now got onto his feet. I grabbed a sick of bamboo that was in the room. He grabbed another piece of bamboo. He swung his piece at my feet. I jumped up.
It was a fight, woman against man. “I would hit you, but you’re a woman.” He said inhaling deeply. We both put the bamboo up. Now we were facing each other. “Yeah, well that’s not stopping me.” I said, and with that I punched him. “You’re going to pay.” He said as he was crawling towards the button. I decided that it was time for me to leave. I ran as fast as I could. I was down the hall when I heard a faint scream. With me knowing that this place was about to be going into flames. I went into the room. There was a boy. He was about seventeen, or possibly eighteen. I untied him and we ran. I glanced at him, he was cut up badly, and I think he might have a broken arm. He never moved that arm. We were now outside. I heard the explosion. “Get down!” I yelled at him. He did as he was told. I did the same.

I have a tenant who rented an apartemnt from me. She got a dog and when I was showing her apartment to new tenants I noticed that the wood floors had tons of little scratches/dents in them.
The floors were brand new when she moved in (she was the first to walk on them). They can’t be resurfaced (bamboo) so how do I figure out how much to remove from her deposit seeing as I can’t spend a particular $ amount to fix.
Her deposit is ~$1000 by the way. The apt is about 900sq/ft.

We just ripped the carpet out of our basement and really wanted hardwood but once we found out that our only choices were engineered or bamboo we started to look into laminates. We have been looking at lumber Liquidators. We want something economical but a good enough quality that it isnt immediatly obvious that it is laminate. Any suggestions for a floor that locks together tightly and has a good sound too it when walked on? Also is cork the best underlayment for a floating floor? Or should we opt for a quiet walk type underlayment with the moisture barrier? Thanks any advice will be much appreciated.

It looks like they’re surrounded by areas that have become discolored, almost like they’re perpetually wet, like the light wood floor is now a shade of damp brown color. This is kinda around the edges of the wood where they’re adjacent to the other hardwood plank.
I live in an apartment. Is this serious enough of an issue to call the manager/facilities staff to replace the hardwood floor, or at least take a look at it?
I hope it’s not fungal spores, and that I could become sick from it. It’s right near my dining room table.
Oh, and these black spotty spore-things appeared on the stalks of my potted bamboo plant a few months ago. So I threw it out. It was gross. I didn’t know what it was, but they had appeared.

I’m a teen, 17, female.
I like in a condo so my room isn’t THAT big but it isnt like REALLY small either. I have wood/bamboo furniture (dresser,mirror,bed) and wood floor (medium brown). i have glass mirrors on my closet as well.
Right now my walls are a light greenish (spring leaf by Benjamin Moore) and i want to get a bed set that matches with it as well as curtains. i was thinking of getting this bed set:
http://www4.jcpenney.com/jcp/StoreInventory.aspx?CatalogNum=FK72846100133&RetailNum=&Selected=Purple%2fBl&CatalogStatus=&ReturnURL=X6&NewZip=08823&CmCatId=searchresults
i was thinking of painting one wall, like where my dresser/mirrior is and make it purple (not baby purple) (Scandinavian blue by Benjamin Moore) because i want to put my frames up for graduation and stuff there as well so itll stand out.
my room inst THAT big, so i dont know if that purple will make the room look smaller, but everything else is light so i don’t know.
please give your opinion/suggestions.
thank you,