Pretty!! My current chairs are really showing their age, and the cushions are upholstered in velvet. Not worth reupholstering as they’re getting a little rickety. The velvet locks in so much cat hair. I’m definitely going full wood next time 
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I thought I was in your journal! Oops. 
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This but with a 48" width instead of 60"
Or this has the right dimensions (probably, haven’t checked the long side yet) but has zero storage. I want storage.
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Tuck a drawer unit on wheels underneath option 2?
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Everyone cross your fingers this is still available! Looks like very nice wood.
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I certainly do not neeeeed a $50 beach towel but I wants it precious
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SO worth it; I love heartberry!!
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Two $50 beach towels?
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Ooooh that one’s gorgeous.
I can easily justify purchasing from Eighth Generation or Heartberry (which is local to me) because I donate cash to local Indigenous activists and community builders. So getting a beautiful good in exchange is a bonus 
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If I counted it as a donation then it would be very reasonable…
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Daaaaaamn those are lovely.
Was just discussing the fact that we own literally zero beach towels. Hmmmmm.
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Get them and tell me if they’re plushy so I can decide if I want them!
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I need this information also…
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Well if it’s for the good of the forum… 
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Central air conditioning. The best quote we got was $17,000 and so I said, nah, we don’t really need it. It’s not that hot here for long. And now we’re having a heatwave and who wants to keep their $17K anyway???
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Try Four Seasons. Their prices are very reasonable and the service was great. The price was like half of the other two companies I talked to.
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Do they need to run the air ducts and everything? Because last time I bought a pretty beefy central AC, it was maybe 6k installed. But it was replacing an old one so a fairly simple job.
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We chose to install the AC, but thankfully it was less expensive since we already had the duct work. Our furnace was also situated in a good place in the basement relative to where the AC unit needed to go, which I guess cut down the price as well. It was $8k for us just last month.
I’m also really glad we went ahead and did it because I swear I remember having like, 1 week of above 90 degree weather each summer but this year we’ve had like, 5 weeks already where almost every day has been above 90. It has definitely paid off.
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That’s absolutely the story in western Oregon/WA, and why none of the older houses have AC. You could just go to the coast for a week (and there were fewer people in the state so you could actually find reasonable accommodations) or just have a single nocturnal suffer fest week, and then that was fine. And now every summer we’re hitting 110F and having multiple weeks above 90F. It can be just straight up dangerous without AC these days 
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I feel this way in Colorado, I think I’ve had this conversation three or four times in the last week. When I was little there were just a few days every summer above 90, and now it’s like a month and a half or more, with multiple days above 100F.
Our house doesn’t have duct work, and we’re seriously considering saving up to get a giant mini-split system for our open concept first floor, then the two bedrooms on the south side of our second floor. I don’t know if there’s a better way to get AC to our whole upstairs, but I bet it would be cost-prohibitive.
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