Whether the hair in your home is your own or belongs to your pet, dealing with shedding hair is a challenge. Here, some tips on how to deal with it...

• Dealing With a Hairy Home
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I wanted to add some color into my new kitchen, but the guy at the tile store ixnayed using color tiles for my backsplash - concerned about resale value. My parents had this amazing wallpaper lying around since the 80s, and I absolutely fell in love with it. Now it's on the wall, but I'm stumped as how to make it waterproof...

• How to Waterproof Wallpaper?
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White serves as the perfect backdrop in kitchens and makes the most of the great light from the outside. Take a look at how using natural light and a white palette can be beneficial in any size kitchen.

• Bright & Light Kitchens
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The youngest member of the flatware family, the fork has only become an essential utensil in the last couple hundred years -- after all, who needs a fork when you have fingers, aka the perfect tools for picking up morsels?

• Fork This: A Quick History of Forks
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Alexandra and Eliot's house was built in the 1890's and is the first original home in Los Feliz. Now surrounded by a residential city block of homes and apartment complexes, the Angles have the ideal hidden getaway. Completing the modern farmhouse with a gorgeous "sleeping" barn and front yard, these savvy designers added plenty of whimsy and modern touches to the interiors.

• House Tour: Alexandra & Eliot's 1890's Farmhouse
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Last year Maxwell shared his surprising freezer method of 'washing' jeans, and last week Jill posted about freezing all her wool clothes and decor to get rid of moths (pictured). It got me thinking about the various other inedible things we should and do store in the fridge and freezer. Though I have an apartment fridge with decidedly ungenerous proportions, I always keep batteries in the fridge and candles in the freezer, but are these genuinely good ideas or old wives' tales?

• Don't Eat That! 5 Non-Foods to Keep in the Fridge & Freezer
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The color news from KitchenAid at the Home and Housewares show in Chicago this week is bright and bold. There are two big stories - the "new" color which was there in prototype form, and another look at the 90th anniversary model of the now-iconic stand mixer. Plus — exciting news about that retro glass bowl!

At Ohdeedoh, Apartment Therapy's site all about modern homelife with children, we're teaming up with Cookie Magazine to find some great solutions for the STUFF that comes along with kids, particularly toys, clothing and the entryway.

Here's the scoop: Were giving away nine prizes from DwellStudio and all the winners move on to a second contest on Cookie...have a storage solution to share? We're accepting entries now!