Last Tuesday I pulled a bath towel off the rack and it felt like a sheet of cardboard. Scratchy. Stiff. Almost crunchy. My rental apartment has hard water and a shared coin-op washer in the basement, so I needed to figure out how to keep towels soft and fluffy without spending a fortune. Over four … Read more
The tray slid off the first time I flushed. It hit the tile a candle rolled under the vanity and I stood there in a towel at 7 a.m. wondering why nobody warns renters that toilet tank lids are curved not flat. That was attempt one. Six more followed in a 68 square foot rental … Read more
Two weeks after the tile went up a corner behind the toothbrush cup curled away from the wall like a sticker on a hot car window. Not the whole sheet. Just one corner lifting maybe a quarter inch right where the shower steam hit hardest. That bathroom sat in a 1990s duplex with orange peel … Read more