Post a question, offer advice and enjoy a lively exchange on dozens of topics, from pregnancy to poetry, from career advice to cooking. Because no one I live with has discovered the invention known as the coat hanger, various jackets, vests and scarves lay strewn over all the available chairs. Soft piles of dog fur add whimsical, decorative touches to the floor. As depressing as reports of Laura Bush's scrubbing regimens are, they pale in influence to the mail-order catalogs that arrive daily, showing me that if I just spend a few grand and erase all evidence of human life, I, too, can have a beautiful, serene, neat home. Talk about it on Making a Home Find tempting deals Inside these pages, a soft breeze rustles the Egyptian cotton organdy curtains tinted periwinkle or celadon.
White tulips sit on a dust-free coffee table with one book and one magazine on it.
In the featured laundry room, where sun streams in through yet another window treatment, every towel is folded, and even the bleach and detergent are artfully arranged on top of the dryer. Perfectly made beds with matching sheets and quilts preside over immaculate quarters with one toy and one stuffed animal atop a gleaming white dresser. The white carpet has never faced shavings from hamster cages, Magic Markers accidentally dropped with their caps off or Welch's grape juice. Well, here's what I think we're longing for when we settle into these catalogs. This is a beautifully ordered world devoid of chaos, and you and your Pottery Barn products have made it that way.