JesB asked:


I have a bedroom that is 9×11. Inside of my room I have a bed, a wall of closets (so I can’t use that wall), a large dresser, a set of book shelves, and craft boxes. All of this in my room makes it look so small! I’m renting the house I live, so I can’t paint or make too many changes to the room, but I’d like to make it look larger or just give myself more space. Any suggestions?

Autum asked:


I have recently purchased a 10 year old home and have very cold closets that I can’t seem to keep warm in the winter. We have 2 bedroom located over the garage that are also not staying warm

Does anyone have any tips or tricks that can offer to help with this problem?
We have replaced the windows in the bedroom which has helped a little but i have noticed that if I put my hand next to the wall that is facing the outside it feels very cold. Like there might not be little to no insulation… but then again first time home owner so I don’t know what I am talking about!

Can someone please offer some advance or who might be able to answer this question? What kind of professional takes care of these kinds of issues?

Ann G asked:


There are a couple of bedroom doors in my house that automatically close unless you put something in front of them to keep them open. Does anyone have any quick fixes for this problem besides putting something in front of the door? My problem is that they don’t close quite all the way, and then our puppy goes in them and can’t get back out. Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks.

halofan9990 asked:


In my bedroom there are little worm-like things spread around certain areas of carpet. I don’t know what they are, they may be larvae of some sort. I have sprayed where they appear (often there are several underneath something) a few times with bug spray, but the bugs eventually return.
I’m not sure how to describe them. They are anywhere from minuscule to a centimeter long, they appear white or a little orangey with dark circles around them. They either don’t have any legs, or their legs are very very small. The don’t move very often when I’m looking at them (shining a bright flashlight), but I will find that they have moved since the last time I saw them.

I have also seen the rare ant in my bedroom — really big ones, sometimes with wings. I read on Wikipedia that ants go through a larval stage — perhaps the little buggers are baby ants?

So, can anyone help me find out what the heck these things are, and how I can wipe them out?
The ants I saw (Very few — 3 or 4 over the past year) do not resemble the pictures of termites I have seen on Wikipedia. They are very, very black. I am looking right now at one that I crushed, and there’s nothing white about it. This particular ant has wings — it first drew my attention because it was making a buzzing sound on the floor.

I don’t know that the buggers in question have anything to do with the Ants, it was just possibility. Calling an exterminator would be a last resort, I would very much prefer to deal with it myself. In any case, I’d like to find out what they are first.

Thanks for the answers so far.
I took a series of pictures of the bugs, and combined them all into one image. Its kind of hard to tell how big they are because I zoomed in really close and there is no point of reference — none of them are bigger then a centimeter, and most are a fraction of that.
On the top left are thumbnails of all the pictures I took; On the top right and on the bottom are a selected few full sized closeups. Make sure to scroll/expand the image, as it’s quite large width and length wise.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/5425/thumbstl1.jpg
A note about the image — I had just sprayed down the area before I took the pictures. After getting sprayed, the bugs seem to turn darker and curl up.

SarahG asked:


Just bought a house and there’s a bedroom at the end of the hallway. There’s space in the backyard for the bedroom to be expanded, but I would like to know an estimate of the cost to make it bigger. The bedroom is 8ft x 10ft and I want to expand it to by 5ft so that it becomes 13ft x 10ft. Thanks!