hCurtain made for you

hCurtain made for you

Who says pictures have to hang on walls?

Now they can hang on shower curtain rods.

The Internet company PhotoShowerCurtain.com can turn your favorite photo into a custom shower curtain made of polyester poplin. The effect is of a mural in the bathroom.

The fabric curtains can be washed without fading or shrinking, the company says.

Images must be provided in digital form. Prices are $149 for a 35-by-72-inch stall curtain and $199 for a 70-by-72-inch tub curtain, including shipping. Text can be added for $10.

For more information, visit www.photoshowercurtain.com or call (888) DOMYBATH.

Specialty linens

When a bed manufacturer decides to introduce a new style of bed, it doesn’t seem to consult with sheet manufacturers. That’s why so many of us struggle to wrestle fitted sheets onto mattresses that are either too thick or too thin.

A small family business in upstate New York, Cozytown Linens, specializes in hard-to-find bed linens and stocks fitted sheets with pocket depths ranging from 7 to 25 inches. They will even make custom sheets for unusual mattresses such as those found on three-quarter-size beds that are often the size of antique four-poster beds.

Sheets for Tempur-Pedic and Memory Foam beds, also hard to find, are in stock.

Almost everything the company sells is made in the United States by other small family-owned businesses.

Cozytown Linens (www.cozytownlinens.com) also carries comforters, pillows, blankets, bedspreads and other bedding in a variety of sizes. Mattress pads for many models of beds, including water beds and sofa beds, are available.

Catching mice

Plastic water bottles can get a second use as humane mousetraps with a device called Catch A Mouse. Catch A Mouse is essentially a cheese-shaped portal that screws onto an empty water bottle. A mouse enters through a trap door in search of bait you’ve placed in the bottle, and it can’t get back out. The bottle holds the live mouse until you release it.

The device can be ordered for $6.99 plus shipping at www.greenbottleusa.com.

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