home decorating

Why can’t things go smoothy?  What’s wrong with smooth?? *sigh* *********** We had our driveway replaced in early July.  As you can see…it needed to be replaced. It actually needed replacement when we bought the house about 9 years ago, […]

Just smile and nod…that is what Brian does when I show him design aspects that he may not agree with.  The painters were not all that sure about the colors either. But look how nice it looks now!  They all […]

We need to get our house painted this year, as it is chipping off.  Not on the plan, but what can you do??  The College Pro Painter dude came by earlier this spring and gave us the sales pitch, and […]

Marriage is all about compromise. When we were looking at furnishing our basement, Brian really wanted a poker table. That meant no other furniture down there since we just didn’t have the room.   Me notsolikey.  Brian found our nice counterheight […]

As you know, we did a lot of painting in the last 6 months.  To that end, I bought the paint chip sampler from Sherwin Williams to make it easier to pick colors at home.  I pulled all of the pink […]

Here we are…finally at the end.  All we have to do now is decorative touches, so the walls need some lovin’ yet.  I generally like to buy things piecemeal.  That way, I find the “right” pieces at the right prices.  […]

Heated tile floor?  Check Beautiful vanity?  Check Fantastic tile shower? Check Nicest bathroom in the house that will get used the least?  Check! Key features and how we done its: The floor has heated coils underneath that we had put […]

Well, I’ve had this post curing in my drafts for awhile, hoping for better pictures.  These will just have to do, I guess… ********** This was my craftroom in the basement before, which was totally open to bugs and the […]

The new floor in our 1/2 bathroom off the kitchen.  When we moved into our house, the inspector found that there was moisture around the base of the toilet in this bathroom.  We tried to replace the seal, and in […]

This week the guys came bright and squirelly on Monday morning and started in.  They had a week or so delay, what with the funeral and another job that was supposed to be done by the 1st.  They got the […]

I’m pretty much a big fan of warm colors.  You already knew that though, right?  The Tuscany color palette has great earth tones, so I wanted to work in that color scheme for our basement.  We want it to be […]

At least that is what Anya probably feels like.  Well, I guess I do, too, since I have so much fun making them. 😉 I actually made this dress a few weeks ago and forgot I hadn’t posted it yet.  […]

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