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Comments (19)Thanks MsJ, I do not think you have been lazy at all!!!! I think these projects which seem so simple in our heads tend to explode with the doing part of it in a hurry. I redid a kitchen the size of yours once. I tore out tile and old cabinets. Repaired walls. Ceiling was fine. Floor was ugly but I did not change it. I paid to have the cabinets and counter built and installed. I finished the cabinets and installed sink and faucet. No change to range or exhaust for it. All of this took me a month of almost constant working on it. I only worked 4 hours a day at my job. I was also much younger and stronger than I am now. This was over 30 years ago.Oh and I only had an L shape cabinet situation. AND there were no changes to what was there to begin with but newly built cabinets because the old ones were so awful and falling apart. So as I see it................ Considering all you have had to do over and above what I had to do you have done very well. Your space is turning out darling. The rest of your house will fall into place. Remember we have been here four years now. I keep changing things around because that is my nature to do so. I like change. We used to just move from house to house. Now I just wear out the furniture and floors moving things around. LOL Many of our things are on wheels....See MorePlease help-need to store/display safely 30+ instruments in a house
Comments (6)Is your house climate controlled--especially for humidity? How many of them are wood (reed or string) instruments? Any silver? Are any/all of them valuable? Do you play them all? I don't display my string instruments--but I used to play professionally and they are the most expensive things I own. They are too sensitive to humidity fluctuations (and that's with a whole-house humidifier for the piano). But if yours are valuable and/or sensitive, some type of storage with glass doors might help keep the climate consistent enough (put a humidity gauge inside). Silver instruments can tarnish if left out. Brass instruments, form what I've read, can be hung without much concern (though my husband refuses to let me hang his out of their cases because he insists it will ruin them). I don't know much about earthquake issues, but I believe you can get lockable hanging hooks (like some music stores use to prevent you from going up and taking instruments off the wall without prior permission). You can also get floor stands for a lot of bigger instruments, but some of those are flimsy and not meant for long term. Those would worry me in an earthquake. But you can also have custom stands made that are much more solid....See MoreYour dream, kitchen: If finances and space were no object?
Comments (18)Honestly, I absolutely have my dream kitchen. Everything has a place. I have the most incredible quartzite, incredible stained glass window, windows on either side of my cooktop, fabulous off white shaker cabinets (some with glass to show off my collections), induction cooktop, wide aisles, both a clean up sink and a prep sink, great hanging lights, more than enough prep space and space for baking and I even have empty drawers still. Oh and it works like a dream. It follows Ice/Water/Stone/Fire. Every time I walk into my kitchen, I smile. Actually my whole house makes me smile. I'm very lucky!...See MoreCan someone help me tone down too formal living room with poor layout?
Comments (9217)Good quality reproductions are often dollars but well worth it. It would look almost like you were looking out of the window up there. With Klee goggles…🙂...See MoreAmanda Smith
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