constanceann--we had the same bathroom as yours! Our plumber always said that the American Standard yellow was his favorite color! LOL I might be able to help with your tub height dilemma. We replaced the lovely yellow tub in that bathroom (ours was enameled steel I believe), and added one to the MB. We installed Toto cast iron tubs in both (the 1525 model). Our plumber had us install the tubs on top of the first layer of our plywood subfloor. The second layer of plywood runs up to the tub's apron (and then there's mud, thinset, and tile on top of that second layer). This way the tub is slightly sunken into the floor. The tub is a normal depth tub, but the step out, over the lip/top edge, onto the floor is a shorter step, if you know what I mean. I couldn't understand why our plumber had us install the tubs that way (thought it might be an aesthetic thing, just for looks, so the tub didn't look as tall and obtrusive perhaps), but the first time I actually used the tub, the lightbulb went on--"Ah-ha, it's easier to get out of the tub" (without whacking my shins on the side/top of the tub--which clumsy me did on many occasions!). Don't want to hijack, so do a search for my finished bathrooms and you can see the lovely before pics (yellow and all!) and you might see how the new tubs look height-wise. If not, email me and I'll try to take some pics showing that for you.

This is my FAVORITE FAVORITE GW kitchen. It has soul and personality. I look at your pictures and just want to wander in there and linger, feeling the coziness and healing properties of that welcoming and nurturing space. It feels like a li'l ol' soft grandma with arms outstretched waiting to hug me. It does NOT remind me of so many cold, hard casket like fancy kitchens in the pictures. This one has a warm heartbeat throughout. Fantastic job, and I'm sure with the elbow grease/blood/sweat/tears you put into her you'll love her all the more over the years!!

Thanks! I'm glad that it can inspire people to go for it and it's quite flattering to have it saved to files! jlt - the majority of my frames come from IKEA or Wal-mart. Sometimes I change the overall look by buying or having a different mat made for them. Many are just simple cheap document frames. Others come from TJ Maxx etc. and some are gifts. A fair amount came already framed like the French Landmark prints and Big Ben. Les - Thanks! I decided to go w/ the bright white because I wanted it to be crisp looking and (this may sound crazy) I didn't want the entire room to be 'over thought'. I still have a fair amount of grey strips up because I think that a grey or (better yet) a delicious black room that is adjoining would be phenomenal. I'm so torn because the thought of a black office across the hall is tugging at me like you wouldn't believe. I can see it - DH can not but he hasn't said no. I also really want the LR, office and central hall to flow as one since they are all so small but can easily serve as one large space since they are so open to one another. I also love this room: It really has become effortless to me ONLY because I don't make it a goal to finish any w/in a set period of time. It is always a work in progress and so I don't pressure myselfone bit. All things will fall in place. Eventually! Things that I do that has made it happen a lot easier are to just keep stacks of pictures and stacks of frames so that I can grab something and start working whenever the mood strikes. There's nothing worse than having the mood strike and then being limited on choices at hand. That feeling has made me feel pressured and end up feeling that it will never work out so I've quit. I started picking up frames here and there and just squirreling them away. And don't let the fact that you have a frame that fits into an arrangement but no picture stop you from hanging it anyway. That's when you hit yuour picture stack and have something enlarged or shrunk to fit. Some of my 1st ones are painful to look at because I tried so hard.

Boy, I'm not sure how I got a double post there a half hour later, oh well. alex9179 - Good luck with your ceiling. I'm really happy with how our ceiling turned out. Compared to doing drywall, it was more expensive. But, it really ended up being a lot easier and quicker than what dry wall would have been. All those coats of mud standing on a ladder doesn't sound like fun at all. jeannie_kitchen - I do give a little smile every time I walk in there now. My DW was just commenting the other day that she really likes to just sort of hang out in the kitchen now.