Help me choose a trim style that is DIY friendly
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Comments (16)7000ft, I am totally convinced you ought to write a book. Your family sounds very interesting and it sounds like you all work as a cooperative of sorts. How much of your food do you produce? The tomatoes that I grow are primarily for sauce, so I use Roma-type tomatoes. They are odd-looking, being long and quite large. The variety I grew this year was Super San Marzano. I've tried some others, but this one is the best. The sauce-type tomatoes are awesome for making sauce. They are very meaty with minimal juice and seeds. Making sauce is a breeze because you can skip the steps for squeezing the juice and seeds out. According to the catalogs, some varieties have pectin in them that helps to thicken the sauce. We ended up with 25 jars of sauce in the freezer. That is a record for us, so we are pleased! That's 25 dinners during ski season that I don't have to cook. :) I also grow a cherry tomato and some sandwich-type tomatoes. I've had good luck with Early Wonder, which is early yet tasty. (way better than early girl!) Inside the GH we enjoy our first tomatoes in mid-July. Without the GH we are lucky to get any red tomatoes at all. I'm sure it's the same for you. My gardening efforts are pretty much solo, but my husband was instrumental in building the GH and in helping look after things as needed. He is an expert at raising seedlings because I tend to travel a lot in the spring. He also built a root cellar and he is fully on board with our quest to grow as much food as possible. It's a bit of an oddball pursuit, so I'm happy that he's into it!...See MoreNewby needs help choosing trim color
Comments (6)The designer was very helpful in guiding me and I loved most of her suggestions. However, the trim color selection was almost dead-last after 3 hours of making so many decisions and I was tired and overwhelmed and we were actually in a bit of a hurry to wind things up. I just made my trim paint color selection quickly from about 20 choices and handed it to her. She didn't comment and just said OK and wrote it down, which is probably why it's one of the selections I am most unsure about. The last few decisions were kind of rushed and I have questions about almost all of the last ones we did. But the trim color is kind of a big one, since all of the interior doors and the stairway spindles as well as the baseboards, etc. will be in that color. Based on recommendatons here, I'm thinking I prefer SW Kilim Beige, which is two colors lighter on the same paint sample strip as the SW Latte, or the Divine White, which is 3 shades lighter on the same strip. Softer Tan might be a little greener and not as warm. What do you all think?...See MoreHelp me choose front door style
Comments (23)My first choice would be to remove the sidelights completely and install two wider doors in mahogany (or reasonable facsimile) with the dark ironwork over glass. That's the big new thing here, getting rid of sidelights. Who knew? I wish I could afford to do it at our house. I don't like those sidelights at all and it makes so much trim around the front door area. That would be "my" first choice but you have some pretty options there : ) I like the first one best. Good luck!...See MorePlease help me find an eco-friendly black-and-white floor!?
Comments (17)Thanks to everyone for your input. So many helpful suggestions. I have ordered a bunch of samples -- Duro and a couple other kinds of cork, two brands of linoleum, and... rubber! nosoccermom, I will also think about a painted wood floor. It's a look that I love, though it may be a bit "country" for our apartment. Interesting to hear from checkerboard-floor folks who regret the decision... we have B&W vinyl now, in our "before" kitchen, and we have never had a problem keeping it clean. Maybe I just have lower standards than most! ;-)...See Morepenfolddt
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