There are many of us who are disabled and can fully relate to your situation! I can't do anything that would require standing up or kneeling down. If it can't be done sitting at a table, it just won't get done. But there are plenty of wonderful smaller scale projects that can keep you busy. Best of all, they don't require a lot of room for storage either! It's all about working smarter rather than harder. Not a lot of problem for a creative mind to come up with some wonderful ideas. Thanks so much for sharing your site! I love the natural birdbath, the teapots (especially that Miss Piggy!), the dripping birdbath (great idea to keep the water moving to discourage mosquitoes), and the potting benches (wonderful way to use an old sink). I hope you plan to stick around this time so that we can see more of your work! jiju, what a horrible ordeal you went through! I can relate to the tiny space for gardening. I find that a lot of my garden junk needs to hang. I hope you post some of your GJ ideas for tiny spaces.

Thank-you for the explanation about the scaling on the website. I'm sorry I maligned a fictive editor! I was just trying to make the amounts match and thought the second addition was an error too. :) If there had been a single measure of honey and the directions had said "half of the honey" it would have been clearer and worked better on the scaling. Oh, well. Scaling a recipe you've never made can be dangerous even if you think through every ingredient. My mother's challah recipe, which I've made the most, and made for decades, makes three loaves, and it's much better to make three loaves and freeze two than to try to make it work for a single loaf. One thing to remember in baking bread is that recipes often fail the first time you make them, especially while you're developing expertise. There are so many variations in flour, kitchen climate and oven climate, that a recipe is really a starting point, not an absolute. I'd also follow the recipe exactly once to get a better idea of what it's supposed to be before changing the ingredients. After that, remember that when you make changes, you're not following the recipe, and you're relying on some very precise chemical and biological reactions not to care. Keep in mind that you're making an experiment, not a recipe, and that there are things that may be going wrong. I've been doing that almost weekly for the last year, and learning a lot from it about what reactions such changes bring, It's fun! But if your point is to make a good recipe and have a good loaf of bread, do start by actually making the recipe. I have all kinds of ideas of how to proceed and tried writing them out, but I realized I'm not expert enough to make them make sense. It sounds like it might be overrisen, underbaked, or perhaps baked at too low a temperature. Do you have an oven thermometer? Re soaking, if you're trying to adjust the nutrients of the whole wheat, you should do at least 8 hrs. and with some acid (I found a jar of vitamin C crystals easy to find and use a pinch of that, but normal kitchens acids will work). Adding extra liquid for it might have required a little extra baking too. I've found that even if a soaker seems very dry, when I mix everything together, it's fully hydrated and doesn't need an addition of water. This is true even when I knead the ingredients together by hand. My best advice is to decide on a few small adjustments, try again, and see what happens. :)

No, we didn't choose Iona, wechose Vesta as I changed the color of the shower/backsplash tile to Architectural Gray from Daltile https://www.daltile.com/product/Color-Wheel-Collection-Classic?color=Matte-Architectural-Gray&shape=Rectangle https://coretecfloors.com/en-us/products/coretec-stone/vesta-vv568-18363 We're quite happy with the Coretech! A neighbor came to see our bathrooms and commented "it's warm (in stocking feet)" perhaps in comparison to a stone tile which would feel colder. DH installed it and used the Coretech transition for the primary bath, but we had a wood transition that was glued down for the hall bath so I asked him to cut it at a 45 degree angle and I think it looks wonderful! Our bathrooms are small so with this large of a tile there were few that he didn't have to cut. hall bath transition, tile cut to 45 degree hall bath, natural light from skylight in bath hall bath from bathtub, hall weaving is from Huatulco, MX https://www.google.com/search?q=huatulco+mexico+weaving&sxsrf=ALeKk012mrZxsoP1y_9ZS2b20CuGP_Fwdg:1614037566839&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=kgeDyTPUDQUuHM%252C48IRYwsqKt_SVM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kQWJyN6535gYFKBUpZ3mYgwsYj4DQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjq_My-1v7uAhXCv54KHa1aDqcQ9QF6BAgJEAE#imgrc=kgeDyTPUDQUuHM primary bath with vanity light on Coretech transition, color is Vesta

Dyan, What a diff. Very nice job. I bet they're very happy w/their work. Show them some of these photos I've listed to see if they could paint over that tile around the fireplace. I like the black mantle, but a stencil painted tile would look so much better. (they can retile later on down the road). They have a lot of tutuorials for tiles on the floor, but it could easily be done on those around that box. Complete how-to: https://eastcoastcreativeblog.com/2012/09/stenciled-faux-tile-fireplace-tutorial.html paint it a base color like white or black, and then get a properly sized stencil and do the second color. I did a quick photoshop with this one. I like the addition of the warm wood mantle over the black. did a little mantle styling. that pic actually reflects a woven pendant, so I gave you one surrounded in the black. I think that black lantern light is a bit harsh for the colors in this room. Same photo using the woven pendant light. Here's the photo I used. The tiles have a bit of black, but they have that griege tone and a soft blue gray. I think it's nice w/the flooring. Stencil is from Royal Design Studio If they like more of the black and white, they could do that as well. This link actually has a really good tutorial using diff paint. Cost was $110 for the fireplace makeover https://jessicawellinginteriors.com/faux-cement-tile-fireplace/ of course you could choose any color or design. I thought these colors might work well w/the room colors. (is the wall color really that green looking in person?) do they plan on painting that kitchen island? I think if they just did that one, it would look great! they could add a bit of wood trim on the panel so that it looks finished, and nicely done. looks so much better! You can see the wood cabs in the background to get an idea of how it looks. they could do any size trim, beadboard, shiplap, (This is General Finishes Milk Paint in Snow White. I've used it. It's an acrylic paint. They could easily use this on the oak island and any added trim work. Just prime everything first w/Zinsser oil base primer. Always sand prior and after the primer) mdf pieces,,,,and it's relatively simple. Few hours would make a big impact. The island they could paint in a charcoal or black if they like. (paired w/black hardware)