Sorry this isn't the best pic...when I get a chance, I'll update. Back in the 60s, Mom and her GF would go on weekend trips up to VT and NH to see the foliage. They saw an old house that was being torn down. At the time, Mom was looking for old fancy moldings for Dad to make into picture frames for her. So she went in and asked if she could look around. The guy said sure. She came across a pair of stained glass doors and asked how much...the guy said $10!!! So Mom bought them and brought them home. They sat in the garage for all these years, and when it came time for us to build, I definitely wanted to use them. One was really badly warped though. But we managed to salvage one and get the new door made. This is the door to DH's study.....obscured from view by co. if the room is a mess, yet lovely to look at. Thanks Mom! You done good!

Posted by christyinco: "Lilylore - what do you think of Beverly27's layout suggestion?" Sorry, I am a little late coming back to the discussion. I thought her arrangement was brilliant when I saw it drawn out, but I would switch the dressers. I like aktillery's mock up, with the mirror behind the lamp and the way she has the curtain panel, it doesn't look bad, either with or without the curtain. I don't really like heavy items above a headboard, like the star mirror. My thought it this: if the piece does come loose from the wall, will it fall straight down behind the bed? or will it get stuck in the head board and possibly break or bounce off of it -that's why I believe that anything over a head board should not stick out too much. The last thing I want is to do wake up in a dark room with shattered mirror on my face. And even if it is cemented in place and no chance of falling in an earthquake, It is still that visual calamity about to happen that I find too unsettling in a bedroom. I would switch the chests of drawers. First of all I would put the long drawers to the left of the bed where it was, I think it would look less imposing when you came in. The tall high boy can go against the wall ('opposite' the bed to right as you enter) but if I put a dresser there I would center it on the wall. The tallboy could go back where it was beside the window, because I think it balanced the windows nicely. In that case you can leave the doggie bed on the 'opposite' wall, but perhaps introduce a small bench or stool, to sit when you put your socks on. I don't mind if art doesn't match the textiles in the room. If you love the birch paintings, I think they would be lovely and all the more better for not being matchy matchy. Art shouldn't be chosen because it matches a room, the room should support the art. But I also like the idea of the surreal landscape, it could be very calming.

What a day of quotes. Many good ones by everybody, but too many to list. Thanks, Don.

Superb, indeed! There's something about orange, coral or golden roses with that sun-set feel that absolutely do something for me more than all others. My first rose was Good as Gold and I got it exactly because I couldn't resist its sun-set aura, even though I was convinced at the time I could not grow roses in the South anyway.