Don't judge me but.. faux garage door?
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Fatezzi faux wood garage doors
Comments (11)I am getting ready to order 3 Fatezzi doors. I totally disagree with Allison: My samples look like real wood, so much so that without knowing, anyone would think they were real. Totally amazing. I have seen them IRL and they look awesome. Not even comparable to Cloplay which are $5K more and look like regular garage doors painted brown. I am SO impressed with the doors. I will definitely post pictures when they are up! We are ordering this week and they will be here in 6 weeks....See MoreFinally! A CL purchase for me! Don't laugh!
Comments (12)Nicole...My house is in a state of "on going repair". The three bedrooms are finished with white painted crown molding, baseboards, trim, new windows, and old painted doors. The original white oak floors were exposed, scraped and refinished. I love them. The living room will be tackled this spring. We're refinishing those white oak floors; I've been removing all the old plain oak trim as I wash and repair the walls. The LR and breakfast nook open to the kitchen and I'm having to treat them similar. I don't think I'll have any trim on the new LR windows; if there is it will be white. I have a handcrafted pine writing desk, but it's moving to the sewing room. I built a large pine bookcase 25 years ago; it lives in the den. The breakfast nook has a vintage bistro table with a cast iron base and a light maple top. Everything else in this room will be replaced. The table can be restained, or painted, or covered with a tablecloth. The walls will be some version of sage green, probably. The ceiling has just been painted white with a new ceiling fan and light fixtures. So, maybe I'll sand the cabinet and stain it walnut??? I'm going to have to think about it. I paid $115 for the cabinet. Not a $20 steal like some folks find, but considering our FreeCycle/Craig's List pickings are very slim here on the northern Great American Prairie, and what I would have paid for a press-board, plain, new, cabinet; I'm happy. The kitchen will probably have hickory cabinets; that's not set in stone though....See Moredon't judge me
Comments (14)Honestly, I feel terribly sorry for that little girl. She is rude, mean spirited, irritating, manipulative, disrespectful, vindictive, selfish, and is going to have such a hard life ahead of her because of it. Shame on her parents. They don't care to discipline her or have any expectations from her & the older she gets, the worse she is. Either she is screaming for attention or she has serious mental issues and her parents aren't addressing it either way. How awful it must be to have to deal with it. My SD, so far, would not dare talk to me that way. Lately, she's been arguing, throwing up attitude & talking back to DH when I'm not around. She waits until I'm in my room & lets him have it. Shortly after they moved in 6 years ago, I heard her talking back to him & arguing. She was 8. I told her that I'm NEVER going to listen to her talk to her dad that way so she's better never talk like that to him in my presence. In six years, I've only had to say something to her once or twice, "who do you THINK you're talking to?" and she stops. I know she lays into him when I'm not home or when they're driving & if he wants to put up with it, fine. I don't need to in my house. I'm entitled to live in peace... not have my life ruled by a child's bad behavior. Next time she makes a comment about weight, I'd respond with "I'd rather be a nice/good/honest/etc. person. That's more important to ME than my weight." and leave it at that. Her goal is to get a rise & make you feel bad about yourself. Because she's a child, I feel very sorry for her being like this. But, I also know that just like my SD, they get older each year & understand what they are doing better. When they continue to do those things as they get older, the responsibility shifts from their parents who have taught them to behave that way.. to the young adult that should know (if not from their parents, certainly from peers) that what they are doing is not nice or that it's wrong, so it becomes their responsibility. Some people never figure it out... that they are in charge of their own life & what kind of person they choose to be... and it really is just plain sad. I feel for you to have to deal with this year after year....See MoreSentimental...but you don't like it
Comments (43)"My DH is pretty livid that I want to use the table, he thought I had dragged it out b/c I was ready to be rid of it. He thinks it's hideous and it doesn't hold any sentimental or aesthetic value to him. Maybe with a cover and a little catch-all basket on it he won't be so annoyed LOL!" Melle, from what you've shared here you have an item that is in terrible shape, that you have no use for, no obvious space for and that your husband desperately wants to get out of the house....so why hold on to it?!?! I have always liked that Willliam Morris decorating philososophy 'If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.' I know how easy to get into the mind trap of what you COULD do with something. You could paint it. You could stain it. You could sand down the top. Or replace it. Or sew a cover. Or move it....and if after all the years an item has been sitting you haven't actually been motivated to do any of those things, then for goodness' sake, it ain't happening. I am still wrestling with getting rid of my own sentimental attachment: my dining room table and chairs. They belonged to my mother, who died young. The first nice furniture she and my dad ever bought etc. I even purchased a hutch from the same furniture company many years later to finish the set. And guess what: I really don't care for the style and several of the rush chair seats are again falling apart--years ago I already went through an expensive nightmare fixing them. Although I would like to replace the furniture I get a pang thinking of getting rid of this stuff, as if I'm getting rid of my mother's memory which is silly of course. So I'm as guilty as anyone of hanging on to sentiment when function and style are long gone from the items. Good luck! Ann...See Moreenergy_rater_la
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