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First- thanks for all the ideas. Second- yes, I will paint that receptacle. The others in the house look fine but I agree that it will look bad with anything I end up putting on the cabinet. Boopadaboo- the floor is slate that I got at home depot. I got really lucky because it already came with a touch of sealant so when grouting the excess just wiped off. The divider strip is part slate and part glass tiles. The grout is a mocha taupe color but looks pretty light in the pic now that I look at it. It is much darker in person. We had to do a transition in the pattern because of a funny turn the hall makes. I hated it at first but it was the lesser of the evils and now we love it. Every guest comments on how pretty the strip is. I layed every piece, well, dh did about 10 tiles in the laundryroom then gave up. It took a long time doing little by little as each piece had to be hand layed due to varying thickness of the tiles. homeseller2010- the paint is from the Biltmore Estates paint collection at Lowes. It is Olympic paint's Mountain Trail BC-39. It is not pink, not green, looks like my morning coffee with cream in it. susanwrites- the cabinet is a Pulaski we picked up at RCWilley. The tan/gold color in the panels is all crinkled and there is a faint handpainted flower on the doors. The pic does not show it well but it is not straight but actually three curves. It is about 5'x12" which is perfect for a busy hall. Have no idea what I am going to store in it. I think candlesticks, extra votives and seasonal decorations and such. We first saw it at a wholesale furniture shop and admired it there a few months ago. Then we went to RCWilley to get our sofas. There was a huge painting above this cabinet and we ended up purchasing the painting. While pondering the painting, dh started loving the cabinet. He told me this was the chance to get it, now or never. (See he agreed to finally furnish the formal livingroom on the condition that we do everything from sofas to lights to accessories all at once or he would not do it). After seeing the Pulaski tag and looking at the piece more closely I realized this was a good choice. It is much more ornate than my other furniture but it really fits well where we put it and literally everyone who enters comments on it. Someone has a post about having different wood tones and such in the same house. This is a perfect example of how you can mix things if you follow your heart. Everyone- I will surely post my final pics. I am back to work now so my shopping time is limited. I think I am going to get a large, dark mirror of some sort. The basket thing has been moved, was not lovin it on the cabinet. Right now I have my nativity set placed in the middle. I am thinking of some sort of plant or arrangement for the middle or on the right side. DH really wants to keep the lamp there. Will have to see how it works with the mirror I end up with.

I'd like to give a shot of common sense to everyone. To the ones who have to stay in the lane to try to get just one more car length before cutting over and making everyone panic stop. The ones who think a flu shot will keep them from getting sick. The ones who think they're saving money by putting things on credit cards with minimal monthly payments. The ones who think they're doing themselves good by moving every few years, refinancing to lower their payments rather than the amount paid and the coupon queens who think they're saving money by buying things they won't use and only bought it because they had a coupon. And the ones that think paying an annual fee to walk in the door of the Grab-n-Grunt is saving them money. I could go on, but I'd sure like to share that rare commodity called "common sense".

So the 4th of July is over. In my basket I have strawberries, left over medium rare rib eye steaks, left over green beans with onions and bacon, some hard left over rolls. In my fridge I have whipping cream, watermelon, salad greens, lemons and some Jack Daniels. How would you win this challenge? So first of all, Have You Ever Heard of REHYDRATING Meat? Just saying, I have seen plenty of pros rehydrate meat by putting a liquid, seasoning, and the meat into a vacuum sealer and then letting it "soak" in the liquid, heck even I can do it. Next coat it in a breading of the hard left over rolls and bacon, also put butter or some other liquid (like lemon juice from the lemons) in the breading mixture that way the meat doesn't get dry. Since the meat is already cooked you don't have to put it in the oven to finish it off, so you may want to do all of the stuff I have already said towards the end. Also this is in the CHOPPED kitchen right? Anywho to take away from the richness of the rare rib eye steaks with a warm green bean onion salad with a vinagret (I don't think that that is spelled right but whatever). The warm vinagret will be made of the strawberries some lemon juice, the stuff you have left over) and water. The sweetness of the strawberries will compenstate for the no sugar. First however you will want to masarate the strawberries in water and then blend that all together with one part of lemon juice and watermelon. The green beans will be put into a sauce pan with the vinagret. Serve the warm salad on top of the lemon, bacon, roll incrusted rib eye with the lemon, watermelon, strawberry vinagret. The end, you won, MERRY CHRISTMAS.