Hello Everyone... Hi Jim, Always impressed by everything that you grow... Love the Thai Giant...i'll bet that it will be a real beauty in a few weeks!!! Great job on all of your different plants..trees/ C & S... Love to be able to stroll down your street and admire your yard... Pretty Work!!! Take care everyone.. Laura in VB

Betty- would never dream of taking that away from him. He also sits at top of stairs and can see through the windows in entryway and the top windows in that corner. He can see all the people go by with their dogs. He barks at them like he is telling them to let him join them. Actually, the plant in that corner is a long basket arrangement I picked up from someone at work. It is simply resting on top of that large jar that we fleck spray painted years ago for our first home. In the pic it looks pretty good. We put an uplight back there and at night it looks pretty cool. Just need to get the right plants back there because in person the one there really is not that nice there. Can't use real because of doggy and naughty kitty. Thanks for all the nice comments. What is really nice about this room kinda fits a recent post about decorating more for look than function. Although this room does look really clean and neat it is really family friendly. We upgraded the microfiber to a stronger grade because we knew doggy would get up there when we are not home. The chair dh picked out did not seem very comfortable when he showed it to me. OMG it is so comfy that we fight over it, although it is his throne technically. We now go in there and drink coffee, chat with visitors or just rest. You can put your feet up on the sofa with no worries. The doggy drool that inevitably ends up on the glass tabletops wipes off easily, the round edges are soft on your legs when chasing him around the room. I am glad we did not do a rug under the dining table because when doggy chases kitty, she likes to sit on the chairs and bat at him while he is under there, he does not knock the chairs over. They simply slide out of place. We thought of curtain panels in dining room that puddled on floor but thought that would be too tempting for kitty to play in. Pups water/food station is on the slate floor. His dribbles from drinking land on the slate and by the time he hits the pergo it is all gone. I hate stepping on wet dribble. Yuck. So I think we accomplished the look we were hoping for. Magazine style with family function.

I got the last 4 cushions in this pttern t my local Target, cn't find them online, but they are 2010 pttern so I'm going to cll and see if they're getting more in stock (nd maybe give me sle price on them). I think I'll just get 2 more (or settee cushion if they're getting one in nd it's less $$ and fits) and give up on recovering cushions. Yes, it would be less $$ if I used the $2/yd fabric and the cushions I already hve, but it's easier to just spend another $20 and get 2 more cushions since I usually go to GW near that Target once a week nyway. It kind of blends in with the house color, doesn't "pop" but fter a month of looking for cushions/fabric I'm tired, $60 to do 4 chairs and 1 settee (I think I'm going to put the other settee I got guilted into buying bck on CL) isn't that bad. I'd spend more than that on the outdoor foam to make cushions, never mind S/H nd fbric (even at $2/yd!). I've been seeing you join in lots of threads, Becky - just couldn't stay awy huh ;-)? After you get some sleep and get some things done, come bck tonight nd tell us how some of your projects re going OK? (Sigh, now the i is working, but a is sticky - and I don't feel like going bck and inserting them so forgive my old handmedown laptop).

vcheethi-- those pics of the beds are from the guest room. I bought those bed frames on craigslist and that is the way they were. It was just a little shabby chic set of beds with funky head & footboards but fit perfectly with my vision for that room. The footboard actually appears taller in the pic than it is. The cute bathroom pics are from the guest suite bathroom. The guest room is my second favorite room in the house, I love it and the views out those windows are fabulous.