Hi Brickmanhouse, I remember your home !! it's lovely.

I was at GI also, way back when, I'll be curious to see if anyone knows what happened. I had a few albums posted there.
I originally came from the forums at homeportfolio.com , those forums are gone also, although the site is still active as a sourcing guide.

Hi guys, I was a member there too! Remember Soov, Maureeen Rhoda(Southern Hospitality blog)Wendy, Rose, Lorie, Becky, Bonnie, RJ~~those are just a few that come to mind. Were either of you members of Lisa's(soov)group, Passion for Decor? That's gone also. I don't know what happened to GI, but I was suddenly 'kicked off', and not just me, when one of the threads took a turn for the worst, and everyone started slinging s***. I also think several of the members got tired of all the previous crap, and went on to other decorating forums. I often wonder where some of the others are~maybe blogging or facebook, both too time consuming for me. Who was the moderator of GI?

There was another forum, French Country, that was before GI, and there were very few members. The moderator on that one was Lisa. She was very knowledgeable when it came to FC, and I really missed that one. All of a sudden she wasn't on line, and I even sent her a personal email cause I was concerned about her. Makes me wonder..........

GI is alive and well! We've moved a couple of times trying to find a host that fits well for us and we are quite settled in at Ning. Some of us have dual citizenship and are active here, too! We also have a Facebook page. Rose tries to keep thing fairly current there but the reality is that many of us old GIers are FB friends and keep up that way. As a result the GI there doesn't get a lot of traffic, but the Ning site is zipping along. Ning recently changed from a free site to a pay for service site so GI is no longer free, but it's a minimal fee. It's still a closed group, invitation only so PM me if you want more info and refresh my memory about your GI names.

Deb

Duh. didn't check the names here first - Brickmanhouse - of course! But mitchdesj? You have me stumped. I saved access to a lot of the old albums and might be able to retrieve yours if you want it. Let me know.

Some of us are active here too.... :)

What the heck is Great Impressions, I'm nosey.

....Jane

Brickmanhouse, I remember you from years ago and some of the beautiful room transformations. Don't you have an armoire in the master bath? Did you finish the house?

GI was a fantastic group of home/house decorating fans/addicts of all sorts and kinds (I AM JUST teasing!!!!) It was established just after the first forums over at BHG .... and was lots of fun! It was my first attempt at computer postings and photos ....

Jan at Rosemary Cottage

Jan - what's with the past tense??? GI is alive and well, kiddo which you'd know if you weren't so busy here ;-)

newdawn - as Jan said, GI was born out of the Decorating and Color groups at Better Homes & Gardens original bulletin boards. There was no way to post pictures there unless you knew html (which is why a lot of us picked it up!) and as you know, decorating and color issues are tough to tackle with no visual. So 10 years ago a wonderful woman started a group at MSN where posting pictures was even easier than it is here, where we could create albums of our homes and gardens right at the site. We only pulled up camp because MSN closed all groups, became nomads for a while finding a new home.

Cool! I figured that crew was around somewhere.

Deb, I'll email you for details about how to get back in there.

Natal, thanks for the compliment on the house! Our master bathroom does have an armoire in it (good memory!), and we love it. We finished the bathroom a few years ago, and to this day, that armoire still has to be one of the best decisions we made-- it holds SO much stuff!

The house isn't finished by any stretch (it will probably be a lifelong project for us). We just finished the kitchen-- photos are posted on the Kitchens Forum here.

Right now we're working on some outside projects (finishing up a barn, building a pergola for my grapes) until the weather turns. Then we'll be headed back inside, turning a 4th bedroom into a library, and building a fireplace surround in our dining room. The projects will never end, I think!

Hi, old thread I know, but I too am from those old days of Great Impressions and hoping to reconnect with those members also. I never did an album but at the time I was picking paint colors and they were very helpful. Is Ostrich still there??

I came across this thread from a google search. As Deb said, yes! GI is alive and well.

This post was edited by paintergal92 on Mon, Jul 15, 13 at 22:59

Carol - so THAT'S why I suddenly had 4 emails with people wanting to join! Figured it had to be something over here and came looking for a thread to explain it. Now I know!

GTMA, Deb! I was wondering why the sudden bump, too. Always nice to hear of people's good memories about Great Impressions and to see some of my favorite names, like Brickman and teacats and others. We sure had a ton of fun when GI was one of the few community sites around. Although some members have dropped off, GI is 238 strong and still a great place for gathering with folks. Members voted to keep it private so we can share freely and comfortably, which you can't really do on places like Facebook. I feel that the sense of community, friendship and support in decorating, gardening and life in general is one of our greatest strengths as a group.

Here is a link that might be useful: Great Impressions

Who knew?

rosehb~You forgot the .ning.
Your link takes me to a Chicago landscaping co.