Stir: Just adjust your water level to fill full. It is easy with just a turn of a screw. Videos(you may have already watched) will show you how and talk you through--easy. You will enjoy it much better then. Handwash sounds fine. Even my front loader does that. Very little tumbling/agitating on that cycle. Use Perm-Press and put your speed on Delicates for a slow wash/spin without the soaks.

I think that all the Itohs that I have are beautiful. They make nicely size-limited plants that do not get too big but have flowers over an extended period compared to many of the herbaceous types that want to bloom all at once. The Bartzella, Garden Treasure, and Yumi that I have in the yellow group all just glow with an attention-getting glow.

Love seeing all the lights. Thanks for sharing. @nini804 in the house we lived in for 20yrs, I had the electric candles with three candles in all the front windows. I miss those. Here is a house (article and video) near a family member's home. He hired a man that worked for NASA to help with his lights. Nothing says Christmas like white lights in palm trees, right? Our first Christmas in our little corner of the world. The string lights stay up year round. Everything is on a timer. In the past, one of my favorite things was to see the snowflakes and angels the city installs on the light posts. So I bought my own snowflake several years ago. I plan to add more next year. ETA: I ordered two more, various sizes and shapes.

Regarding the children’s bedrooms, I wonder if you and your spouse stay up after they have gone to bed, chatting, listenting to music/podcasts, maybe watching tv (but it does not look like you are planning a tv in the living room). Anyway, is that one bedroom a little close, will sound disturb their sleep? Also, the placement of that bedroom door, it opens to a corner, which seems odd. So, I wonder if you can move the bedroom wing back a bit? and, then have a window at that end of the living room, defining that walking space across the back of the living room? In the master bedroom, the closet layout will change from what you show. The hanging space should go straight across the back. Notice that you won’t be able to access anything hanging in the corner. But, going straight across means you need to widen the door, so you can reach the items on the ends. And, do you keep anything in drawers? Like socks? Where will drawers go? In the closet? Not much room for a chest of drawers in the bedroom. In the kitchen, will you have a dishwasher? If so, put it to the left of the sink, so that it is out of the prep space. If you wash by hand, still move the sink over, so that there is room for a dish drainer out of the prep space.