Thank you ALL for looking and commenting on my latest obsessive activities ... LOL Yes Lisa, you're right, TGO! Bob painted the high part of the trim the first time around, but the color was too dark. So, he suggested that his TGO wife paint it the second time (and it was painted a third time which I didn't tell him). He did put the ladder up for me though while shaking his head .... :-) While I was up there I touched up the antiquing color on the big Roman faces plaque that's right under the peak even though nobody ever looks up there to see it..

Hi Linda OH ... now GA, Don't go ga-ga over this, please ... ... but are you just waking to the realization that jassy is a picturesque writer? (Listening to the radio helps one prepare - one draws one's own pictures to accompany the story: sorry - no "text"ing allowed). o j

" Yours is a great example of how switching finishes and just do minor tweaks can result in a fabulous transformation." I was thinking the same. Then things like cost, hassle, time, stress jumped into my thinking... Still, it is amazing how color, a bit change of style/some updates, w/o knocking out a wall, adding on space, vaulting a ceiling etc. makes so much difference! It IS lovely! the island counter top is so beautiful - would scare me to death - lol! love all those drawers! plllog's corner drawers are the first I remember being on here and I think I've been here over 4 yrs now. I do like your floor ... so much like my Armstrong planks. I tested some out on my puppy who slid and skid across a 6'x6' span of it just outside my bedroom door. I'd be on the bed watching tv (or trying to nap) and I'd throw her toy thru the door clear into the LR and off she'd race after it. Fly back to me and pounce on me... her nails were sharp and a bit rough (a lot) - I still have scars from them. BUT, the plank section didn't have any scratches to be seen even after about 6 wks of her wear and tear on it. I knew it was the floor for me. The color is about the same too. I've been thru the old dog (and meds) and slippery flooring. My old girl's last yr I carried her into the vet office for appts and someone there thought she couldn't walk (I guess I was cruel not to put her down). She walked fine (boy did she walk - wore me out) just not on their slippery tile floors! I didn't want her to fall on them with her little boney body.

Too funny Kswl! All solids? I've never really thought about that but I wear a ton of prints, florals, stripes, etc. I do love my solids to wear my scarves with. I love scarves and wear them often in cooler weather. I have a couple of gauzy ones I will wear in spring/summer. If I don't have a scarf on I will more than likely have on a funky necklace. One thing I will note, I do not wear black up against my face. Too stark and washes me out. I do not wear yellows, oranges (I HATE orange but love a pinky coral), browns, mossy greens, etc. (earth tones) other than some shades of brown pants. Thankfully those colors do not look good on me. I don't use them in our home either! Lynn, I had my colors done years ago and I am a winter. I don't think black is drab at all. It's fashionable! But of course, it makes a difference what you wear with your black.