I haven't seen Snidely in a while, or Old Fixer in a Long Time!
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Comments (77)Congrats, Midnight. Growing a clivia to blooming size from seed is a great accomplishment. I hope you'll start a separate thread with pics once the blooms are open. Great plants! Socks, Disneyland and I have a lot in common, heh heh, and no, not because I'm "goofy"! I like a lot of the plants they use, and how they create such cheerful/jarring combinations. I just planted a bare root 'Disneyland' rose, which, while not jarring, is certainly perky like the many they have planted there. I've been gardening since I was five years old and have reached the point where I just plant what I enjoy and what makes me smile, so "tastemakers" be damned, lol. The brighter, taller, and stinkier, the more I like my orange marigolds. I actually struggle to find non-dumpy dwarf types. Usually I get them from Select Seeds or Seeds of Change...what about you? Take care, Grant...See MoreAnyone buying a tub you haven't seen?
Comments (24)How about buying a tub you haven't bathed in? We bought the Kohler Tea for Two whirlpool after I discovered it, I believe for the first time, in a home magazine. I finally got to eyeball the tub, but not the whirlpool version, at a plumbing supply store. It wasn't the same size I wanted, and it wasn't a whirlpool, but we ordered one anyway. While I love the tub and the look of it, we are slightly disappointed that the jets aren't stronger than other Jacuzzi-type whirlpool tubs we have been in. We even asked a company representative to come out and check it out, to make sure it was working the way it was supposed to. They said it was, but how would we know, as we never got to try it first. But along the same lines, we also ordered three toilets for three bathrooms, some of which we hadn't seen, and we also didn't know what the flushing was like -- strong, not so strong, etc. At the time, like maybe many of you, I was wishing someone would have a store where they displayed all these things in working order, kind of like a television or stereo store. You get to see the picture on TVs before you buy them, or hear the sounds of stereo systems before you purcharse. Why can't you know how toilets flush or tubs work? They even let you lie down on mattresses before you buy them! I can't believe we all spend so much money on these plumbing things and know so little about them!...See MoreUh-Oh - Haven't Even Started on Kitchen and Had to Replace Faucet
Comments (24)davidrol, The faucet was an American Standard---about twenty years old. It had been slowly falling apart in various ways for some time. We had been putting up with it until now. I am shocked to hear that the hose could not have been full of holes, because when I emptied out the cabinet and turned on the faucet, the hose was leaking at multiple points along the length---kind of like a soaker hose. Unfortunately, the faucet has been put out in the garbage, so I can't offer a post-mortem autopsy to provide any other answers. As I said, the faucet must be about twenty years old, so I think it provided adequate service for some time before giving out. This was one of the first faucets made with a pull out sprayer instead of one on the side--quite advanced for the time, but archaic compared to modern faucets. The pull out sprayer portion was made of black plastic. You pressed on the top of the sprayer and the water stream would change to a spray and automatically go back to the regular stream when it was turned off. It stopped going back to the regular stream when it was turned off years ago, so we had to turn it on and off manually ourselves. We had a friend who worked for a plumbing supplies distributor at that time and he was able to get us a good deal on it at the time....See Moresome of my DR heart pine furniture..if you haven't seen it before
Comments (35)Trailrunner, your home is just so beautiful and it seems to be full of who you are as a person. I don't know your story but I too have one of my own. The sentence that began "All any of us can do" really spoke to me today and I don't even know what words I can say to thank you for them. I don't mean for this to be an OT not by any means, but I try to surround myself with things that are attractive to me. The beauty might be in the character of your unupholstered chair or the unknown history of memazz's bowling pins or a painting that tells a story to me. My family doesn't understand the importance decorating has in my life, and luckily doesn't really have any influence on what I do - I couldn't imagine that battle. For me, it is the desire to surround myself with things that I find beautiful and items that evoke happy memories that dictates what I do. My rooms would not be in any magazine and pale in comparison to rooms I have seen in this blog (like your dining room) but adding something or altering a room bringing it closer to being "me" is what I strive for. Sitting in a chair in my LR, with my coffee, watching the cat as she sleeps next to "my" chair - no one else likes the color but I think it is "gorgeous" - with the colors of the vase (which I picked out just knowing that it would cast the most magnificent shadow) in the window beginning to creep upon her fur is more beautiful than any diamond I could own. So again, without meaning for this to be OT - I tend to look at people's rooms as more than what is "correct" as to how much of their personality is there. So many of your pieces from the stories you have told seem to tell some of the stories of your life. Do you like I, place what may be to most people, a greater desire to surround yourself with things that elicit positive thoughts. I find that not many people understand that it is more than just accumulating or matching "things". How much does ingesting your personality matter when you are designing a room?...See More
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