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Comments (23)I have used window screen, too. It works well. Kwie - all of my landscaping is with river rock, except for the required lawn. I have small pea gravel size, medium size and large rocks for a border. I grab some of it for top dressing. They sell bags of it at HD and Lowes. It is very dirty - muddy, really. You have to wash it well. And it does get hot in the Florida summer sun. I've burned myself pulling weeds without a beach towel to sit on. But I have not noticed it damaging any of the plants. If you don't want 25 lbs. of river rock, they also sell smaller bags of soil cover. Some is quite attractive. I bought some called "pearl stone" that are white, clean and look nice. I haven't noticed if they are hot in the summer. I didn't notice my lava rock feeling hot, either, tho. Maybe that's because I didn't sit on them! LOL...See MoreI hate to sound so stupid, but -- felting?
Comments (5)I just learned about felting recently and made a bag just big enough to hold business cards -- really cute. Thought that would be a quick and cheap way to see just what all the shouting was about. Now I'm making a large tote. I can see why it's so popular...so many beautiful colors of wool yarn and you can be as creative as you want. I'd been making scarves out of the eyelash, etc. yarn and will use some of that on the bags/totes. You do need to make it larger as it will shrink. I bought a booklet - Pursenalities - that has a lot of different patterns for all kinds of bags. And I found a pattern for a laptop bag that I'm anxious to make...and I want to try a backpack...it IS addictive and I just got started!...See MoreI've always hated grey, so why am I considering it?
Comments (25)Susanilz5, I could have written your original post! That's exactly how I have been feeling! 10 years ago, I would not even use taupe inside my house because it looked gray! Every light tile I brought home I didn't like because there always seemed to be a gray undertone. I didn't use white fixtures in my bathroom because I thought they looked gray instead of white! I picked out some paint chips today in the gray family, showed them to my sister and she got a funny look on her face and said, "They're too gray! That's not you!" I told her "Gray is the new beige." I actually put a post on the kitchen forum about using a gray/blue/green with my oak cabinets and only got one response--SW's anew gray (which I haven't checked out yet). However, my dilemma would be transitioning from a gray room into my other warm colored rooms and how to make that work. I'm not sure I'm capable, but I think I could get by using it in a bathroom or bedroom because they are destination rooms and not rooms connected to multiple rooms like a kitchen or family room might be. Good luck! I'll be anxious to see your results....See MoreSo bummed - Hate the exterior color I chose. Please help.
Comments (39)I'm with those who like the house color. It's mine, in fact. Regarding the garage doors, those are the trouble spot in the typical home. Ideally, the garage would be detached and hidden, your chauffeur would drop you off and then make the car disappear too. These days, instead of hiding garages discretely hidden behind hedges, we have big, klunky utilitarian garage doors trying to grab attention from what should be a compelling and delightful front entry. So, my recommendation is to not try to punch up the garage door in any way. THAT's not where you want people to look. Your painter had the right idea, but still went the wrong way in painting it the typical bright look-at-me white. I'd take the house color itself a shade or two two darker and paint the garage doors that color. It's so nice that you do love the front door color, which is lovely with the gray. I agree with Bronwynsmom, though, that more contrast would fix the washed-out effect you're seeing from the street. Just look to something else to add more. Flowers are ephemeral, so not so great to depend on even in the warm seasons and gone entirely in winter. How about establishing more permanent energy with a pair of large, decorative, winter-hardy pots? They could hold flowers in summer, seasonal decor in winter. Yellows-oranges-reds are across the color wheel from blue, and the complement would really make the door area pop. If that's too colorful for your tastes, you could add contrast in a quieter manner by going dark against the relatively pale colors, black, very deep green, eggplant, or...?...See More
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