Want to play? "My House in August"
IdaClaire
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Day 5, My House in August: Outside
Comments (44)I'll play. I'll try to catch up on the other photos on the appropriate threads. With the exception of the immediate photo below (you'll guess why I'm including it), I'll try to keep this to my new build, not my current legal residence. Juvenile venison, he/she seems to have a twin, too. Connecticut, yesterday. Cannas plants. I planted them late, but they seem to be thriving on the southeast area of my future home. Massachusetts. These ones will be vibrantly red, probably starting this week. A few weekends ago, I had house guests up at my future home. That red dot is their drone, with which we had fun....See MoreDay 7, My House in August: Table
Comments (51)April, thanks for your appreciation of the light fitting!! It was obviously meant to be - about five years ago when living in our last house (Wiltshire, England) we saw three of these lights - varying sizes - in a flower shop in the nearest town. DH and I both fell in love even though it was a bit contemporary for our tastes, lol! The lights weren't for sale but were fixtures in the shop. We asked where they'd been sourced but no-one seemed to know. A few months later DH was trawling a car boot sale (weird English Sunday pastime, ha ha!) and spotted *our* light across a field full of cars. It was acquired for the princely sum of £15 :)...See MoreDay 8, My House in August: Living Room
Comments (32)What a fun thread! My mother spent several years pointing out whenever she dropped by that my house is very comfortably arranged for a pair of hermits (yes, we are) but it lacks a seating area that would encourage congregation and conversation. DH and I just smiled and agreed with her. But when an extremely heavy friend planned to visit over a long weekend, I took the comment more seriously and decided a seating area was needed that would accommodate a very large person comfortably. The living room is long (22 ft) and narrow, with a 12-ft window on one long wall and a stacked stone fireplace and large built-in bookcase filling the other. We have to have a place for plants in front of the window (outside of which is a wonderfully private backyard) with enough space there to be able to close the curtains against the strong afternoon sun. Okay, I finally shot my bolt; bought love seats, pillows, and a rug; and probably will never do anything like it again. The guest, darn it all, got sick and will have to visit another time. But DH and my brother both like it (actually, they both expressed an unflattering degree of surprise that they do like it), and now Mom has a comfortable place to sit while she points out what I should do with the rest of the house, beginning with finding more items to display on the top shelf of the bookcase....See MoreDay 12: My House in August "Favourite"
Comments (16)Thanks, Bonnie_ann! I am fortunate to have a Polish deli about 10 minutes from my house, so that is great for holidays. People drive from neighboring cities to shop there. They have incredible varieties of Polish sausage. I am one of the few in there who doesn't really speak Polish. We did our kitchen around 2009-2010 so I posted a lot of photos then. We have blue pearl granite and then the mosaic glass BS. I put the stainless inserts in behind the stove. Yes, I did the backsplash, not really knowing what I was getting myself into. But the mosaics were on mesh-backed sheets, and the few tiles I needed cut I was able to take back to Lowe's and they did it for me. We just got a new Elextrolux induction since the Samsung induction cooktop died and could not be repaired because the parts were no longer available....See Moremaire_cate
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