Decor On A Shoestring- The Deals and Steals Thread number two
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Comments (30)The urge to 'steal' plant material is hard wired in our DNA. our closest living relatives are browsers of vegetation & we have a natural urge to pick things. Taking cuttings & propagation material from institutions & public plantings has less guilty feeling attached to it than most forms of theft especially if one is an accomplished propagator & knows what to take & how best to grow it. Having said that if there is something one wants for a genuine reason of interest & enthusiasm for growing most organizations & institutions have facilities to give permission for it. The (growing) exception is the increasing number of institutions who have signed international agreements to restrict distribution of material only to similar institutions & totally exclude the public & commerce from access. Here in Australia some of our state botanic gardens have done so & some have not. I suspect that there will be less felling of guilt attached to material removed from those than from the 'open' ones who consider requests for material on an equal basis from individuals, commercial entities & other institutions. The most successful way to achieve a free exchange of plant material into & out of institutional plantings is to establish a personal relationship of trust & mutual benefit with staff at the coal face. For example nursery managers & head gardeners & propagators. Those who are actually tending & responsible for the plantings are in the best position to know what can be taken without harm & are far enough up the hierarchy to do so with impunity. This gives some semblance of honor to such exchange & bypasses the horrid web of red tape which complicates life if one goes through the official channels & deals with the desk jockeys who have hold of the end of the strings. This could possibly be accurately sub-titled: 'memoir of a lifelong indiscriminate plant propagator' :))...See MoreCraigslist deals of the day - part 2
Comments (66)nosoccermom, Did you ever find the elusive farm table? I got one from CL in New Hampshire a few weeks ago, after on and off searching for years. I don't know what made me go to the NH Craigslist, but am I glad I did. I'm in Maine. This was the picture I saw in the ad - Hand scraped pine, 3' x 6'. I asked for and got better pictures and for $200, it's now in my dining room - I want to refinish the top to get a less pumpkin pine look. It even has a drawer! The drawer pull was an old brass cup pull that I didn't care for. I took that off, and stained one of the chunky English style knobs I have for projects, after beating it up a bit and put that on. Much better! I purposely stained it a bit darker than the table, but there isn't as much contrast IRL than the pic shows. It has beautiful legs, and this is very embarrassing, but it's what my DR looks like now. After my kitchen refresh, everything was piled in there. The table got put there when we got home. Look back up at the 6 chairs around the table in the first pic. She said if I wanted those, they'd be $100 for all. A friend in NH loves pink and she wanted the Parsons chairs, and I guess I'm keeping the rush seat ladderback arm chairs. That works out to $16.67 per chair! The piece de resistance is the last pic below. This wasn't shown in the ad, but when I told her that I liked pine, she sent me this photo. OMG! 5' long x 32" high x 16" deep. It's upside down against the wall in the pic above. It was $75, and I could NOT resist. Now I need to find a place for it. :-)...See MoreDECORATING ON A SHOESTRING --- CL Finds
Comments (14)now they have two of these...and very expensive. together with that they say it's quarter of the price of 1stDibs (which is not surprising everybody knows 1stDibs is for people who don't care about price..) not on a shoestring...but maybe somebody's into antelopes so much he'll save on everything else. who knows. can happen. right? https://orangecounty.craigslist.org/fuo/d/willy-daro-attributed/6333867037.html...See MoreDealing with an Unethical Interior Decorator
Comments (7)It’s all right there in your contract. And the only person you should be talking to is your lawyer. This is a contract law dispute. If your lawyer helped you with the contract when you signed it, it should be relatively easy to have him send a nastygram and see which way the wind blows. She could be in the hospital after s car accident too. Not every lack of communication issue is nefarious....See MoreRelated Professionals
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