James Hardie Rustic Series by Woodtone? Transitional/rustic New build
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Fiber cement siding from build direct
Comments (33)Also looking to order fiber cement siding planks. Seems like everyone goes with either CertainTeed or Hardie planks. Is Cerber a reputable brand (it seems they're manufactured by Certainteed per quote above: "Cerber currently uses Certainteed Fibre Cement board for its rustic series. Previously we had used Maxitile, but we had feedback from customers indicating less brand awareness and confidence in Maxitile and a preference for Certainteed.") My GC is letting us order as much of the material as we want ourselves vs. him ordering for us to price compare (he doesn't have time to do all that quoting back and forth), but I've not bought anything online directly and not from Build Direct. I've only made purchases from local distributors, HD/Lowe's and other local building suppliers. Is it safe to buy from Build Direct? I'm in northern CA and to cover 3000 sq ft (that's how large the house is, not the needed siding) one-story home, I've calculated that it'll take about 2340 sq ft + 10% Thank you in advance for any advice!...See MoreWish list if starting from scratch
Comments (44)Gardner - I adore the four bed wall! I'll have to print that one and keep it for reference. Sandy - My father grew up in Greenville, FL. We lived 6 hours south of there but went up about once each year or every other year when I was a child. My grandfather designed and built the farmhouse himself. I sat down with my dad a few years ago and we sketched out the floorplan. There were no frills, mostly just a series of bedrooms connected to a kitchen. No dedicated living space and no indoor plumbing. Most of the socializing was done on the front porch. There was an outhouse out back and a well with a bucket that we had to draw water from. One year we went up and the had installed an old iron handpump beside the kitchen sink so they could draw water directly into the kitchen. A year or two later and they had upgraded to real running water and indoor bathroom. We would visit during the summer and they had no air conditioning. At the time, we didn't have A/C at our home either but it always seemed much hotter there. I still have cousins that live there but I wouldn't know them if I ran into them. I would have to visit now, as an adult, to form an opinion. One last bit of trivia about the old days, I remember there was a spot just down the road from their farmhouse where there was large lettering painted at an angle on the asphalt that said "QUINCY" and a big arrow underneath. They said this was painted on the road in the days before modern navigational beacons and was meant to guide airplanes. Later today I will be driving past a newer, very small home I spotted a few months back. It's in a rural area aobut an hour from my house and I don't pass that way often. I have prepared a short letter inviting contact and will be pinning that to their front gate. Let's hope we can meet them and draw them into our circle. Scott...See MoreHow Do You Handle Color In Your Garden?
Comments (98)I love the same colors you do, Ingrid and am a real fan of white and pale pink. I try to create a flow of color in my garden grouping colors together in sections with the white and pale pink and blue accents throughout. This year I planted tons of new iris and had a Purple bed and Blue bed nearish each other and another purple bed out farther with a bed of burgundys and a bed of mismash luminatas and odd greyish ones together to be moved later. I almost keeled over when the brightest yellow you can imagine popped up there (a free iris). I shall dig it and plant it next door at the vacation rental where I plant my too orange roses also. I have a pale yellow bed of other flowers and a pale yellow and purple section of roses. I plant white and cream and a few purple foxgloves about as well as white and blue campanula throughout. I am also scattering Sweet Williams around for summer color. I play on Pinterest with colors of plants on a board that is just for me to dabble with. I helps me combine other plants with rose color schemes. I try to like yellow so plant pale versions such as the magnolia Elizabeth, and pale yellow peonies along with cream near purples, like the iris. I do like some of the dark dark pink roses, the ones without a true red, that will blue with age and have those in a bed with white roses interspersed. My garden is young and sometimes I make impulse purchases that somehow find a place somewhere. I find if I don't love the color of a plant I kill it without meaning to do so and have killed many rudbeckias because though I love them at other people's houses, I can't get around to even liking them in my garden, I stick with Shasta daisies and echinacea in pinks for that shape. I like themes so have a black and white section of the garden, in back of the dark dark pink and white roses, along with a section for the Little Girl Series of magnolias from the 1950s with roses in pinks in between. I am collecting the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs roses from the Netherlands and am planning a little "Snow White" garden with lots of white other flowers with the roses. As I have a disease which causes fatigue and pain, I am planning more benches in shady nooks and after a friend showed me a picture of lie down benches in a forest in Scotland I am determined to have that also. I have a section of peonies along with some dwarf fruit trees and also have peonies interspersed with the roses, again mainly in whites and pale pinks but have some corals in another section of the garden and a few pale yellows. I am planting the native Pacific Dogwoods about as I love them so. I follow deer trails for my beds with some cut throughs I make. It sounds very grand, but it isn't yet, perhaps in 20 years!...See MoreBringing life to my bland apartment?!
Comments (50)Obviously, this is a slightly biased opinion, but there is a science behind it - 1000% get some house plants! We just covered this in one of our last blog posts. While the blog focuses on the step up to landscaping from caring for plants, it also covers a lot of the science behind caring for plants and why that is a good choice! https://floresartscape.com/blog/house-plants-and-happiness You don't have to spend a lot of money on plants, and you can focus on succulents or other hardy plants that don't need as much water or special care....See MoreK Scotty
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