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Comments (15)You all are right about the leaves. The seed pods are bad too, and I hate the THUNK when you run over them with a mower. And unless you pick the pods up the mulching mower will get all jammed up with them. When I was a kid, I grew up in a house with four HUGE magnolias. I mean these things were 40 or 50 feet' tall, the biggest I've ever seen. My mother loved them so much, and thought of them as something out of Gone With The Wind.... But guess who had to pick up the seeds and rake ALL THOSE LEAVES EVERY WEEK? Ugh! I like the flowers but no way would I have another one in my yard....See Moreneighbor has painted garage door bright red!
Comments (67)well, a quick look at my state's licensing info says that a permanent place of business that's not a residence is required. I'm not seeing a lookup feature, but they also have a sense of humor: "The process for obtaining an automobile dealer's license in New Mexico may seem as complicated as the Manhattan Project. You may even be tempted to camp out in front of the National Laboratory in Los Alamos in the hope that some brainy scientist will give you the secrets to break down the complicated code that seems to surround the licensing process." 3 a year? try 3 a week. Should I go out of my way to get this neighbor in trouble? Don't live right next to them. This post was edited by Violet.West on Sun, Sep 14, 14 at 19:22...See MoreExterior paint color and insects, and neighbor's house color
Comments (2)lazygardens, Thanks for taking th time to answer my question. I have decided to stick with the deep gold color. Off to buy the paint!...See Morehouse color coordination question--neighbor painted house!
Comments (24)ARGH: I keep missing that I wanted to say thanks to decorpas for your comment right at the start! It's always good to have support for a choice that is still purely theoretical...do you have any thoughts on a roof color? And it's not so much the *color* as the idiom--cottagey vs. modern, iykwim. The houses were all built at the same time, and I guess it's o.k.; it just looked so different yesterday and it gives off a more bucolic happy vibe now, vs. the downer shades of grey, deep red, and green that characterize the PNW :) Guess we'll be the severe modernist neighbor (albeit with sedum aplenty and none of that modernist discipline in the landscape design -- sometimes I see those nouvelle-cuisine gardens and think "now is the time on Sprockets when we plant!" :)) And Lindy and Amy, thanks...I think you're right, maybe, Lindy--cheery definitely sticks out here LOL...It is rather nice to look out on from our master bedroom, though--and the owner came home and said she thought it was too light--I honestly don't think it looks bad at all, just a different "mood". The only greens I can't find a place for in my heart are Kelly and mint green, and sometimes 80s forest green. Other than that I'm very easy wrt green :) Amy, when I was purchasing the samples at the BM store I commiserated with a saleswoman there--evidently we had fathers who had made similarly horrid house paint choices when we were children--I'm sure it was an element of our being judged when parents came to pick up their daughters after an overnight (see the thread on the other side :))--I really think it was my father's peasant taste combined with his napoleonic autocratic approach to decision making, but the colors he evidently chose without consulting with my mother looked like a circus tent to me--sunshiny yellow with spring green trim, I kid you not. Really traumatizing every time I looked at it. I'm going to paint up more of the side of the house in the 150% SHG tomorrow just to reassure myself...so what color shingles should I order? (they have cedar shake, and black next to us--but no one sees our roof anyway, so it's nowhere near as high-stakes a choice :))...See MoreRelated Professionals
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