First, I put in as many pics as the home allows. A lot of the cookie cutter homes only have enough features for maybe 6 pics. I do not usually post pics of secondary bedrooms, as everyone knows what a bedroom looks like... walls, floors and windows. Other homes can justify having 16. Most of my listings do get the full 16. Here is a story... I took a listing of a family that were slobs. I went through my 34 page pamphlet on how to stage a house. She needed the training real bad... dirty dishes everywhere, dirty laundry everywhere, kids toys strewn all over the home, just a mess of a place. Otherwise it was a nice home in a desirable area. We agreed that I would give her two weeks to clean, organize and declutter. She called me up a while later and told me to come over for the pics. I let myself in since no one was home. To my dismay, the house had dirty dishes, and the master bed had a pile of dirty clothes piled on it, (yes, underwear and bras too) and the kids toys were still everywhere. I was so pissed, I took the pics the best I could, put them in the MLS, and waited a couple of days for them to be fed onto Realtor.com. When they did, I sent her a link to her listing. She called me the next morning in a panic, saying that she can not have pics like that on the internet! My plan had worked. I went back a week later and the home was presentable. I suppose some people can not see their own mess until they view it from a different perspective. If I still have these pics, I will post them. They were really bad.

Mariana, que bom ver uma jovem arquitecta portuguesa interessada nestas coisas! Quando começo a desesperar de ver alguém mais a interessar-se, eis que aparecem pessoas como você! :-) Não sei se conseguirá encontrar alguma roseira com todas as características que indica e, se conseguir, o mais provável é que não exista no comércio cá... Se em vez de branca quiser experimentar uma roseira em cor-de-rosa, a Bela Portuguesa (a.k.a. Belle Portugaise) é uma roseira lindíssima e foi hibridizada no início do século XX pelo então jardineiro-chefe do Jardim Botânico de Lisboa, Henri Cayeux. Creio que não existe à venda em Portugal, mas pode encomendá-la facilmente em Inglaterra, em qualquer dos websites que indiquei acima. Se quiser mesmo branca e trepadeira, existem algumas roseiras chá antigas, como a Devoniensis ou a Sombreuil, ou a Noisette Madame Alfred Carriére, que se adequam bem a uma zona histórica antiga - mas não são portuguesas, nem com 5 pétalas. Outra hipótese, muito vigorosa, é a Lady Banks, que se consegue encontrar em centros de jardinagem em Portugal, mas que não é adequada a todas as circunstâncias devido ao facto de ser muito grande (não conheço o espaço que tem disponível). Se quiser obter boas sugestões de roseiras nas condições que descreve (excepto o facto de serem portuguesas) poderá colocar a sua questão no fórum de Antique Roses aqui no gardenweb, onde certamente será inundada com lindas sugestões. Nos websites acima indicados também pode fazer uma pesquisa por cor e a base de dados www.helpmefind.com/roses tem muita e muita informação, com fotos, de todo o tipo de roseiras, incluindo as que indiquei, se quiser ver qual o aspecto que têm. Boa sorte na sua pesquisa! Eduarda

Thank-you! I've been chafing at the imperfections in my ability to read Spanish (it used to be much better)--especially considering your English is impeccable-- but I like your way of looking at it better. It's the scanning in Spanish that I just can't do, though. Never could. Where you look at a whole paragraph and know what it's about, and your eye picks out the word or two about what you're looking for. I actually have to read all the words in Spanish. :) I don't know if the power difference has any real effect on performance. The BGH "max power" may just be what's needed to run both the top heating element and the grill at the same time (which is another difference from the Franke). I don't know if those modes would help pizza, but I'd guess that's the kind of thing it was really meant for. I doubt max power is used that often by any oven. Probably in a pre-heat mode where all elements are on to make the oven heat more rapidly than just using the ones you want to cook with. But I don't know that for sure. A consideration in buying any appliance is service. Ovens sometimes need to be calibrated, or a part may fail. A Chinese oven from an established local company which services and stands by it (for instance, will replace it if the unit is a "lemon"--just no good), if they actually do that, might trump a respected European oven which is sold though by the store, but they just give you the box and expect you to deal with any issues yourself. The same goes for outside sources for service. Here, some major independent appliance stores have their own service departments and have excellent techs. There are also companies in the city that specialize in one brand, such as Gaggenau or Whirlpool, and some other independents that work on the "big box store" brands such as Samsung, LG, and Panasonic, and will do any general service and repair, but don't stock the parts, which makes for a wait. Some of the big makers also have their own techs, or have certified techs at a local independent to do warranty work. It never hurts to find out who can and will do the work both during the warranty period and after. There should be a one year warranty on either. Factory testing can't find all faults, and sometimes something comes loose or breaks in shipping. The warranty should start on the day of installation. It's important to check that, because if it starts on the date of sale, but the unit is installed months later, you lose a big chunk of warranty. If the maker is giving a big extension on the warranty without added value, that's a red flag. Miele gives an extra year of warranty if you use their installers, presumably because they were getting too many warranty calls for issues caused by poor installation. But, another company might give a five year warranty, where one or two years is the norm, because they're known to have build issues. The five year warranty says, "Don't worry. We've got you covered. Buy ours anyway and we'll fix the faults." At a certain point, analysis goes out the window. After you've figured out all the features, the service, the reviews, etc., and there aren't any deal killers with either, perhaps it's the one with the nicer dials or racks that you end up preferring, or the one that matches the fridge. If you can see them in person and touch the doors and racks and knobs, you might feel which one you like better.

Translation: We are painting the exterior with Behr Sophisticated Teal paint on the walls and a light shade of blue on the eaves and the hall. The wood needs restoration (for now we can not replace what there is). I have thought to paint the windows white, but not the door. I accept suggestions.