Tempting fate, do you agree with her thinking?
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Comments (24)Obviously I should have had the good sense to inquire here a couple weeks before I was ready to leave. We all had fun-- much to see and not nearly enough time. A return trip in a couple months sounds like a very good idea. Funny thing (as in strange- definitely NOT "ha-ha" funny)-- Apparently our Minnesota constitutions couldn't take sunny so-cal weather. We had to haul older DD into the ER in Burbank; she got pneumonia (for the second time in her 17 years!) Little DD and I both have bronchial infections, plus she has an earache, and I've got a sinus infection on one side (I'll skip the Dr if possible). I guess DH was the only one who could take the weather! Luckily, little DD and I only got sick near the end of the trip. Poor older DD was pretty miserable much of the time. I didn't see a single "for sale" succulent the whole time. I did have the closest call ever -- car accident-wise. I'm glad I wasn't driving (DH was)! Somebody turned directly in front of us and slid sideways down the freeway and across 5 lanes... Sunday morning, light traffic, but it's a miracle things weren't worse! We missed them literally by inches (less than a foot, for sure.) The car was right there in front of us, sideways, and then it spun on past. If we'd have hit, we'd have gone into a spin too, and I bet there'd have been a multi-car pile up. Luckily the car had enough speed going to get all the way across our path, sideways without our hitting it. How it didn't roll, I can't imagine. It was a bug, with a low center of gravity, but still...sliding sideways at 75 mph... Hard to figure what went on. DH said maybe they blew a front tire and slammed on the brakes -- no obvious reason to lose it suddenly like that. It hit the guardrail/barrier on the rider's side (no passenger, fortunately) and luckily a B&W was pretty close behind. (That's one thing that surprised me-- cop's haven't driven black & whites around here in ages! To my eye, they look kind of Mayberry 60's.) I would guess the driver came out ok, though I'm sure he's at the very least pretty stiff and sore. I already wasn't sure I'd want to drive the LA freeway without a co-pilot to read the map. That didn't help. Co-pilot wouldn't (didn't) see it coming! The plus side-- Exploring tidepools; touring an orchid nursery that specializes in the corsage industry; poking through another nursery with unusual, if unafordable, stuff; great seats at the Ahmanson Theatre for "The Importance of Being Earnest" (with Lynn Redgrave & Miriam Margolyes among others); a private guided studio tour with a chance to poke our noses into places the public generally can't get near; let's see, I already mentioned the morning in the ER with DD...afternoon at the Huntington, including gorgeous plants galore and a Gainsborough exhibit in the gallery; scenic coastal views; NCGA (corn, not golf) convention with enough free pens to take us through the next couple years; Disneyland (no teacups!); wonderful food and enough exercise to wear it off-- I probably had 2 quarts of fresh strawberries during the week! Illness excepted, it was a good time indeed!...See Moredo you agree with these FL tips?
Comments (38)dave1812: "herring, if you saw my washer you would think it was brand new and I've had it a few years." If you saw the paint on our ten-year-old automobile, you would think it is brand new. One reason: every year, we give it a coating of Collinite Liquid Insulator Wax 845. The wax is transparent: you see right through it to the paint below; but the wax really is there. "the key is 1) adjust the water level to be SLIGHTLY higher than factory specs and 2) use very LITTLE FB. I didn't need a lesson in what FB is made of. " You have used the acronym "FB" several times; from context, I assume that you mean fabric softener, but FB is an acronym that I have not seen before. One assumes that the "F" derives from "fabric"; what does the "B" represent? "That's quite presumptuous on your part to think the rest of us here don't understand FB." Actually, the evidence is clear that most of those who post here do understand what fabric softener does to the fabrics, coating the fibers and reducing absorbency. The point that I was making in this thread was that fabric softener is added to the laundry load specifically to leave a residue behind on the fibers of the fabric; if it all were washed off by the water and laundry detergent during the wash cycle, then it all would go down the drain. Inasmuch as the purpose of the product is to coat the fibers, it should be no surprise that the washing machine parts that the fabric softener contacts also will receive a coating that persists after the laundry has been moved to the dryer. "Nor do I care if you don't like FB. It would just be nice if you weren't saw PUSHY about the subject." Did you read what I wrote and posted a very few messages above your posting? I repeat it for your benefit below: "It was not my intention, in making a tangential remark above, to start a fabric softener flame war. I have a personal preference (we do not use any), but we have no dog in the fight as to whether others should." Here is a link that might be useful: It probably would be a boffo fabric softener...See MoreDo you agree with this decorator?
Comments (10)White on white is a lot more difficult to pull off successfully. You need to focus on a lot more texture and shape differences in the white for it to be successful. And I don't think that the first pic is all that successful at doing it. There isn't enough shiny, or rough, or other shapes. And I don't think the second pic is any more successful with the single insert of color. It needs additional dark accessories in the room to integrate it better. Although Tinker's bath wasn't done by a pro (You aren't a pro are you Tinker?) it's the most successful of those pictured because of the attention to texture and subtle pattern and contrast. The waffle texture of the shower curtain and the additional texture of the rug together with the subtle contrast of color on the walls keeps the white on white from being flat and lifeless, and that's a lesson that the first bath pictured could use. That floor pictured in the master is beyond fab and it adds a lot of character to the space as do the glass shelves and knobs and pulls. The darker walls work better as the instance of strong contrast here, but again, it's more successful because it's carried around the whole room. That's the lesson that the second bath could use. Contrast of texture and repetition of design elements are VERY important when working with a mostly monochromatic color scheme, or even a high contrast dual color scheme....See MoreDo you agree with my desiger to eliminate this cabinet.....?
Comments (70)I would do moulding around the whole room as if it were cornice (like the room existed before the kitchen) -I would wrap the upper part of the range hood as if it were chimney breast. -I would run cornice across the entire front of the fridge run as if the fridge and those cabinets were set back into an alcove. (These cabinets would be the same height as now with a soffit essentially, but only one the height of the cornice itself. -For the counter height cabinet and the sink uppers you have a couple of options: *make them shorter and run the soffit all the way around the wall over them and only have a simple moulding at the top of the cabinet *have the cornice die into the sides of the cabinets which still go to the ceiling and top them with a simpler moulding that then dies into the cornice. The over hang could be practical so I would keep it. Are there fluted elements anywhere else? If there are and you want to keep them it's fine, if not you may want to go with a simpler leg. Either would be correct. I think you could run a Danby splash the entire height of the counter to cabinet (or hood) space from left to right. It has a natural spot to die into the corner cabinet then. Over the sink I don't think you need anything except something narrow perhaps to engage the height of the window sill. I would run it all the way across. Again it has a natural stopping point at the corner cabinet. If the sill is true counter height you may not need anything on that run. Next to the fridge I would probably just do a wood panel that matched the cabinet doors. Your designer must have a Palimpsest voodoo doll by now :/...See More- 7 years ago
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