Thanks, Michael, for directing me to brands with low temp paints. In your experience, do these paints work as well as regular paints? Any issues with durability, etc? Faron, that's pretty useful basic info for me. I didn't know you only needed 4 hours dry time at above 50 degrees to make it work. If so, I might still have a window of opportunity - I think we might have some 60-70 degree days left, but I was wondering what to do about the colder night temps (going down into the 40's). Janet - Did you have a couple of hours of above-50 dry time when you painted your garage door? Or did it just plain not work? How has your paint job held up? Thanks everyone. Michelle

Wow you do go don't you Bruno What an amazing transformation. Love how it is richer and more cohesive I think a nice round or oval mirror would be well suited above fp and will break up some of the square/ rectangles in room. Are you sewing now;)

The kitchen you found that you love, if I'm correct, is by Candice Olson/Divine Design. It was the subject of one of her shows about a family who all cooks together, even the teenaged kids. They have a family food business that they're all involved with. If I'm correct, there is an aisle across from the cooktop, leading out to a French-door patio, with storage cabs and a desk parallel to the cooktop peninsula. I'm not sure where the wall ovens are, they are either there or in the long bank of cabs/refrig that run parallel to the window wall. Now, I love Candice - her color palettes (I hate those gaudy Crayola colors the other HGTV designers love), her sense of architectural design (which most interior designers lack). But her kitchens, although very beautiful, to me have always lacked essential functionality. Her design for an obsessed baker with a good-sized kitchen that only had a single wall oven instead of a double, for example, or giving a busy working mother a fancy glass-topped island hood that will require somebody standing on the island to clean the back portion of the hood. Her design is a riff on the "Something's Got to Give" kitchen that created such a huge wave of interest a while back; just subbing full overlay Shaker cabs and glass-tiled backsplash. It's a classic look, so I think it will always be popular in one version or another. But when it comes to functionality, many people here have done a better job.

Well we went dark blue and love it. The post you see is actually a downspout. Wrought iron posts actually hold up the porch roof, however, we are going to box them in and paint them white so they look like columns.