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Comments (8)Here's a great dessert with angel food cake: Cut the cake horizontally into two layers. Between the layers, spread Cherry Vanilla ice cream. Wrap in aluminum foil and freeze. When ready to serve, heat a can of cherry pie filling and put it on top of the cake slices, with slivered almonds on top. So good, and it's nice to keep one in the freezer for unexpected guests....See MoreWeek 146 - How did your pet influence your kitchen design?
Comments (29)We're remodeling our next home now and since the Laundry Room is right off the kitchen we planned storage there for dog stuff. My lab loves her crate and that's where we'll put it. I find it handy to be able to out her in the laundry room and close the door if I'm mopping the floor or we have contractors in the house. We just ordered a nice dog bed that will go somewhere in the family room for her daytime naps....See MoreCalling Anglophilia!
Comments (7)I have no idea what kind of poly the floor guy used in our kitchen. I had the devil of a time finding someone that would do such a small job and had it done while we were out of town (no way to do this with cats/dogs and this the only exit to the fenced in back yard!). He did not do a great job, but I'm accepted this. I have had a wood kitchen floor before and liked it very much. Having tried multiple types of tile on this kitchen floor and found them all very high maintenance with muddy-pawed dogs (at one time I had FIVE!) and a muddy-pawed husband, the only two floors I have found user-friendly were site-finished hardwood and Vermont slate. I loved my slate floor in our Maine dorm apartment, but my realtor told me that in KY, people in my neighborhood expect hardwood in the kitchen and don't even understand slate. Slate is also expensive and difficult to remove, so hardwood it was. This small kitchen gets a LOT of traffic as the door to the back garden is in it. Dogs and people use it. It's been in now for nearly 15 years and is only beginning to show a tiny bit of wear on the finish, all right in one place. It's small enough, I may have my SIL screen-sand it and apply poly - he's done that in their kitchen - again hardwood, small, door to backyard, and two boys plus a SAHH - lots and lots of wear. Oh, also 3 cats! I know that in our house in St Louis, we used oil-based poly but that that was in the late 70's. I sort of remember that water-based might have been used in our KY house, both upstairs on new floor and when flooring had to be replace on 1st floor due to broken pipe. Whatever it was, it still looks great - upstairs 32 years later, 1st floor 18 years later. A good site-finished hardwood floor lasts a long time. I do prefer the gym floor finish (high gloss) as it's the easiest to dust and the gloss does wear down quickly. I think the high gloss just plain wears better than satin - DD has satin and it does not look as good as mine does, many years later....See MoreHow Many of You Have Traditional or English-Style Interiors?
Comments (139)Another New York Times article about the things we love, How Low Will Market for Antiques Actually Go? Just part of the article, Compared with the heyday of antiques collecting, prices for average pieces are now “80 percent off,” said Colin Stair, the owner of Stair Galleries auction house in Hudson, N.Y. “Your typical Georgian 18th century furniture, chests of drawers, tripod tables, Pembroke tables,” he noted, can all be had for a fraction of what they cost 15 to 20 years ago. In 2002, Mr. Stair sold a set of eight George III-style carved mahogany chairs for $8,000; in 2016, he sold a similar set of eight chairs for $350. In 2003, he dispatched a Regency breakfront bookcase for $9,500; in 2016, the sales price of an equivalent piece had plummeted to $1,300. ... Dealers, auctioneers and designers point to a number of reasons for the declining interest in antiques and rapid rise of contemporary design. More homes have open-concept, casual living spaces rather than formal dining rooms and studies, which reduces the need for stately mahogany dining tables, chairs and cabinets. “In these big rooms, a contemporary piece becomes a piece of sculpture,” said Christine Van Deusen, a New York designer who recently commissioned numerous custom creations from Maison Gerard, Cristina Grajales Gallery and Iliad for a client’s duplex penthouse on the Upper East Side. “Vintage and antiques are finite, but creativity is infinite, so I can do things that I could not do if I were only looking for things that were in existence.” Midpriced retailers like Restoration Hardware, West Elm and CB2 make it easy to buy tasteful furniture on the cheap, with little hunting required. And a new generation of homeowners may be rebelling against the preferences of their elders. “The 40-something crowd isn’t looking to put a highboy in their house,” said Ethan Merrill, the third-generation president of Merrill’s auctioneers and appraisers near Burlington, Vt. (and Todd Merrill’s brother). “They relate more to pop culture, fashion-oriented materials and rock ‘n’ roll.” ... Will other 18th and 19th century furniture pieces ever return to fashion? Many designers say that antiques will rise again but, after nearly two decades of decline, few are willing to predict when. “The pendulum is going to swing just like it does in politics,” said Mr. Hayes. “It always does. But I don’t see it coming anytime soon.” Jamie Drake, the New York interior designer, also views the current dismissal of antiques as a trend, “just as color trends have moved from neutrals to vibrants, back to neutrals, back to vibrants,” he said. In his own home, most of the furniture and art is contemporary and modern, “but I do still have some antiques,” he said. A home without them, he added, “would be like a sentence without punctuation.”...See MoreZalco/bring back Sophie!
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