blank canvas for young family
Caitlin Linhardt
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Paint my blank canvas, or I've been bitten by the Rose Bug
Comments (14)Oooo, Ooo, that red sandy loam looks like central/east Tx, like around Columbus, Halletsville or Giddings. ANYTHING grows there. The HEB roses are a bargin, but the roots are chopped pretty short. The first year I planted a Duchesse from them it sulked it's looking good now. Pinkie is a bloom machine once she gets established. Ducher is great, Caldwell Pink is a workhorse (& it roots easy--let me know if you'd like me to send you one). For companions, I've had very good luck with dianthus. I pick up the .25 single pots or $1.00 six-pack plants that Lowes throws away on a regular basis. Within a year each plant is a huge clump. Native wildflowers are wonderful, too. Since it looks like you have a pasture, dig up some bluebonnets, coreopsis, mealy sage, etc.--whatever is blooming in your area, as they bloom, & transplant into your bed. They LOVE living in a cultivated watered bed. The little native "rain lilies" make a beautiful border when they are thickly planted. Alyssium does well in my zone until the heat really sets in. Looks like you have a wonderful space to fill. Have fun!...See MoreMouth-watering blank canvas - PHOTOS
Comments (13)Love the view and nice open lawn, and can understand why you would want to screen the neighbors out when they are that close. Perhaps some bushes that grow 10-15 feet high near the road/property line would give needed screening of the neighbors without damaging the view or breaking up the property. With the slope, you could plant low growing bushes closer to the house, possibly creating a small front lawn followed by the larger lawn, and still block the view of the neighbors, or plant larger growing bushes as you move further away from the house....See MoreBlank canvas for open floorplan
Comments (22)Cawaps, I think the trim was added later. There is similar style trim in the dining room, but it looks better there so we will probably leave it at least for now. I think it just looks out of place on the fireplace. Bpathome, I was thinking about bookshelves on the half wall, but I'm afraid that would hurt my furniture arrangement options. I was thinking about a sectional with a chaise lounge (the couch part would be under the balustrade and thr chaise section will stick out into the opening of thr room). I Maybe two chairs in front of the window so I can move them since that is where we're planning to put the Christmas tree. I will have to draw some floor plans. DH wants to have the LR finished (at least painted and with a sofa anyway) before Christmas....See MoreWhole House: A completely blank canvas - what would you choose?
Comments (11)A lot of appliances come in a few standard sizes, such as a refrigerator. What your son might consider doing is measure for the widest refrigerator out there and the most narrow and both leave a space for the widest with a tall movable -- rather than built in -- a tall movable pantry cabinet the width of the difference, letting the buyers choose their own refrigerator -- and saving the builder(s) that cost. With the adjacent cabinet movable beside the refrigerator, the only cabinet that the buyer might need to redo to have their choice of appliance fit would be shrinking the width of the movable cabinet [Doing something similar with a dishwasher could work -- perhaps the adjacent movable cabinet (not built in) might be a wheeled trash can cart. A dishwasher that could be faced to blend with the base cabinet doors would make the color of appliances optional … in case the buyer wants or can only afford white. A basic Delta faucet with an arc (about $100 last spring) would work with a deep double stainless steel sink -- and they would work with either stainless or with white appliances.] A built in stove top and/or ovens would be considerably more difficult to do something similar with them. A stainless steel stove top would work with black oven door(s) -- which could work with either stainless or white refrigerator....See Morebtydrvn
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