Hi Peg- you're too sweet. I will do so before bed tonight. Dave- personally I don't know much about electric fences (I mean, I get the general principle and all, but beyond that I'm entirely uninformed), but I googled "iguana" and "electric fence" and found that others have used them for that purpose. As far as I can tell, those who have report mixed results. It seems like a good idea if it could be done fairly cheaply (apparently, the condo association is low on funds right now). It's now on my research list-- thanks. There's this fellow up the coast about 40-50 miles from me, somewhere in Palm Beach Co., I believe--he has a website on which he talks about his trials and tribulations with iguana infestation on his property. Evidently, the iguanas scoffed at HIS electric fence...anyway, he now advocates this control method (which gets a huge OMG from me!): He sets up snares where they travel regularly, and when they ensnare themselves, he removes them from the snare with his bare hands, and then throws them in an old freezer!!! (He says that FL authorities have confirmed to him that freezing is considered humane.) I take no position on that last statement, but, I could just never ever do what he does. Call me a wuss, and I will accept the label LOL...I COULD NOT DO IT. Iguanas give me the heebie-jeebies!!!! At any rate, I know that this thread is probably making you all pretty weary. I understand--who wants to read depressing news (and there's more, but I'm sparing you all)? So, I'll stop, I think. I do want to say that there are more kind suggestions in this thread than I've been able to acknowledge or reply to, and I want to thank everyone for their thoughts and ideas. What is very clear to me now is that I will probably never solve this problem completely...but I'll keep trying, and when I find an effective solution--whenever that might be--I'll update everyone. Take care, and may your backyards stay iguana-free. Greg

Plastic does not last a lifetime. What utter crap. Take windows. Wood, single-pane windows will easily last 100 years with maintenance. Vinyl windows will last no more than 20. Hardwood floors can be refinished 3-4x and scraped and recoated innumerable times, also frequently lasting well over 100 years. LVP? 20 is a HUGE stretch. Try 5, 10 if you're lucky. People use plastic because they have been sold on the fact that it is "durable" and "low maintenance" and "cheaper," which may be true if you're speaking in terms of 5 or 10 years. But the costs - actual and environmental - are much higher when you acknowledge that its life cycle is much shorter than natural wood products that can last 3-10x longer. Then add in the fact that manufacturing new plastic on that shorter cycle is terrible for the environment, too, and the real costs become obvious. The idea that LVP is used in "high end" homes is an odd one. Where I live, it's only used in the basement of high-end houses, where hardwood obviously isn't suitable. It would be a huge red flag to see LVP anywhere on the main floors of a house, even under $1m.

Since my last requests for help were too broad and vague, I've gone ahead and narrowed down some choices so I can get to paint color selection. The house is a 1960s bungalow in a coastal beach-oriented city. Here is the living room now -listing photo with wide angle lens and washed out colors. We are planning to clean the fireplace and eventually get new doors for it but keep the brick, but considering painting it white especially if we can't clean it well enough. It's not quite as pink as it appears here. Carpet is going and we will likely be using Mannington Adura Max LVP throughout... pending samples arrival and choice of finish but these are examples of the ones we are considering (2 colors - each a closeup and a room shot). Our furniture is dark brown leather and we will likely add a new chair in a light color once we are settled and know what we need seating wise. So so I think we will go with BM Revere Pewter in the living room and hallway. From the living room you walk into the dining/kitchen area and hallway to bedrooms on the left (standing where the photographer did the kitchen/dining is behind them). Here is the dining area with kitchen to the right and the door to thee garage (I hate yellow btw ). The kitchen will be IKEA - originally we were thinking Asksund light ash wood look cabinets, but I'm concerned about wood tones clashing. So I think we will go with Bodbyn off white. I know the trend and practical reasons for darker lowers, but the Bodbyn grey is very cool/blue and I'm not sure if I want to lock in a color scheme with cabinets. If we do white cabinets it will be a light quartz counter. I think we will tile backsplash so not much painted wall will be visible in the kitchen, but dining room I don't think we want all Revere Pewter, but I'm at a loss. I was considering some kind of eggplant but I think it would be overwhelming and dark for the space, so I'm not sure what color for that room. It is very bright with the patio door west facing, so I think it would be nice to accentuate that lightness - but a white seems to boring for a room with no features. The bathrooms here we like revere Pewter but again if it's the LR and hallway color maybe too much in bathrooms as well. I was thinking maybe SW sea salt for both, but maybe greenish is not good for bathrooms (unflattering light)? The full bath has no window the powder room has a big window. The bedrooms and office I think we've got covered. Master will likely be Wedgwood grey again - love it, office mascarpone with a slate or navy accent wall, and daughter's room a pale aqua. Any thoughts or tips?

It’s a bit of a weird story. I ordered the floor from one of the big online stores. It arrived right before Christmas with the boxes just about destroyed and many broken tabs On the flooring pieces. I called them and sent pictures and they refunded me the entire cost, $800. Told me not to send the floor back to them, to just discard it. My contractor said to let him take a look before I tossed it. He thought there were enough good pieces to do the floor. He did and it’s been fine. We had one piece left lol, so just enough. it went in in January. I have a 70 pound dog who skids across it regularly. It looks fine and if it were scratched at all, I don’t think you’d ever see it with this pattern. We live on a lake and I also wanted a beach look, so I think it works very well. Enough brown and gray to go with either color. My walls are BM Smoke. I have Coretec in my kitchen and hallway, and I think the two are comparable in quality. It’s raining here today so the pics are still a bit dark! i