I am sorry but I don't see what the big problem you all are talking about here. First the house hardly looks run down and the dog kennel looks clean and so do the dogs.I hope they are not in there 24/7 as they are high energy dogs and they need a job, not jail. Looks to me that you have plenty of space from your house to the fence line. It isn't as if your house is 6 feet from the fence. Truthfully you sound picky and the type of neighbor who needs to be more tolerant of others living around you or buy a bigger piece of property.Everybody doesn't live or want to live like their neighbors and when you buy a piece of property that is close enough to the neighbors keep this in mind.WIth all the space you have to work with you could make it so you wouldn't know if there were dogs or neighbors there or not.Why is it up to them to change to make you happy? DIdn't you move next to them?WHy are they bad neighbors? I may upset some of you but did anyone ever consider that they don't think the dog kennel is a eyesore? I myself didn't think anything about the neighbors looked so bad that I felt the need to wage war on them. If you really hate what you see then why don't you put a berm in and fill it full of the "proper plants" Add a huge water feature to help drown out any sounds that they may make living near you. Just remember to leave a place where you can still see how they are or are not maintaining their place. Sounds to me that your wife likes to have a full veiw of the neighbors place. No berm no fence hummmm. Everyone here seemed to jump at the chance to rip these neighbors apart. One talks about the smell coming from the kennels? What? I never read anything about a stench or constant barking from these animals. I may need glasses more than I thought because the neighbors house didn't come close to being run down looking to me. All I can say is feel blessed none of you are my neighbors. If my neighbor has the nerve to complain about what I do or don't do in my yard, I can promise the "problem only gets worse" Last I remembered this was a free country and it isn't a crime to live differently than others. For those who are senitive to others ways of living really should avoid moving anywhere too close to others. I bet I could find something obnoxious about your yard,gardens,car,fertilizing/spraying,wife or your attitude but I would never think about talking dirt to others about it. I would be too busy tending to my yard, house and life to find the time. Maybe you didn't mean to sound the way you did in your post and all you really wanted was some advice to make your yard more private instead of blocking out the low life neighbors place that you find so hard to look at. All I know is I found not only your post but almost everyone elses post out of line and obnoxious. Ironbelly- you suggest to fight them legally? For what? A judge would look at that picture and write you off as the noisy controlling neighbor who needs to get a life. Man you said move NOW!!! Such drama Sorry but this the way I felt the first time I read this post and when I reread it I just had to respond. Okay everyone chose your weapons, I am ducking as I type.Atleast I am honest

You folks are almost making me cry! I just brought up my office spring/summer window treatments to press and put up, and these sweet comments will get me through the task of ironing the 10 panels! Of course, Riley, Rooney and Ginger are right here to help me. :-)

Because almost all of the whites produced by paint manufacturers have and LCH CIE Hue that is in the Yellow hue family. This is mostly true. Yellow, Green-Yellow and Green hue families to be precise. Most color measurement instruments lose sensitivity near and below the blue region of the visible spectrum. If you can't measure it, you can't make it. Which is why there are very few white paint colors that factually belong to the blue hue family. Lily White from Benjamin Moore is as close as you're going to get. If you want to discern hue bias for a color of white, compare it to a chip of Lily White. The ones you *think* are blue, won't look blue. You can only manage choosing white paint colors if you know what hue family it belongs to. If a low Chroma white shifts bluish in your space, then you know whites from that hue family shift blue under the inherent light source. Common sense tells you if you keep choosing whites from that same hue family, you're going to get the same result. Logically you then move to whites from different hue family in order to get a different result. Without the factual, objective framework of hue families, there is no strategy. No plan. All you can do is shuffle paint chips and guess about which samples to buy.

Isn't it wonderful that we all get to choose how we spend our free time? I have been painting with oils and acrylics for 50 years. I love color. I love studying the science of color, the emotional impact of color, how color impacts our mental health and how color measurement differs from the human perception of color. I enjoy understanding color trends and how they relate to our economy and social structure. I don't look at this as work, it is simply something I enjoy, like baking pastries from scratch, canning fruits and making home made jam, growing roses that have amazing scents, making my own candles and soaps and playing with fragrances, playing with my dog or renovating my home. You must have other interests that are more interesting and provide you with more joy than mixing paint colors to get that illusive shade that is just not quite what SW or BM have decided to produce.