Melissa,very nice,you have done a lot of hard work,and great planting, as you have moved forward,not always easy to do,just look at how big every thing had gotton in such a short amount of time.Thanks for sharing this with us,always so much fun to see what others have done,and the progress they have made,yours is great. Don't you just love looking at your garden from up high,it really helps you develop a plan,I think. cAROL

Thanks so much! We are shopping again this weekend, which gives us time to "map out" the Temple sectional dimensions on the floor with newspaper. One side will be against a wall, the other won't. We want to get the flow and size right. I will try to post pics of my room later this week, but I think a dark brown should work.

The design is beautiful and you have save some stuff because you have just change the designs.

I'm like Artemis I guess..I connect to a house-partially-through its owners.. Personality-even when very different than mine-doesn't scare me away, and doesn't prevent me from "seeing myself in the space", and all that. "Hate" is too strong a word probably..:) but I'm okay with homes that look like homes. Now the question was about the photos-I agree with everyone, blogs/magazines concentrate on details(not only, but details too) because the details are often most interesting to the readers..they read for inspiration, learning, and many other things. Buyers look at the listings with more practical intentions-they try to understand whether a house might work for them. So they are interested more in a layout, general feel, making sense of what a house is. Then if they come to see it-they'll look into details. Of course it won't hurt to put a couple more detailed pictures, if they're beautiful and you feel they enhance the impression from the listing, but most of them should be layout pics rather than "to scale pic" They don't let me to save photos on that website, but it is illustrating the difference very nicely:) "Layout sample" and "Sample to scale": http://www.tempaperdesigns.com/shop-tempaper/order-samples/chinoiserie-by-tempaper/chinoiserie-cg900s-sample.html