Need help Furnishing AZ House, starting with nothing
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Comments (5)Tigpie, Thank you for your feedback. Can you explain why you would suggest fiberglass or pebble tec over plaster? I don't like the roughness of pebble tec at all. We are still trying to nail down our decision on finish. We talked about a detached spa but this is the look we want. happymrsf, Thank you. We are so excited to have such a big area to work w/. Thanks for the tip about an extra umbrella sleeve. I'm sure we will do that. golfgeek, I will check the specs for the slide. I wondered about that, too. I wondered about the position of the light as well. I hadn't thought about it highlighting imperfections but was worried that it wouldn't light up the deep end very well. We are still trying to figure out the rock work. We talked to a guy who does artificial rock yesterday. He's way out of our budget right now. Our problem is finding someone in town to do real rock work. We do have a good set of detailed plans from the architect. Thank you for helping me to think of questions I need to be asking the subs we're talking to. Mindy...See MorePaint (and furnish) my house! part deux ( I need color/furnishing
Comments (4)Thanks! I did see that thread and immediately thought, repaint it! I do have to work with the stuff I have now. So a dark chocolate brown couch and loveseat, a couple of no so fab tables, and 90ish contemporary lamps. Lamps and tables will go asap. A few years ago, my DH was horsing around with my DD one day and fell backwards into the matching coffee table and it broke. I was tempted to push him into each of the end tables too! ;-) I'm actually quite fond of the furniture, but I don't think it really works in this room. I already took the big chair for the set up to my bedroom. As for color, I think I've settled on BM Soleil. It's light and fairly neutral without being beige. Sort of a pale yellow cream. I have a sample jar sitting on the table, I just need to get it onto some posterboard so I can see it in a larger format. I think my biggest decision is going to be the trim, especially matching the old and new trim. We have enough old door trim to trim out the two missing doorways on the LR side, so we'll use that, but the door casings will be new pine, the new doors - 2 sets of double 10 lite pocket doors, plus 2 hinged 15 light doors, all are unfinished clear pine, and I have the tops of the windows that hadn't been striped and stained with the rest of the trim to match. I'll paint, try to match the stain, then see how it looks. If it's awful, I'll strip the lot, and restain darker. In someways this is more of an old house thread, than a home decorating one. I think I'll cross post there too. My biggest challenge furnishing-wise is the seating arrangement! How do I get the focus of the room on the big picture window and fireplace, and still have good flow in the room to the Library and DR? DH is the line all the furniture up on the walls kind, but we've done that for years and quite frankly it looked bad. I liked the loveseat under the big window, mainly because it's the brightest natural light spots in thr room, so it makes a good reading perch. Even though I really shouldn't buy furniture, especially accessories, for the room until we're much closer to ready, I do have a serious lust for the photographer's tripod lamp at Pottery Barn. Both my DH and DD hate it, but I don't care! I think it's awesome. I might get it as a birthday present to me next month! I have a large file of "house stuff". I think I'll go through it and put some of the ideas in my photo album, so we can talk styles a bit better. Always ;-) Hunzi Here is a link that might be useful: Stuff Hunzi Loves...See MoreNeed help with lawn renovation in Phoenix AZ
Comments (13)Ignore my seed suggestions and listen to TW. The 700 sqft lawn has too much shade for bermuda. You might send a soil test to Logan Labs and post it back here to see what morph has to say about the soil chemistry. TW's comment on salt has me concerned. I've seen St Aug growing from the sand dunes out into the sea, so I'm not too concerned about that, but I'm wondering what salt there is in PHO. You would be better off waiting for the old grass to revive than to seed with new. Established roots work better and faster than new roots. As I usually mention to people who are impatient with their bermuda coming out of dormancy...give it time and you'll be laughing that you ever suspected there was a problem. Now with the shade, you do have a problem. Your steps need comment: Kill everything with roundup. This is fine. Wait 2 weeks, then mow to lowest setting. Oops! Don't wait 2 weeks. Water the area daily to try and sprout all the weed seeds you can. Then spray with RU again a week later. Rake up all the debris. This is good Aerate the soil with rental from homedepot. No need for this step. If you have hard soil, then use shampoo on it. Spread the bermda seed, and add top soil. YIKES! No. Scatter the seed and roll it down with a rented water fillable roller. For really small areas, just walk on all the seed to ensure good seed-to-soil contact. Don't add topsoil unless you are trying to raise a low spot on the yard. Adding topsoil WILL change your drainage. There's another recent post on this forum where the guy has a broken house from water backing up into his garage and then freezing between the bricks. His pictures indicate too much top dressing caused the water to not drain into the yard but instead back up to the buildings....See MoreHow would you furnish this house? (Help!)
Comments (4)Not quite sure what you’re saying. If it‘s a tall order for a forum, yeah I get that. Sometimes people answer things like this. Sometimes not. Lol....See Morelorriphoto
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