Girl's room design help!(Long post alert!)
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Comments (15)Great choices. I would definitely wait for what I truly want. I think you may regret settling for something that can give you immediate gratification. The dressers are much different in all but their shape. I like the one you first chose for your room. I like that the legs give a lighter feel to the piece, also I like the smaller, detached mirror. To me the 2nd piece seems off for some reason which may very well be that it isn't the best dresser choice considering your other pieces. Well worth the wait IMHO....See MoreLayout help; long post
Comments (18)I haven't been on this forum in a very long time but your kitchen layout is so similar to mine I thought I'd chime in. I hate corner cabinets. We did a dead corner between the sink and range and no corner on the other side of the range so two people can easily work on that run. We don't miss the added corner counter space at all. The refrigerator is next to the hutch. If it were my kitchen, I'd move the ovens or pantry next to the dishwasher and scooch the refrigerator down to make that corner space bigger. As it is, there's no room to do anything there and I find we never use the counter to the right of the sink for anything. It's a very short walk across the kitchen from the DW to the hutch where we store our dishes and well worth the trouble because the counter next to the fridge is very well utilized. We have the coffee maker and toaster there, a bread/coffee drawer, cereals and snacks in the bottom drawer, cups and utensils in the other two, dishes, bowls and glasses above. You don't have to move when making coffee (except for water), breakfast, lunch or snacks and we're all about taking as few steps as possible. Lol. In our previous kitchen, we had a super susan in the corner. It wasn't as useful as drawers but it held a lot of stuff and was very easy to access. It was not angled; it had a hinged door, which was never a problem....See MoreI need a "Happy" Room (Sorry, Long Rambling Post)
Comments (29)I don't know if this is good or bad. I went to the local BM paint store today. I was going to grab some paint chips of Hawthorne Yellow (is that what you call the paper strips with three or four or five colors on them?) to put next to "stuff". None in the rack. The only slot out of the 47,000 they have that was empty. I went to the 2 oz. sample rack. Nope, no Hawthorne Yellow (didn't think I'd get lucky). Not a lot of other neat colors, either, but the paint mixer-upper did tell me they are not restocking the small sample jars. The pints are only $7 and the 2 oz. sample jars were $5, so all of us cheapskates around here just buy pints. I did have them mix up a sample pint. Dang, it looks oh-so-different in the can than it does on the chip. Wonder what it's gonna look like on the walls. Guess I'll find out. So do you think in my neck of the woods, it's the color slathered on everyone's walls? Here I thought I was going to pick something unique :-) Now for something completely different: saw these euro shams on clearance plus an additional discount plus free shipping. They didn't have anything else in the pattern which was probably a good thing :-) Does the bicycle print go with anything else in my universe? Nope. Do I care? Nope. We haven't had a car in years, so DH and I rode bicycles everywhere. I saw the pattern, it brought a smile to my face thinking of our many bike rides together so, for somewhere around 12 bucks, I got a much needed dose of temporary happy. I put green sheets on the bed, the blue in the two shams make the icky turquoise on the walls look almost palatable, and the yellow matches Hawthorne Yellow almost exactly. Sometimes it's just little things that put a silly grin on my face :-)...See MoreHelp with neutral paint--long post
Comments (22)I was going to buy a SW fan-deck but my SW store offered to lend me one. SW has a sale going on through the end of March so the sample jugs are $5. They also sell 18" x 24" drywall boards, about $6.00. You can prime & repaint them as many times as you want. I do one coat of primer & two coats of paint with 4 hours between coats. Also easy to move around the house & you get a true example of what the paint looks like on wallboard. I'm on the hunt for a perfect color - once I find it I'll paint several samples on something I can adhere to a wall. It's a new build so no walls to paint. Good luck! Lori - 22 samples & still going. But, I'm getting close. I'm on a first name basis with all the SW staff....See MoreUser
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