I'm buying a house with blue carpet. I need ideas!
Krista Thompson
3 years ago
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Need ideas for front of house! I'm hopeless!
Comments (27)It sounds as if you are really starting from scratch if you don't know how to edge a bed. Get thee to the library and get some books out that explain how to plant, how to maintain, and how to design landscapes. How-to landscaping books don't always have a lot of pictures of nice installed landscapes, but some do, and many of the magazines do. Books about garden style, without the how-to part will have better pictures, see if your library has books by well known landscape designers and architects or if they can get them for you. Some libraries archive magazines and will dig them out for you, so it pays to ask if they have copies of Garden Design or Horticulture magazine. Start looking for pictures of front gardens that you like that have homes similar in style to yours. If you start buying magazines, you can rip out the pages and save them in a folder. This may be better than driving around the neighborhood, because you may only have DIY designs that are so-so to look at there. Once you have collected some that you like, try to figure out what it is that you like about them. They will have something in common. They may have a lot of color, or little color but a lot of textured foliage with a more serene look. They may look cottage-y or mimimalist or whatever. They may be mostly lawn or have very little. They may be shady and cool looking, or sunny and bright. They may have a lot of warm colors, or mostly cool. Straight lines or curves. Make a list of what it is you think attracts you to them, and how they make you feel, and refer to that list every time you are going to make a decision about your own plan. If the idea you have is not "in tune" with the goal of your design, don't use it. You can use plants that will cascade over the edges of your raised bed and hide it. Microbiota comes to mind, there are others. Once the edges are hidden (do it on paper first) you can incorporate it into a larger bed that ignores it completely, using additional small shrubs and perennials. At this point you can use a curved bed or straight, whatever you prefer. If you can manage to remove the ties, you should be able to plant some small shrubs that will camoflage the eyesores without having to build anything around them. I don't see why you'd necessarily need a berm, either, unless the soil is too shallow there to support plants....See MoreYet another ugly '70s house post. I'm in dire need of advice.
Comments (8)It is fantastic! I can see why you love the lot. I don't have photoshop but I'm sure you can find someone to take a photo of the house and play around with color & adding texture. I wouldn't try too hard to mask the 70s style -- just update it with more modern colors and textures. I find the lines make the house!!...See MoreHelp! New pillows needed at beach house and I'm drawing a blank.....
Comments (10)Thank you so much for your ideas, Flo! I'm afraid the art and rug are staying put but appreciate the thoughts. I saw your suggestion to repeat the coral color elsewhere and was hoping to do that with pillows/throws or maybe an accessory or two. I do have more of the fabric that was on that chair and in fact had two pillow covers made out of it, but when I tried the two, it wasn't right either. Just one pillow on each couch wasn't enough and while I could make two more four seemed too many visually and also kind of cumbersome. I was also wondering if just adding some more pops of bright color, not necessarily coral, would balance the chair too. I showed the pic of the painting above the buffet because that is the inspiration I use for colors throughout. I could use smaller doses of the chair fabric; maybe cording, etc., for pillows too, and could also do solid coral instead of more of the trellis pattern....See MoreAm I crazy to get the whole house LVP and no carpet? I'm freaking out.
Comments (52)@Chessie The irony is that we actually don't even take baths! The default option was a built-in bathtub surrounded by a rectangular tiled edge, and I knew we'd be bonking our knees and calves into the corners every time we walked into our closets. Similar to this one: So we upgraded to a freestanding just so we could avoid the bruises! Though looking at it now that it's installed, it kind of makes me want to take a bath after all....See Moreaprilneverends
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