Step one in our den re-do is done
(Say that 5 times fast. 😜)
Painting is starting right now. New rug (for anyone who followed my rug search) arrived last night, haven’t opened it yet. New sectional won’t be here until July probably.
This is a bedroom that we figured we’d use as a second TV watching space when we bought the house almost 3 years ago. We put furniture from old house that didn’t belong anywhere else, and after 3 years we’ve found that we use the room a lot and wanted to decorate it more purposefully. We have a zillion books scattered around the house, so these shelves will get good use! This is a great room for reading when DH is watching sports downstairs.
Will post pic when painting is done.
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Comments (9)So sorry to hear of your surprises and the delays. Yes, we've been there, too. Sometimes it's better to have the rough weather come and test our work earlier rather than later. We moved into our house in the spring, and saw that we might have a drainage problem caused by a very large concrete handicap ramp blocking the flow of water away from the house. We'll have to get around to removing that ramp, we figured. Sure enough, soon enough, one night we had a deluge (the night before we were hosting a large family celebration, of course) and found water coming into the basement. Maybe the ramp was causing water to pool, we thought. We looked out back and saw -- a lake (!) ten feet wide and twenty feet long, and a foot deep, against the back of the house. I have fond, ridiculous pictures in my head of my husband sitting on an overturned bucket, in the rain at two in the morning, holding one end of a garden hose under the water level to siphon our lake down, through the hole of the hastily disconnected drier vent, into the drain of the laundry tub in the basement. No, it wasn't fun to put off thinking about cabinet styles and appliance choices for the kitchen, while we removed the ramp, fixed the gutters and downspouts and attended to the grade around the house. And removing the ramp led to the restoration of the whole back porch and the need to restucco a section of the back of the house. Ten months later, I almost have a finished kitchen. You'll get there, too. Hang in there....See MoreNow, you're done-what do you wish you had known while planning?
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Comments (8)Props 60 and 90 are both directly applicable to Prop 13, which limits increases in property taxes in California. Prop 60 applies when owners move within the same county, prop 90 applies when owners move to a different county. They both allow over-55 owners to transfer the base year value of the property they sell to the new property, as long as the new property has equal or lesser value. Ordinarily under Proposition 13, the value of a home for property tax purposes is re-assessed to market level whenever a change in ownership takes place. This usually results in higher property taxes for the homebuyer. In November 1988, the stateÂs voters approved Proposition 90, which is designed to induce greater turnover of homes owned by senior citizens. The measure provides anyone over the age of 55 with relief from Proposition 13 by allowing them to move from one county to another without undergoing a change in their basic property taxes. Proposition 90 is a "local-option" law; each county has the option of participating. If a county has adopted a Proposition 90 ordinance, it accepts transfers of property tax base assessments from other California counties. If the county that the homeowner is moving from does not have a Proposition 90 ordinance, this does not affect the eligibility of the homeowner. [Please note: Proposition 60 is a similar law passed by the stateÂs voters two years prior to Proposition 90. It allows seniors to keep their property tax base assessment when they move within the same county.] Here is a link that might be useful: Santa Clara County Assessor's Office...See MoreSueb20
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2 years agoGot a workout yesterday carrying tons of books from DH’s basement man cave to the 2nd floor... he’s out of town so I did it all. I will be fussing with the arrangement for a while but I’ve got a pretty good system so far with mostly his books on the left and mostly mine on the right (can you tell I have a kindle?). Roughly organized by subject eg a row of music books, a row of history books. If you can’t fit your history books within a 4’ space, you need to eliminate some. ;-)
“My” side has craft and decor books, the photo albums, and a few novels (I have more to be added from my bedroom.)
The top shelves are tricky. I may end up changing stuff up there.
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2 years agoYou can see them here, K. We’ve had both forever. Coffee table is an old pine trunk and the end table is an old school desk.
The TV is out of the frame but it’s on a vintage pine bureau.
Our lovely dog crates go under the window on the left. The dogs only use them for sleeping and probably don’t need to, but they both LOVE their crates. They‘re both faux wicker (the crates, not the dogs) but...sigh...they are different colors. I went on an OCD hunt for them a while ago, hoping I could replace one with a match to the other, but they’re no longer available anywhere. So now I either live with the horror of mismatched crates, or buy two new ones. Since this is a true “family room” (no one but us uses it) I guess I can cope with the mismatch.But just barely. 😆
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2 years agoWait! Almost forgot to show you guys the horse pillow! My review: fun pillow, but not great quality. Fine for my purposes.
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