1. Wetting the foliage is fine if it will dry promptly. Washing off aphids is a good idea. Don't get excited about aphids when they return next spring. The harm they do is minor. 2. Plant Tone is excellent. Or you can apply 3"-4" of manure once a year. 3. Traditional advice is not to pile fresh manure over the canes. 4. We don't know the length of your growing season or the severity of your winters. I try to keep my roses growing and blooming into the fall but avoid heavy feeding. 5. It's OK to just pull the flowers off and also OK to cut just above any leaf joint. I do the former if I want the plant to get bigger, but take some stem when it is getting too tall. If roses form hips (fruit) this will reduce the repeat bloom. 6. I doubt that companion plants affect disease in roses, except if the planting is so overgrown as to reduce air circulation and delay drying, then they would increase disease pressure. Other points-- If roses are to continue growing and blooming, they need water every 3-7 days, depending on soil and climate. If you have abundant water, use it. Otherwise the plants will go semi-dormant after 2-3 weeks. No point in fertilizing if you aren't watering. Do you have foliar disease problems? If so, what? Rose diseases are uncommon in most of Arizona. Nobody here recommends the Bayer All-in-One product that you are probably using. It's cheap fertilizer with a massive dose of chemicals that may not be needed and, if needed, are more effectively applied as spray.

I agree with everyone else that the tv over the fireplace might be too high. Someone said there are issues with ghost pictures and with heat from the fire. I would probably look into doing the entertainment wall where you have the armoire and use a tv stand with bookcases on either side. You could use baskets on the bookcase shelves, along with accents in whichever colors you choose. Because I've been there, done that, I suggest making sure the bookcases are attached to the wall in case a little one decides to climb them. :) As for your couch, if you like the bones of the couch, why not see about getting some foam inserts cut to replace the insides of the cushions? Also, most department stores sell slipcovers for couches. Wally world's quality isn't that great, but theirs run about $100 and they are washable. If you sew, it's fairly simple to make a slipcover yourself. I would probably look for furniture on Craig's List, especially the bookcases and tv stand. Even if the woods weren't exact matches, the price will be much less than buying new and paint covers multitudes of defects. Saving on the furniture would allow you to put a little more into the rugs and accessories, although I see rugs all the time on CL as well. Adding more greenery (I'm jealous of your green thumb!) and some accent pieces will make it feel more homey for now. As you add in the other things, slipcovers, rugs, bookcases, you will see it all come together. However, I don't think it looks bad right now, at all. Your home has a great layout; you have some really nice pieces in there, and everything isn't too matchy-matchy. I'd feel comfortable sitting on your couch or having a cup of coffee at the kitchen table. To me, that's the true test of a home. If I don't feel like I could touch anything in the house, I won't come back. I'd visit you more than once! :)

I agree with Prairiedawnpam in that I think you need to step back, forget chairs for a moment (that's not what she said, but it's coming) and look at the bigger picture, the rooms around the dining room, whether or not you're keeping the carpet, where your whole color pallet will come from (outside of a stripe in one dining chair), whether or not you want your living/dining area and surroundings to the one 'period' look, or classical, traditional, some 'theme' (not a great idea), and what you just plain love, forgetting about 'style' altogether. Don't rush this, you're lucky enough to have a relatively blank slate and not a lot to 'fit in' to the space that you brought with you. Look at magazines, talk to people, take time to go through dedicated stores and see what really grabs you over time... and don't just rush to buy the first thing you see that's 'red', or 'square', etc. Know where you want to go with it all to some extent - your place will look better, pulled together, and your money will go a lot farther.

HI Juliekcmo, I have electrician coming in a couple of weeks. I will ask about putting outlet there but that window faces a busy street and only the center bottom window opens (by design). So it's really not as nice as it appears to be. The whole upper window is a transom window and I doubt it's opened in 50 years and it's a very poor design as it's way too huge to be a transom window. I love the idea of the bed on this wall and it really would open up the room but I think there are too many things against it. knowing all of that, would you still try to get the bed in front of the window? thank you!!!!