Can someone give me advice on a baseboard/door molding?
Christine Jaeckel
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Comments (55)Once you have the new pot with drainage holes, cactus mix, and perlite you can repot. Just take cactus out of the old pot. This will sound strange, but rinse the roots off to get all that old cruddy soil off. Once all the old soil is off. Put the cactus on a paper towel and let dry out for a day. Keep in a cool shady spot during this 24 hours. The next day you can do a mixture of 60% perlite and 40% cactus soil. The mix will be really light. That's what you need for good drainage. Most of the plants above rotted because of poor drainage. It's really important you don't water till you change the pot and mix. The cactus will be totally fine:). Once you have repotted wait a week and then you can water:). If you keep this plant inside you will probably only need to water once maybe twice a month. Inside water doesn't evaporate as quickly. Only water when the mix is bone dry. A good way to test if the mix is moist still. Stick a wooden skewer in the mix all the way to the bottom. Let it sit in there for a couple mins. If it comes up just slightly damp anywhere on the skewer don't water. What you have is a Euphorbia and Euphorbias are prone to rot. Actually it's two plants grafted together. The pretty one on top is a Euphorbia. You may need to give this plant more light. Your balcony may be a good place during the hot months. Always acclimate to the sun slowly or the plant will burn . A good starting point is morning sun afternoon shade. Do that for a week or two and then you can up the light little by little. Euphorbias are toxic. They have a white goo that comes out when cut. That is what's toxic. Don't let this stuff get in your eyes and keep away from skin. Lots of info:). If you have anymore questions just ask. Goodluck:)....See MoreCan someone with an outdoor green thumb give me some advice?
Comments (8)nanny2a - I had not thought about doing something on a trellis. That's a great idea. I even have some forged iron trellis that an artist welder friend made for the yard in our previous house. And I love ivies...? Ivys? Ivii? Ivies looks wrong. :) I had thought about filling in the bottom with impatiens and maybe hostas. My mother is constantly thinning her hostas and trying to find homes for them. grlwprls - thanks! I had never heard of climbing hydrangea but looked it up - looks pretty! I will have to see if I can find it around here... I don't think I've seen it before. Surely it can be ordered though... I love mandevillas but as you said, wrong for the zone. They look great June - Sep though. :/ fnmroberts - Just to be clear -- I'm talking about the porch only, specifically to the left of the front door. The picture is a clone of our house during construction, not our house in its present state. Our yard is landscaped. lukkiirish - ohhh... that's what they're called. I always called those "mini christmas trees" because I see them for sale around then with a few glass balls tied on. :) I had thought about something like that. Our home definitely has a rustic feel so it would be great to stay with that idea. fori - thanks! I tend to equate landscape with hardscape, which I know is not really the case. I will check it out!...See MoreFireplace/Built in Wall giving me grief, could someone photoshop!
Comments (18)Suero beat me to my question. Our great room only has windows on the back of the house and there is a screened porch directly on the other side of those windows. The exposure is pretty much due West so we do get a fair amount of light. Our FP wall faces North so any windows on that wall really wouldn't bring much light in anyway. The blueprint that Paint Chips edited above is a good rendering of what I might look to do. Our window wall has a bank of 3 double hung windows with fixed transoms over them and a single door also with a fixed transom above. This maximizes the available light, especially since the porch which is 12' deep beyond the back side of those windows limits what light can get to the windows in the first place. As far as the ceilings-I don't know what kind of moldings and trim you are using but an alternative to the tray ceiling might be to trim out or coffer the ceiling. We have a coffered ceiling that gives us 9 rectangular "pockets" of drywall surrounded by heavy moldings. We painted the drywalled sections of the ceiling to match the wall color and it really pops against the trim. I wish we had some recessed lighting in there but I have resisted tearing the ceiling up so far. I'll try to get a couple of pictures up from home later....See MoreAdvice for baseboard trim and doors
Comments (6)I love your warm stained doors and woodwork and I would never paint them. They also look to be in great condition. My doors and trim in my home are done just like yours , stain color and all. It is one of the best features of my home, I think. My front door stained trim is also done just exactly like yours and it looks fine with a large wreath placed on the door. It draws the eye off everything else. The wreath co-ordinates nice with the wood trim. . Once you paint stained wood work there is no going back. Unless you want to rip it all out. Crate and Barrel has some nice wreaths that would look great on your door, in particular their Red Berry Wreath would look nice ....See MoreWestCoast Hopeful
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