HOUSE TOUR: Inside Katie Rosenfeld's Revived Massachusetts Home
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Comments (31)The white peony is prettier than the pic, the angle and the sun were not right. It was labeled 'Primevere', but I'm not sure that is right. Chelone, I don't have an old fashioned Festiva maxima, but would like to have one. I had some in Idaho. I do have another double white variety, but it has no flecks. Here is the single that is blooming for me now : I really like these.The stamens get a lot more prominent, more like a mophead, only with stamens instead of petals. They do not get to looking like soggy rags when it rains. I thought that I have Bowl of Beauty,but if I do, it isn't blooming yet. It just may be one that the blasted voles has eaten the roots! That is apparently what happened to the Molly that Eileen sent me. I waited and waited for a sign of growth, and when it didn't appear I dug up the root...only there was no root left! It is beginning to look like the varmints are winning! You may be right about the skunk, but I haven't detected any skunk odor when the digging is going on. The is another batch of holes all across the front of our front flowerbeds and front porch this morning, and out into the yard. We do have armadillos. Kathy, I am sorry that you had to give up on growing Peonies. I had the same problem with Rhubarb. It grew great in Idaho, but I can't get it to do well here. I have been reading lots of favorable reports on Diamond Frost Euphorbia. I bought one before I had read about it. Here is a pic of it planted in a combo with my very first Strobilanthes: I'd like to get more of them if they are still available at the local nurseries or plant places. We have gone back to more seasonal temps. It was the mid to low 40s the past two mornings, and possibly lower tomorrow, but not frost...thank goodness. I have all my tender stuff out on the deck, and do not plan on bringing it back in !...See MoreThe Hanson Show
Comments (38)Curts intros hold their value because he can never seem to produce enough plants to fill all the orders he gets each year. I was out there a number of times last summer because I really do live close, and he was really upset that he had too many orders, and not enough plants to fill them. Curt really has some nice stuff coming in the future. The third seedling is really strange, it almost looks like a tulip, that is as open as it gets. I would have been out there every week during the bloom but I had taken my van in for repairs on the 10th of May, and still did not get it back until mid July. The reason Ginny doesn't look happy in that photo is my van had been at a srepair shop here in Maple Heights, and the owner had it towed out past Curts to his other shop, and we had just been there asking why it was out there, and when it was going to be done. That was on July 2nd. To make a long story short, I had to have it towed back here to someone else, and it cost me over $800.00 to have it fixed and some of that cost was to repair work the other guy had done. I basically got sick of driving my wife to and from work....See MoreI guess I have the smallest at 1100
Comments (25)Well, I have a 900 SF Mobile home... does that count? The best thing we did was to rent a storage unit, the smallest one, real nearby. It only costs $25 a month and it's the best $25 I spend in a very tight budget. By having that out of site place, and safe and secure, better than a shed or something, I can store a TON of stuff in there... and that keeps the moby from getting too tight feeling. We go over often enough and I'm pretty careful not to just store "junk"... and we make a habit of cleaning it out once or twice a year... it's like our own garage sale... my kids kinda forget what they have packratted over there and we go through and make sure the boxes are well labeled and just pull it out and take some back with us and bring over some seasonal stuff too. Great way to vary your decorating a little bit too... you can kinda change out accessories and such, and that will brighten up your small place and make it interesting.... I like the idea too, of keeping things small scale and not too cluttered.... I think when you walk in to a small place and it's just SO filled with eye candy, you feel a little trapped and kinda cluttered as well... keep it simple and it will feel BIGGER! Hope that helps! MHWoman Here is a link that might be useful: The Mobile Home Woman Blog...See MoreWhat is the 'One True Kitchen? I Want Photo Examples Please
Comments (124)Mama, Good to see you also. That kitchen in her newest house looks like it's migrating toward the OTK, but with big industrial style light fixtures, to fill those high ceilings. Not a crayon-box color in sight, yes? Here's another version of that house and its story, which I was writing when Mama Goose posted her URL...https://www.estliving.com/the-brick-home-of-diane-keaton/ "Here's a recent home of Keaton (yes, another one). Look at the kitchen. Paint bricks white and what do you get? _Faux subway tiles_. And...dig those honkin' big pendants! The skylights, the pendants, the beams, the painted brick. Hmm. How reminiscent of ... what, a factory floor? A city loft in an old building? And it was designed from scratch! How true is this kitchen, folks? And more importantly, would you enjoy this space more than the tiled Spanish one?" Here's the context for that tiled kitchen peninsula...the original Keaton Kitchen Architectural Digest article, I think...2004 Dec. Architectural Digest.... https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/diane-keaton-bel-air-home-slideshow Look hard at the kitchen, folks. Delete the tiles and the vintage tablewear. What do you see in that kitchen? I'll give you a hint...read the early postings on this thread. ___ Try this for some more Keaton... https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/diane-keaton-home-slideshow Is this the same house? No actual kitchen shown, but this looks like a cousin in house design if not the one I was looking for. Note the quotation around the top of library walls. Fam. room has groups of single-colored vintage tableware just as were shown in Architectural Digest, but they look different here, yes? Hope your eyes don't bleed here, Holly. Photo is calculated to be more subtle, I suppose, but it might be same stuff displayed differently. And red ceramics are not shown, at least not in photo. ___ On another note, I just happened to be in Red Wing, Minn. today. In an antiques shop, they had a number of Red Wing Pottery pieces to look at up close. They still give me some good feelings, despite all the years since my extended family set table with them. Keaton shows us that homeowners can blend rough beams, fave sayings, vintage plates, &c with the OTK. This is one true thing....See Moremtnrdredux_gw
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