Daisy, I love your bed & bedding! I have ordered a white iron daybed (see picture) for my 6 six-year old and wondering if I need to order daybed bedding rather than twin-size bedding. I love some of the Pottery Barn Kids bedding, but Ready-made daybed bedding for kids is just not appealing to her. Beautiful bed! I haven't ventured into daybeds yet but have been looking at them for years. My daughter has her heart set on a full sized bed if we move, not sure if she wants it for kids sleeping over. If so, the daybed would be appealing to her I'm sure as it could double as a couch.

Jpmom, you home is gorgeous already! The 12" crown will look perfect with the already tall baseboards. Then add all the other woodwork in, the fireplace mantle, wainscoting, and pillars in the dining room. So pretty! My first reaction was to continue the white painted woodwork. It seems naturally connected to that bar wall from the the LR and DR with the baseboards and wainscoting. Oh and I also love that transom window above the other doorway too! My other thought was that I know from experience how the backsplash tile can completely change colors due to the lighting and what is directly next to it. I would want the two areas in the kitchen with the backsplash to look related. It may look completely different with one being next a window with white cabs and dark counters verses the other being in low natural light with black cabs and white Quartz. I'd definitely wait to decide on what to do with the bar area until the rest of the kitchen is painted white as Romy suggested. I do think it might look great either way, but I'm just one who needs to see it in real life before committing. I am sure either way it is gonna be stunning! ETA.... Could you possibly find a remnant of the Volga blue to fit the bar top if you went with white cabs on the bar? Or possibly just cut the granite and add a dark walnut type wood butcherblock section that reads dark above the wine fridge? Think romy's dark wood top next to the granite? Just a thought....:-)

Maple seeds germinate best when harvested and planted while still green and soft. (Of course, you don't do this before they have sized up fully). When picked instead after they become hard and brown then they have a full dormancy that has to be overcome. Which is what you have been trying to do. The purpose of this dormancy is to prevent the seeds from sprouting at a dumb time, like the middle of winter. So when a particular kind of seed is known to need alternating hot and cold periods to sprout what is being done is duplication of the passing of seasons, starting from when the seeds would drop to the ground during autumn in nature. If a kind of plant has seeds that sprout a root first and then a shoot later, during a different season then it may take quite awhile for them to be ready to be potted on. Also there are some kinds where different seeds from the same batch sprout at different times, perhaps over a period of several years. Again this will function as a safeguard, in this case assuring that if a given year turns out to have some killing event like severe cold or drought the entire generation is not lost to it.

Radon levels fluctuate. So the 1.5 reading you got was the level reading right that minute (which is still very good by the way). We have had a radon mitigation system in our basement since 2004. We bought a meter that not only measures the reading at that minute, but also did a 30 day average. We recently finished our basement and had the mitigation company come out again and performed their old readings since the meter we bought was several years old. Turns out their readings were the same as what our meter showed. But in order to have more peace of mind, we had a new meter installed that has an app where we can look at an hour by hour reading if we so choose. It also does monthly averages. I will say since our basement has been finished, out readings are consistently right around 1, where before finishing they were around 1.5 to 2. The level before our mitigation system was installed was I believe 6. Edit to add that it also depends on what part of the country you live in. Colorado, for instance, has very high radon levels and you will likely never test below 1 no matter how good your system is.