This is the vegetable garden out back. It doesn't look like much yet but everything is planted including 20 tomato plants and brocolli seedlings, for seeds coming up: nasturtium, dill, carrot, sweet corn, cucumber, pole beans, potatos, tomatillos, two kinds of onions, garlic, and jalapeno pepper plants. Several more things to go in yet. Two herb beds out front have Greek oregano, rosemary, sage, chives, pinapple salvia, thyme, and other various things. I am in the process of moving the herbs to plant around the dog rose in the middle bed to make a knot garden and will convert the old herb beds for more vegetables. I have lots of flowers planted in the beds along the fence behind, as well as elsewhere. Thank goodness for free mulch! This is very much still a garden section that is in progress. Blueberries, almond, red buds, dogwood, and peach all planted around the garden. Going to add a bench and rose arbor to the back right behind the center knot garden later. The larger raised beds shown here are 6 feet wide by 30 feet long, double dug deeply and much amended as Georgia red clay isn't much to garden in.

Here goes: OK it worked for me first try (a two toned phlox that I'm fond of). Perhaps it's fixed or maybe it was the luck of the draw. If I do have problems with Houzz' photo uploader, I'll just go back to using my ftp space that comes free with my email account. I used to do that a lot with the old garden web, which would only allow a single photo to be directly uploaded to a post. What bothers me more is that Houzz no longer allows you to use your own cover photo on your personal page. I don't want to use one of Houzz' generic stock photos; I want to use my own photo! Grrr! Fortunately I uploaded my own photo early on, while it was still allowed BUT I have a second elongated garden view that I had hoped to use alternately. It sure would be nice if Houzz would restore the "upload an image from your computer" function!

Sometimes it takes a while for the photo to fully upload. It will remain grayed out and not fully in focus while this is happening. You need to wait until the photo becomes fully clear and in focus before hitting 'submit'. This is most common when including a photo in your initial post on a thread, so many wait to include in the comments Skip the Photobucket step. It is unnecessary and could be hanging up the process. And using a phone seems to complicate matters as well :-) I have no issues using my laptop.

It's not possible at least to do it correctly without a complete refinishing of the wood. You are looking at thousands of dollars to have it done correctly and professionally. For as few cabinets as you have, ripping out the old ones and just replacing them would be the better choice. Can you not relocate to a home of your own so your renovation costs aren't thrown down a black hole? It sounds like you are getting the urge to have a place you can call your own and put your own decorating touches on. Beyond touchups to make a rental clean and livable, renovating a rental is rarely advised.