Happy thank you! I’m glad you like the art there too. That’s one large frame that’s been in storage and I’ve tried to use it so many times in so many ways and it looks like I finally found a home for it. Yes the pipe collection is massive! I’ve not seen many that large and I’m kind of at awe with it, now that I’ve gone through everything and looked it over. I’m glad I decided to leave it in the cabinet versus on the cabinet because I got to thinking about all the dusting I’m already doing lol.

My suggestion for the smaller pieces i’ve leftover canvas is to frame them as gifts… It’s very easy to buy inexpensive frames in a dollar store. Other options would be glue it into the base of a wooden tray, or on a box top. Those unfinished trays and wooden boxes are also easily purchased in craft stores and dollar stores.

I have been a little bit busy around here just putting up clutter that I had out and things I didn’t use when I was doing the gallery and some floor cleaning and extra kitty litter box cleaning. The little ones seem to be doing fine. They’re all still in the same place and I check on them of course all the time. I have to get down on my hands and knees to look under there, but it’s worth it lol. I did go out this evening because we are in the triple digits and there is that west side of the porch that they are about 5 feet from that the brutal sun just beams in. I hung a sheet on my lattice, luckily, I found a green sheet that I didn’t mind poking holes in to put zip ties on. I left it up off the floor about a foot to keep airflow going. I had thought of it earlier and went out with all my supplies, but the sun was already passed, so I came back in with everything. Then I got to thinking about tomorrow and I’ll be busy so I went back out there and put it up. My front porch looks very sheety 🤪 . I got my pillow inserts today. I only made a couple errands to try to stay indoors. I’ll take a picture if I remember tomorrow during the day of the velvet, I guess like a peach brown pillows? I put them on the sofa which they blend nicely, not any contrast but sure looked better than the old beat up ones. I had on there. Since I’ve got a strapping young man coming tomorrow, I’m going to ask him to help me get a few old cabinets out of the garage and set out on the curb. It’ll only take a few minutes and I’m sure he won’t mind. I had a hard time going to sleep last night, like most nights, but I got my manual out for my new power washer that I had bought a few months ago. Reading through that helped me sleep 😂 i’ve got to get to our local library and see what I can find because I used to read quite often before bedtime.

Alice, I am also going to up cycle some bed pillows. Creating some new pillows with the stuffing. I’ll be interested to see the colour you mentioned… I would like to be able to use brown in this space and so far it has been unsuccessful for the most part.

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I had a great time yesterday with the visit; one of the notable moments was the grandchildren opening a “restaurant“ in their “playroom” (aka the guestroom) upstairs. They made various varieties of food, depending on what the customers wanted… out of some coloured air, dried clay that I had bought quite a while ago, which,at the time, was not a hit. They got it down off the shelf, and on their own devised the food game… the food orders included bacon wrapped scallops, corn on the cob, sausages, strawberries, (dipped in chocolate)… And pasta with meatballs. All rendered in air dried clay. I dug out the miniature China plates that I have for the gnomes and everybody had a very good time. 🤣🥂🎉The restaurant music was played on the little electronic keyboard that my own kids used to use. There’s a basket of stuffed animals there and my older son noticed the stuffed animals he had as a child, in the basket. We got them out of the basket and reminisced about the characters… which were in the category of the velveteen bunny at that point. Well loved…it was a meaningful nostalgic moment. We hold these in our hearts, as parents. They don’t come around that frequently.

So true Lia 💗 sounds like they had a great time and setting up that upstairs guestroom was perfect for them. I would’ve been a hungry and pleased customer to have found their restaurant. My two grandsons just got back home from a stay with my son-in-law‘s parents. Of course they did not want to leave. They live by the lake and go fishing and boating and get pulled behind the boat on various floaty things. We are still in the triple digits here and I’m staying indoors lol. I looked for some good stuffing here, but apparently I’ve used it on other pillows. I’ll be donating the blue ones that have seen their day next time I have a drop off. I saw on the Walmart site that they had adequate pillow inserts for 18 inch and I may get over there tomorrow and grab those. The color is like a peachy brown, very pretty and I think we’ll go in here in the new living room. The new living room lol, it feels like it! Other than that, I’ve been decluttering from my projects at hand. Do you know I still almost have half of that oil canvas of the Paris Street left over 👀 it’s mostly building street and pedestrians. I imagine I’ll find something to do with that as well.

Lola, you have been such a valued friend here. I'm sorry to hear that you're struggling a bit emotionally but just know that we think of you and your insights with great positivity. Please re-read this when you have doubts. It's true. Take care... 🦋

Hi everyone! Let me start by saying I am so happy with my fireplace results!! The lady I hired was awesome has a lot of experience which made me comfortable in doing it. This was just a small job for her and she was able to squeeze me into her schedule which I so appreciated. I did not go with the limewash after consulting with her and decided to use a glaze product that she suggested. The color is SW Natural Choice which was a nice warm off white with my room. The picture depicts more gray but IRL its not. Here is a before and after. I am thinking I will have to replace the mirror I think I need another color now. I would love all your thoughts !

Dsimber to help you on the decision of the shelves, do you already have items that are going to go in there and perhaps adding some more in the future? You could measure the height of those it may give you an idea of how you want your shelves spaced in height.

That sounds disastrous. Sometimes if you Google that you can get answers to your question, but you need to be pretty specific. “My Toyota of year XYZ is continuously beeping when it is not. How do I change that?” The suggestion of travelling with a charger is a good one. I have problems with my iPhone losing charge as it’s old. I should get that together as I often travel alone.

Books that are tall can be laid on their side. I like the look of three shelves myself, but if you have specific display items you might want to measure them.

To me a very disfunctioal kitchen , large for no real reason and honestly if it was mine I would wait until I could do it right . I agree that island makes no sense but you remove it then the flooring needs fixing and so and so on.

What size range and hood will you actually have? The mockups you’re showing appear to be for much larger kitchens than the kitchen you currently have. Are you planning to expand the kitchen?

Your first mockup doesn’t even include a refrigerator, and the ranges shown are much larger than the one you actually have. Because of that, I’m not sure the statement hood you’re considering is going to look anything like the mockups once it’s in your actual space.

I know these are just mockups, but I really think the scale needs to be more realistic for the size of your kitchen. In a smaller space the statement hood could end up looking too large and overwhelming for the room.

I live in a log cabin. We went with natural maple.

Fireplace done!! Absolutely ❤️! Will post pics after new doors are installed. Stay tuned!

I like the direction you are headed; you are getting great help here.

@Disimber, the Mangelson photo is still available. https://www.mangelsen.com/calm-morning-orcas-1210.html