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Lisa, that pool is very inviting! We don't have too many inground pools here, but we are surrounded by ocean.
chrissy, i love your house. Thanks for posting the pics and describing where the different areas are.
sas, FL climate is a tough one for sure. Everything burns during the summers unless you have a sprinkler system. But lol about the dog, ya gotta love them. My lab/boxer mix has finally stopped digging holes in my yard. Hopefully this spring (when it comes) I'll be able to get them filled in and plant more grass.
About dogs knocking things over; I walk my dog up the dirt road here, up a block of two a sculptor lives, he has a kiln and a showroom, one day a neighbors dog came running over and I let my dog off the leash for them to play. Well, don't you know they ran through the sculptor's yard and I heard quite the crash and tinkling of ceramics. I didn't even look. I had to call and leave a very sheepish message on his phone. He was gracious enough to forgive me and the dog, and would not accept payment.
kathy, my DD is going to live there first. She is moving home for the summer. Yes, she will be upstairs with the roof deck. I live in my house over the shop, but at some point will be moving over there.
this is a picture of the door of the shop.
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My grandfather was a cobbler. He was apprenticed in 1882 in Italy at 10 years old and came to the USA in 1892.
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those Italian cobblers are so talented. I saw a few when I was in Italy a few years ago. Did your grandfather work in the US as a cobbler?
Adam Sandler is coming out with a movie soon called "The Cobbler" about a cobbler in NYC.
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He did for a few years. Then after he learned English he went to Yale Divinity School and ended up being an Italian Baptist Minister. Who would have guessed! And he married a my grandmother whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower.
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LOVE the house shots everyone!! Makes it so much easier to picture y'all at home. Just think of red brick traditional black roof townhouse and that's me. Nothing special - I do that on the inside. My garden isn't THAT big or anything and we have to pay $335 a month for the maintenance fees, even in the winter and they do NOT shovel the snow! We don't have access to the pools or gym either. That would be another $75 a month.
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Love the home pics, too. Your home is delightful, Chrissy. Beautiful pool, Lisa. No cellars or basements in south Louisiana. Homes are either on concrete slabs or raised on piers. In flood-prone areas, the houses can be raised 8 or 10 ft. so that there is parking underneath.
My living room color is called silken stocking. It's a nice neutral beige color and will cover a mint green that dh picked out about 10 yrs ago when he retired. I go back and forth between shades of white and neutral colors and more dramatic colors. When we moved into this house 20 yrs ago, it was a dramatic color phase. Next came serene variations of white to cover the color. Then when dh retired, back to some color. For example our bedroom is a caramel color and our master bathroom is cranberry red. They will stay as they are because window treatments and bed comforter and pillows bring the two colors together. Plus I still like those walls. But this mint green has to go! I never loved it and it's very limiting.
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I got in the rut of white walls from having to move so often. But now we have lived in this house for 38 years and I just still like the little bit off white walls. Maybe it is the Hispanic influence here. I really seem to like the brightness.
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It's much easier to change things around with a neutral backdrop (says the woman with one teal wall in her living room. Our living room has a big window to the north and a tiny one on the west wall. DH planted a tree that shades the living room even further in the summer. The teal wall needs to go. Perhaps a pale aqua would work. The other walls are a pinky off white.
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Our white has a touch of green.It is hardly noticeable.
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I have learned from YEARS of experience and MANY moves what colours to paint here in Ontario. (one year I moved 5 times!) I used to try to "warm up" northern exposures and "cool down" southern ones, but it's actually the exact opposite!! When you put a cool colour in a warm room you kill it. Dead. Same thing with trying to warm up a cool room. The trick is to not fight it. I kind of knew this years ago when I was selling flooring and someone wanted white carpeting to brighten up a dark basement. I told them that all they would have is light carpet in a dark basement.
We moved into a loft condo years ago that swept up 18 feet and had a 24 foot span of windows in a narrow space. It was painted off-white. I felt like I was spinning down into the throat of a toilet!!! We painted the walls a bronze colour and it was AMAZING!!!!
Colour can really make or break a room. I am a quilting colour "expert" and speak often at quilt stores and gatherings. But coastal light is totally different than interior light and you guys can get away with the soft whites that we just can't out here. (on trim, yes) Does anyone paint their ceilings yet? I haven't done that except in bathrooms (taken the wall colour up and over). I also keep my trim dead white.
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Barbe, What colors should I look at for a north exposure in often cloudy Seattle? In the summer, the light is faintly green from the tree outside.
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this is where I got my love of white and gold...
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Whenwe moved to the house I'm in now, the kitchen / dinning room was dead white with slate dark slate floor and timber cupboards. There is only one small window and the back door so the room was very dark. I guess they thought painting it white would brighten it.......wrong move. It is now a colour that I mixed myself and looks like the yellow/green of the inside of a ripe avocado and makes the room look twice as big and very much brighter!
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wren, what it the room used for? There is an amazing green called Green Smoke which is a grayed down value of green. A paint store should be able to help you with this. It would be a soft green that has grey added rather than white.
Colour is really fairly basic. To bring it down to the simplest form it has either yellow or blue tones in it. For example, pink is a VERY cold colour!!! It's red with white. BUT, you can make a warmer pink by adding hints of yellow without bringing it to a peach level, which is warm. On the other side of the colour wheel, blue is a VERY cold colour! But, if you add yellow to it, it starts to head towards green on the colour wheel which is a warm colour. Orange is the warmest colour of all. Purple has blue in it. Teal has blue in a green. Aqua has more blue in it.
Taupe can be beige, tan, coffee, latte, bandaid coloured, skin coloured, greyish, etc.
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Benjamin Moore paint brand has lovely whites. One of my favorite is linen white, which is a cream color. I painted all my trim that color some years back. It's a bit more pricey than some of the other brands but I like working with it.
I love my Silken Stockings color! I used two coats of paint on the portion of the living room I worked on yesterday. The rolling goes fast, but there's quite a bit of brush work cutting in where wall meets ceiling and around door frames. All my ceilings are white. Today I hope to complete a long wall.
Choosing the new color was made more difficult because I painted splashes of several paints on the wall to see them at different times of day and at night with artificial light. The green background interfered with seeing the new muted colors.
I don't like whites with gray tints. But I love the blues and rich greens tinted with a bit of gray. One of the most gorgeous walls I've ever seen was an aqua color in a friend's condo in FL.
This morning dh and I are off to the gym for Tues. morning workout. Last week I didn't get to the gym at all because of a 3-day golf tourn.
Happy Tuesday!
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Carole, I looked up silk stockings on Google and came up with a dark gray and a fairly dark brown. Are you using one of these?
Barbe, Our living room is used to read mostly, and to converse when we have company. I was going for a peach and aqua beach vibe when DH brought home a Pendleton throw in brown, muted orange, and turquoise. My son's dining room, which has lots of windows and is east of the Cascades where they get sun, is painted a bright yellow. I got a large sample from Benjamin Moore and it looked dark and forbidding in our living room. I'm considering painting our kitchen cabinets white with the pale blue green of old mixing bowls on the walls, although I'm pretty intimidated about the cabinets. I'm going to price getting new cabinets which would be more functional and already be white. The green I'm considering is a lighter version of the smoke green.
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Our cabinets are off white antiqued with a light green, but you can't really see it here.
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It really really lightened up the kitchen
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It brightened your kitchen....not lightened it... I know, I know...semantics! The room is still the same lightness, it just looks brighter. (You can curse me in private....I hate watching home hunting shows when people say the "ceilings are so tall!". No. Cabinets can be tall. People can be tall. But ceilings can only be high. (Maybe they should say the walls are tall?)
Wren the throw your DH brought home was probably a LOT darker than the colours you chose for your walls. A lot of people look at a paint strip and say they "love this colour" (far down) but are scared, so they "do this one instead" and move their hands up the strip. Totally different colours!! At least you realized the yellow was so wrong for a north facing room! Good for you on that one. Watch out getting a "lighter version of the smoke green" or it could look pissy and weak. The colour I HATE the most is "boys room blue". I call it "pissant blue". It is SO COLD!!!!!!!!!!! Your kitchen colours sound wonderful. A blue with yellow in it to make it green-ey tinged is all the rage today. Your other colours in your living room were '80s colours and were great for then, but must feel tired now.
Look at a colour wheel and note when the colours start to get warmer....any tint (white added) or tone (gray added) in that range would work in a sun-filled room. Opposite side for the northern rooms.
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Will take some pictures oft place. It is an old house for NZ. Almost 130 years so we have decorated it in style. Some rooms have real colour while others are variations on cream.
I am sitting watching TV because I had asthma last night and still feeling very weasie. Chest is really tight - it was dust that set it off. This place s gets quite dusty.
Big hugs to all.
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Sorry to hear that. Take it easy! Barbe ,I know nothing about colors or design. I wish I did. I just know I feel more cheerful with the lighter room
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Barbe, I think a dark color would make the room look like the inside of a cave. It's a really small room. The house is 1946 post WWII cottage. Remember the "little boxes made of ticky tacky"?
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Wren, I didn't say "dark" I said "darker". If the paint is too light then you might as well just do white and be done with it. Remember, most people aren't painting white, they're painting beige and calling it white! White is a stunning way to offset floors and art work. I'd have dead white walls if we didn't have such a long season of snow. My art work would REALLY pop! Now I just use a medium to darker gray and it's stunning. Alyson, you saw my house....did you find it dark? It gets no direct sunlight so that's the first issue. Rather than fight that, I wanted to feel like I was getting a "hug".
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Ok, I see what you mean. I should live in the southwest where there's tons of sun.
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What we use is Navajo white which has a greenish caste...the southwest influence I guess..we
have lots and lots of sun...only 8 inches of rain all year long...that is part of the reason we decided to live here.
We also live on the edge of the cloudbank so we don't get so socked in with cloudy weather either..
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Lisa, from the pictures you post it looks like your weather is always gorgeous. I love those kitchen cabinets. That's what I want to do here, but have to convince DH. I might try that when I convince him that the interior needs painting again! All this color talk is making me want to make some changes, and it's been 4 years.
Allergy season has arrived a little late this year, probably due to our unusually cold weather this winter. The oak pollen (and we're surrounded by oaks) hasn't fallen yet but that's what usually gets me despite taking claritin every day.
DH has surprised me with a long weekend in Charleston for our anniversary this year. It's not a bad drive from here, and he's already got the reservations for us there and for the dog at the vet. I love Charleston and it's been way too long since we've been, so I'm really looking forward to it. Our anniversary is April 14, so we're leaving the 11th and coming back on the 14th.
DGS #1 (age 4) hasn't had a haircut all winter and his buzz cut has grown long and curly. He apparently paid attention in Sunday School when they learned the Samson story, because he says now he can't have his hair cut--he'd lose all his power.
Kathy
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What a nice way to celebrate your anniversary. And all planned, down to the vet for the dog.
Lisa, I'm trying to talk DH into going to San Diego to check it out. I was actually born in Long Beach, CA, but moved to Kansas when I was two. I could furnish a house in beach or southwest style in a heartbeat. I just love the look.
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wren. we just love it here. I have lived all over the place,and this has it all but snow but the mountains are nearby. we don't get as warm as the LA area in the summer and thst is a good thing.
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Hi girls I'm finally home again! These trips to the city are becoming a pain but I guess I need to keep going to get rid of the pain I'm in........lol. I don't like the first few days after treatment but then I start to feel good so it seems it's working.......yay!!!! If it works as well as I hope, you never know I may be up for a bit of painting myself......woohoo!!!!
Got my good dose of new baby cuddles from Luna (daughter to my DDs friend of many years and more like an adopted daughter to me). Oh what a little cutie!!! At six weeks she is as bright as a button and already smiling and trying to goo when you talk to her.........such a little sweetheart!
Lisa, I must admit, I think San Diego won my heart when I was there and it's a place I would love to revisit at some point.
Well this old bird needs a cup of tea and then to bed I think. Have a good day all!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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