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29 Sunday Jan 2012

Posted by Donna in Future Projects

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Dining room, Living room

There has not been a whole lot going on here at the homestead.  We have not been home, for one thing, which means nothing has gotten accomplished, except for laundry–hardly a blog-worthy event–but we have clean clothes.

So, I’ve been thinking… I want to paint my living and dining rooms.  They are currently a pale yellow and have been that way for several years.

 

The current dining room was originally the living room, and the small sitting room in the background, use to be the dining room.  The dining table was too big for the small room, so I swapped them out.   I like it much better, although I would like to add a chandelier to the new dining room in the future.  (I would also love to refinish these floors, but that is going to have to wait).

Here is a close up of the sitting room:

When it comes to wall colors, I have always played it safe with soft neutrals.  Any time I have ventured outside my comfort zone, it goes horribly wrong!  I think I was born without that “color wheel” gene, that comes so easily to others. 

So here’s my dilemma:  I want to paint the rooms a very pale shade of grey, but I think the green mats on the pictures would look out-of-place.  What if I changed them out for white or cream?  The magnolia prints would look something like this:

I would do the same thing for my Wampler prints.  So this:

Would look something like this:

What do you think?

(Of course, before I do any of this, there is that other project I have yet to finish…)

A Bathroom for the Kitties!

31 Saturday Dec 2011

Posted by Donna in Future Projects

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No, I haven’t lost my mind, yet, but I had to share an idea that Norm came up with, which I thought was brilliant!  I have been wanting to move the kitty boxes out in the garage, with a pet door installed in the interior door going out to the garage.  The only problem is, that one of our cats is totally indoors, so we run the risk of her getting out when we opened the overhead garage door.  Norm suggested that we build an enclosure in our garage–maybe 3′ deep x 4′ wide x 2′ high.  That is just a guess since we have two cats with their own litter boxes.  Anyway, the enclosure would probably be plywood, with insulation board, to keep it energy-efficient, and have a hinged top allowing for easy access to clean the boxes out.  We would cut an access door for the cats in the wall instead of a door.  Here is a layout of how it would look:

We could trim the door out to match the rest of the house. 

What do you think?

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