Weekend update 1 March
Leslie Deak
It was a sad weekend for me, but I'm being selfish. Friday, we puttered
and went to the accountant. The yarn store I wanted to go to was closed,
so we had a late lunch at Arby's, which DH loves. Then we had class from
6-10pm.
I'm heartbroken. Saturday, we helped our best friends move to their
new house. In Maryland. The house is nice, and I'm soooo happy for them.
But now they live 40 minutes away, instead of 10. :( Our other friends
moved to Maryland in 2001, and we went from seeing them every week and a
half to once every three months. And now those friends are moving to
Delaware in June. Sigh. But Saturday's moving was fun, such as it were,
since we got to chat with R's parents and brother, and J's sister, all of
whom came to help. When we got home, we watched TV and I finished my
knitted blanket.
Sunday, we puttered, watched Duke lose a basketball game, and worked on
the TiVo. DH played computer games with a friend, and I did the shoe run.
DH took me out to dinner at the brewery, where we had bad service, which
is unusual. Now, I'm watching the TiVoed Jim McKay biography.
-Leslie
juniper
> Our other friends
> moved to Maryland in 2001, and we went from seeing them every week and a
> half to once every three months. And now those friends are moving to
> Delaware in June.
Yeah...I know how this is. It's hard enough to see friends here
locally, much less those that live a short period away. Hey -- where in
Delaware, though? You can always do a double trip and come visit here!
Okay...my weekend update: I got home Friday night from an out-of-town
trip to San Antonio (work)
We watched 24 on the ReplayTV (sorry, TiVo fans...this is what we ended
up with. But it's still definitely a case of ANBI because I wouldn't
have done this otherwise). DH hooked it up while I was away. He also
hooked up my laptop to a new wireless router. He also started
reorganizing the CD's so they take up less space. Is this electronics
nesting or what!?!
Saturday, DH's dad came over to help DH haul a bunch of stuff to
Goodwill, including a couple of scary couches from the basement and
bureaus with falling out drawers. Then MIL came over and I made an
impromptu lunch for them (DH thought we'd go over there...she called in
the morning and said "What time should I come over?") Fortunately, I
had enough food in the house (barely) to make broccoli and cheese
quiche, salad, and we had bread with hummus.
After they left, we vegged, and then went to a fundraising kickoff at
our church, and then had (impromptu, again), a couple of friends from
there over for drinks. I had the Geri Spritzer...seltzer with Rose's
Lime Juice.
This morning, we went to church, went shopping for some birthday gifts,
and then went to my parents' to celebrate my aunt, cousin and DH's
birthdays. Then home to watch Alias on ReplayTV (we started watching at
9:20 just to skip the commercials.
- Jennifer from Delaware
Vicky Larmour
going to achieve that evening.... and ended up doing practically none
of it :-)
I had been going to start on the stripe painting that I asked about
here the other day, but it turned out that the two coats of cream
base paint that I had put on the wall the previous night showed up
*every* imperfection in the wall surface, of which there are a lot,
so we ended up deciding to scrap the whole "stripes" plan and go
wallpaper shopping on Saturday instead!
So Saturday I got up, made a big pan of lasagne for later, and we
went out to look at wallpaper. We found quite a lot of nice stuff but
nothing that was absolutely ideal for what we wanted (it's for the
room we're decorating as a nursery). We brought some samples home to
think about more later.
Saturday evening we went round to see some friends (taking the
lasagne, some garlic bread and salad with us; they had made a yummy
chocolate mousse for dessert) as they had heaps of baby stuff to lend
to us. We went through it all with them and ended up bringing home a
bouncy chair, a Graco travel cot, a door swing, a baby gym, and a
whole crateful of toys, clothes and blankets... we also had to leave
an Exersaucer with them as we just don't have room for it right now,
but we'll collect it once we've finished sorting out the nursery
decoration and have room to move in the house again :-)
Sunday we puttered around and did various chores, nothing very
exciting. But, we did finally decide on the wallpaper. We're going
for a striped paper on the lower half of the wall, then a border,
then plain cream paper above which we will do various stencilling on.
I've just placed a big order with Stencil Warehouse for various
teddies, butterflies, ballooons etc., so I may well be asking for
stencilling advice over the next few weeks :-)
Vicky
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Leslie Deak <ld...@me1.egr.duke.edu> wrote:
*
*It was a sad weekend for me, but I'm being selfish. Friday, we puttered
*and went to the accountant. The yarn store I wanted to go to was closed,
*so we had a late lunch at Arby's, which DH loves. Then we had class from
*6-10pm.
*
*I'm heartbroken. Saturday, we helped our best friends move to their
*new house. In Maryland. The house is nice, and I'm soooo happy for them.
*But now they live 40 minutes away, instead of 10. :( Our other friends
*moved to Maryland in 2001, and we went from seeing them every week and a
*half to once every three months. And now those friends are moving to
*Delaware in June. Sigh. But Saturday's moving was fun, such as it were,
Well, they're getting closer and closer. When they move to PA you can give
them my number, ok?
*Sunday, we puttered, watched Duke lose a basketball game, and worked on
*the TiVo. DH played computer games with a friend, and I did the shoe run.
How is the TiVo going??
Our weekend was ok. I worked Saturday morning, then we went shopping for a
car to replace Michael's totalled one (oh, btw, my dad's car wasn't
actually totalled. It will be fixed, according to the powers that be, and
it will take some time more than 8 weeks and less than never, according to
the guy who is fixing it!). We hit the Audi and Volkswagen dealerships,
and then got a call that Jacob was up from his nap so we went home. Then
we went out to have some sushi (me and Michael) and yakitori chicken
(Jacob, who didn't really eat much except he scarfed the miso soup and the
cucumbers from our salds - he is so weird these days with food!). The
restaurant people LOVED the kids, said they behaved just like Japanese
children, which is apparently quite unusual among their clientele's
offspring. So that was nice. Sunday we hung out for a while, did some
grocery shopping (Naomi slept in the sling the whole time, woo hoo! and
Jacob rode in a fire engine cart), and then went out with the whole family
(mine and Michael's) for a belated birthday party for me, to replace the
snowed out one :). We went to Joseph Poon's in Philadelphia's Chinatown.
See <http://www.josephpoon.com/> for more details. It was quite yummy! I
got some unexpected and very nice birthday gifts, too, so that was a bonus
:) Particularly unexpected were the full set of the TetonNewMedia
"veterinary medicine made easy" books, some with accompanying CD-ROM (I
know they sound stupid but they are small, easily carried from home to
work, and are just LOADED with clinical pearls. I am a big fan of having
reference material on hand just in case!); also the bright blue kitchen
apron with my name across the top :) :)
--
hillary israeli vmd http://www.hillary.net in...@hillary.net
"uber vaccae in quattuor partes divisum est."
newly minted veterinarian-at-large :)
Lissie
friends M&M. She is very pregnant at this point! My dinner was actually not
all that good - unusual for the restaurant we went to. Then we went to our
place and played Yahtzee, which was very fun! Saturday morning I was
supposed to have breakfast with a friend who was in town, but she ended up
cancelling last minute, so I had a long chat with my mom instead, which was
nice. Then, my ILs came to visit. My SIL and BIL are giving us a crib and
changing table, and she's loaning me a bunch of maternity clothes, so those
arrived too. (Note to self-thank you note!). We hung out, ate some food, and
then walked up the hill to look at an open house of a condo in our
neighborhood. Well, the openhouse was closed, but the contractor let us in
and we poked around-it's a two-family house being renovated and is COMPLETELY
gorgeous, but SO FAR out of our price range. The asking price for the 2BR
was $425K, and the asking price for the 3BR was $529K. It was still fun.
Then we went back, hung out, had tea, and went out for dinner to a local
Cambodian/French restaurant that is delicious, and it was great! Then we
headed back to the apartment and looked at old photos. DH is doing this
project of scanning in old slides and old family photos for both my family
and his, and is having a great time. Then I went to bed. On Sunday, we went
shopping! I grew out of my work pants this week, so I bought some comfy
elastic waisted pants that should expand with me, and broke down and bought
some maternity pants too. YAY! I don't have to walk around with my pants
unbuttoned! Then my inlaws left, and we headed out to a friend's house. DH
and some other guys have started a D&D campaign, and the wives hang out and
eat and talk while they play. Yes, I married a geek! :) By the time we got
home, I was completely and utterly exhausted. I've found that the older I
get (and the more I work as a therapist), the more tiring I find social
interactions to be. But it was a good weekend!
- Lissie
Sarah Hallum
Friday... actually, Friday was nice. Michigan has Winter Break (as
opposed to Spring) the last week of February, so it's been very Very quiet
at work. We convinced the boss to let us close up at 3:30 instead of our
usual 5. I was able to walk to the tailor to pick up my Evil Bridesmaid
Dress (the dress isn't evil - everyone says it's beautiful though
impractical for the weather, but the wedding, the MOH, and the bride are
evil). So that, the undergarments, and the shoes are all in a garment bag
and will stay there until we fly out for the wedding.
On my walk back, Jeremy called and said that we would not have the
contractual clear to close because the bank had lost the title. Our agent
said it wasn't unheard of, but that it typically happened on 50 year old
houses, not 4 year old ones.
We got home, paid our last rent check (YAY!), and realized that the woman
running the leasing office was a buffoon and didn't have the notice to
vacate sheet we were supposed to fill out. Back at our apartment, we
realized that the sidewalk was covered in ice. again. so jeremy set to
chipping it off and i immediately fell asleep. Two hours later, we got
up, put the pork chops in the fridge and puttered all evening.
Saturday, I got up early due to some really bad dreams, and spent some
time cleaning and organizing. Eventually, we made our way out the door
and went to The Great Indoors up in Novi. That was a blast to look
around. We then headed home, after stopping by McDonalds to get one of
those yogurt parfaits. Jeremy's never had one. I think I've got him
addicted now. Go me. We went to the grocery store... and came home and
talked about what color we wanted to paint a couple of rooms. I want to
do the bedroom in a sagey green color and the study (with wood floors) in
a deep red This of course freaks out mom no end. Weird colors! gak! am i
really sure?!?! Okay mom, thanks. I also spent the rest of the night
designing (if you wanna call it that) a cross-stitch pattern for napkins
for communion for my brother's wedding.
I then stayed up till almost dawn for no good reason.
Sunday, I finally convinced Jeremy that he's really gotta pack and clean,
not in that order. we got rid of 3 bags of trash/recyclables, so that was
quite successful. He also packed a few more boxes and we turned a closet
in the study into a place to hold, well, boxes. What else? :P I also
worked on the napkins, laundry, and we cleaned more.
So now it's Monday, and despite the laziness, I think the weekend went by
far too quickly. We close on our house in 11 days... and (knock on wood)
get possession in 18 days. At that point, we figure, we're going to
paint... well, first use primer on the ceilings and the walls (since the
rooms we want to repaint are windows 2000 blue and chocolate brown) and
then paint, hopefully before moving day which is March 29th.
For the second time in 5 years, jeremy and i are moving on march 29th.
only funny because it's our "dating anniversary" otherwise, i'd probably
never have noticed.
And that is my weekend, sad as it is.
Sarah
san...@socrates.berkeley.edu
were at the hospital, preparing for the c-section. We got the
"results" call about 3 hours later - I have a niece! 8 lbs., 14 oz,
21" long, apgar of 8-9, and named Scarlett Grace. Mom and baby are
doing fine.
Spent the rest of the day running errands: Costco, ate lunch out,
bought oil & filter and had my car serviced, had my brows waxed,
picked up new heads for DH electric razor, etc.
Friday night: stayed in and read.
Saturday: Stayed home all day. Took Bodie out in the back yard for
a good chunk of time, read a lot, did some housework, called my
bro & SIL for an update. Very relaxing.
Sunday: My big day. A friend had scheduled a "makeup party" at the
SF Nordstrom's Smashbox counter. We had 10 of us, with the national
makeup artist/trainer for the Smashbox line. We spent a couple of hours
playing with new items in the line, and applying makeup looks. So
unusual for me, and fun too. I ended up with some green (!) cream
eyeliner, a pearlescent "blending" eyequad, and a raisin-y color of
eyeshadow (Dream). Free gifts were an eyeliner brush, a lipgloss
trio, and the cream eyeliner.
Then home, to more time with DH and the cats. Watched the Simpsons
and Malcolm in the Middle, and on to bed.
Sandi
Snow White
> I'm heartbroken. Saturday, we helped our best friends move to their
> new house. In Maryland. The house is nice, and I'm soooo happy for them.
> But now they live 40 minutes away, instead of 10. :(
I'm so sorry Leslie.
I had a nice weekend. I took the day off from work on Friday. I had
a dental appointment (look ma, no cavities) and followed that with
lunch with my sister (my hygienist). After lunch, I picked DD up from
daycare early and we spent the afternoon together. Oh, and while I
was at the dentist's office, I read an article which reviewed new
restaurants in the state. There was one that the reviewer mentioned
was family-friendly and featured Cajun food. I thought that DH might
enjoy that sometime, and made a mental note of the details. the
reviewer only gave the place 1.5 stars out of 4, but the descriptions
he gave sounded great to me.
I tried reaching DH by telephone from ~4:00 - 8:30 p.m. I knew that
he was away on business in S. Jersey, but I had no idea when to expect
him home (I figured that he'd start out for home around 5:00. By
8:00, I had imagined him dead in a ditch on the side of the road.
When he finally called around 9:00, he explained that he was just
leaving Cherry Hill, and that he was unable to get a signal in the
church where he was working all day.
On Saturday, we did a whole lot of nothing all morning. We decided to
go to that restaurant I read about for dinner to celebrate DH's new
position. Before dinner, we went to Costco and bought fun stuff like
diapers and dishwashing detergent. Then we managed to find the
restaurant without getting lost (it was in a town that neither of us
had been to before). Well, the review was right about one thing... it
was family friendly. Unfortunately, the menu didn't have any Cajun
food on it at all. DD had the macaroni and cheese (and would only eat
it using the gigantic regular fork at her place setting, not the
toddler fork we brought along). She also enjoyed a taste of the
breading from the Louisiana Shrimp bites that DH and I shared. The
shrimp bites showed promise on the menu, but they were essentially
Buffalo wings made with shrimp (same type of seasonings). They were
good, but not what I expected. DH had a house salad and broiled sea
scallops. I had a Caesar salad and shrimp scampi. The food was
delicious, but not the type of food we had hoped for.
On Sunday afternoon, DH cleaned the wood floors, while I sat in the
office and tried to catch up on e-mail (the floor cleaner smelled
fairly toxic). When DD woke up from her nap, we went to DH's
grandmother's house for dinner. DD was very whiny in the car on the
way down (I pray that her sister is better in the car), but when she
got there, she was thrilled to see her 9 and 10 year old cousins (and
play with them) and grandma and grandpa. She ran around Dh's
grandmother's house, like she owned the place, and was having the time
of her life. Dinner was surprisingly good. DH's aunt was there, and
she made a few dishes which were very tasty. Then we went to my
youngest sister's house. She and her new DH are in the process of
renovating my grandmother's house to make it their own. DD met the
upstairs neighbor's ferret (it is a 2 family house). My mom and dad
came, and DH and BIL helped my dad load a chest freezer into dad's
pick-up. The chest freezer is now living in our basement, and I can't
wait to put that leftover w* cake in there as well as the birds that
DH brings home from hunting (they never seem to get cooked).
Tscout
Sarah Hallum wrote:
>talked about what color we wanted to paint a couple of rooms. I want to
>do the bedroom in a sagey green color and the study (with wood floors) in
>a deep red This of course freaks out mom no end. Weird colors! gak! am i
>really sure?!?! Okay mom, thanks.
>
Sarah,
I don't know if this helps, but...
We painted our bedroom a sagey green & it looks beautiful....our floors
(wood) & our wood bedroom furniture look great with it....the house next
door has a room painted deep red... (I was checking it out because I was
thinking of doing the guest room either that or eggplant) and it is just
lovely....our trim is cream....
Linda
Leslie Deak
> *Sunday, we puttered, watched Duke lose a basketball game, and worked on
> *the TiVo. DH played computer games with a friend, and I did the shoe run.
>
> How is the TiVo going??
Not well. The new theory is that it's a failing power supply. We think
the power supply is too weak to support two drives. (We can hear the
40GB drive spinning when it's by itself, but not much noise when both
drives are connected. Hinsdale said the first drive was fine--passed
diagnostics.) Also, the power supply did a funky new thing last night:
TiVo powered down for No Good Reason.
So, the options are this:
1. Replace the original 40GB drive with a new 120GB drive, and perform
the upgrade myself, to learn the process. Hope the power supply
continues to work. (~$150). Possibly need to replace the power supply
anyway. (Another $100.)
2. Buy an HDVR2 and upgrade it to add another 120GB drive. Move
GXCEBOT to basement. Bonus=2 TiVos. Cost is $250 for the HDVR2 and
~$150 for the new drive and hardware.
3. Suck it up and wait for the HD TiVos. Note that we don't have an
HDTV. But will get one. Someday.
Advice? Is the series 2 a great improvement over the GXCEBOT?
-Leslie
JH
Tscout wrote:
My MBM is sagey green "Martha Stewart's Jasper Green" with "Chalk" trim. One of
THE best accent colors with this color green is a vibrant red. Looks great! A
friend of mine just painted her living room a deep cranberry and it is lovely.
Jen in South Florida
a navigation system in it, so they just packed some clothes and
headed to Florida - no maps and little planning!
We drove to Orlando last weekend to meet them and went to Epcot
on Monday. Had a great day, the weather was just beautiful and
the crowds were light. They are 73 and 71 but we were there from
9 AM until after the 9 PM fireworks show. They did not want to
leave! Tuesday we got up early and came home for work and they
went to visit some friends on Florida's west coast.
They arrived back at our house Friday night. I cooked dinner
(dijon chicken, carribean rice with papaya and key lime pie) and
we watched Joe Somebody but I kept falling asleep at the end. I
love Julie Bowen and really want her hair!
Saturday morning we got up and had my sausage casserole for
breakfast on the back patio. We drove south to the Keys. We
ended up passing up the glass bottom boat ride at Pennecamp Park
in Key Largo but we did go into the park and look around. We
drove all the way to Marathon before we turned around. Paul has
a favorite restaurant, Sundowners, in Key Largo, so we had to
stop there for dinner but the sunset was a bit cloud covered. We
got home around 8 PM and watched Ed off the tivo before we went
to bed. More Julie Bowen! Really want her hair!
Sunday we had peach cobbler waffles again on the patio and spent
the day down at the Riverwalk. There is a boat tour of all the
millionaire's homes from the Intercostal Waterway so we took that
and gawked. Paul and I have done the tour before and go past the
same houses when we dive off our friend's boat, but GFIL and GMIL
really enjoyed it. We drove all the way up A1A to Hallendale
Beach before we turned around to come home. The beach was packed
yesterday! Ft. Lauderdale set record high temps. Dinner was
homemade pizza.
They left this morning as we left for work. I had a really great
time with them. I've never been around them without 30 other
people being there, so it was really nice. Paul is just like his
granddaddy!
Jen
Trina
> Saturday, I got up early due to some really bad dreams, and spent some time
> cleaning and organizing. Eventually, we made our way out the door and went to
> The Great Indoors up in Novi. That was a blast to look around. We then
> headed home, after stopping by McDonalds to get one of those yogurt parfaits.
> Jeremy's never had one. I think I've got him addicted now. Go me. We went
> to the grocery store... and came home and talked about what color we wanted to
> paint a couple of rooms. I want to do the bedroom in a sagey green color and
> the study (with wood floors) in a deep red This of course freaks out mom no
> end. Weird colors! gak! am i really sure?!?! Okay mom, thanks. I also spent
> the rest of the night designing (if you wanna call it that) a cross-stitch
> pattern for napkins for communion for my brother's wedding.
I really like the sage green color and even went as far as to buy sheets for
our bed in that color. I was planning on doing some sort of sage-scheme in our
room, but to DH, it looks like "operating room green" and every time he sees it
(or I use those sheets) he runs around yelling "Get me some bladdyblahblah
STAT!" I think sage green is out for us :) So of course, the room is an ugly
whitish color with some avocado green peeking through the bad paint job, the
carpet covers the wood floors and the windows are uncovered until we can decide
what to do in there. I really like blue, and really want to do something with
dark blue, but it seems like everything else in the house is blue (the living
room currently and the kitchen), so I'm trying to be more creative than that...
We have agreed to paint the living room a dark red/cranberry color. One
dewallpapering project at a time, though...
We (read: I) dewallpapered the kitchen and painted it bright blue. Like the
color blue on a pepsi can. I love it. Our parents think it's too bright.
When I had one wall done, my dad's comment was "It's uh, bright. What do you
do if you paint it all and don't like it?" He was happy with my matter-of-fact
comment that for another gallon of paint for $10, I could repaint it. And
ANYTHING was better than the mattress ticking wallpaper that was in there.
-Trina
Robin
> 1. Replace the original 40GB drive with a new 120GB drive, and perform
> the upgrade myself, to learn the process. Hope the power supply
> continues to work. (~$150). Possibly need to replace the power supply
> anyway. (Another $100.)
If the power supply is going, the power supply is going. I would
replace it unless you plan to retire this TiVo.
If you replace the power supply the new drive (have you sent it back
yet?) should work, so then everything would be hunky-dory.
--
Robin
(Trying out a new email system. This address *does* (well, "should") work.)
Liz D.
"Sarah Hallum" <sha...@tymora.astro.lsa.umich.edu> wrote
I want to
: do the bedroom in a sagey green color and the study (with wood floors) in
: a deep red This of course freaks out mom no end. Weird colors! gak! am i
: really sure?!?! Okay mom, thanks.
FWIW, my living room is several deep sagey green colors (Ben Moore 507-509,
if you can find an old deck; the new colors all have names) and my dining
room is Ben Moore Confederate Red. Floors are maple and woodwork is original
fir. The two rooms are directly opposite one another and the center hall (of
the proverbial Colonial) between them is a warm sunny yellow. So there!
Liz
Sarah Hallum
> "Sarah Hallum" <sha...@tymora.astro.lsa.umich.edu> wrote:
>
> I really like the sage green color and even went as far as to buy sheets for
> our bed in that color. I was planning on doing some sort of sage-scheme in our
> room, but to DH, it looks like "operating room green" and every time he sees it
> (or I use those sheets) he runs around yelling "Get me some bladdyblahblah
> STAT!" I think sage green is out for us :)
Well, that's your husband. But we've already covered this ground. ;)
> We have agreed to paint the living room a dark red/cranberry color. One
> dewallpapering project at a time, though...
Jeremy was anti-red for a bit. But we were struggling on decorating ideas
(as in, we don't agree)... i guess i found a nice red somewhere and he
finally caved...
... mind you, we don't have a house yet. :)
> We (read: I) dewallpapered the kitchen and painted it bright blue. Like the
> color blue on a pepsi can. I love it. Our parents think it's too bright.
> When I had one wall done, my dad's comment was "It's uh, bright. What do you
> do if you paint it all and don't like it?" He was happy with my matter-of-fact
> comment that for another gallon of paint for $10, I could repaint it. And
> ANYTHING was better than the mattress ticking wallpaper that was in there.
Yeah, that's my theory. If I don't like it, i'll just repaint it. ;)
Sarah
Tina S
Sarah Hallum wrote:
>
> and went to The Great Indoors up in Novi. That was a blast to look
> around. We then headed home, after stopping by McDonalds to get one of
> those yogurt parfaits. Jeremy's never had one. I think I've got him
> addicted now. Go me.
A co-worker got me addicted to those too, but going to McDonald's is not
overly convenient so now I make my own using Yoplait vanilla yogurt,
frozen blueberries and strawberries, and granola (a granola cereal
anyway). You should try it :)
Tina
aMAZon
Tina S wrote:
FWIW, McD's currently has a smaller size yogurt parfait for $1. It's
the perfect size for Her Majesty when she's between school and ballet or
gymnastics.
--
aMAZon
zeszutko at nycap.rr.com
"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
Rose Bingham
pjupto...@mindspring.com says...
> They arrived back at our house Friday night. I cooked dinner
> (dijon chicken, carribean rice with papaya
recipes?
Rose
Jen in South Florida
I'll hunt the rice recipe up, it's from a cookbook I actually
bought at the Outdoor World/Bass Pro type store in Islamorada.
The chicken I just sort of made up. I used dijon mustard, white
wine, olive oil and pesto and then marinated it over night before
grilling. It was yummy!
Jen
Rose Bingham
liz_...@hotmail.com says...
> FWIW, my living room is several deep sagey green colors (Ben Moore 507-509,
> if you can find an old deck; the new colors all have names) and my dining
> room is Ben Moore Confederate Red. Floors are maple and woodwork is original
> fir. The two rooms are directly opposite one another and the center hall (of
> the proverbial Colonial) between them is a warm sunny yellow. So there!
OK, I'm sure there is a really obvious answer to this but and I'm going
to have a "duh" moment when I read it but... I'm going to ask anyway.
I'm starting to think of what I want to do, decorating-wise, in the new
house (see how optimistic I am - I'm assuming I will have the time to do
this) and I'm wondering what you do with the transition areas when you
have 2 adjacent rooms/areas painted different colors. I'm talking about
doorways / arches. For example, the dining room and family room in the
new house has archways from the foyer / hall. So what do I do with the
arched surface if the rooms are going to be a different color than the
hallway?
Rose
Leslie Deak
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Rose Bingham wrote:
> this) and I'm wondering what you do with the transition areas when you
> have 2 adjacent rooms/areas painted different colors. I'm talking about
> doorways / arches. For example, the dining room and family room in the
> new house has archways from the foyer / hall. So what do I do with the
> arched surface if the rooms are going to be a different color than the
> hallway?
If you're us, you try painting the doorway one color. Then you paint it
the other color. Then you decide it was better the first way. Generally,
we chose the lighter of the two colors in the doorway, since it was less
"shocking" looking from the other room.
-Leslie
Leslie Deak
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Robin wrote:
> If you replace the power supply the new drive (have you sent it back
> yet?) should work, so then everything would be hunky-dory.
Yup. Sent it during my Big Trip to the Post Office this morning.
-Leslie
Snow White
> Friday: Got a call at 5:30 am. SIL had gone into labor, and they
> were at the hospital, preparing for the c-section. We got the
> "results" call about 3 hours later - I have a niece! 8 lbs., 14 oz,
> 21" long, apgar of 8-9, and named Scarlett Grace. Mom and baby are
> doing fine.
>
Congrats Aunt Sandi!
Sarah Hallum
>
>
> A co-worker got me addicted to those too, but going to McDonald's is not
> overly convenient so now I make my own using Yoplait vanilla yogurt,
> frozen blueberries and strawberries, and granola (a granola cereal
> anyway). You should try it :)
Oh, we plan too. but it was his first time. so now he knows he'll eat
'em. ;)
Sarah
lissi
> OK, I'm sure there is a really obvious answer to this but and I'm going
> to have a "duh" moment when I read it but... I'm going to ask anyway.
> I'm starting to think of what I want to do, decorating-wise, in the new
> house (see how optimistic I am - I'm assuming I will have the time to do
> this) and I'm wondering what you do with the transition areas when you
> have 2 adjacent rooms/areas painted different colors. I'm talking about
> doorways / arches. For example, the dining room and family room in the
> new house has archways from the foyer / hall. So what do I do with the
> arched surface if the rooms are going to be a different color than the
> hallway?
I don't think there's an obvious answer. If I'm understanding correctly,
you're asking about the small area between the two walls that forms the
arch. I would say you should paint it the same color as your trim, assuming
the trim is painted, not stained.
Lissi
..
Leslie Deak
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, lissi wrote:
> I don't think there's an obvious answer. If I'm understanding correctly,
> you're asking about the small area between the two walls that forms the
> arch. I would say you should paint it the same color as your trim, assuming
> the trim is painted, not stained.
But her doorways don't have trim, for the most part. So it's not quite as
clear. We don't have trim on our interior doorways, either.
-Leslie
Shelly Wruck
"Rose Bingham" <rg...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.18cddfc45...@newsgroups.bellsouth.net...
> So what do I do with the
> arched surface if the rooms are going to be a different color than the
> hallway?
I painted mine a complimentary color. The colors of the two rooms aren't
really diverse, but even if they were, I probably would have done something
similar. Our living room is a lavender-y color (I think it's Glidden
Soothing Melody), and our dining room is a lighter lavender-y color (also
Glidden, I think Moonlight Sonata). I painted the inside of the arch a dark
grey - I just bought a quart of the color and did only the arch in that.
It's another Glidden color, but I can't remember what it was called.
I just realized this all sounds like my house is much more purple than it
really is. :-)
FWIW, for the original topic, our MBR is a sage-type green (Glidden
Reflection), kind of similar to the Restoration Hardware Silver Sage. The
other BR that we painted is a really great taupe color, Glidden Toasty Grey.
The bathroom is Glidden Southern Pine under the chair rail (a hunter green),
and Glidden Scented Candle (an off-white with a pinkish undertone) above the
chair rail. Oh, and the kitchen is a sunny, bright lemon yellow (Glidden
Pale Lemon). I have one bedroom to go, but I'll have to remove all the cr*p
we have stored in there to do anything about it. :-) I may also have a go
at painting the panelling in our den, but that would require packing up all
my books, craft stuff, computer stuff, and assorted other stuff...so I may
just let that go, too.
If you want to see the colors, don't check the Glidden website for the
colors - they look *nothing* like they do on the chips or the wall.
--
Shelly
swruck at techie dot com
or
swruck at wi dot rr dot com
Trina
But you could paint the jamb (? it's the only description I can think of at the
moment - the part where the door would fit in if there were a door) the trim
color. So you'd have wall color A on the wall to that point, then trim color
on the bendy part and then wall color B on the other side of the same wall.
If you were standing inside the doorway looking at the frame, it might look
something like this:
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
Wall Color A Trim Color Wall Color B
instead of picking one of the wall colors for the inside of the doorway.
-Trina, wondering if this makes sense.
Rose Bingham
pjupto...@mindspring.com says...
> I'll hunt the rice recipe up, it's from a cookbook I actually
> bought at the Outdoor World/Bass Pro type store in Islamorada.
thanks (and now I'm thinking about rum runners at the tiki bar...)
> The chicken I just sort of made up. I used dijon mustard, white
> wine, olive oil and pesto and then marinated it over night before
> grilling. It was yummy!
Sounds good. Maybe I'll give this a try.
Rose
Rose Bingham
ld...@me1.egr.duke.edu says...
> If you're us, you try painting the doorway one color. Then you paint it
> the other color. Then you decide it was better the first way.
Heehee. That sounds just like something I would do.
> we chose the lighter of the two colors in the doorway, since it was less
> "shocking" looking from the other room.
That makes sense. I'm sort of liking the other idea too of a completely
different neutral color. I suspect there'll be some repainting in my
future too.
Rose
Rose Bingham
says...
> I just realized this all sounds like my house is much more purple than it
> really is. :-)
But that would be ok. I'm wondering how much purple I can get away with
before DH wants to have some say...
Rose
Nicole Clifton
other day. The took the wall paper and used it as a border, a large
border but it looked so nice and went with a darker color underneath-
paint first of course.
It turned out so cute, just an idea. It is so wonderful that you have
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Vicky Larmour <vi...@jifvik.org.nospam> wrote in message news:<Xns933380C5B...@62.253.130.87>...
> I went home from work on Friday night with grand plans for what I was
> going to achieve that evening.... and ended up doing practically none
> of it :-)
>
> I had been going to start on the stripe painting that I asked about
> here the other day, but it turned out that the two coats of cream
> base paint that I had put on the wall the previous night showed up
> *every* imperfection in the wall surface, of which there are a lot,
> so we ended up deciding to scrap the whole "stripes" plan and go
> wallpaper shopping on Saturday instead!
>
> So Saturday I got up, made a big pan of lasagne for later, and we
> went out to look at wallpaper. We found quite a lot of nice stuff but
> nothing that was absolutely ideal for what we wanted (it's for the
> room we're decorating as a nursery). We brought some samples home to
> think about more later.
>
> Saturday evening we went round to see some friends (taking the
> lasagne, some garlic bread and salad with us; they had made a yummy
> chocolate mousse for dessert) as they had heaps of baby stuff to lend
> to us. We went through it all with them and ended up bringing home a
> bouncy chair, a Graco travel cot, a door swing, a baby gym, and a
> whole crateful of toys, clothes and blankets... we also had to leave
> an Exersaucer with them as we just don't have room for it right now,
> but we'll collect it once we've finished sorting out the nursery
> decoration and have room to move in the house again :-)
>
> Sunday we puttered around and did various chores, nothing very
> exciting. But, we did finally decide on the wallpaper. We're going
> for a striped paper on the lower half of the wall, then a border,
> then plain cream paper above which we will do various stencilling on.
> I've just placed a big order with Stencil Warehouse for various
> teddies, butterflies, ballooons etc., so I may well be asking for
> stencilling advice over the next few weeks :-)
>
> Vicky
Leslie Deak
> > we chose the lighter of the two colors in the doorway, since it was less
> > "shocking" looking from the other room.
>
> That makes sense. I'm sort of liking the other idea too of a completely
> different neutral color. I suspect there'll be some repainting in my
> future too.
Our kitchen is a grayish blue. The TV room is a pale yellow. There's a
pass-through between them. We originally painted the side of the
pass-through yellow (since we did the yellow room first). Then we
painted the kitchen, leaving the pass-through yellow. DH decided he
didn't like it that way and painted it blue. Everyone else said they
liked it. I didn't like it. It wasn't until someone else pointed it
out how abrupt it looked that he decided to go back. Then everyone
said they liked the yellow in the pass-through better. :)
Between the green dining area and the yellow TV room, we painted the
doorway green. The reasoning is that you can always see the green room
from the yellow room, but you can't always see the yellow room from
the green room. So the transition fits. Does that make sense?
-Leslie
Puester
>
> If you are having a shower you might want to also visit my site I
> create personalized and custom Bedtime Story Lamps and Nursery Name
> Shelves, that are designed around your child's name and room theme.
> www.wyim.com
>
> If you are interested I can even send gift registry requests to your
> friends for you, or provid you with form to forward.
>
> Good luck with the closets. It sounds adorable just by the paint you
> described!
>
> Nicole
> www.wyim.com
>
Nicole:
You may have missed the alt.newlywed FAQ. If so, let me
quote a relevant passage to you:
"1.5) Is advertising allowed on alt.newlywed?
Messages advertising products or services are not permitted on
alt.newlywed. Products or services may be promoted only in
(a) recommendations in response to a specific inquiry and
(b) the poster's .sig file.
Using the newsgroup as a source of mailing list names for unsolicited
commercial or political e-mail messages is also forbidden."
When a newcomer uses a.n. to advertise (thinly veiled), it is
generally regarded as unwelcome spam.
gloria p
Robin
> When a newcomer uses a.n. to advertise (thinly veiled), it is
> generally regarded as unwelcome spam.
Nicely put!!!
Vicky Larmour
> When a newcomer uses a.n. to advertise (thinly veiled), it is
> generally regarded as unwelcome spam.
... especially when the same newcomer has done the same thing in
response to other posts in other groups at the same time, some even
less relevant than this one was!
Vicky, not impressed
--
vicky[at]jifvik.org All opinions mine.
The "unofficial offical alt.newlywed page" and a.n FAQ:
http://www.altnewlywed.com/
Sarah
> I want to
> do the bedroom in a sagey green color and the study (with wood floors) in
> a deep red This of course freaks out mom no end. Weird colors! gak! am i
> really sure?!?! Okay mom, thanks.
Heh. Luckily, my mom is not afraid of color so we won't have to work on
convincing her (her kitchen is fire-engine red, and her bedroom is a
deep pink). MIL likes colorful rooms, but is afraid to tackle them
herself so her home is a Study in Beige and she is looking forward to
living vicariously through us. :-)
This will not surprise you, of course, since we are twins, but we plan
for our bedroom to be painted a sagey green. And I've been falling in
love with red rooms lately (thanks to Trading Spaces and other shows),
so I think our living room will be red. Or if not red, at least very
bright. Most of our decorating is more subdued, so I think it'd be fun
to have one bright, colorful room. I have a Kandinsky print that I
bought ages ago which we'll have framed -- we plan to decorate the
living room around it.
Of course, I want to do either the kitchen or dining room (depending on
the house we get -- did I mention we're looking?) in a deep, dark green.
Given that the kitchen or dining room will most likely be right next
to the living room, we're concerned that maybe it will look too
Christmas-y. I guess it'll depend on the house we end up with, but I'm
sure I'll be asking for advice here at some point!
Sarah
city girl
"Sarah" <fakea...@fakedomain.com> wrote in message
news:dor9a.370236$vm2.277778@rwcrnsc54...
> Sarah Hallum wrote:
>
> > I want to
> > do the bedroom in a sagey green color and the study (with wood floors)
in
> > a deep red This of course freaks out mom no end. Weird colors! gak! am
i
> > really sure?!?! Okay mom, thanks.
>
> Heh. Luckily, my mom is not afraid of color so we won't have to work on
> convincing her (her kitchen is fire-engine red, and her bedroom is a
> deep pink). MIL likes colorful rooms, but is afraid to tackle them
> herself so her home is a Study in Beige and she is looking forward to
> living vicariously through us. :-)
>
white, but anyway)? We own the place, so it's not like we could not do other
colors, but it just never even occured to us. Well, DD's room has aa animal
border, and we have lots of stuff hanging on all the walls, but they are all
white.
Alena
Robin
> I have to ask. Am I the only loser who lives surrounded by white walls (off
> white, but anyway)? We own the place, so it's not like we could not do other
> colors, but it just never even occured to us. Well, DD's room has aa animal
> border, and we have lots of stuff hanging on all the walls, but they are all
> white.
Thank goodness--I was starting to feel like a freak. (er, like more of
a freak than usual.)
Our walls are all white. We talked about painting before we moved in
but decided not to. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I'm sure
I'd like colored walls, it just doesn't bother me that they're not.
Ducky Lawyer
city girl wrote:
> I have to ask. Am I the only loser who lives surrounded by white walls (off
> white, but anyway)?
Nope - our current walls are off white, and the walls of our previous
house were also white. As in, never painted since we were the original
owners of both these houses.
We own the place, so it's not like we could not do other
> colors, but it just never even occured to us. Well, DD's room has aa animal
> border, and we have lots of stuff hanging on all the walls, but they are all
> white.
The thought of dressing up the walls did occur to my DH when we were
preparing to put our (previous) house on the market; that's when we got
our various bits of artwork, posters, etc., framed and hung. That's as
close as we got to any colour.
And no, we can't use the twins as a viable excuse for not painting our
current house --our neighbour down the street has twins who are toddlers
(they moved in just before their secodn birthdays), and their entire
house is painted and decorated. Yes, infant twins are a little more
time-intensive than toddlers in some ways, but not in all ways -- and
with two of us home, we could probably make time.
My current excuses are lack of funds (or well, lack of desire to use
savings at this time for something as mundane as painting), and the fact
it's a new house. The standard recommendation seems to be that new home
owners wait unti the house is atleast 10-12 months' old to paint, since
this gives time for cracks and such to appear. Easier to fix plain ol'
boring white than a bunch of different colours, reputedly.
--Barbara, who has spent so many many hours in the family room/kitchen
area as of late that she really ought to treat herself to some paint on
the walls!)
> Alena
>
>
Ducky Lawyer
Ducky Lawyer wrote:
> And no, we can't use the twins as a viable excuse for not painting our
> current house --our neighbour down the street has twins who are toddlers
> (they moved in just before their second birthdays), and their entire
> house is painted and decorated. Yes, infant twins are a little more
> time-intensive than toddlers in some ways, but not in all ways -- and
> with two of us home, we could probably make time
Duh. For some reason, I thought this was a 'thread' on anpreg (email),
not AN itself. So, I didn't label my response re: mentioning the twins.
This leads me to feel conflicted about my post now -- should I feel
guilty about not flagging a post which mentions my babies (although in
passing, not in detail), or should I feel a bit miffed for thinking that
I should/have to" tag every message I write which makes any reference at
all to my family or my status as a mother or the fact that we're a
family "with multiples"....
I'd like to think that I (and other parents) can contribute to threads
and make reference to our kids/families without having to make a deal
about it in the header/subject line...Maybe I'm overanalysing the
compromise or general understanding on the use and appropriateness of
taglines on AN (following the big blowout we had last autumn on the
subject)?
Help! I don't want to offend anyone but I don't want to feel cut off,
shut out and unwanted around here either.
--Barbara--
Puester
>
> I have to ask. Am I the only loser who lives surrounded by white walls (off
> white, but anyway)? We own the place, so it's not like we could not do other
> colors, but it just never even occured to us. Well, DD's room has aa animal
> border, and we have lots of stuff hanging on all the walls, but they are all
> white.
>
> Alena
Another loser raises her hand. My generation grew up with
wallpaper (and we had it in our last house, too.) I find
white walls versatile and restful and bright. I need light!
Besides, DH and I can never agree on colors and when we
paint it always looks different from the swatch. OTOH,
white always comes out white.
For you sage green people--we have had sage in all of our
houses but when we looked for paint for the kitchen cabinets
all the sages I tried were a pukey yellow-green. We settled
for a kind of celedon, but it's not what I had in mind at all.
gloria p
Puester
>
>
> Help! I don't want to offend anyone but I don't want to feel cut off,
> shut out and unwanted around here either.
> --Barbara--
Unfortunately it has felt to me lately that too many generic
topics have been posted elsewhere out of habit or the desire
to not offend. A.n. has lost a lot of vigor as a result.
Does anyone want to argue the reverse?
gloria p
HollyLewis
>color blue on a pepsi can. I love it. Our parents think it's too bright.
>When I had one wall done, my dad's comment was "It's uh, bright. What do you
>do if you paint it all and don't like it?" He was happy with my
>matter-of-fact
>comment that for another gallon of paint for $10, I could repaint it. And
>ANYTHING was better than the mattress ticking wallpaper that was in there.
>
>-Trina
Our office is that color blue and a sort of vivid teal green. My dad said more
or less the same thing. :-)
I said I didn't think we'd get tired of it, but if we did, paint's cheap.
Of course, we did some damage to the windowsills and trim in there when we
painted the exterior of the windows, and I still haven't gotten around to
repainting it over a year later. We've got the paint, but there is also an
awful lot of furniture and just stuff in the way! Not to mention the
finding-time issue. And the window shades cover a lot of it. So. Someday.
BTW, as far as your whole house being blue, I don't think that's a bad thing.
It makes a lot of sense to do your whole house tonally, so that you can move
furniture and accessories around as needed. How about painting the walls blue
and using sage green for some stenciling or trim?
Or, would your DH go for a more bluish green? :-) My kitchen is a sort of
robin's egg blue that has a fair amount of green in it, and my living/dining
rooms are a minty color that you might think would look 'institutional green'
but doesn't.
Holly
HollyLewis
>have 2 adjacent rooms/areas painted different colors. I'm talking about
>doorways / arches. For example, the dining room and family room in the
>new house has archways from the foyer / hall. So what do I do with the
>arched surface if the rooms are going to be a different color than the
>hallway?
>
>Rose
You just make a judgment about which room the inside of the archway "belongs"
to. Which could be based on the placement of the floor threshold, if there is
one, or on which direction you want the visual flow to go. Or on which corners
will get the most dings -- the lighter color goes on the one more prone to
damage, as it will show less.
Or you do something really wild like stenciling or striping the archway with
accent colors. :-)
Holly
HollyLewis
>I have to ask. Am I the only loser who lives surrounded by white walls (off
>white, but anyway)?
I know there are people who actually prefer off-white walls. It makes no sense
to me but I don't think it indicates any deep-seated psychological problem or
anything!
And there are even more people who simply don't much care about wall color, and
have other things they prefer to spend energy on in life. Which is fine too.
I guess. :-)
For me, one of the BEST things about becoming a homeowner was the certain
knowledge that I would never have to live with off white walls ever again.
Holly
Sarah
> I'd like to think that I (and other parents) can contribute to threads
> and make reference to our kids/families without having to make a deal
> about it in the header/subject line...Maybe I'm overanalysing the
> compromise or general understanding on the use and appropriateness of
> taglines on AN (following the big blowout we had last autumn on the
> subject)?
My understanding is that no one minds *mentions* of kids. They *do*
mind threads that go on and on, unlabeled, about kid stuff. Or
arguments about kid-raising stuff. But given that kids are a part of
the lives of many here, I think we all know that posts are going to
mention kids. So yes, I think you're overanalyzing, unless I'm
misunderstanding myself.
Sarah
Lynn A.
HollyLewis wrote:
> For me, one of the BEST things about becoming a homeowner was the certain
> knowledge that I would never have to live with off white walls ever again.
This is exactly what I was going to say. After years of living in
apartments where I couldn't change the white walls, I want *color* now!
I don't want dark colors, these rooms are small and dark enough, I
have to have light, brightish colors.
Lynn
city girl
"HollyLewis" <holly...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20030305173109...@mb-fc.aol.com...
>
> For me, one of the BEST things about becoming a homeowner was the certain
> knowledge that I would never have to live with off white walls ever again.
>
> Holly
I must have gotten so ingrained with white walls as a norm that it did not
even occur to me to attempt to do anything else. But it's probably just that
we don't care enough. I will watch trading spaces for decorating ideas, but
it has yet to occur to me to actually implement one.
Alena
Sarah Hallum
>
> I'd like to think that I (and other parents) can contribute to threads
> and make reference to our kids/families without having to make a deal
> about it in the header/subject line...Maybe I'm overanalysing the
> compromise or general understanding on the use and appropriateness of
> taglines on AN (following the big blowout we had last autumn on the
> subject)?
Goodness! I never though anything of the sort! We were discussing house
painting and your twins are part of your life. I didn't see a need for a
label. The post wasn't about your girls, it was about painting. :)
Sarah
Sarah Hallum
>
> For me, one of the BEST things about becoming a homeowner was the certain
> knowledge that I would never have to live with off white walls ever again.
This is it. And the last apartment we werent allowed to redecorate and it
was PRETTY evil.
So paint! paint! paint!
One week and 2 days till closing... 2 weeks and two days (yuck) till
possession!
Sarah
Buzzy Bee
but then again I might just have mucked up the snipping as usual!
>I have to ask. Am I the only loser who lives surrounded by white walls (off
>white, but anyway)?
/me raises hand...
When we moved in we knew we wanted to paint the place, and before we
actually moved in (we had a 4 week crossover, since we didn't give
notice until we had the keys). We painted the entire place Magnolia
(really, cream, but they call it magnolia). It was that or white,
because they are the cheapest colours, we had no money but the Council
had given us 70 quid in vouchers because the place needed decorating.
We have painted one room non-Magnolia (our bedroom). Plus the
magnolia kitchen paint turned out to be lemon instead. I am starting
to want to paint things different colours!
Megan
--
Megan
To e-mail use: megan at farr dash montgomery dot com
Hillary Israeli
Sarah Hallum <sha...@tymora.astro.lsa.umich.edu> wrote:
*Ducky Lawyer <bar...@no.spam.ncf.ca> wrote:
*>
*> I'd like to think that I (and other parents) can contribute to threads
*> and make reference to our kids/families without having to make a deal
*> about it in the header/subject line...Maybe I'm overanalysing the
*> compromise or general understanding on the use and appropriateness of
*> taglines on AN (following the big blowout we had last autumn on the
*> subject)?
*
*Goodness! I never though anything of the sort! We were discussing house
*painting and your twins are part of your life. I didn't see a need for a
*label. The post wasn't about your girls, it was about painting. :)
Personally, I think the whole tagging thing is totally absurd and out of
hand. I think that it is reasonable for people to tag threads only when a
reasonable person might reasonably expect the average reasonable reader to
be significantly upset by it.
I get upset by things I read on usenet all the time. Man, sometimes I read
things that make me want to reach through the computer and kill someone -
or things that make me want to quietly sob away my afternoon. That's part
of usenet. I mean, I find it extremely upsetting to read about certain
types of cancer. However, I don't ask people to tag threads "cancer
mentioned." It's just not something I think people should have to do.
That said, I have been making all attempts to bow to convention and tag
posts in this group as per our previous decision. I'd be more than happy
to abandon that, though, and simply post with appropriate subject lines.
--
hillary israeli vmd http://www.hillary.net in...@hillary.net
"uber vaccae in quattuor partes divisum est."
newly minted veterinarian-at-large :)
HollyLewis
>white always comes out white.
>
I beg to differ.
My last apartment had always been painted off white. But there were at least
three or four different shades going on, and each paint job had been done more
poorly than the last.
We painted the ceilings before we moved in because they were so horrid. The
walls and trim we decided we could live with, because the really bad places
were going to be covered up with furniture anyway.
We used white (bright white, not off white) for all of the trim in our house.
You should have seen me carefully comparing all of the various shades of plain
white available at my local paint store.
>For you sage green people--we have had sage in all of our
>houses but when we looked for paint for the kitchen cabinets
>all the sages I tried were a pukey yellow-green. We settled
>for a kind of celedon, but it's not what I had in mind at all.
Greens are notoriously difficult to get right. They change a lot depending on
lighting, and there are so many different colors that can be classified as
green that you can actually have clashing shades of green. (Think olive and
teal. Which can work, actually, but one must tread very carefully.)
The color of our main rooms is definitely more minty than I originally
envisioned, but it works really well. It's not quite bright enough to look
outrageously candy-like.
Holly
Rose Bingham
holly...@aol.com says...
> Or you do something really wild like <...>striping the archway with
> accent colors. :-)
Well, that'd be worth doing just for the look on DH's face when he saw
it!
Rose (the more adventurous of the 2 of us when it comes to color)
KellieGaines
Absolutely. I grew up in a house that had plain white walls, with
plain white ceilings and plain brown carpeting. Bleh! What's weird
is that it always bothered me but I never thought to ask my mom if I
could paint my room or anything - it never really occured to me that
regular people could paint or wallpaper a room, only professionals,
and that it was very expensive.
On our first house, I didn't go as paint/paper crazy as I thought I
would, but there were factors (I hated the teal carpet but we weren't
ready to replace it, I was doing a 3 hour daily commute, and was
pg/had an infant for most of the time that we lived there) that
prevented me from a lot of it. But, the things that I did do were
pretty dramatic for me - sponging a bright blue in the upstairs guest
bath, sponging the nursery a deep mauve, sponging a dark-ish taupe in
our bed and bath (notice a trend here?), papering the tiny bath
downstairs (actually pretty difficult because it was so very small, it
was hard to even turn around in).
For this house, I've been doing a bit at a time - with the exception
of Jen's bed & bath, since I figured those were the easiest to do and
would make her feel at home more easily, and the family room, since I
didn't want to move around the TV later. So far we have:
golden yellow in the living and dining rooms
apple trees wallpaper and angel border in guest bath (light taupe,
burgundy and green)
ragged cream over dark taupe in the family room
plain offwhite with a fruit border in the kitchen
spring green bottom and periwinkle top with picket fence border in
Jen's room
yellow and white striped wallpaper with cute border (blues, greens,
yellow) in Jen's bath
pale yellow paint with sunflower border in laundry room
ragged cream over sagey green in master bath (which has to be redone -
it's not the right color at all)
Projects remaining to be completed are (in this order):
guest room downstairs (will be the same golden yellow on top, and that
burgundy/golden yellow cabbage rose floral patterned wallpaper on the
bottom, with chair rail)
the loft (same golden yellow top, with some kind of English-y looking
paper on the bottom)
something in the dining room (TBD)
our bedroom (can't even be comtemplated until I fix the master bath)
something in the playroom downstairs (TBD)
kellie
TaraW
>
>On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 16:23:41 GMT, Sarah Hallum
><sha...@tymora.astro.lsa.umich.edu> so moved that:
>
I want to
>>do the bedroom in a sagey green color and the study (with wood floors) in
>>a deep red This of course freaks out mom no end. Weird colors! gak! am i
>>really sure?!?!
Actually, I just saw a great special called "Living with Color" (HGTV On
Demand, I think) and it said that rich red tones are perfect for a study or
library. Our DR is painted a great deep red (Behr Opera House) and DH prefers
to work in there many times to the study upstairs!
-TaraW
Trina
> BTW, as far as your whole house being blue, I don't think that's a bad thing.
> It makes a lot of sense to do your whole house tonally, so that you can move
> furniture and accessories around as needed. How about painting the walls blue
> and using sage green for some stenciling or trim?
Our kitchen is bright blue, and the downstairs bathroom will soon be blue and
yellow. I'd like to paint our room a darker blue color - it's a *huge* room, so
I think a dark color will be ok - and perhaps the office, too. I guess that's
not *too* much blue. Currently there's a fair bit of navy blue in the living
room, too. When the 3 different wallpapers in the living room are removed,
we're planning on painting it a deep reddish color, and the office too, maybe...
the office and the upstairs bathrooms are the two rooms in the house we have no
vision for.
> Or, would your DH go for a more bluish green? :-) My kitchen is a sort of
> robin's egg blue that has a fair amount of green in it, and my living/dining
> rooms are a minty color that you might think would look 'institutional green'
> but doesn't.
I really don't like pastels, and I have a hard time finding non-pastel blues.
Sage green, in my mind, isn't a pastel, and it's a nice color, imo. Right now
we're painting the upstairs bathroom, and we picked a "latte" color, which I
thought would be ok, but it's a little bland for my taste. The woodwork in the
bathroom has a lot of red in it, so it's hard to come up with a good color to
coordinate. I'm thinking of trying a whitish color with yellow or green
undertones, perhaps. Ideas?
I didn't see the office, but I really liked your living room/dining
room/kitchen. I don't remember the exact color of the kitchen, but I remember
liking it. Blue and green is one of my favorite color combinations. Both DH
and I liked your house - an older home yet modern, and the modern touches didn't
take away from the character of the house.
-Trina
Jennifer from Colorado
One of my students this year is M. She has a brother, T, who I had my
first year teaching. I caught T cheating once, called him on it, and
promptly landed myself on mom's bad side because I dared accuse her
angelic son of copying someone else's paper (it was painfully obvious
to everyone but her that he had done so). Anyway, I could do nothing
right by this woman and was quite happy the next year when I no longer
had T. Fast-forward 3 years. I'm now going by a different last name
than when I had T and in mid-November M transferred into my class (Mom
had pulled her kids out of our school because we were so awful and
when the other school turned out to also be awful she brought them
back). Urk. Fortunately, M is nothing like her brother. She's a
generally nice kid who is doing pretty well in my class and we get
along pretty well. I talked to mom a few times on the phone and she
was always very nice and pleasant. Of course, she didn't know I was
the evil teacher who damaged T's self-esteem. Well, parent-teacher
conferences were on Friday and I knew my cover was about to be blown.
Her conference was the first one of the morning and we happened to be
walking in the building together. I got the stiff, polite "hello" as
she and M proceeded down to my room. Well, the look on mom's face when
she realized that the science teacher M liked so much was none other
than the Evil Teacher Who Tried to Ruin T was absolutely priceless.
She looked like she'd just heard that Christmas was cancelled. I'm
glad that it took a few months for my cover to be blown as mom is NOT
the forgiving type and if she'd known who I was from the outset I
never would have stood a chance. As it is, I think we'll do just fine
(as long as M doesn't start copying people's papers).
Back to the weekend:
Friday afternoon after conferences, Brian and I joined a couple of my
coworkers for an FAC at a brewery. It was a pretty small group, but it
was good to get out.
Saturday morning we did our grocery shopping for the month. We're on a
pretty strict budget and groceries are one of our "problem areas" so
we've started withdrawing our grocery budget in cash and when it's
gone, it's gone. We spent about $150 going to Costco and the regular
grocery store and that ought to get us through all of March, even with
a couple of more expensive meals thrown in.
Saturday afternoon we hosted our Dungeons and Dragons gaming group.
The game we're playing has hit a point where we're doing more
political type stuff rather than "kill the dragon" type stuff. My
character is very much not into politics and really didn't have a
whole lot to do except fend off a marriage proposal from another
character.
Sunday we mostly lounged around. At one point, though, we were
watching TV and we started hearing (and feeling) the bass on someone's
stereo. We went out to investigate and found it coming from our
neighbor's driveway out of the trunk of his car. This neighbor is on
the cross street, two houses up. So, I asked him nicely "Could you
please turn down your stereo? I can hear it inside my house with all
the windows shut". He said, "Nope. It's my right to play my music as
loud as I want until sundown." We went back and forth a bit (all
polite) and he finally said "If it's bothering you, call the police,
they'll just tell you I can do what I want". So.....I called the
police and they most certainly did not tell me the same thing. It took
long enough for someone to come over that we decided not to have the
officer go knock on his door, but I just can't believe that attitude.
It was so loud that if I had been napping I would have woken up. The
worst part was that he was playing catch with a young kid (maybe 5 or
6) and it just makes me wonder what *else* this guy is teaching that
kid about how to be considerate of other people.
Jennifer from Colorado
Jennifer from Colorado
Nah. We're living in builder white. If it was up to DH, that's all
we'd ever have. I've gotten him to concede on a couple of bathrooms
and I'm hoping that he'll come 'round to some other painting projects.
We just don't have enough stuff to put on our walls yet for the white
to not look stark, and my thinking is that a few gallons of paint has
got to be cheaper than artwork.
Jennifer from Colorado
Jennifer from Colorado
<bar...@no.spam.ncf.ca> wrote:
>I'd like to think that I (and other parents) can contribute to threads
>and make reference to our kids/families without having to make a deal
>about it in the header/subject line...Maybe I'm overanalysing the
>compromise or general understanding on the use and appropriateness of
>taglines on AN (following the big blowout we had last autumn on the
>subject)?
>
>Help! I don't want to offend anyone but I don't want to feel cut off,
>shut out and unwanted around here either.
I think the blowout last fall has had some unfortunate consequences
around here. I think a lot of the parents are gun-shy about posting
*anything* on a.n. lest they slip and mention the fact that they
actually have kids. I understand that there were some deep, deep
wounds that were caused by last fall's blowout but I think we've swung
a bit too far the other way.
A post like yours which simply mentions your girls is totally fine in
my book (obviously I can't speak for everyone else). They were
mentioned in passing in a totally relevant context in a post whose
main topic was something else entirely. The thread wasn't hijacked
into a kid thread without warning. I think it would be odd for the
parents around here to post much at all without mentioning their
children. It would be like me never mentioning what I do--it's too
much a part of who we all are and why we hang out here.
I, for one, wish we could do something more to heal the wounds (which
are clearly still smarting) and make everyone more comfortable with
posting. Certainly, labeling posts that are *centered* on
kids/pregnancy is still a good idea (as is keeping technical details
more on ANPreg) to avoid ambushing those who are sensitive on the
subject, but I hate to see all mention of kids gone from a.n.
Jennifer from Colorado (who thinks it's interesting that the person
who seemed most against mentioning kids/pregnancy at ALL on a.n. no
longer posts here)
Vicky Larmour
HollyLewis wrote:
> And there are even more people who simply don't much care about
> wall color, and have other things they prefer to spend energy on
> in life. Which is fine too. I guess. :-)
Oh, I like that way of putting much more than the phrasing I was
going to use, which is that we're just too darn lazy to do anything
about it :-)
Actually, we don't have white walls, but we *do* have the previous
owner's decor through most of the house, still, even though we really
don't like it (and it's very shabby) and we've lived here for nearly
7 years!!
We're working on one room at a time; we did our bedroom and the en-
suite first, because that was the most awful of the lot to start
with. Actually, we got someone else in to do the actual work on that
as we were still very unsure about DIY stuff in general at that
point. Then we started on the box room as the smallest and least-
frequently-used room, so that was a good place to practice and it
didn't matter if it messed up. Then we did the main bathroom, and now
we're working on our spare bedroom (converting it into a nursery);
next will be the hall, stairs and landing; and at some point the
kitchen and the living/dining room.
Vicky
--
vicky[at]jifvik.org All opinions mine.
The "unofficial offical alt.newlywed page" and a.n FAQ:
http://www.altnewlywed.com/
Robin
> I'd like to think that I (and other parents) can contribute to threads
> and make reference to our kids/families without having to make a deal
> about it in the header/subject line...Maybe I'm overanalysing the
> compromise or general understanding on the use and appropriateness of
> taglines on AN (following the big blowout we had last autumn on the
> subject)?
/me bangs head repeatedly against desk.
KellieGaines
> Nah. We're living in builder white. If it was up to DH, that's all
> we'd ever have. I've gotten him to concede on a couple of bathrooms
> and I'm hoping that he'll come 'round to some other painting projects.
> We just don't have enough stuff to put on our walls yet for the white
> to not look stark, and my thinking is that a few gallons of paint has
> got to be cheaper than artwork.
Absoutely cheaper, especially if you do the painting yourself. And, if
your builder used the same kind of paint that ours did (ie, chalk and
water), it will become a necessity to paint sooner if only because
there is no way to clean the walls (hand smudges, etc) without the
paint coming right off with it.
One fabulous advantage of DH being a CPA-type is the way that he can
financially justify things - anything that improves the value of the
house (including the paint we just had done) is good and worth the
cost. Makes cheap-me feel better.
kellie
HollyLewis
>Sage green, in my mind, isn't a pastel, and it's a nice color, imo. Right
I know what you mean. I tend to prefer lighter shades on walls for versatility
with furniture and accents, but anything that looks like a baby blanket isn't
it. :-) I like earthy tones too but we ended up going light-but-bright rather
than earthy in our house. I think it works; we've definitely got the earthier
tones going in the wood furniture and some other things. The couch is a bit
more safe-y than the walls but is variegated enough that it doesn't clash.)
What about something denim-y? (Sort of the blue equivalent of sage green.)
>now
>we're painting the upstairs bathroom, and we picked a "latte" color, which I
>thought would be ok, but it's a little bland for my taste. The woodwork in
>the
>bathroom has a lot of red in it, so it's hard to come up with a good color to
>coordinate. I'm thinking of trying a whitish color with yellow or green
>undertones, perhaps. Ideas?
How about something more gold than brown? Think sandstone. You could even do
a ragged or faux plaster finish to give it sort of a natural stone/adobe look.
Alternatively, slate blue.
Whitish with yellow or green undertones sounds off-white to me. :-) And
that's the *last* color I would paint a bathroom.
Well, *maybe* I'd go for off white before pink or red.
Be careful with green in a bathroom, since it can make many people's skin look
strange -- not ideal if you're doing makeup or getting dressed in there. Pink
is actually pretty flattering for most people, and either yellow or blue are
safer than green.
That said, *my* bathroom, though painted white (white-white, not off-white),
has multicolored green accents (via the soap dishes etc. and the leaf shapes
stamped on the walls) and dark forest green shower curtain and towels. So it's
fairly green. But the bright white walls, ceiling, and fixtures keep the green
from being overpowering to the lighting.
>
>I didn't see the office, but I really liked your living room/dining
>room/kitchen. I don't remember the exact color of the kitchen, but I
>remember
>liking it. Blue and green is one of my favorite color combinations. Both DH
>and I liked your house - an older home yet modern, and the modern touches
>didn't
>take away from the character of the house.
>
>-Trina
Thanks! We still like the colors a lot, so I think I chose well. (The kitchen
is almost turquoise. I wouldn't call it a pastel blue because it's too bright
for that, but it's not a dark color at all. White countertops, light oak
cabinetry, various accents in lemon yellow and "Kermit green".)
Holly
Lynn A.
HollyLewis wrote:
> Be careful with green in a bathroom, since it can make many people's skin look
> strange -- not ideal if you're doing makeup or getting dressed in there. Pink
> is actually pretty flattering for most people, and either yellow or blue are
> safer than green.
This bathroom was green tile when my parents were still here. Ack.
It was awful to look in the mirror in the morning and see this green
cast to your face! I knew I sometimes *felt* that way, but I didn't
want to *look* that way! That was the first room we remodeled when we
moved in, now it's white with accents of slate blue.
Lynn
Geri Clark
"city girl" <m...@nowhere.com> wrote:
> I have to ask. Am I the only loser who lives surrounded by white walls (off
> white, but anyway)? We own the place, so it's not like we could not do other
> colors, but it just never even occured to us. Well, DD's room has aa animal
> border, and we have lots of stuff hanging on all the walls, but they are all
> white.
We have mostly off-white walls. I don't like it, but we had no time to paint
before we moved in, and so we punted and went with a fresh coat of Linen
White on everything.
Since then (3.75 years ago), we've done one bathroom sage green with bright
white trim. Our kitchen has been renovated and the walls are slightly
flesh-toned (they are the same color as the backsplash tile, which is
slightly to the pink side of off-white. I had the paint mixed to match the
tile.) Our dining room is a bright gold with off-white trim. We are in the
process of redoing a powder room and we're leaning toward painting it red
(though the purpose of the reno is to sell the apartment, so perhaps a red
paint job is ill-advised. We're talking warm Pottery Barn red, but
still...if not red, it'll probably be a grey-blue. It's gonna be a color,
for sure.)
That leaves our bedrooms still off-white and the whole rest of the apartment
-- living room and copious hallways. I hate that it's still so bland, but
we're very open-plan and whatever color we chose for the LR was gonna have
to go on all the hallways too and I couldn't find anything that looked right
to me with that layout. And now that we're gonna sell, I'm just leaving it
off-white. So much the better for the next owner.
- Geri
Trina
> Sunday we mostly lounged around. At one point, though, we were watching TV and
> we started hearing (and feeling) the bass on someone's stereo. We went out to
> investigate and found it coming from our neighbor's driveway out of the trunk
> of his car. This neighbor is on the cross street, two houses up. So, I asked
> him nicely "Could you please turn down your stereo? I can hear it inside my
> house with all the windows shut". He said, "Nope. It's my right to play my
> music as loud as I want until sundown." We went back and forth a bit (all
> polite) and he finally said "If it's bothering you, call the police, they'll
> just tell you I can do what I want". So.....I called the police and they most
> certainly did not tell me the same thing. It took long enough for someone to
> come over that we decided not to have the officer go knock on his door, but I
> just can't believe that attitude. It was so loud that if I had been napping I
> would have woken up. The worst part was that he was playing catch with a young
> kid (maybe 5 or 6) and it just makes me wonder what *else* this guy is
> teaching that kid about how to be considerate of other people.
We have some teens across the street who are big fans of their car stereos.
Our neighbor prefers to go across the street and yell at them (or from her
front porch). We're trying the more "we're not evil, please remember we live
here and be nice" approach. Their parents were gone last week for 10 days, and
the daughter's bf managed to crash her (their) car and total it at the
intersection 2 houses away (he had no license and no insurance). Amazingly,
it's been much more behaved over there lately ;)
Congrats on semi-winning the mom over at school, and good luck with the
neighbor relations :-\
-Trina
Hillary Israeli
Geri Clark <geri....@earthlink.net> wrote:
*On 3/5/03 3:58 PM, in article txt9a.54887$Mh3.20...@twister.nyc.rr.com,
*"city girl" <m...@nowhere.com> wrote:
*
*> I have to ask. Am I the only loser who lives surrounded by white walls (off
*> white, but anyway)? We own the place, so it's not like we could not do other
*> colors, but it just never even occured to us. Well, DD's room has aa animal
*> border, and we have lots of stuff hanging on all the walls, but they are all
*> white.
*
*We have mostly off-white walls. I don't like it, but we had no time to paint
*before we moved in, and so we punted and went with a fresh coat of Linen
*White on everything.
Our house came that way. So far we've painted the kids' rooms and that's
it, but I have high hopes for the near (within a year) future...
Hillary Israeli
j_w...@newsguy.com <j_w...@newsguy.com> wrote:
*On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 01:22:27 +0000 (UTC), hil...@hillary.net (Hillary
*Israeli) so moved that:
*
*>[...] simply post with appropriate subject lines.
*
*That will likely not happen. This isn't meant as a criticism of
*anyone. Dramatic thread drifts happen all over usenet. I've been on
Well, in the past, I've made the attempt. Lately, I've given up, since
everyone seems to prefer the tagging. I hate the tags, though, and prefer
just changing the subject line.