Home Decorating, renovation and DIY

[ApRyL]

I am gonna try this again, I posted them to my picasa web album, so Im hoping I can post a few..

* edited cos it didnt work....

[neenerneener]

[quote author=ApRyL link=topic=18633.msg1191269#msg1191269 date=1235104911]
I am gonna try this again, I posted them to my picasa web album, so Im hoping I can post a few..

* edited cos it didnt work....
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try www.tinypic.com

[ApRyL]

the house before


and after





*edited to add pics not links  :-)

* thanks Neener, you're such a dollface!!! 

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[quote author=KimTisha link=topic=18633.msg1190624#msg1190624 date=1235071142]
Scratch the question in my post above.  Also, paint the wall!  there are some great treatments you can do.  that's what I'm doing down here - haven't decided exactly what treatment I want to do but I'm dying to take a rag (or something) to these walls.  hubby made me promise not to paint on this trip... he said we're here to relax.   


shift key isn't working. i have no caps.
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I'm looking at a couple of different painting techniques. One makes it look like leather and the other is a stripe.

I love my little knight too much to allow him to travel.  :-(

[quote author=neenerneener link=topic=18633.msg1191120#msg1191120 date=1235096254]
[size=20pt]THE COUCH IS MINE[/size]

and ds...where did you get the mini knight?  jarrod wants one, and he doesnt want to wait for me to inherit yours... :lol:
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You'd probably have to fight my grandson for it anyway. I got it from the same local furniture store. The brand on it was A-Z Pottery. When I google that I get Arizona Pottery, though, and I don't think that's it.  :|

[quote author=mowt link=topic=18633.msg1190655#msg1190655 date=1235073331]
DS, your hardwood floors are beautiful!  I'm jealous, I want wood floors so bad.

This is my dining room.  The only room I feel is finished and looks nice.  Everything else is still evolving.

Decorating is a lot harder than I thought it would be.  I just figured if I bought stuff I like, it would all fit into place somehow.  Instead it's all willy-nilly.  Meh.   :|
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Thanks! I hope my dining room shelves look like yours one day. Mine are pretty empty except for some picture frames, all containing the pictures that came in them. :lol:

I also have willy-nilly syndrome. I feel like my stuff looks crappy because I don't know how to put stuff together nice. I also have a tendency to buy what I love regardless of whether it goes with other things. Like the knight which I love, but he has no business being in my house.  :-([quote author=Tarren link=topic=18633.msg1190635#msg1190635 date=1235071824]

DS, I love that couch. I want to sleep on it. When I move in can I claim it? 


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I took a nap on it today. It was great! You may claim it but you might have to share.

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The fam hanging out on the new furniture.



The leather couch in the fireplace room. I'm not really into leather furniture that much but this is pretty awesome. And if it's true about those little circle things in pictures then my house is haunted.

[mowt]

That looks super comfy. Like sit-down-and-immediately-doze-off comfy.

[aquatwins]

[quote author=deeply shaded link=topic=18633.msg1191445#msg1191445 date=1235115605]
The fam hanging out on the new furniture.



The leather couch in the fireplace room. I'm not really into leather furniture that much but this is pretty awesome. And if it's true about those little circle things in pictures then my house is haunted.




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you have a lot of orbs (spirits) lurking

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[quote author=aquatwins link=topic=18633.msg1191448#msg1191448 date=1235116295]
you have a lot of orbs (spirits) lurking
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Yeah, creepy. Lucky for me I don't know much about that. Ignorance is bliss.

[aquatwins]

[quote author=deeply shaded link=topic=18633.msg1191466#msg1191466 date=1235117964]
Yeah, creepy. Lucky for me I don't know much about that. Ignorance is bliss.
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watch lifeforce or sixth sense

[Ash_Lee]

[quote author=neenerneener link=topic=18633.msg1190446#msg1190446 date=1235055506]
DIE.  she has already acknowledged my inheritance. 

get your own e-mom. 
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She's going to be Tarren and my mom.  That sentence hurts my head.  She can be your E mom, but we're living in her library.  Ergo, it is our couch 

[Ash_Lee]

[quote author=mowt link=topic=18633.msg1191077#msg1191077 date=1235091998]
Yup and it was only $199 I think.  It's a great size, but not very comfy.
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and the bookshelf/china cabinet?  was that at ikea? 

[Ash_Lee]

Triple Post FTW
DS, I love love LOVE what you've done in your place.  It's so gorgeous.
Tink, you should immediately go buy those curtains.  They fit perfectly, how could you say no to that?
Kim, are you moving to Spain?

[neenerneener]

[quote author=Ash_Lee link=topic=18633.msg1191516#msg1191516 date=1235133458]
She's going to be Tarren and my mom.  That sentence hurts my head.  She can be your E mom, but we're living in her library.  Ergo, it is our couch 
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no.    mine.

i'm considering leaving jarrod for that couch. 

[ApRyL]

OMG, that couch looks like the most crazy comfy couch in the world! I miss my old sectional couch, we have beige leather chairs and a love seat now, which I don't love, cos they are cold in the winter and hot in the summer.

[KimTisha]

[quote author=Ash_Lee link=topic=18633.msg1191522#msg1191522 date=1235133860]Kim, are you moving to Spain?[/quote]

Not until we retire - four years, four months and 8 days.  Then we'll split our time between Spain (fall/winter) and Scotland (spring/summer).

[ApRyL]

:lol: :lol:
KimT is counting down..... I bet Spain is just gorgeous ....post a million pics!

[nestlequikie]

LOL    :lol:

Knight Hunt 2009....

I am headed off to work but I peeked on eBay really fast...

Umbrella stand knight - the base measures 16 1/2" wide X 12 1/4", and this stands 38 1/4" high and the drip bowl in the base is removable!!.


He kind of looks interesting.

AND ZOMG!!!! DS, Kim and Tink!!!  I LOVE your decors!!!  I am now jealousing. 

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[quote author=nestlequikie link=topic=18633.msg1191634#msg1191634 date=1235145838]
LOL    :lol:

Knight Hunt 2009....

I am headed off to work but I peeked on eBay really fast...

Umbrella stand knight - the base measures 16 1/2" wide X 12 1/4", and this stands 38 1/4" high and the drip bowl in the base is removable!!.


He kind of looks interesting.

AND ZOMG!!!! DS, Kim and Tink!!!  I LOVE your decors!!!  I am now jealousing. 
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Thanks NQ. And this knight looks a little girlie to me.  :lol:

[mowt]

[quote author=Ash_Lee link=topic=18633.msg1191521#msg1191521 date=1235133659]
and the bookshelf/china cabinet?  was that at ikea? 
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Yeah, it's the Billy set.  I love it, but you really have to anchor it to the wall, especially if you have carpet.

[vaga]

[quote author=Olivia link=topic=18633.msg1189806#msg1189806 date=1234990744]
Hi guys

Thought I might as well join in here.  We just bought our first house (got the keys on 10 feb) and we are in the middle of doing a pretty major renovation.  The house is quite tiny but there is only two of us for now so we will survive.  It's a 5 min walk to the beach.  In about a year we are going to extend but for now we are just fixing up what is already there. I might need some opinions if anyone can help.  I havent uploaded the weekend pics of us working on the house yet but I will do it tomorrow and post some.

Here are the before pics (the stuff in there is the previous owners - she was elderly and it was a deceased estate)


We are going to knock out the wall between the kitchen and the lounge and make it one big area

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:D I love the furniture, very mid century! dig it! I hope you kept some of that stuff !lol 

[vaga]

I'm so weird about decorating. When I was a kid, I'd paster my walls with magazine cut outs, as I got older I kept feeling like my style needed to change. I'm an adult now! My house has been slowly being decorated. For one my taste is too omuch $$ lol. and I don't have the knack to find it on the thrift.
And I get easily overwhelmed with all my options.
Plus I get bored so easily...
I've figured I like spanish style/middle century/mid evil..
that's insane...  :lol:
I'll take photos of my dinning room, that's the most decorated place...

[puzzld]

[quote author=deeply shaded link=topic=18633.msg1191640#msg1191640 date=1235146122]
Thanks NQ. And this knight looks a little girlie to me.  :lol:
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Joan of Arc.

[TinkerBelly]

DS the furniture looks great.  The red leather sofa is beautiful.  I really think you could work that apple green color in with your stuff.

[okac]

I want more pics of peoples places!

(see I like more than just kid pics!)

[ApRyL]

old living room...



Riley in the threshold of the "new" living room


Starting to put the pics on the walls etc around xmas time


{ dont look at my mess!}