Monthly Archives: March 2012
Neighborhood Tour: Upper Arlington, Ohio
If you’ve ever been to Columbus, Ohio, I sure hope you were able to go to the Upper Arlington neighborhood. The beautiful architecture of the homes includes several styles of Tudor as well as Storybook Cottage. Whenever we tour the neighborhood, there are many gasps heard Read on…
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A Little More Lightening Up
While I was shuffling furniture from one room to another, I showed you in a previous post how I replaced this black bench with the white gateleg table. To the left of the bench, was this Home Goods purchased cupboard,
I took it from this corner and put it Read on…
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Little Brick Cottage…Gotta Mix it Up to Keep it Interesting
Just as I showed you how I mixed a few styles of hardware in my master bath, I did the same in the cottage kitchen too. I think mixing a few styles keeps it interesting. I’ll give you a little peek into my brain…I know, scary, huh? Well the way I figure out how to mix the hardware, as far as what goes where, is I create ‘rules’, then I can apply those rules to selecting specific styles.
So for instance my first rule was Read on…
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Tag…You’re It!
I’ve been tagged by Peg Meckling from: http://crazythriftycrafts.blogspot.com/ This is new to me, so I hope I do it right! :)
Rules:
So here are the rules to this game of tag.
1. You must post the rules!
2. Answer the 11 questions the tagger posted for you and then create 11 new questions to ask the people you’ve tagged.
3. Tag 11 bloggers and link them to your post.
4. Let them know you’ve tagged them.
Here are the questions she posted to me: Read on…
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Monday’s Simple Cleverness…Give Yourself Some Painting Grace
Maybe you all know this already, and I’m a slow learner…very, very possible. I know, though, when I had a professional painter give me this tip, it was like a lightbulb went on. Duh! So here is the tip:
When painting trim, if the walls are going to be painted as well, be generous Read on…
