Hi Jean! Welcome! I hope you'll have fun here, I love it. Everyone is very helpful and full of advice. And wonderful pictures that will have you wanting and needing more. Get yourself a spreadsheet started. Your going to need it to keep track of all the eye candy you'll find yourself 'needing' . I believe when I first found this forum last year, I had a wish list of roughly 200 varieties. I have since aquired 50 or so from that list and my 'need list is up to about 400 or so!!!!!!LOL!!!!!! I keep it in spreadsheet form now so It's easier to keep track. I realize the only way I'll get them all is to win the lottery but A girl does need something to dream about all winter. Happy Gardening, Kim PS. The Lily Auction is awesome, but dangerous. I spend way too much money on it! :-) !

I've been so busy, I missed this!!! That is gorgeous!!! This is the only thing I've ever turned around so fast. Ask my dh, and he can tell you about all the furniture that is in the garage waiting for new life! I primed a piece of my Bali Hai furniture yesterday with hopes of getting to take the new sprayer out for a test run, but nope. Didn't get to it. Ugh. The paint sprayer is from Harbor Freight, my dh did a lot of research before buying it for me. I just wanted the Wagner Flexio that is new on the market, and getting great reviews. Now I have this compressor with wheels and a sprayer....much more complicated than I envisioned. But, hopefully when I use it, I will love it! (PS, my chairs are now in my office where they don't feel "odd" to me, they are out of the dining room)

Hi! Thank you for your replies. I will definitely stay with the diagonal now. ngng: Your kitchen looks so lovely! I want wood cabinets in the next house. Mine were an ugly, grainy, weird oak so I painted them some years ago and don't have it in me to redo them again since we plan to move in a couple of years. remodelfla: My floor plan is not an open one. The kitchen/breakfast area is separate from the family room. However, I like way the bronze Fleur de lis picks up the bronze looking flecks in the granite. I thought about smaller squares of the granite used as an accent but wanted something a little different. It's so hard to only do a bit of updating! I start to get carried away as so much needs to be done, but I really don't want to invest anything (time or money) since we aren't staying here. But it's so outdated and yucky!! We rented this house before we bought it 15 years ago and only bought because I was having a baby when the owners put it up for sale and didn't want to face a move after only just moving in a year prior! I never really liked the layout of the kitchen or the floor plan of the house! And here I am 15 years later! Time flies! Thanks for your suggestions! It has helped me!

Sue, the Etap hotel is a few steps below a motel 6...quite a few steps in fact. LOL! The rooms were tiny, which were expected but the floor was really grungy and the toilet/shower area were a one piece porta potty plastic unit that had been put into a corner of the room. It was very small and the floor area by the toilet got soaked when you showered. The shower stall area was barely big enough to turn around in. Now I wish I had taken a picture! Patti, I think the house I used to live in was torn down and a new one put in it's place, there were a lot of new homes there. The town was very small, just one street with one tiny restaurant and a coffin maker. That was it...not even a post office. Stacy, yeah, I think I should've learned after our trip out west. Some of it was fun but for the most part they weren't interested in a lot of it. I've downloaded my pictures and will start posting them. Wish I had taken more videos, they are pretty funny because they are so BAD! LOL!