What a delightful thread! I've enjoyed reading everyone's answers. I love my cottagey picket fence headboard. With my Belgian tapestry pillows And the matching shelf... plus the small drawing a friend did of my much loved mare. My porch swings, especially my purple one My large curio cabinet filled with treasures from our travels. (no photo) The stained glass pieces hanging in the windows. We did the small ones, not the glass panel in the door...someday. Dh and I took up stained glass this year as a joint hobby. It's been fun! We have photographic portraits that we love, plus all the BOOKS. My five descriptive words... Creative Friendly Outdoorsy Bookworm Determined. (my daddy called me bull-headed, but I prefer determined. GRIN) This was fun! Thanks for starting the thread. Here is a link that might be useful: Creative Soul

We removed 2 sets of bi-fold mirror doors when remodeling the house. When I went to the big box stores for six panel bi-folds, the special order 8 foot doors were over $150.00 per pair, just like writersblock said. Since I was tired of construction creep and forking over $$$dollars, I balked. Of course my DH had already given the mirrored doors to one of the workers! So we went to Habitat for Humanity and found exactly what we needed new in their boxes for $30.00 a pair. We had donated half the house to them, so got quite a chuckle out of the deal. By the way, mirrored doors are more expensive than the solid doors.

The mirror is very cool! I like the concept of the bamboo, but the white vase seems to stark for it, and I'm not used to seeing tall reeds like the bamboo placed atop anything--usually they are in a floor vase. It just seems too imposing like that. What do you say to a little tree right next to the console? Could be live or not. I have a friend who dressed her non-live tree with a string of tiny lights. It's in a corner of her dining room, and the lights add a beautiful sparkle when guests are at the table. But you do need something tall and vertical for the console to help balance things out. Maybe hit stores like Home Goods/Marshalls and look for a tall vase either in a colored glass or a pottery one, looking for something in an earth tone? Then I guess I would fill them maybe with satin-ball Christmas ornaments in one or just two colors, but not gold (if you celebrate that holiday) or even the woven rattan balls they sell in places like Pier One and Target. Or maybe large seashells? (and you needn't fill the entire vase--use the decorators trick of filling it three-quarters of the way up with styrofoam pieces and then put the pretty stop atop that.) PS: If you start to really doubt the gold finish of the mirror, you could take a chance and carefully cover the mirror part and go to town with a can of spray paint. I've noticed some really poor descriptions of items on the Target size--like dimensions missing on a picture frame and on outdoor chair cushions (my emails to them went unanswered; I shopped elsewhere). But other than a deco-kind of starburst clock that my parents had many, many years ago, I've never seen this style of mirror in a silvertone--it's just not representative of the sun.

Or what about mini-pendants instead? That way I can hang them as low as I want, but they can raised/replaced someday without having to move an electrical box.