The Reason Why...

The couch faces out into the room because...

The wall opposite has all the wiring for the ALL MIGHTY TV and is at a perfect angle for my husband to view while he sleeps on the couch. The piece the tv sits on is much too small for it. I would love a diff piece or even think about hanging the tv on the wall. Of course husband opines that we need a much bigger tv before we can do that. What do you think? Also any ideas on something huge to hang on the wall next to the telly? We are going to be in Paris in a few weeks any good ideas to pick up there?
These chairs are directly across the room from the fireplace...
Note how a poodle always manages to get into pictures. I guess he thinks he is simply faboo!

Boxes

yes or no, for family room?

Last days of summer...

views from upstairs at shore house...a perfect day
The water looks so far away...
The beach is just a dune away...
A quiet place to sit with a cup of coffee in the morning...
The last of the flowers...a wonerful summer

I'm Back

Hopefully now that summer is ending I'll get back to "doing" the house. I've left it unfinished for the summer!

Family Room Almost Done!

Geez is there always a dog in the room? I used a rug with a very busy print this time. It works much better!!!
The Martha chair re-covered
This time I used I nubby fabric that reminds me of a wonderful Chanel suit.
I would still like to find a large piece of art for this wall. Would the Love wall hanging from SATC work?

is any room ever really done? At least I'm getting closer. This room started back in November with..."honey all we need is a new couch". Some how its ended up a lot more then that! I'll post the rest of the room later today.

Family Room Befores...

Here are the befores of the family room. Can you imagine what the boys would say if we tried to put them in a cage to play!

Behind the couch...the only picture Icould find to show the fabric was a Christmas one. Since I'm getting old I have to take pictures of where the Christmas stuff goes to save a ton of time the next year. Like the way I cut off most of Papi in the the corner?
The curtains are way too skimpy. Beige sisal rugs didn't work out well with boys and puppies! Nor did a solid sage couch. The plant in the corner scale is way off and looks like something out of Little Shop of Horrors. Poor boys still in a cage...hope the plant doesn't get them.
really cluttered...with lots of stick legs!
Futsy fabric and the ottoman had holes in it. Polished cotton really doesn't work well with the amount of use the room gets!

First Tomato

My first tomato of the season. Sadly its about 2" big and if I don't get anymore it cost about $30.00 to grow!

Shore House Garden...

We had a wonderful time over the 4th, at the shore house
The walk through the garden... and over the wooden path... to the beach is beautiful...
looking back from the path to the house is lovely too!

Have a great 4th!

Here are some colorful pieces to wear to your July 4 parties! I love these stacking bangles by Kenneth Jay lane....I always wear a few bangles even to the pool and beach!
These drop earrings are fun too, mmmm love the necklace too

These earrings at House of Lavande look like fireworks! I love them. We're going to O.C. for the weekend. See you when we get back...

white white white...

This kitchen is a little boring but the cabinets do look alot like mine...hmmm

I guess my blue walls would keep it from looking too static?

aging

Are you kidding me? Is this really how I should look in my 50's? I'm just starting to "use" botox and fillers and trying to figure out the place to not step over the line. I go into the doctor's office and all the nurses are excited...why? because the saleperson has just come thru the office with some filler for lips and of course all the nurse were done for free. No kidding I would never had guessed....doesn't everyone's lips look huge, distorted, and puffy?!? Standing in a group they looked like some kind of freak show, which of course gets me thinking about where to stop. Do I just do crows feet and frown lines or do I also do fillers around my joker smile. What about my lips just a little fill or maybe just a little more? No matter how much work you have done you'll never look younger, maybe you'll look not so tired or MAYBE you'll look like you had the money to get some work done and will look done! Yet some how I keep going back and trying to find the magic fix. I never walk out with out a bottle of some potion or lotion...no matter what the FDA says about them not working. Just look at Janice Dickinson try as she might (and she sure does try) she doesn't look anything like her youth she just looks freaky...

As The Styles Turn...

I was reading Cote De Texas' blog today and she was talking about builders thinking they can design...Our house was a spec house that we bought because it was the only thing to buy! The realtor took me to maybe five-six houses over a period of two days and at the end of day two she asked me which one I wanted to bid on! The market was so crazy I had to make a bid without my husband even seeing the house! Lucky us we won the bidding "war".
The builders were a father-son act who argued with each other endlessly and it looks like they made-up by letting each other chose a different style when and where ever they wanted. Giving us a house with a colonial brick front complete with a phony victorian glass front door
Craftsman kitchen cabinets....(geez, do you think they coulda put a few more on this wall?)
Which I'm sure you've noticed I want to paint white!
and a hokey lodgey looking fireplace that looks like they dug up rocks from
the yard to build. Our daughter is afraid its going to fall off the wall its so bad! Hmm
maybe I should shoot one of the deer that eat our flowers and mount its cute little
head over the fireplace. Just kidding they are cute so long as they stay out of my
yard.

Today's White Kitchen

MMMMM yummy, I love the touches of blue in this one. Its reminds me of the blue on my walls.

It's gonna be HOT today

We need to start looking into pool prices for next year. Maybe something a tad simpler

Today's white kitchen cabinets

I love the marble counters and the black and white floor

New Kitchen Color

Here once again is the before pic...as I said in a previous post just awful. I should be banned from watching HGTV. One must learn to use one's head before jumping into a painting project! Geez my great picture taking chopped the head off my old poster.

The sky is seldom blue here and the sun rarely shines so I went with a happier color than I would normally pick.I had the settee recovered in a more Frenchie toile fabric and hung french prints from Source Perrier on the wall...The prints are in French, I must be going for a French theme?
I tried hard to stay away from my ususal corny country look but, for some reason I still used the the damn rabbit and flower pillow and last but not least the wooden trio of ducks. If the sun ever comes out I will take pics of the rest of the kitchen for you. Trust me there is still plenty more of my country junk in the kitchen.

Dream Big

If only I had an extra $185,000.....We could have a Christopher peacock kitchen in just 12 weeks. His kitchen are the reason I'm thinking white. At least I was able to order samples of his paint to pick a white. I went to B. Moore to try and match his white and even that couldn't be done. None of their whites were "white" enough. The next step is for me to spend weeks fixating on various shades of white. In the end I will give up and close my eyes and just pick one.

obsessed with painting my kitchen cabinets white

I love this kitchen...Susanna Salk's weekend lake house kitchen. I've been pondering this for months. Maybe its finally time to just do it!