tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7807456031091935342024-03-17T08:50:54.306-04:00Betsy Speert's BlogBetsy Speerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06228282974759764845noreply@blogger.comBlogger502125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-780745603109193534.post-889424565745808082018-02-24T12:24:00.000-05:002018-02-24T14:54:11.928-05:00Wallpaper, Wallpaper, Wallpaper.....<h2 style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I LOVE me some Wallpaper!!!!!</span></i></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hello</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">!!!!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>it's ME!!!!</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>The MIA Blogger!!!!!!!!!!!</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been working my tiny hiney to the bone,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and believe me, I have nothing left back there to loose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All my padding is in the front.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wouldn't it be great if we could push our fat around inside the envelope of our skin, and mold it to where it is needed and wanted?????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>I mean.....</i></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">what is the point of upper arm fat </i><b style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;">anyway</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">???????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Where is the evolutionary bonus in that??</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Am I going to survive longer than someone with thin arms?????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next time I am in a clothing store trying on my T shirts with long enough short sleeves, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and I see some svelte babe modeling a sleeveless blouse, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> will think to myself .....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Self!!!! She will not survive a nuclear blast like I will!!!!"<span style="font-size: x-large;">?????</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>NOT #$% LIKELY</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh, my,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">where did that come from????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Could someone please bring me my meds?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I seem to have misplaced them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Someone????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">anyway,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">BACK TO DECORATING!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you have been reading this blog, you are aware of my besty Kris.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I piddle around, decorating her house, now that I am retired from the horrors of working as a designer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I no longer work for the big bucks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I no longer work for </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>any bucks.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This way, if someone (friends or family) doesn't like my work, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">they can <strike>suck any part of their body that is handy</strike> keep their complaining to themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's my philosophy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It doesn't always work that way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Especially with my family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Yes, <u>you</u> (if you are reading this.....)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>(Peter and Faye)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, although Kris and I are still adding the finishing touches to her primary bathroom, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">we have tweaked her living room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This all came about in the hunt for an appropriate wallpaper for the aforementioned </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">bath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kris loves paisley.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have spread it throughout her first floor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you enter her house, the first hint is the antique settee placed against the wall that faces the stairs.</span></div>
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cIwHPnLppcc/WpGEiWLxOjI/AAAAAAABRXE/SAsIvVx60m8cQY9QsMhAZDwhmBzCY_HBwCLcBGAs/s1600/1%25281%2529a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="640" height="448" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cIwHPnLppcc/WpGEiWLxOjI/AAAAAAABRXE/SAsIvVx60m8cQY9QsMhAZDwhmBzCY_HBwCLcBGAs/s640/1%25281%2529a.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also covered the walls and host chairs in the dining room in paisley velvet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Since I took that picture, we have updated the room a little. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that will be a later blog post.....)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Now.....</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>let us go.....</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">to the living room!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kris felt the walls were a little bare with just paint.......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>that's right....</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>a little bare.....</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So stark....So stripped down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">WELL</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">one of the wallpapers that I pulled for the 2nd floor bath was a red paisley,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and after I had <strike>fled the scene</strike> left the house,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kris took it down to the living room to see how it would look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The colors worked great with the rug.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then she looked at it on the wall</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">because wallpapers go on the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(see, I am a decorator, and I know this kind of $%#)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It worked great with the paisley that I used for the draperies and ottomans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">then she checked it behind the sofa!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were very excited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let me rephrase that.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>we were #$@%& excited!!!!!</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so we had the wallpaper guy, who is a true artist, come and measure the walls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">NOW!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I told him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">THESE ARE EUROPEAN ROLLS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wallpaper guys never listen to me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">never </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">NEVER</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">never</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">NEVER.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">European rolls are NOT a double roll.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He computed for a double.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH WALLPAPER.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>We couldn't get any more of this #$@ pattern.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I guess no one else in the world is doing over the top crazy decorating anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By this time we had been waiting months and months and months for this damn paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First it was back-ordered until August. Then September.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then after the apocalypse. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were only 14 rolls left, and they were in two dye-lots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But that was supposed to be enough wallpaper, so we decided to risk it, and to hide the change in lot color at the room corners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Soooooooooooooo.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The wonderful artistic wallpaper hanger came and rolled out all the rolls and cut them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whereupon he realized that we were three rolls short.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you have probably sussed out at this point </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>I couldn't get no more of dat damn material no more no more no more.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The showroom called the line that carried the paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They had one more roll in their warehouse, but it had been cut into.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They would send it to us and not charge us for it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They felt horrible over the whole fiasco.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were very nice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Very nice doesn't get you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>any more @#$% wallpaper.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But it does create good will.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It wasn't their fault that the mill wasn't responding to their entreaties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Soooooooooooooo...............</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The project was now at a standstill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kris had taken down ALL THE PAINTINGS in the living room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">all the paintings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were all piled in the dining room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So the dining room looked like shit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The living room looked like shit,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and she felt like now we had to look for a different wallpaper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Well,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I was damned it I would let that happen on </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>MY WATCH</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I told her to let me think on it for a couple of days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I told her that usually when something like this happens,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a better design develops because I am forced to think outside the box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think she thought I was </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hate when I am sincere, and I listen to myself, and I think</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I wouldn't believe a word you're sayin' Betsy, my girl....".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But I meant it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I thought</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and I thought</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and on the second day I had </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">an epiphany!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The wallpaper guy had suggested an accent wall in wallpaper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just along the back of the sofa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I felt, what was the point of doing this outrageous design only to make it look half-assed?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am not a fan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It really does help to think on things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and to google things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and to look on Pinterest.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I suggested making the fireplace look like it was paneled, using her existing mantel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sort of like this one I found on google.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So that's what we decided to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She called back the artistic wallpaper guy and he got to work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I go back up to Massachusetts in the spring, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think the room is going to end up much better with the break in the wallpaper in the middle of the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Below is one of my world famous, very hard to create collages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It shows the before and after the application of the paisley madness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is definitely a specific type of look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But Kris and I are over the moon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In New England, where it is cold for 6 months of the year and grey for the other 6,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(I know, that's an exaggeration, but I am writing this from sunny Florida) the warm, cozy tones of the paisley just make ours toes curl in happy, yummy cozy joy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">when I look at the before shots of the room....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">IT LOOKS SO BARE!!!!!!!!!!!</span></div>
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Betsy Speerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06228282974759764845noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-780745603109193534.post-86170639870370815662017-10-24T11:22:00.000-04:002017-10-24T11:22:11.272-04:00Continuing Kris's Fabuloso Bath<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>HELLO KAMPERS!!!!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know, I know...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been missing in action.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But since some of you have started emailing me <strike>complaining</strike> letting me know that I am missed, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have now taken time from my hectic, busy, crazy, overcrowded, lazy, reading when I want to, going for walks and screwing around schedule to write.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The remodel of Kris's bathroom was</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It should have taken very little time, as we made sure we had all the materials on site</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(in her basement)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">before the first workman showed up on the job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I won't go into all the particulars, as I don't want to scar Kris any further and I know the stupid woman reads my blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(<i style="font-size: small;">being my best friend</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But it's all done now, except for the water supply to the toilet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is chrome, and we are trying to find it in brass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kris bought one in brass, but OF COURSE it doesn't fit the toilet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I left off telling you about the bathroom, we had just installed the vanity</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and hung the mirror .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Now I can show you the plumbing and lights!!!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is a view through the frameless shower stall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See how dark it is looking into the hall?????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used the wonders of Photoshop and fixed the hall!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am a rocket scientist!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This involved editing and cutting and pasting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, I went to kindergarten!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is the view of how the bathroom looked before the renovation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was great when Kris's kids were still at home and this room served a 4 person family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It allowed for two people at the sink and the shower area was more separate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BUT NOW THE <strike>RATS</strike> KIDS HAVE FLED THE NEST!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Therefore we could create Kris's dream bath that had a more European flavor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kris didn't want towels to mess up the look of the room so we hid the hand towels behind the door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She unearthed a rug she and her husband had bought overseas years ago that fit in front of the vanity, thereby saving some money. (ha)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my last post I went over all the items I found for this space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The mirror, sconces, chandelier, plumbing and whatnot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So if you want to know where I got the whatnot, please scroll down to my last post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We used the green shades from the dining room chandelier, as we updated that fixture with cream colored cleaner lines for its shades.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The plumbing fixtures are unlacquered brass that will develop a beautiful patina with age.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kris bought a polishing wax from Waterworks to help with this process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If left on its own, the brass would just end up turning dark brown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of the accents in the room are brass or bronze.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For privacy, we chose half shutters for the windows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I always use Back Bay shutter for my shutters when doing work in the Boston area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's just an FYI.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once again, we used brass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also used the green shades on the little chandelier in the toilet room at the end of the bathroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When you look into the room from the hall, you can look down the space and see the chandelier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kris </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: xx-large;">really</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> wanted a chandelier in her bathroom, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and this was the only place to stick one. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below the chandelier are the double hooks for the bath towels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The chandelier even has some crystals because Kris likes her some sparkle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, all we need to do is hang the artwork.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kris found some antique bird prints that she liked, and she is buying </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">24 of them, that we then need to frame in a gold tone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>The reason she bought 24 is because that's what I figured I needed!!!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I took white sheets of printer paper and stuck them on the walls to figure out how many pictures I needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WELL, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I NEEDED</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">24</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Latah, Gatah</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OK class, I am back for another post </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THE SECOND WEEK IN A ROW!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you guys are suitably impressed, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">because <span style="font-size: x-large;">I SURE AM</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let's continue looking at what I've done <strike>to</strike> with Kris's bathroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For those of you just tuning in, look at last weeks post, to catch up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Kris decided to redo her bathroom, I didn't take her seriously, seeing nothing wrong with what she already had.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(since I had been the one to design it.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(and as we all know, my designs are timeless.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(and wonderful)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(and stand the test of time.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">WELL</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>her shower didn't</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">stand the test of time, that is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>It leaked</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Down to her new kitchen ceiling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kris was not amused.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would like to point out that I had nothing to do with the labor of the first renovation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(luckily)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Sooooooooo.......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this inspired her,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> now that her kids were grown,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">flown the coop,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">left the nest,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cut the apron strings (we can only wish),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to redo the bathroom in Kris's idea of a fancy schmancy grownup loo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started to take the idea seriously several years ago when we came across this server in a local auction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nice quality image?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only the best for you guys!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The top was a warm toned piece of marble that we matched when we chose the marble tiles in the bathroom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>So now you know why we chose the marble that we did!!!!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kris stored the server in her basement for a million years, until we were ready to redo her bathroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then we started to choose what else we would need in the space, as well as take the server to the furniture doctor who turned an affordable piece into an expensive piece!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He replaced all the missing marquetry, and refinished it in a low luster lacquer that could hold up to the moister in a bathroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a shot of it in the basement before it was fixed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had the extra ormolu pieces inside the drawers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided on a Louis Phillippe mirror, as I love the look and style of these babies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I rely on 1stdibs a lot, as it can supply me with very specific items when I am designing for a very specific look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What could take me years to find, I can find in a day, as it represents the best of antique stores across the country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I drew an elevation of the vanity, mirror and sconces so that I would be sure that what we chose would fit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I never understood how decorators could design without drawing out what they were doing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After we (I) found the mirror, I attacked the problem of finding sconces that would work with this room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I looked at lots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I looked at these.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I looked at these.....,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AND THEN I FOUND THESE!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They will go great with the server.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kris admitted to me that she always wanted a chandelier in her bathroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was somewhat horrified to realize that my best friend was </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But because I love her to bits,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found her one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was no place to put it in the main part of the bathroom, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but it fits perfectly in the throne room, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">commonly referred to by the unwashed masses as the toilet room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> This is a story about a bathroom!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It will be seen from the hall doorway looking into the room, as it will be centered on the toilet room door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's little, so it fits the scale of the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kris wanted crystal, and I found her crystal. We love the barrel beads on the chains </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It works with the pair of sconces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is why I wanted the wallpaper we found. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The slight gold in the pattern, picks up the gold leaf of the mirror and ormolu, as well as working nicely with the warm tones of the wood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week we were able to install the vanity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is the placement against the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then they hung the mirror!!!!!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then they placed the marble!!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kris and I had taken the slab to a local marble vendor and had the hole cut in it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our furniture restorer reworked the cabinet to fit around the sink and plumbing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The wood glows and is so beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's as far as we have gotten.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kris has been rambling in Cornwall, and will be back tomorrow, so I expect the bathroom work will continue this week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We need to do the electrical and plumbing finish, then the shower enclosure..... and then add the shutters on the lower parts of the windows so no one can look in on my buddy while she is sans clothes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the hardware is unlacquered brass, so it will mellow over time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once again we chose all of it from Waterworks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sink is from Kallista</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kris fell in love with it because of the overflow holes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You gots to love a good overflow set of holes!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or....having to redo a bathroom I already had to rehab ONCE!!!!!</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been away from you guys!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Working my little tush to the bone.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have ACTUALLY SOLD SOME FABRIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">i don't know if those were enough exclamation marks.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">i tend to underdo my punctuation.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first collection has been selling and I am getting ready to launch my 2017 designs this summer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then we will branch out into wallpaper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What the hell have I started?????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This feels suspiciously like work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BUT I AM LOVING IT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">go figure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">enough about my wonderful stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">let's talk about my buddy Kris.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kris lives in an </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>old old old old old old old</b></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not one of these new fangled homes with bathrooms for each bedroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This house was lucky if it had a bathroom on each floor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we remodeled the downstairs, we enlarged the back of the house, enabling us to change the power room from a tiny closet to a normal size half bath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">When I say tiny,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I mean so small that the door had to have a half circle cut out of it so it could swing open and get past the sink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wish I had a picture of this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My life is full of regrets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sigh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ANYWAY.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the second floor, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">years ago,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> when I first started working for Kris,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and she was my client,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and not my friend, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and those were the good old days and I made money off of her and her falling down old old old house.........</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I designed a remodel of her second floor bathroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This bathroom serviced the four second floor bedrooms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These were all the bedrooms for the family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">one of those rooms we turned into the TV room, so it really was for three bedrooms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BUT IT WAS FOR 4 PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were able to enlarge the bathroom to create a separate toilet room, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which is a really nice detail..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> when you have 4 people sharing one bathroom.....</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Now, before you feel too sorry for her family,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> they did have another loo on the third floor,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> thus the kids got plenty of exercise,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and to this very day are <i><b>fit and healthy</b></i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kris wanted a bathtub/shower,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> so that's what I gave her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later on, it was changed to a shower stall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are the shots of how it looked before it was all gutted for this new remodel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had a half wall built to separate the tub from the vanity, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">adding beadboard wainscoting to all the walls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was 20 years ago, before everyone and his dog was using beadboard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, I don't care, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still love it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">beadboard </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">beadboard </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">beadboard </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">beadboard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Love it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So Kris ripped it all out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below are all the before shots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First is looking in from the hall past the vanity and what later became the shower stall back towards the toilet room, with its pocket door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After 20 years, the wallpaper is starting to peal off.......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We used hardware and faucets from Waterworks, and Carrara marble.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These pictures are courtesy of Kris. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She took them for me before the room was demoed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We used subway tile 20 years ago, because I've always used it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found Mexican mirrors that had been metal worked in silver, so the tone of the metal was similar to the nickel of the fixtures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The wallpaper was a classic Brunschwig & Fils all over leaf pattern in green.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is what was, this is what is:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you know, if you've been paying attention.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we gutted the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Started from scratch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clean slate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We still kept the subway tile look, but Kris wanted something less stark than white, so we went with a creamy marble.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is the wall that runs behind the vanity and shower.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided to tile the whole wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's only money, and it's not mine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the top of the tile we installed a crown of the same marble.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I worked with the carpenters to create a similar profile in wood to continue around the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They also recreated the details for the windows and doors that the rest of the house had.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is a shot of the molding painted. See how nicely the shape blends with the tile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had the beautiful basket weave tile in the same marble installed on the floor of the room and the shower.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were lucky</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">I found it....</span>.</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and found a small slab of the same marble that we could use for the shower curb.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We didn't want to have to buy a 4 x 8 size piece of marble for this little area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It took us hours to find the right wallpaper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We wanted one that was simple,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to work with the tile,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but that had a little glitz, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">since Kris was going glam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This wallpaper (it's hard to see in the pictures) is printed in metallic gold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Very subtle, but glittery in the morning sun,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">when an old biddy is getting up and attum!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the way it looks at this point in the renovation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's all creamy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will be keeping you up to date on its progress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I promise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been missing in action, but will be better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's it for today, campers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, wait!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we need one of my fabulous side by sides!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The new way is going to feel much larger because I am not going to have a half wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OH!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and a teaser.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the vanity is an amazing antique we picked up at auction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On that note,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Latah, Gatah</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you've been following my bog, you know that one of my all time besties is Kris!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I met her when she was looking for an interior designer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> She saw an article about me in House Beautiful that showed me with lots of dogs, and since she lived with a dog (and kids) she thought that maybe I would be able to help her...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> with her house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If she knew that it was going to change both of our lives....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wonder if she would have made that fateful call.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>of course she would!!!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>the woman is crazy about me!!!!!</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She wanted help with her living room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is what it looked like when I first saw it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The kids weren't in the room at the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That helped.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nor the Foosball table, <i><b>which also helped</b></i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(that had been moved across the hall to the dining room.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She and her husband Keith had bought a turn of the century home in the Boston suburbs that had been allowed to go to seed over the years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By attacking one room at a time, and not cutting any corners, we have transformed this rundown residence into what I now feel is a showplace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>However, because Kris is not a showoff.....</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">THAT IS LEFT UP TO ME ME ME!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To give you an idea of how long this has taken, the little boy in the photo is now out of college, fully employed and over 6 feet tall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have shown you pictures of this room before, but this past year we finally had the windows replaced, and I am always blown away by the difference muntins make in a window.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For those in the class that don't know what a <b>muntin</b> is.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mun·tin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">/ˈmənt(ə)n/</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">noun US</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a bar or rigid supporting strip between adjacent panes of glass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most folks call them mullions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For those in the class what don't know the real definition of <b>mullion</b>.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once again you will have to deal with my blurry images.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">my hands are a little shaky, and I am too lazy to drag around my tripod.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SO JUST DEAL WITH IT!!!!!</span></div>
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<span class="st" data-hveid="42" data-ved="0ahUKEwimnqL434DSAhWGKiYKHR5dBpgQ4EUIKjAB" style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; word-wrap: break-word;">In the image below you can see the new windows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I designed and needlepointed the seat covers for the pair of hall chairs flanking the chest of drawers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I forgot to take a new one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These is the sitting area to the right of the French doors leading into the hall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can see the reworked moldings that were created for all the doors and windows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kris and I still have some walls in this house that need to have some stuff hung on them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AND THAT IS FOR MY NEXT POST!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's right little campers.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm back for another post </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>right on the heels of my previous one!!!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You guys are so lucky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or, as they say in New Jersey,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yous Guys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seee?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I learned something from my under graduate degree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After writing that I was definitely going to use the green colorway of my cabbage rose pattern.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have changed my mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Quelle Surprisio!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">spell check doesn't like it when I make up new foreign languages.....</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">spell check has no sense of humor.....</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You may wonder why there are two blog posts in close succession...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">WELL...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a headache.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">And my headache medication has <span style="font-size: x-large;">caffeine </span>in it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't normally have caffeine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Due to medical issues that are none of your damn business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">Not that you would be interested, 'cuz my family is certainly bored hearing about them, and they are all doctors.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">when I have a headache, it is a great excuse to get a little caffeine in my system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which my brain box really really really really loves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am having trouble working out a drop repeat right now on a new design, so I am looking for any excuse to distract me from my frustration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">let's get to today's design issue for little Betsy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>We left off here.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was going to use my green colorway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I really love this look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is fresh and pretty....(if I do say so myself.....)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>however....</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there was an uproar from the peanut gallery pushing the pink color back to the forefront</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of my cerebellum. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You guys liked it in the room, and pointed out that it was more what I was known for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not that you shouldn't allow me to evolve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I placed the pink on my antique French chair to show the class how it looks, because that is how I will be using it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like the way all my pictures are blurry?????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am too lazy to pull out my tripod, and I am shooting in low light.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So deal with it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I gots to admit that this colorway goes better with the rug and bookcase.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe that's because I originally designed it to go with my living room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was so long ago that I forgot that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you believe me?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I expressly colored blue flowers into the bouquet to pull in the blue of the bookcase.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I worked really hard for this $%# colorway to work with my living room, and then I forgot that I did that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is the way we sell it in my collection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is a fresher pallet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Josh chose the more muted one that I show above to be printed on my natural linen ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is one of my fabulous side by sides!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See how the one on the right is more muted?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's the one for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below I've pinned the two samples to my current drapery panels, you can see the difference even better. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sooooooo.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the one on the right is the bright way it's being sold, and the one on the left is the way I will use it, and it's not for sale, unless you want it, and then, of course we can accommodate you!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">AND THEN!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>BECAUSE I'M AN IDIOT!!!!!</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to try another colorway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the French blue on white.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am not going to do it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I am leaving no stone unturned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I need another caffeine pill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or something.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ANYTHING.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">please.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm redoing my living room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>I'm redoing my living room.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>I'm redoing my living room.......</i></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Have I mentioned that I am redoing my living room?????</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>I am driving myself crazy with this $%&!!!!!</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You think it's hard decorating your own house????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Try doing it when you can design your own fabrics, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and then change the colorways to be </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b>anything you want.....</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have finally settled on the pattern I am going to use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's from my Fall 2016 collection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b><i>don't you just </i><span style="font-size: x-large;">love</span><i> how that sounds?</i></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(It's like I have a gazillion different collections.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">when we all know I have the grand number of....</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">one...</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Josh (<span style="font-size: x-small;">the boy wonder who is my partner and pain in my @$$</span>) didn't want to sell this pattern in the large 18" repeat size.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now that he sees how it looks on chairs he has changed his mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">WHY DOESN'T HE EVER LISTEN TO ME?????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's called Gypsy Bouquet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why I called it that, I have no idea. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't ask me to explain myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You'd be waiting for an explanation a looooog time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have pinned the fabrics over my new antique chair and on top of my draperies, so I could see how they will look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It lays out just perfectly for the back of a French Chair, or a toss pillow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The reason for this is because</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">THAT'S THE WAY I DESIGNED IT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-small;">I am soooo fabulous.......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Due to pressure from my besty Kris and Josh, I am using this sophisticated colorway for my living room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think it is the prettiest one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The muted pink one matches my carpet, but this one is more growed up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And I am a growed up person.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am selling this in 2 scales.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This large one, which will be available in the Spring of 2017, and the smaller scale is available now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Unless you want to order the larger scale, and then we can talk!!!!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What to do.... What to do.......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I stand in the doorway of the living room and just stare and wonder...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">stare and wonder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I got sidetracked onto a tangent of pink color by my muted pink colorway that isn't even in my collection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (Josh vetoed it, it's printed on my natural line background,</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> but not the white linen like here.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The pink in my collection is a brighter color that he says is more the look of today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>but there seems to be an insult in there somewhere......</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See how it lays out great on a pillow?????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(I pinned it over my old pillow)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was considering this with the smaller scale for the draperies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's very pretty with the pink rug in this room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But Josh isn't going for it, and this will be an ad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Or a magazine story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think this is a quintessential cottage look for a cabbage rose in pink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See how it goes with my rug and the way the bookcase is painted now???</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I will have to re</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">paint the outside of the bookcase if I use the cream and green fabric.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Which I am going to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought the problem I was having was that I needed a more sophisticated pink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">SO.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I recolored the pattern in a more monochromatic pink colorway just for me <b>me</b> <span style="font-size: x-large;">me</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It went OK with the rug....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I can never tell how a fabric will look in real life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It always prints differently than on my computer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Sooooooo...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I worked up 5 different levels of color.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">That's 5</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">5</b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">!!!!!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I must admit to the class that the lightest one looks SUCKY!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">after all that time fiddling around with pinks....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am back using the cream and green.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unless I change my mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or design a fabric I like better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the mean time,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have designed an awning stripe for my two club chairs</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to go with this and have recolored my Small Diamond Batik pattern in this colorway for my sofa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll let you know when I get the strike offs from my factory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By then I will have changed my mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oy Vey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>BIG NEWS FELLOW CAMPERS!!!!!</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">after 3.5 years and more hours than my @$$ wants to think about</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">if my @$$ could think</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on Friday November 18, 2016 at 10:23 AM my fabric line was finally hung up and ready for sale!!!!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is how the fabrics are displayed at design centers, so decorators can see a full length of fabric.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(<span style="font-size: x-small;">and yes, for those of you who asked, this is only available to the trade....sorry</span>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have finished the website.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is the link: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://betsytextiles.com/" target="_blank">Betsy Textiles</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it is at: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> betsytextiles.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or betsyfabrics.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or betsyspeert.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or elizabethspeert.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>but</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">betsy.com was taken.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I tried to reach the woman who owns it, to ask to buy it, but she hasn't returned my email.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I can't understand way someone wouldn't want to have an email conversation with <i><b>me</b></i>!!!???!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Maybe I'll email her again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She'll think I'm one of those crazy internet stalkers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Or you guys could email her!!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I worked my butt off to get these fabrics ready for the spring launch </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-small;">we made the fall.......</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's when I met with Josh to make the final colorway choices and lay out how the wings and waterfalls would hang in the Design Center.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had a real meeting of grownups!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were 4 of us in total.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3 grownups and Josh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We used the floor of my living room as a large conference table to lay out the fabrics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyway, last Friday, I went into Boston to the design center to work on making up the first batch of samples.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I worked with Jessica in the samples department.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had to staple 870 labels onto 870 samples.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you can see, Jessica is lovely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She claims her hands were fine after all that stapling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>well.....</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and don't get me started on my shoulders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here they are tucked all cozy in their boxes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before the wings were hung, Josh spread the waterfalls out on a table in the showroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These will be pinned to the wings to show all the colors for each pattern.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before we could get them all installed, <b><i>someone walked off with one of these</i></b>. I am hoping that means that they will be placing an order, as I had to sew up a new waterfall and add the labels to the back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I was not happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had a workroom make all the samples and waterfalls and wings, so luckily I had the skills to quickly redo this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But this means that folks like my stuff!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are already getting low on some of the samples and the fabrics were just put up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I may have created a monster.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We may have to reorder more samples soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Which means more stapling........</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I tell my dad about this, he keeps asking if I've sold anything yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Good point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But it has to be for sale before it can be sold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now it is for sale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Josh thinks in a couple of years I may have to hire some people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't want to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He will have to handle that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>I am too old for this #$%.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be careful what you wish for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Besides all my bitching.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>thrilled</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> beyond words!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">maybe not beyond words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I never seem at a loss for words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They fall from my lips like </span><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>pearls</b></span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i> road apples</i></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before I get to today's post about my fabric line.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">just a quick comment about some of the most recent comments to my blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of you guys got annoyed (</span><i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">angry, pissed off, offended, enraged, ......</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) because I dared to go off topic from decorating and voice an opinion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a blog, not a magazine article.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is <u style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">my</u> blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is where I get to spout off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For those of you who have been following my ramblings for some time, you know that once or twice a year I find something that really fries my goat, and I vent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's what blogs are for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are personal expressions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If some of you don't like it, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NO ONE IS MAKING YOU READ THIS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">There will be no test.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It' very simple, just don't read me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't get paid for this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still do it because I have been asked to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started writing this after my last book deal was canceled due to the collapse of the decorating book publishing industry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But since I started my fabric line, I am very</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">BUSY AGAIN!!!!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Designing fabric is a full time job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Plus I now am designing my own website!!!!!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is because Traditional Home Magazine is featuring my fabrics in the February/March issue, and I realized I better have a website.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So now I am obsessed with designing the website.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's really fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So if any of you are trying to make your own website, I am using the Square Space service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I spent a couple of days watching YouTube tutorials and now I am just like a pro.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">sort of</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">not really</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The site should be up and running within the next month or year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">see how I did that????</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-style: italic;">The year ends in 2 months!!!!!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have <b><span style="font-size: x-large;">FINALLY</span> </b>gotten the wings and waterfalls so we can hang them up at the Boston Design Center.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have had all the samples shipped, so this week I will go into Boston and help attach my labels to all the samples.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After <span style="font-size: x-large;">3 1/2 years</span> this project is going live ladies!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a shot of my living room as we were figuring how to hang the samples in the showroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This room was like this for 6 months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used it as a reference as I designed the next collection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a close up of some of the fabrics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This pattern is called Small Diamond Batik.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and looks like batik......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am very imaginative with my names.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It also comes in medium and large!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because it is medium and large!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't get excited, but here it is in the medium size.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have custom colored it for my living room and am doing it in a scale that is twice as large as the one shown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My collaborator, who will remain anonymous (Josh) won't let me do it that way in the collection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He say's it's "Old Lady Fabric".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I said to him, can't be printed here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is not a post to support either candidate......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for president.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><i>BUT</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">why does Donald Trump make comments about women's weight when </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HE COULD STAND TO LOOSE A GOOD 60 </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>%*&</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> POUNDS HIMSELF?????</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is not just in response to the last uproar about the beauty queen, but his ongoing commentary about women's looks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am so sick of men feeling they can comment on women's appearance's </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">when they are far from runway models.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a woman who is always battling my tendency to attract adipose tissue, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am sensitive to fat shaming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Men on the other hand are blithely, obliviously, happily content with their less than stellar shapes.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He looks like he's been carrying extra poundage around for at least a few decades.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you imagine a woman with this kind of a figure making fat comments about another woman?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For that matter, can you imagine any public female figure making comments about another woman's weight?????????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am always battling my weight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Right now I am winning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next year, or month, or week or day that may change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For women like me.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>WE DON'T NEED NO #$% GUY TO TELL US WHEN WE HAVE SOME EXTRA PADDING!!!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We know every crevice of our bodies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We know every extra ounce.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are our most brutal critics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(unless we are within the cross hairs of Trumps fat shaming radar)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is like one big drunken fraternity party where the cool boys make fun of the "dogs".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't like that part of college, and I don't like this part of the presidential race.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wish we would just stick to the issues,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">like:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LIFE AND DEATH!!!!!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm sorry, </span><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">sorta</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, I know I haven't written for a million years, and some of you have been kind enough to email me to see if I'm OK.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">or to nughe me) nudge </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I don't know how to spell nughe, and auto correct doesn't know either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Or it doesn't know what I'm trying to write.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I'm going with the first scenario..... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I flunked spelling in third grade, and it's only gone down hill since then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">EVERY REPORT CARD the teachers mentioned my abisomal spelling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I can't spell abisomal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oy Vey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Let's pretend I'm doing this for comedic effect!!!!!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>It's nudge!!!!It's NUDGE!!!!! my brain just unlocked!!!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>spellcheck is useless when your spelling is so far off that no one has a clue what you mean.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My brother suggested that I just write a post telling everyone that I am busy as hell, and that I will post in a year or two.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but that seemed mean,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">today I will show you guys my new slipcovers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I briefly showed them to you last fall, but today I've taken better photos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is my TV/Family/Eating/Reading/Napping room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The slipcovers are made of a 100% cotton fabric that the slipcover guy prewashed for me so they wouldn't shrink when I washed them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The prewashing also took the shine off the chintz which I love much more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The name of the fabric is Althea, and it is one of the Lee Jofa signature patterns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Even though</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was lucky to get the last of the cotton.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I freaked out and bought all the remaining yardage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">62 yards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All mine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My family room used to look like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had had a cotton woven plaid rug from Pottery Barn, that was wearing out and getting a lot of holes in it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I decided to spend the money and buy a woolen striped rug from Stark in green and natural that has the appearance of jute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It will wear like iron, and it is also the small rug in my kitchen area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had two made for my kitchen, the extra one is stored in my basement for future use when I destroy the current one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is my view in the morning when I read the paper on my iPad and drink my tea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It looks out on my little terrace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The chair to the right and below is my super duper TV watching chair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I turn the ottoman the long way, and it makes it feel like a chaise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Betsy's rule # 1374</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>When one is watching TV, it is important to be in as lazy a position as possible.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To help with my lack of effort to have a lack of effort, I use a lumbar pillow to support my back, so my back won't need to support itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I needlepointed this pillow around the time of my 40th birthday, when my Mom </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">allowed me </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to take the family name of Klee as my middle name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had no middle name, and it was very hard to have a good looking monogram with just two initials</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just love the way a room looks with lots of the same pattern.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also love slipcovers with gathered skirts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the skirts have to be a loose gather, not tight because that's too much fabric and looks too prissy to my eye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It first looked like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought I had a picture of this chair straight on, but all you can see in this shot is the back of the arm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was my living room in Watertown in 1986.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was a photo shoot for the Boston Globe Magazine that Eric Roth shot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then the chair had another life as a greeny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of the bobbles on the fringe are missing due to my brothers cat, but we don't want to point any fingers......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the back of sofas and chairs I like to hang throws.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) when you get cold, you can snuggle up!!!!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2) it keeps the back from getting dirty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got the one above from Pottery Barn, last year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I gave some thought to whether or not I was going to do contrast welting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I usually do, but in this case I felt that the look I wanted was one of smooshiness, not crispness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are very important design terms that I just made up, so take notes 'cuz there will be a quiz.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> hanging the line this month in the Boston Design Center in Studio 534.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Josh, my partner in crime, wants me to crank out at least one a year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As for those of you who have asked after my parents, my Dad turned 101 in May and my Mom is 95, so they are just ticking right along. Thank you for your thoughts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">SOOOOOOOOOOO.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I sorta let the cat out of the bag in my last post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to save showing you guys Connie's new coffee table for the sun room.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BUT</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I needed to show an overall view of the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soooooooo.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I kinda hoped you wouldn't notice that the table had changed.......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had been using her old table from her previous beach house to tide us over until we could find one that was just right for this space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Above is how it looked in her old home on the ocean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">below is how it looked as a temporary stand in while we hunted for a replacement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is a beautiful table, but Connie wanted to go for a less rustic country look in her new home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chris, her hubby, got to take this table to his sitting area in his storage-garage space where he restores vintage cars in his spare time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now that the old man is retired.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He's got lots of spare time.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't tell him I called him old....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"><i>oops, he reads this blog!!!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Connie and I were on the hunt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's one of our favorite things to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, lunch is always involved because we are now of the age of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"Ladies who lunch!!!!!"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's not as much fun as it used to be, because as I've aged.....</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">now I can't eat half of what's on the menu.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, what could be better???</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Antiquing and food?????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were in the store that had the fabuloso chest that Connie got that I talked about in my last post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I was walking around mumbling to Connie about my vision for what the coffee table should look like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I said I wanted it to be metal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I said it would be great if it looked like an old garden table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I said that we had to be patient and to keep looking until we found the just right oh my god this is it coffee table for her sun room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">WELL!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The proprietor of the store, whose name shall be a secret, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">it's Susan</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">was a big fat eavesdropper and over heard my whispered mumblings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OK, maybe I have a loud voice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My family tells me I have a very loud voice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My friends seem to be of the same opinion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">when you are the youngest of </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>5 $%# kids</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, you have to pipe up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, she seemed to have overheard my comments to Connie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She said she may have just what we wanted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She brought me over to the magic table</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">also known as her sales counter</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and opened up her magic binder of inventory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there in the pages of her book was exactly what I had imagined in my warped little mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Connie bought it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The End.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here are the pictures of the table, as it now sits in the sun room in Connie and Chris's new home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can see that the table was made out of an antique garden gate from France.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have ordered a new chair that matches the sofa, and the seagrass chair, which was from the old house by the sea, is going to Chris's garage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wonderful legs were created and added to the frame that holds the gate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The beautiful brackets that were incorporated into the leg design reflect the scrolls of the gate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't believe that I voiced what my design concept was.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the shop proprietor whipped it out of thin air!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So the last thing to add was the draperies which have since been installed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wasn't there when they went up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So Connie took a couple of pictures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, Connie's pictures are sorta crappy, so I will take my own next fall when I am back down in Florida</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're back for another segment of....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>"let's trash Betsy's design"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>"we don't like what you did over there in that section of that there room....."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In case you're wondering what in the hell I'm referring to, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">to what I am referring????? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> does ending the sentence in a preposition matter?????</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">anyway....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">check out some of the comments on my last post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few of you guys were not amused by the way Connie and I arranged the bookshelves in her living room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They felt that they should only have been used for books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They didn't like that I had covered the bindings.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>SO</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am now going to refer to those shelves as display shelves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DOES THAT MAKE EVERYONE HAPPY?????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>MAKING THE CLIENT HAPPY IN HER HOME!!!!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think I have now used up all my bold letters, so let's get on to the new subject matter for today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Off Connie's living room is her sun room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been showing you pictures as we've progressed in working on this space and it is coming along nicely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At least, Connie, Chris and I think so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Connie's husband Chris, really has very little to do with the design, but he walks through the rooms while we are working, and he always has a smile on his face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we go shopping for furniture for the house, we don't take him with us for a couple of reasons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) He has no patience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2) He would have a stroke if he saw the prices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To bring you up to speed on the progression of the room, lets go back to the beginning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At one end of the space is a set of double doors that lead directly into Connie's bedroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is another doorway into the master suite hallway that allows each bedroom more privacy, so Connie wanted to close off this entrance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't like the doors at the end, as it made the sunroom feel like just a big long hallway with 7 doorways off it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two into the living room, one into the hallway, one into the family room and two to outdoors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The door into the bedroom make seven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just too many.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had a screen made to cover the doors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now the problem was that Connie hated the way the screen looked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>sheesh....</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">no pleasing some people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If she's not careful, I'll start charging her for my services again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I told her....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(<span style="font-size: x-small;">here come some more bold letters, sorry about that....</span>.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I WASN'T DONE YET!!!!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every time I came over to the house, she had a different arrangement of furniture in front of the screen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She started looking for a chest to go in front of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I TOLD her that we needed something tall, maybe a tall pair of antique chairs??</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She kept looking at low chests of drawers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then one day, Connie and I were out shopping, we were looking for something to go in front of the screen, but we were having no luck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So we ended up</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">spending <b>my</b> money for a change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She really seemed to be enjoying seeing me reach for <span style="font-size: x-large;">my</span> charge card.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were in a shop with a lot of absolutely wonderful fake plants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went a little crazy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You guys know how I love fake flowers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I bought two pots and two agapanthus that looked so real that I first thought they were.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you don't know what they look like.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I stole this image from google</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway.....,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm wandering around the shop in a daze of euphoric delirium, when I stumble upon this absolutely gorgeous chest of drawers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a Gustavian travel chest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you look at the side, you can see it's in several pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sides have a beautifully painted motif</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (for me, it helps to show which is the top piece.....).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Drool worthy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was the opposite of cheap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But there would never, ever, ever, ever be anything as perfect as this @#$ chest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to place in front of the folding screen in Connie's sunroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I remember some pleading going on that afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It may have been me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We both loved it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She had fun playing around with what she had in the house, to find something that was as wonderful to set on its top.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Connie and Chris sold their home in Vermont this past year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They sold it furnished, but kept some of their favorite things to bring down to Flerida.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This marionette horse was one of Connie's cherished pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The white geraniums that I plunked in the cream stoneware pot, are from the same store as the chest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These were supposed to be for me, but they got stuck in Connie's house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So she ordered a couple more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a side by side of the low table in contrast to a taller piece in front of the screen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now we just need to add some little tables or objects next to the chairs to set drinks, and this end of the room is done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a side by side of Before Betsy, and After Betsy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Latah, Gatah</span></div>
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Betsy Speerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06228282974759764845noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-780745603109193534.post-40902791581854011392016-04-15T08:09:00.000-04:002016-04-15T08:09:16.708-04:00Styling a Bookcase<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yeah, it's me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back for another beautiful, bodacious, bemusing, bull $%&ing post!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am still helping my friend Connie with her home in south Florida.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are now adding the layers to make it cozy and unique.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the sticking points that bedevil many a homeowner and aspiring designer is how to attractively arrange a bookcase.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Connie inherited a big built in one in her living room that we had to work around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let's take a stroll down memory lane to appreciate where we are now, today, this very<br />minute in time, as you are reading this here blog post that I am writing this very minute!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This is the bookcase we got handed to us against <strike>MY</strike> our will.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We changed some of the fussier details, simplifying it to work with Connie's style and painting it a simple creamy white, getting rid of the glazing finish that had been previously applied.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you want to read more on how we did this, you can read about it<a href="http://betsyspeert.blogspot.com/2015/07/simplifying-architectural-details-in.html" target="_blank"> HERE</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then we had to figure what to put in it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the point we had gotten to when I turned my attention elsewhere in the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I felt the back of the bookcase should be painted blue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Connie finally caved, and I got what I wanted!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this point she started placing various and sundry objects from around the house on the shelves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She wondered why it didn't look so hot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>WELL!!!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I informed her.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>that's because i hadn't put on my thinking cap and concentrated on this part of the room!!!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I design the clutter that goes on a bookshelf...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">books are a must.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Get it???</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BOOKshelf???????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, since we were doing a more </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">polished look than I normally do, I wanted to do the covers wrapped in white, just like the big boy decorators do it!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last year when Connie and I hit the annual Flea Market/Antique Show, we stumbled across some old muslin that we grabbed for 20 smackers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I saw it, I <strike>screamed</strike> melodiously intoned: "Connie! Come Here! Right Now! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Now!!!!!,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> NO, NO, NO, put down that rhinestone pin,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and come over<i> HERE TO ME!!!!!</i>"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">boy, when you find the perfect thing that you were looking for, only you didn't know that it was just what you were looking for.....you (<b>ME</b>)get a little paranoid that someone could come along and swoop down and steal it from under </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>your very eyes!!!!!</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I said, Connie bought it, and she</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> cut it up and wrapped the books!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't tell Connie's husband Chris that we stole some books from his office to have enough for our bookshelf arrangement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to do arrangements on the shelving that were all whites and creams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got her started on a collection of creamy white </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.kville.org/kchistory/Pottery.html" target="_blank">Abingdo</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.kville.org/kchistory/Pottery.html" target="_blank">n Pottery</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But that wasn't enough to do the trick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What to do?????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What to do?????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I KNOW!!!!!!!!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>CORAL!!!!!!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's creamy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's pretty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That has interesting shapes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wonder why I hadn't thought of that before?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If anyone has an idea why such an obvious choice hadn't occurred to me, leave it in the comment section below.....(<span style="font-size: xx-small;">be kind</span>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had Connie meet me at the local sea shell store that is between her house and mine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had the idea that pieces of coral would just do the trick for accents on the shelves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We already had some pretty sea shells from Connie's ocean house, so we only needed to add one more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had never had a stand before, and was quite impressed, let me tell you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just goes to show, an old dog can still lean some new tricks!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you've been following this story, you may remember that the center part of this bookcase is the hidden doorway to the master suite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chris gave me a thumbs up on the decorating efforts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's as much time as he spent on the project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This side may need one more thing on the bottom shelf.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Connie doesn't agree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Hey! Did you guys think I fell off a cliff and <b><i>DIED</i></b>?????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Well I didn't . </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You're probably sick of hearing this by now, but I've been working my considerable a$$ off trying to finish my <b>"</b>Spring Collection<b>"</b> for my <b>"</b>Fabric Line<b>"</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, boys and girls, let us liberate these words from their quotes!!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As my people busted out of Egypt,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> so shall my <span style="font-size: x-large;">supposed</span> fabric line</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> bust out of supposition into the <span style="font-size: x-large;">real deal</span>!!!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was supposed to launch last spring......<span style="font-size: xx-small;">well it didn't.....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then it was supposed to launch last fall......<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Well it didn't.......</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've got 10 patterns, 10 colorways each (more or less...) and they are all in their cozy little files of one full width repeat ready to go to the factory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are strike-off sample fabrics all over the floor of my living room and the dining table and the coffee table and the chairs.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so it's lucky that<strike> I don't have any friends to come visit...... </strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a little sitting room with my kitchen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've even had my logo (</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-style: italic;">designed by me me me</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>) </i>federally registered!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am a big girl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am a bidniss woman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have one more meeting to decide how we will display them in the wings at the Boston Design Center in Studio 534,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and then we need to get them all printed out and sent to get the samples and wings sewn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We need to get the tickets printed that will be stapled to each sample.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We need to staple them to each sample.........</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I believe that someone else will be doing all that as I am already designing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the "Fall Collection".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This time it's going much faster, as I now have a better sense of what I'm doing, and I don't have to reinvent the wheel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">The wheel is square, isn't it????</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Anyway.....</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Back to the room we were looking at before my ginormous gap in blogging!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just a little refresher, here's an overall picture of the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a showhouse room I designed in 1767,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> way back when I was still working for people who could complain to me while I stood there and smiled and took it like a champ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you think it's fun to be an interior designer, you're out of your @#$ gourd!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it was fun to do showhouse rooms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lots of work and frustration, but fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was like an HG TV show, no time or money, but you had to make it look really good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The best way to do this economically was to try to use as much from you house as you could.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or to plan a use in the future for anything new that you had to buy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had found this funky chair at a junk store for just a little money. I stripped the disintegrating old yucky rotting fabric and moldy old straw upholstery from it's poor old bones. It was probably made from mahogany. I don't remember, but just looking at the shape, I'm guessing that would be what they used. It's hard to see, but the upper corners have tassels carved in them, that I just loved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, this was in the days before chalk paint, so I lightly sanded the finish off the wood and not knowing what I was doing, forwent the primer coat, just painted white on the raw wood. Then I rubbed it with my hands, and it developed this wonderful aged look!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A little light distress sanding and she was all done and ready to go to Drape It to be upholstered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used the same fabric from Brunschwig & Fils that I had applied to the walls and ceiling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The way to get a good crown on a chair cushion, like the picture below, is a 100% feather and down fill. Nothing else will give you that look. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'M TELLING YOU THIS BECAUSE SOME OF YOU HAVE ASKED ME!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pillow on the chair is one of my </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-large;">stellar</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> creations. I've talked about this pillow before, as it's in my kitchen/family room.</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-large;"> </i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made it out of scrapes of yarn that I had accumulated. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It says, SIT DOWN RIGHT HERE, so I do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm going to look at land tomorrow down here in Flerida.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love my house, but telling me about an open unbuilt piece of land is like waving a red flag in front of me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am probably just kicking tires.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But just in case, I better be wearing my sh$% kicking boots!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I really thought that this would be the last post on this room.....</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but it turns out that I can squeeze another one out before I'm done.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">that didn't sound right, but I'm too lazy to figure out another way to say that. You all can give suggestions in the comments section!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Let's see, where were we?????</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Continuing with this bedroom which is one of my all time favorite rooms that I have ever, ever, ever, ever done, let's study the twin beds.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I installed a pair of half testers over the beds.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(half testers are the valences that hang over the head of a bed creating the look of a half canopy)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love the look of half testers, and have one in my bedroom in Massachusetts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the case of these beds, since there was a beamed ceiling, I used the edge of the first beam to dictate the depth of the tester.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This created a deeper valence than I usually do over a bed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I usually have one that's around 15" deep.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the one in my Massachusetts bedroom, it's not as deep as the Cape Cod ones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes I hang pictures over the back drapery, and sometimes I don't.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my own bedroom, since the headboard was tall and the ceiling was low, there wasn't much room so I left it bare, hanging pictures on either side of my queen bed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the shot below, since there was a lot of plain fabric and only creamware plates on the wall, I chose a pretty pair of bird prints in silver leaf frames.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For reading light, I hung an </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">antique pair of tole sconces that I had rewired and added a </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the clearest I could get the picture enlarged.....sorry....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The great thing about doing showhouses is that you end up with cool stuff in your home, this way you can justify the expense of doing these projects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I installed these sconces in my Watertown bedroom, and loved them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my new Massachusetts home (well, new 12 years ago.....), I have no use for them, so they're in a closet. I love them too much to get rid of them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OK, back to the showhouse room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Between the beds, over the night table, I hung a pair of "creamware" plates that I found in a junk store. They aren't real creamware but from the forty's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted something between the beds, but something without a strong pattern.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since doing this showhouse, I have stumbled on some more of these plates, and have hung them in my Massachusetts condo master bath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a better closeup of the plate. See, it has a pretty basket weave effect on the surface.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know nothing about these plates, but looooove them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>OK back to the Cape.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Between the pair of beds, I placed the matching night stand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I mentioned in my last post, I don't usually like furniture in a suite of matching pieces, but in this case, for some reason, I think they are </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SPECTACULAR!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found a pretty green alabaster lamp and had the shade made for it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's hard to see in the picture, but it has a silk and crystal bead trim hanging from the edge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The retro phone is a refurbished one I picked up in an </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">antique mall in New Hampshire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It now sits on my desk in Massachusetts, looking good but getting in the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The receiver is too heavy to have long conversations, it doesn't have a speaker for hands free work, and the ringer is sooooo loud that it scares the #$% </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">out of me every time it rings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm considering putting it in the closet with my pair of scones.......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used the beaded </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">shades in my current living room, so here's a better close up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The trim was from Scalamandre, I don't know if they carry it anymore, everything pretty seems to be disappearing. Over the beaded trim the custom lamp shade maker, Blanche Field, applied a ribbon with metallic gold edges. Then, in the middle of the ribbon, a cord was covered with the twisted ribbon and sewn on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This kind of workmanship is rare and expensive, but if your are obsessed with details like I am, you find a way to pay for this stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd rather have this then go to fancy restaurants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, I don't like fancy restaurants, they frown on sweat pants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes when I dress a bed, I stack the pillows against the headboard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this case, since we didn't want to cover the painting on the bed, we stacked them flat and placed a pretty needlepoint pillow against the pile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>I say "pretty" because I designed and needle pointed them.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I now have them in my Massachusetts condo in my living room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had the brilliant, </span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>ha</b></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, idea to make the letters look like ribbon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, I don't think that I accomplished that, but at least you can read what they say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The R and R stands for rest and relaxation, since this was a vacation guest room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't think anyone figured that out, and probably thought it was some guys initials.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the foot of the beds, I folded a pair of matelasse coverlets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They were inexpensive from Bed Bath and Beyond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The way to get the pattern to stand out is to wash them in hot water and then dry them on high.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another trick I use when dressing a bed for a photo shoot.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If the folded quilt or throw at the foot of the bed looks too flat, then I fold it around a down comforter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's what I did here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>I'm a woman.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>I can fake things.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Later, Gator</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't remember the exact year......</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was some time in the 1990's.....</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oy....</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">anyway.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is the overview picture from Traditional Home Magazine of the room I designed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since it was the Cape Cod Academy Showhouse, it was on Cape Cod!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I chose a downstairs little room that I made into a bedroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The room had an awkward layout with two doors and a fireplace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The decorating committee had assigned it to be a bedroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, there was no wall space for a pair of beds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And since I had a pair of pretty beds,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I needed the wall space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>SO WHAT DO DESIGNERS DO WHEN THEY NEED TO REINVENT A ROOM FOR A SHOWHOUSE?????</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">They cover up what they don't like</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> by using devices that would never work in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> REAL LIFE!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You guys are probably sick of hearing this, but two of my best buddies own <a href="http://www.drapeit.net/">Drape It</a>, my drapery work room in the Boston Area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They allowed me to go wild in showhouse rooms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this one, we used plywood to cover the fireplace and then covered the plywood with the chintz that was used in the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since the pair of beds backed up to this fake wall, the lack of a baseboard was not noticed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you may have realized by now,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have an unhealthy love of printed cotton.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today all anyone seems to want is linen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My new line of fabrics is mostly linen,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>because why spend two years designing fabric if no one will want to buy it?????</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jeesh,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">kids these days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is not what I wanted to be talking about.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">where was I?????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, yeah,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, I love printed cotton, and I wanted to cover the walls and ceiling with a pretty print.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The problem was that I usually used prints that were of bouquets of red and pink blooms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But that wouldn't have gone with the orange color of the wooden beams and moldings in the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I worked my way through several fabric lines before I found this pretty pattern in Brunschwig & Fils.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The flowers were orange and yellow, just what I wanted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I couldn't believe my luck!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>orange cabbage roses!!!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(the reason there is a grey line running through the picture, is because I spliced together two pages from the magazine.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we laid out how the fabric would be placed on the ceiling, since it was running between the thick beams, we didn't worry about matching repeats, but centered the pattern in each individual space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then we use generic gimp to cover the staples.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I usually like a double welt to cover staples, but that would have been a tremendous amount of fabric and labor. This was only a temporary installation, and yous gots to choose your battles when doing a showhouse room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My friend Gary McBournie found the set of painted furniture at a country auction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He can't pass up a bargain, so bought these pieces figuring I would flip my lid for them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I LOVED THEM!!!!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The foot boards were painted with really pretty floral arrangements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each bed had a different bouquet, which I think is sorta spiffy!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">do I wish that digital cameras were available back then, I would have taken a gazillion close ups of details and vignettes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and here's the dressing table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm going to write two posts on this room, so I will have more pictures of the furniture next time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why do one post if I can do two?????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I fell in love with a drapery treatment I saw in a magazine, and was just waiting for the right place to try it out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a radiator between the two windows, so I just ignored it, and draped the panels over it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since this was a summer show house, that wasn't a problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Be careful what you copy when using a showhouse room for inspiration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We designers can fudge an awful lot when working with just a little money and not a lot of time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I worked with Joe at Drape It on how to drape the swags of the valences. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They couldn't be too full, or the casualness of the look would be ruined.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Believe it or not, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OK Kampers,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that's it for today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm still in Florida and it's humid as hell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I need to get some exercise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You need to go outside yourself and go for a walk, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">just like ME!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On that note,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later, Gator</span></div>
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Betsy Speerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06228282974759764845noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-780745603109193534.post-80486242991013541782015-12-16T10:12:00.000-05:002015-12-16T10:12:02.288-05:00My New Slipcovers!!!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>have you missed me?????</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, first excuse.....I am trying to finish my #$% fabric line for a spring launch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(I am now working on the last pattern.....<span style="font-size: x-small;">lets keep our fingers crossed......</span>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">my other excuse is </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>I've been sick.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BUT I'M BETTER!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, now I can write this blog!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For those of you who have been reading this pathetic attempt at prose for the past couple of years, you may remember me waxing poetic about the wall paper in my kitchen and family room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a Lee Jofa print named: Althea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is one of the most beautiful traditional floral prints in the whole wide universe!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">soooooo.......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">one day I was sitting on my rump on my sofa in my family room trying to decide what I should do to redo the room as it was getting a little faded and pathetic and sad.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had tried to drink the Kool aid, and gotten a chair from Pottery Barn in a white slip cover.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is my TV chair, (</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and where I eat my dinner.....</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) so it gets a lot of use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The seat cushion didn't hold up, and stopped supporting my flat old ass after a while.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The slip cover was </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-large;">really, really, really</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> hard to get back on, so I didn't wash it that much and it started looking a little stained.......</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">not the best look.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Besides, </span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-large;">really, really, really</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> sick of white slip covers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SO OVER THEM.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stick a fork in this look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's very, very, very <b>not</b> cozy in New England in the winter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soooooooo.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was time to change the chair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I bought one from O Henry House, which is available to the trade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, I am in the trade!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have a designer, you can buy O'Henry House from Studio 534 in the Boston Design Center.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I chose a chair that is the same as the pair I have in Florida.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I bought both a new chair and a new sofa, as my old couch was 29 years old. It was well made, but had loose back cushions, and with my aging back, I needed more support.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I bought a tight back O' Henry House sofa too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had them upholstered in a simple soft green ticking stripe that would look OK when the slip covers were off being cleaned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">in my special washing machine, that is my normal washing machine, that is the only washing machine I have, so that makes it special.....</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then the question was what to make the slip cover out of.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Krissa Rossbund, my buddy who is the decorating editor at Traditional Home Magazine, told me that she is tired of the look of everything in the room being in the same print.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I fought the idea of slipcovering the furniture in the same pattern as the wallpaper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I fought it and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I fought it and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and I lost the fight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soooooo.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One day as I was deliberating about </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">what to do....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">what to do....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I realized that the decision might have been made for me, as the fabric may have been discontinued,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i> since I had been struggling with this dilemma for over 10 years.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, I called Lee Jofa to check, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AND IT HAD BEEN DISCONTINUED in the cotton.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was still available in the linen, but I didn't want the linen,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I WANTED COTTON SLIP COVERS #$%%!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>however!!!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there were 64 yards left.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There would be no more after that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NO MORE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NO MORE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, I bought all 64 yards, in a panic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was too freaked out to find out how much I would actually need.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Besides, what if I needed more in the future?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THERE WOULD BE NO MORE TO GET!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had the two chairs, ottoman and sofa all slip covered in the Althea fabric, with pretty soft gathered skirts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then I took pictures to share with the class.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isn't it pretty against the wallpaper???????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided against a contrast welt, which I almost always use, but in this case I just felt that I didn't want to outline the shapes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is a shot of my chair in it's old slipcover that was used in my previous home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It went fine with the room, and I loved the bobble fringe at the top of the skirt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But it was very faded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are the new slipcovers with the soft gathered skirts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't like a full gathered skirt, I feel its too much fabric.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also changed the rug to a simple wool stripe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had it made from a Stark Carpet broadloom that looked like a sisal, but has the warmth of wool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is the room with the old sofa and the old plaid rug.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's my kitchen countertop in the foreground, in case you can't figure out what the #$% you're looking at.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And here it is today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This look is so much my look that I can't believe it took me this long to do it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The up side is that the slipcovers are brand new!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is my new TV, eating dinner chair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is another one of my brilliant side by side comparison collages!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The slip covered look is OK, not as much pattern, probably lots of folks prefer that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But for me, the extra pattern feels more like my home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had trouble taking the shot below as the light was so bright in the morning, but I was too lazy to retake this in the afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This room needs a wide angle lens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was too lazy to use that too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aren't I a great blogger?????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On that note,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">since I'm now back down in Fleirda.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Later, Gator</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This post will finish up my wanderings down memory lane visiting the job I did for the Newhouses on Martha's Vineyard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Separating the main house from the guest house was a deck that was the same level as the floors in both houses so that Wynn Newhouse, who used a wheelchair, could easily enter and exit both residences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wrote about the deck last week, and decorated it in a way that would relate to the guesthouse, as its double French doors opened onto the private outside seating area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I repeated the wicker details from the deck inside in the living room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since I decorated this house for a story for Country Garden Magazine, I used lots of flower patterns and prints throughout the downstairs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a good deal for the Newhouses, as whatever I used that they liked, they could get at my cost.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did bring some of my own accessories over to the island for the shoot, as there is never enough </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to fill up shelves and table tops when doing a shoot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you can see in these pictures, I didn't lack for LOTS of stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decorated everything using catalogs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was before the days of shopping online.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Boy, it would have been so easy now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ballard Design was my go to for the botanical prints.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They didn't have quite enough individual prints, so I had to double up on some.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since it was for a story, and not a client, I figured no one would notice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Imagine my surprise when I saw that they are still hanging on the walls 25 years later! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was in the days before I designed fabric and actually had time on my hands to needlepoint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I designed and made the round pillow with the no weeds message.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wish I had made the red slash line thicker.......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh Well.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The upholstered furniture was from Hickory Chair,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The green coffee table from Maine Cottage Furniture,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The white wicker chair with the magazine holder.......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>I don't remember.....</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this was a looooong time ago, and I'm an old fart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The black metal table to the right of the sofa was an antique bar cart with small wheels </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I convinced June, my office manager and besty, to buy when we were out trolling the junky stores. It ended up being perfect for her family room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Well</i>, I made her let me use it for the shoot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">Notice that besty and Betsy are very similar in spelling????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">That's probably why I'm so wonderful!!!!!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This house had been the garage for the main house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Les Brown, the architect <strike>I've been saddled with for most of my adult life</strike> that I work with, designed it to be a one bedroom with living room, wet bar and loft.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted the walls to be planks of wood, and had to spend some time with the carpenters to show them what I meant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THEY WANTED THE BOARDS TO BE TIGHT TOGETHER!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They didn't understand the beauty of cracks!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, we had to choose a nail that was the width of the cracks I wanted, that they could use as a spacer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had learned my lesson on a little house I redid in New Hampshire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The carpenter was very proud of how he could make the would ceiling look like it was a solid piece of wood, that ended up resembling plywood, in my less than humble opinion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He kept on assuring me that over time the cracks would appear......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WELL.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I WANTED TO SEE THEM RIGHT AWAY!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What's the point of using boards if they end up looking like plywood?????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that's my take on <i style="font-weight: bold;">that</i>!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I added a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">flirty skirt to the small tufted chair and another needle point pillow, designed and sewn by MOI!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It says "sit down right here" the words are in the corners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So it could say "sit right down here" .........</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Being the </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-large;">great</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> blogger that I is,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just ran and got the pillow and took a shot using my iPad, 'cuz I be too lazy to get out my camera.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's in the closet right by my desk,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">where I'm sitting right now,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but I'd have to take off the lens cap.......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">anyway, here's the pillow in all its glory, laying on my desk, as I type!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made the pillow out of left over yarn I had, which is why it's a little of this and a little of that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The white wicker table in the back corner was an antique that we found in a local store, we borrowed some things from local merchants for the shoot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It may be from Maine Cottage Furniture......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OY, OY, OY, who can remember?????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went a little trim crazy on the pillows. I loved the multicolored yarn</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fringe on the pink ones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still think this cabbage rose fabric is beautiful. It's so fresh in its coloring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the time of this story, which was in the late 90's, I had just started seeing multiple fabrics used on one piece of upholstery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Well!!!!!!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>smitten!!!!!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;">So,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used a gazillion on the sofa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The floral is on the tops and bottoms of the cushions, as well as the inside body of the sofa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The inside arms are a large plaid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The outside arms and the boxing on the cushions are a smaller plaid. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then, of course, there's the two more fabrics plus trims on the toss pillows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then there's the small all over pattern of the small button chair and a couple more patterns on the little footstool and the larger striped ottoman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like to use a lot of pattern.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">has anyone noticed?????????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Across from the sofa was the potting bench.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Catherine Newhouse was adamant that she wanted a potting bench.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>WANTED A POTTING BENCH!!!!!</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>SO SHE GOT A POTTING BENCH!!!</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I designed it to hold a farmer's sink with a faucet that looked sorta like a pump handle, all in keeping with the theme of the POTTING BENCH!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the accessories on THE POTTING BENCH I brought from my home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted it to look like there were tons of vases and pots, ready to handle any cut flowers or plants needing some care.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I brought my zinc plant labels that I still use today in my vegetable garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used another basket to hold the trowels and rakes for gardening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Below are three shots from today that I found on <a href="http://www.vignettedesign.net/2015/09/our-marthas-vineyard-home-away-from-home.html">Vignette Design</a> Blog by Delores Arabian.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It now can be rented for a few weeks in the summer, and she stayed there!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The present owners kept the floral prints on the wall and moved the living room table from the main house into this little guest house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wonder if they noticed that some of the botanical prints repeat?????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's being used as a bar in the guest house, which is a wonderful use for my little creation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I noticed that they changed the knobs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Boy, I went to a lot of trouble to find those particular wooden knobs.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LOL</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">that's the first time I ever used LOL.....LOL</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The wooden countertop has held up well over the years!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AND THE CRACKS IN THE BOARDS LOOK <span style="font-size: x-large;">STELLAR</span>!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The outdoor deck is still pretty with the climbing roses flowering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Non of the furniture I used for the photo shoot was kept.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that's if for Martha's Vineyard,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">next week it's on to something else my tiny mind will unearth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So on that note,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Latah, Gatah</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Newhouse's vacation home had a garage on the street separated from the house by an unsightly patio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The space in between the two buildings was an unappealing barren area </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that could be used for grilling or hanging out in privacy,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> sort of.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">since there was a scraggly hedge between </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this "terrace" and the house next door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Well, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Les Brown the <strike>pain in the ass</strike> architect I've worked with for eons and eons and eons, etc, etc. etc.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">came up with a solution that would have been </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>brilliant</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> if I was the one to think of it!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since this was a barrier free design because our client used a wheel chair,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Les designed a deck that was the same height as the entrances to both buildings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thus, creating just a small difference in surface between the floor of the deck</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and the floors of both houses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In New England this is usually a no no,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> as the snow, and thus the water, can pile up in front of the exterior doors,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> so you have to be vigilante in snow removal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But if you're rich enough to have a waterfront home on the vineyard.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I guess you're rich enough to have the snow cleared from your deck if you want to get out the door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But as this was mainly a summer retreat, that probably wasn't a problem.....</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have to hand it to Les for the way he was able to make this area one of the nicest's aspects of the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The white board fence with the lattice along the top was placed on the property line,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> up against a scraggly privet hedge,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> leaving </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">just a couple of feet between the deck and the fence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> But since this was a deck and not a terrace, it was possible to plant rose bushes along the fence as the roots had plenty of good dirt under the deck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Tons of perennials</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> were used to fill in the rest of the beds, creating a lush and colorful border.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Annuals were placed among them in pots that didn't show as the deck was higher than the ground and hid the pot. If they became scraggly and unsightly, they were just swapped out for newer fresher flowers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a great trick for keeping a flower border looking full and pretty,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with no work for the lazy!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trellises were mounted at intervals along the fence to support the climbing roses that would eventually run along the top, forming a beautiful visual barrier between this secret outdoor space and the neighbors larger, taller home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A square cutout in the deck allowed </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the planting of a pretty Japanese</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> maple to supply some shade in the hotter months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Japanese maples are good choices for small spaces as they grow slowly and don't get too large (at least compared to a real American maple.....)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Country Garden Magazine</b> had me produce a story for them incorporating the Newhouses deck and guesthouse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, these pictures are from that photo shoot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As an incentive to the Newhouses....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">anything that I chose that they liked, they could get at my cost, so it was a win-win for everyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The magazine got it's story.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got publicity.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the Newhouses got a good deal!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I designed the spaces from the serenity of my office,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ordered everything from catalogs and had it shipped to the island, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">where June, my trusty office manager-assistant-best friend and I unpacked the crates and boxes and set up for the photo shoot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The chaises I chose for the deck were from Lloyd Flanders, but I believe they are no longer made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They looked GREAT!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but the pull out foot rests weren't that comfortable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But since this was for a shoot.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IT DIDN'T MATTER IF IT FELT GOOD AS LONG AS IT LOOKED GOOD!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fabrics chosen were all for outdoor use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since this was Soooooooooo long ago, I don't know it any of them are still available.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I set up a small dining area for the Newhouses to have an al fresco nook where they could enjoy a morning cup of Joe,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For designing this spread, I had the best time pouring over catalogs, since this was a retail story and everything was to be easily purchased by the readers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I fell in love with these silly toss pillows that have the saying</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My dad used to sing that song to me when I was little.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today I'll finish up with the main house that I did for Wynn and Catherine Newhouse on Martha's Vineyard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next week we'll go look at the guest house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you've been following this story, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">you may remember that this house had barrier free design,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> what some may call universal design,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> due to the fact that Wynn used a wheel chair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So when it came to designing the master bedroom, I had to take that into account when choosing a bed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> It had to be the right height so that he could transfer onto and off of the bed into his wheel chair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We found a beautiful one that was waxed pine from Spain, but the standard mattress height would have been way too far off the ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wynn and I spent some time figuring out what he liked best.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The advantage of designing for a specific disabled person, is that you can tailor the furniture and fixtures to him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The furniture factory was willing to accommodate my custom dimensions, but of course it took longer to get the bed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was in the days that waxed pine was all the rage and everything that had been painted was stripped and waxed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How funny that now we are stripping off all the wax and slapping on new paint.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to work on Catherine to get her to approve the wallpaper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She was worried it would be too busy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought it would make a pretty soft cocoon, counteracting the cathedral ceiling, which can sometimes make a room feel less than cozy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This house may have been the first time I ever used sheers as the primary draperies on a window.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remember, this was a gazillion years ago, and up until then I had only seen them as a secondary treatment to leave closed over the window all the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since then, I have used them </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">EVERYWHERE!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The painting over the bed was one that the Newhouses chose in a local gallery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's so annoying when the clients have minds of their own.......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would have reframed it in a more traditional frame.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the master bath, I designed a sink that allowed Wynn to roll under the counter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I drew funky looking brackets that a local woodworker made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We found an antique Victorian curved top mirror that fit the space, and I had it painted white.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The towel bars had to be all at a low height, so Wynn could reach them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The shower was a roll in stall where he could transfer onto the seat inside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I continued the master bedroom wallpaper into the bathroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is something I always try to do to unite a master suite, even though <b>this</b> bathroom wasn't attached to the master bedroom, but off the hallway as this was an old house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I stole some more pictures from <a href="http://www.vignettedesign.net/search?updated-max=2015-10-16T06:30:00-07:00&max-results=7">Vignette Design</a> , a wonderful blog that wrote about the way this house house looks today with new owners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It sometimes is for rent, and Delores from Vignette Design stayed there with no idea that I was the original designer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Boy, what a small world!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is a picture of the bathroom in it's current life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The mirror was kept, but the scones changed and they were able to add a long vanity that looks like it's from Restoration Hardware.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Upon closer inspection by </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-large;">moi</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I see that the floors been changed to what looks like 12 inch carrara marble tiles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I use small tiles in a bathroom due to the danger of slipping on a wet floor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The advantage of a small tile is that the grout lines will interrupt your slide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They used a trick that I have employed in bathrooms when the vanity extends under a window so there is no way to have a mirror over the second sink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A shaving mirror on a swing arm is a fun way to fix that problem. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Les Brown, the architect that I <strike>forced to work</strike> included in this project, worked with the landscape architect and the builder to devise the brick paths that were actually ramps for Wynn to access the house with no steps or thresholds to deal with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wynn used a super light wheel chair, and none of us could ever keep up with him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I chose white outdoor wicker chairs with a little table for the porch overlooking the harbor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wynn and Catherine loved to see the activity in the water as both of them were avid boaters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They still have the same chairs and table but have refreshed everything with new cushions and pillows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Delores's shots of the house now, it's fun to see what is still being used that was purchased so long ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They kept the boat figurehead that we had hung in the front hall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here is how it looks today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The seat cushion has remained with the figurehead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sconces have changed as well as the window treatments to a more contemporary split bamboo roman shade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is my work in the dining room. The walls were painted a simple blue as a backdrop for the toile plates we collected. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is how it looks today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has a more current look with a seagrass rug ad bamboo Chippendale chairs that have a more mid-century vibe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They did keep the dining table and added it's leaf.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I love the blue and white wallpaper that looks so crisp next to the white woodwork.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead of my patterned curtains, they have a simple white with a contrasting blue tape on the edge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tole sconces have been swapped for polished nickel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wonder if they kept the white oak server???????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this picture there's no way to tell......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So that's if for this part of the tour.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">next week...(or the week after.....) we will look at what I did to the little house behind this one that used to be a garage.</span></div>
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Betsy Speerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06228282974759764845noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-780745603109193534.post-53774830972590744142015-11-01T12:00:00.000-05:002015-11-01T15:41:09.638-05:00A Martha's Vineyard Kitchen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I started to design the kitchen for Wynn and Catherine Newhouse, I needed to consider the challenges of barrier free design since Wynn used a wheel chair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One important aspect of this project was to create a home that Wynn could use without it looking institutional.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I tried to incorporate the tweaks needed in a way that looked like they </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">were just fun design elements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since this was Wynn and Catherine's vacation home, I wanted the feeling of the cabinetry to be whimsical and countrified.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I came up with the slogan.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As Wynn's MS continued to attack his body, we needed laughter and joy to fill this home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One important aspect of the function of the kitchen was his ability to use the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He loved his toaster oven and made a BIG point of having a special easy access area for its residence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We found a simple country table that I set under the windows for just this purpose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the magazine shot, we moved it for editorial reasons, but the function of that little table was for the TOASTER OVEN.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wynn was able to roll up to it and make his bagels with a schmear of cream cheese.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the current owner's incarnation of this room, they've added another cabinet between the two windows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got the picture of the current owner's rendition of the space from <a href="http://www.vignettedesign.net/2015_09_01_archive.html">Vignette Design</a>'s blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>(BTW, if you don't follow that blog, she is doing an amazing renovation of her new home in California. Her landscape design is stellar!!!!!)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They've copied the legs of my cabinetry, but if you look closely, you can see that instead of creating a crown molding like the wall cabinets, they incorporated the window molding to wrap around the top of the cabinet, using my little half circle embellishment that I applied throughout the home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a closeup of the detail on the windows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Boy!!!!I wish they had digital cameras back when I designed this home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I could have really shown the details up close and personal for you guys!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the stove I designed a tile backsplash of a steam boat. Wynn collected oil paintings of steam boats and we hung them all around the house, including one in the kitchen between the pair of windows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>When I say.....I designed the backsplash.....</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>I mean I found the tiles and convinced Catherine to use them for the backsplash.....</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To the left of the stove was the largest cabinet in the kitchen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted it to look like a freestanding hutch, so I added little brackets with a shelf for the splash of the piece, as well as making it all beadboard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>This was eons before everyone started doing this.....just sayin'.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Traditional Home article was published in July of 1997, and I had been working on the house for 2 years, and it took a year for the magazine to print after the pictures.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I did this design in <span style="font-size: x-large;">1994</span>!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jesh, that's over 20 years ago.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Someone stick a fork in me.....I think I'm done.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used carrara marble for the countertops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't tell you the number of times I've had the stone guys I've bought from over the years tell me not to do this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do it all the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Right now.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>as we speak....</i></b>.(</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">or read...</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">).....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have some in my <b>very own kitchen</b> just waiting for me to stain it<span style="font-size: x-large;">!!!!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've had it for 11 years and it hasn't happened yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's got lots of rings you can see in the surface when the light hits it a certain way, but that's because I haven't resealed it in all the years I've had it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the toekick, I measured how much room Wynn needed for his feet to fit under the cabinet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The toekick ended up being 8 inches high.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To keep it from looking like a contemporary detail, I designed the big fat stubby legs to fit on either side of the piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The current owners painted the kitchen a deep chocolate brown that contrasts nicely </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with all the white cabinetry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had painted it a buttery yellow for a cheerful light and airy feel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the sink, I needed to design a way that Wynn could roll up to use it without it looking like a nursing home, so I designed a pair of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the sink we stored the blue and white china we found to go with the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the shot below, you can get th</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">e overall feeling of the room with it's cathedral wooden </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ceiling and beamed structure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since I don't like a vacuum.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I filled the wall with <b>stuff</b>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was the oil painting of a steamship I had mentioned earlier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also hung a clock, because that's what you need in a kitchen.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AND OF COURSE.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to have plates on the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Catherine had collected these ship plates, so I felt they would just be great to continue the nautical theme.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cause if one of something is good.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>TONS IS BETTER!!!!!</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had seen a picture in a magazine of a wonderful circle pattern in a tin ceiling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I couldn't find it, so I set my trust architect, Les Brown, to hunt it down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't know how he did it, but he found it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love it for a couple of reasons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It continues the circle them I used throughout the project in the architectural details.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and it had a nautical feel to it that I <i style="font-weight: bold;">just loved</i>!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> </i>I still remember the late afternoon when Les and I were working on the design of this kitchen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He used to come over to my home/office/sweatshop and work with me at the drafting board.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He never brought his own pencil, so we were always fighting over who got to draw.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He chose these big brackets, and I remember it so clearly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had no idea that they were so large, not looking at the dimensions in the catalog he had brought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They just looked really plain and boring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then he drew them in and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>wow!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>bam!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>shazoom!!!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I learned an architectural lesson that I still use to this day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The scale of the brackets just blew me away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sooooo.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on that note.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I need to get back to my fabric design.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just need to create one more pattern, and we can launch in the spring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were going to launch last spring.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then we moved it to the fall, now we are </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">aiming more realistically for this spring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've gotten some of the patterns samples back from the printer and I am so excited I could</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">just</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> PLOTZ</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are not going to be cheap, guys.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and only available through designers.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I'm sorry if some of you were expecting to get them through this website.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But when they launch, I will be showing them to you all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There will be a three yard minimum,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">just right for adding some toss pillows to the room for a punch of <i style="font-weight: bold;">ME</i>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Continuing my story on the design of Wynn and Catherine Newhouse's Vineyard home.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opposite the entry window seat were the stairs to the second floor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Less (the architect I worked with for several thousand years) wanted a half wall to separate the dining room from the entry rather than a full wall with a doorway which was what the house originally had. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This allowed more light to flow into both spaces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We needed the added posts to do something boring like hold up the upper floor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He wanted just a couple of posts set between the two rooms, but it there is a way to gussy something up, I will whip out my trusty drafting board and pencil and go to town working on an architectural detail to make the home builder's life more difficult.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you've been following along with the story about this house, you may remember that I used a circle motif throughout the whole design.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the staircase railing I incorporated circles into the balustrade detail. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's impossible to see in these pictures from the scanned images I used from Traditional Home Magazine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">see how I cleverly inserted the credit for the pictures???????</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but the vertical and cross pieces, as well as the circles had two small lines routed into them for a more Victorian look to go with the architecture of the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I spent some time drawing the newel post, as I wanted to have the feel of a captain's home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also use routed grooves in the ball at the top as well as on the lower part of the post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the half wall, I boxed out the supporting posts with wood boards, adding a simple detail around 9 inches down from the crown molding I added at the top.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These two </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">applied</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> moldings created the look of a capitol for the column</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the bottom, I added another simple crown molding flipped upside down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had the columns rest on the half wall that I paneled to work with the same paneling detail I designed in the dining room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the upper hall, we decided..... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(I can't remember if it was Les or me that came up with the sky detail for the ceiling.....)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to paint a sky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The builder had some artists he suggested, and we checked out their portfolios.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If I remember correctly.....(it's been a billion years since I designed this house), I ended up bringing my own painter over from the mainland because I wanted a realistic looking sky, not some cartoon rendition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">AND NO #$% ANGELS PEEKING FROM THE CORNERS!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Catherine and Wynn Newhouse, the owners of this home, were avid art collectors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They <i style="font-weight: bold;">loved</i> combing the local galleries looking for paintings for their new residence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They chose this piece that looks like an actual window painted in a tromp l'oeil effect, it even has an actual wooden piece at the bottom to give the impression of a window sill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We hung it in the upper hall that was windowless to create the feeling of a window to the outside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(I don't think it fooled </span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">no one</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Less was able to add a small dormer into the roof line that shed natural light down the stairwell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In one of the most genius filled moments of out trillions of years together, he worked magic on the inside and made it have the effect of a cupola by framing the interior space to look different from the actual roof line, creating a four sided extension above the natural ceiling line of the upper hall. So, instead of the dormer having a slanted ceiling, he flattened it out to fake the look of a flat roof. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was still slanted on the outside, it had just been frame to have the false ceiling on the inside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THEN!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He faked the eye out even more by setting fake windows on the three other walls that didn't look outside, just adding mirrors to them instead of glass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was why it was so important to have the ceiling painted like sky, the mirrors reflected the ceiling, really creating the effect of a four sided cupola.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still have a couple or so more rooms to review in this house, but that's for next week.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enjoy the rest of your Sunday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">HELLO!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let's continue the tour of the Martha's Vineyard home that I decorated 2000 years ago for the Newhouses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've looked at the living room and the entry hall, so today is time for the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>dining room</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To be different and cutting edge,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used a dining table, chairs, chandelier and server.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>I am so awesome in my pioneering spirit.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OK,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">back to reality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please don't ask me where I got anything in this room, much less the whole house, if I don't give the resource, it's because I DON'T REMEMBER.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BUT, I think the table and chairs came from Milling Road, a line under Baker Furniture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rug may have been from Stark Carpet.....</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">maybe.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The chandelier and sconces were from a wonderful company that completely has</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>escaped my mind.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The server was an antique English oak that just screamed for a coat of paint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was probably quarter sawn, but I needed something that would work with the room and a big old piece of oak wasn't doing it for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was in the days that folks <b>didn't</b> paint anything that stood still for 5 minutes, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so I had to do some convincing of my clients.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The guy that painted it thought I was nuts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had it painted the color of the room's wooden molding so that it would relate to the space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The back of the piece had a mirror, which I had't seen before on an antique like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It helped make the room feel more open.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you've been following this story, I hope you can remember that I was using a circle motif throughout the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I fell in love with these chairs, they seemed to have a nautical vibe and I loved the circle back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the table centerpiece, we used a wire lighthouse that Catherine Newhouse had found on one of her poking around trips on the island.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since these images are from Tradition Home Magazine and not my trusty camera, I had to blow up the pictures when I had to show you guys some details.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>So bare with me.....</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since the living room, entry and dining room all flowed together, I used fabrics that all worked in the blue color scheme.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The dining room draperies were whimsical with a print of plates and blossoms on a blue background.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We repeated this theme by placing plates all around the room leaning on the top of the wainscoting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fabric picked up all the colors of the living room floral.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like to mix geometrics with other prints, and for this house chose checks and plaids.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The dining room chairs got a little plaid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The living room got a bigger one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The window seat cushion got a plaid that seemed to be the reverse of the living room one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I mixed the different patterns together in the pillows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is one of my <span style="font-size: x-large;">brilliant</span> collages that I assembled by using PicMonkey!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It shows all the fabrics together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the rug, I had one custom colored with a blue background that matched the fabrics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The design looked like a compass star which furthered the nautical motif I was trying to achieve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you've followed my work over the years,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">you know I can find one idea and then use it until someone waves a weapon or two in front of my face and tells me to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The wainscoting detail that I drew up had a cap board on it's top that was routed with a groove for plate display.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We collected antique blue and white transfer iron ware to be displayed on the wainscoting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wish I could remember the name of the company that made the lighting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had them create the chandelier.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">double sconces between the windows in the dining room. I had to have them make them narrow enough to fit in that space.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Single sconces over the fireplace in the living room.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and single sconces in the entry area over the window seat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OK Kampers,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that's it for now,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have to get back to designing my fabrics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought I would launch my line this fall, but now it looks like this will happen in the spring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who knew it took so long????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe if I knew what I was doing, it would go a little faster.......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On that note,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Latah, Gatah</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>OK Klass,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">let's continue with the tour of Wynn and Catherine Newhouse's Vineyard vacation retreat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If one was to actually enter the house by the front door, this would be the entry hall that you would see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Houses facing the water very often had the front entry facing the water too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I guess that would work if you were to visit by boat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">HOWEVER.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">since most folks travel by car, the kitchen is really the point of entry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">or should I say, "port of entry"?????</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The "tower" sits at the front of the house. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Seeeee?????</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's on the right side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's kinda <b>squatty</b>, but it creates nice areas inside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The window seat by the front door is tucked into this space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a wonderful place to sit, pull your feet up and watch the boats in the harbor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I designed the details of the window seat to repeat the circle motif I used throughout the home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remember the living room fireplace mantel?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since heat was needed, this being New England, we set the toe kick heater under the built-in, and a fan blew the warm air out into the space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since I love mixing patterns, we piled tons of different pillows on top of the window cushion, and I threw an antique blue and white quilt across the back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was able to crop the window detail so I could show you what I did in the living room as well as the window seat area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found cabinet ring pulls that were meant to screw into a door or drawer, and used them by screwing them into the ceiling and tying tab curtains to the rings </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Boy, I wish this was in the days of digital cameras so that I could have taken a close up of the window and door header detail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead I cropped this as best I could.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found a wonderful molding that was a series of half circles. I had it applied under the scotia detail at the top of the header.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This repeated the circle motif I was using.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For light in this area, we mounted simple tole blue and white sconces that were custom colored to work in this house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One day when Wynn, Catherine and I were shopping on the island, we came across this nautical figurehead in an art gallery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wynn and Catherine just had to have him.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(I think he's kinda tacky.....) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We mounted him in the entry so that he could watch over the home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's it for today, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the sun has finally come out so I can go outside and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GET SOME EXERCISE!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On that note,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Latah, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gatah</span></div>
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