Stella's Social Club

[Happy Chooks]

Nothing like remodeling to test a marriage, LOL

Or building a house from the ground up. Then add that I was pregnant at the time and we were living with the in-laws. Everytime DH mentions that we should get bigger land and build another house, I cringe. We moved into our house with 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom and the kitchen countertops done. Everything else was still subfloor.

 

[debs_flock]

Yup, huge improvement. So, are you happy with your choices, Deb? My DH said just yesterday, "I love walking into this kitchen."

Yes I love it. It's the first time I ever had the kitchen I wanted. I married a widower and I married a cutesy, country blue wallpaper, white geese with ribbons, nylon hose stuffed dolls, decorated brooms kitchen that hadn't been changed since the house was built 35 years earlier. I'm more of a plain wood mission style person.

I guess the biggest problem is the garden window is so deep, to clean I have to climb a step ladder and then put one knee on the counter top in order to reach all the way to the glass. Good thing I don't clean it that well that often, LOL In the kitchen before, I must have had 30 houseplants there, so I was constantly cleaning up. Now I keep all my plants in the garden window of the window seat in the spare bedroom. When something blooms (orchids, violets & cactus) I move it out to the kitchen window and move it back when it's finished. It's kind of like Disneyland, I cycle my plants! I LOVE my huge expanse counter, we built it about six inches deeper than a normal counter top. It is my huge blank canvas for bread baking, candy making, cookies, etc. My rule is nothing on that counter top. I love just looking at it wide open. It's so big, literally I could lie across it. We just put some dead space behind the cabinet, put a bigger skin on the end and bought more granite to go on top.

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Yikes Kelly, I can't even imagine it pregnant and living with in-laws. At least here we'd just hide out behind the plastic sheeting put up by the contractor. He was around so long with his workers, we all got quite friendly (even went out with the contractor and his wife a couple of times). After the kitchen, we did several more "fixes" around the house in the hall bath, master bedroom, utility room, built a pantry in the hall to hold small appliances and supplies, replaced the front deck (being held together by dry rot) and added a deck off the back of the house. I have no money anymore, but the house is just about the way I want it. I still need to finish painting the rest of the interior, the outside needs to be stained and the carpets need replacing.

 

[The Sheriff]

i posted this in the NorCal thread, but thought there might be interest here too: video of my lone isbar hatchling, from earlier this afternoon:

guest-starring Daisy Jr, a cross-bred chick from my own flock (australorp x SFH) who hatched late last night, and my cat pearly -- and notice the other 11 isbar eggs sitting there sullenly, refusing to pip or hatch... will give them a few more days in the incubator, just in case.

Cool video Rinda. I hope the others hatch and your luck with Isbars gets better. It's like my CL curse!

 

[lawatt]

Cool video Rinda. I hope the others hatch and your luck with Isbars gets better. It's like my CL curse!

thanks! i was lucky in that i got home from campus at *exactly* the right time to see the whole hatching, the pip had just been a tiny hole for 26 hours prior to that.

but the remaining isbar eggs are showing zero signs of having developed -- they were shipped from San Diego, and took 3 days instead of 2 (despite the sender having paid for two-day delivery) -- and then had a disastrous start in the malfunctioning incubator (thankfully it was replaced fairly quickly). still, i'd like to try again with more local eggs some time!

 

[speckledhen]

Quote: Omg, we must have even bought from the same person, lol. I removed so much ugly wallpaper border, some with those country geese, with blue ribbons around their necks and the baseboards in the greatroom and the chair rail, that went all around the entire great room, were all painted country blue. I hate blue in my decor, especially that shade of blue. Mine was built in the 1993-1994. The owner had died six months earlier and he had married some woman he met over the internet six months prior to his death, his third wife, I believe.

 

[chiqita]

My house was all in shades of pink before we moved in ( they painted, but the pink is there under the paint, and its visible in a lot of places) there were 2 levels of pink linolium under the white in 1/2 the house. All the roses outside are shades of pink.

The CARPET from 1970 was blue however... that is the next project after the counters in the kitchen.

 

[uglychickens]

Omg, we must have even bought from the same person, lol. I removed so much ugly wallpaper border, some with those country geese, with blue ribbons around their necks and the baseboards in the greatroom and the chair rail, that went all around the entire great room, were all painted country blue. I hate blue in my decor, especially that shade of blue. Mine was built in the 1993-1994. The owner had died six months earlier and he had married some woman he met over the internet six months prior to his death, his third wife, I believe.

Sounds like my mothers kitchen growing up... But have I got a horror story for you! How bought blue countertops blue tile backsplash and blue STRIPPED WALLPAPER!!! Ahhhhhh this is in the bathrooms as well I'm crying inside!

 

[speckledhen]

I had a red kitchen in Utah. DH bought it without me seeing it (that's okay, I bought our house in GA without him after he retired from the Air Force, but at least it had a hot tub and he loved it). I mean everything was red- red (not burgundy, RED) in that kitchen-countertops, backsplash, red strawberries on the wallpaper, then country blue carpets throughout most of the house. It was tastefully done, I guess, for the time period, but let's just say that red is my least favorite color, generally. I prefer earth tones, restful, peaceful earth tones.

 

[The Sheriff]

Sorry Laura, that quote was pre-coffee.

 

[The Sheriff]

Y'all haven't lived till you have "these"