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Subject: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: katlaughing Date: 19 Nov 02 - 09:50 AM Sinsull has been asking for opinions about parquet floors in her new home thread. The replies have been informative and interesting. Others have given great advice on bookshelves in my old home library thread. I know we can find ideas and answers elsewhere online, but I'd like to hear more from 'catters on this subject. Rog and I glean a lot from BBC America's Changing Rooms and other programs which are on the Home & Garden channel, but I'd love to hear how Mudcatters go about fixing up their homes, from painting to upholstery to placement of pictures and furniture; I think it would be fun to hear about! So, my solution to a dark kitchen, dominated by colonial blue cupboards: the tip tops of them had doors which were hinged at the top. The space was worthless and unneeded in its shut-off capacity. Rog took the doors off for me. The white wall at the back of them helped to open up the room, brought in some light, AND the shelves look very nice, now, with my larger breakables and tins: teapots, vases, carafes, trays, etc. displayed. Best of all the cats can't get up there.:-) This was a simple, free way to do something immediate. Later on we plan to strip the cupboards and put in more lighting. Question: what trick might you know for making a room look larger? I saw one program which used over-sized paintings and furniture to do so, but I'd like to hear ideas about paint colours etc., too. Thanks and let's have fun, okay? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Peter T. Date: 19 Nov 02 - 09:54 AM Er, undersized furniture would probably work better than oversized, IMHO. A Tiepolo ceiling is a good idea, too. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: GUEST,stringman Date: 19 Nov 02 - 10:06 AM how about Undersized furniture,& white walls,with long strips.:) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Bobert Date: 19 Nov 02 - 10:11 AM Well. Kat, believe it or not, I'z purdy good with this stuff and folks who have been to my shack in the woods seem to agree so here are some tips for making a room appear to be larger: 1. Now I know this is real 60's'ish but mirrored walls work wonders. 2. If the room is to be painted, us as light a hue as you cna be comforable with. 3. Paint the trim with the same color as the walls. This is very important. 4. Draw a birdseye floor plan to scale and then cut out dark paper to scale for the furniture and spend time pushing around the furniture on the drawing as opposed to using Roger, poor dear's,... back. 5. Bookcases with doors, such as legal stacking bookcases are cleaner and don't create as much visual clutter. 6. Choose your art work carefully and display it so that noncovered wall space enters into the general compostion. 7. I am generally opposed to cutting holes in perfectly good roofs but.... argghhh!!!... skylights. 8. If you have to have doors, find a local salvage yard and but used French style glass door which usually have 3 panes across 5 panes down and be sure to paint them the same color as the trim and walls. 9. Used lace curtains or light cutains that blend with the colors in the room. Avoid cpontrasting colors! 10. Send airline ticket to the Bobert, have a few cold beers in the fridge, and he'll bring his design services right to your home. Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Grab Date: 19 Nov 02 - 12:11 PM 11. No patterned wallpaper and dado rails. Plain painted keeps it looking light. 12. No comb ("fan") pattern textured ceilings. And no mouldings either. 13. As little furniture in the room as you can get away with, particularly large furniture like floor-to-ceiling shelves or four-seater sofas. Graham. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 19 Nov 02 - 12:11 PM I showed this to my wife, Bobert, and before we read the postings, the first word that popped out of her mouth(which I said, simultaneously) was mirrors. we have one wall of our living room with tall mirrors with an arched top, which are echoed in the curved archway we put in the doorway. To add interest to the wall, I just built a two shelf bookcase that is just 26" high and 8 feet long. It helps to frame the bottom of the mirrors, and the trim that I put on the bookcase is fluted, reflecting the two fluted columns that we put in the arched doorway. The trim on the doors, and the new bookcase are the same color as the walls, and the curtains that Ruth made are suspended below shelving that runs around two walls, a foot below the ceiling. The curtains are very close in color to the walls. Visually, it's good to have places for the eye to rest. I dunno, Bobert... us fellas jest gotta have fun... come on up and see our place sometime. I'm putting the beer in the 'frigerator right now. Jerbert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: katlaughing Date: 19 Nov 02 - 12:40 PM I love that, so far, it is guys who've given me some ideas! Ya'll are wonderfull! Bobert, the beer is always cold! A little more info...the room is about 10X10, painted white. I call it the Zen room and we chose it as our bedroom because we needed the larger one for the office/library/cat/storage room! It has a black and gold, very attractive, classy looking ceiling fan and a near black mini-blind on the one window. The trim around the window is a very light grey which does blend well with the walls. We need to put doors on the closet as it is open right now. I like the idea of French doors, but may not have room to open them. I'd love to do pocket doors, but there is not enough wall, plus it would take a lot. I have been toying with putting Rice paper shades across or panels. We have our bed which is a queen-sized futon raised about 2.5-3' off the floor (makes a good dog cave) on the longest wall, the only one without a window or door; two highboys; one bedside table; and a small altar table in there and that is it. The bed was lots lower this summer, but it didn't make any difference in how the room looked. I want to paint Roger's highboy or get rid of it. He piles everything on it instead of putting it away and it is old, junky looking wood, not worth refinishing. The one I have has to be left alone as it is a family heirloom from VA. I really like the contrast of the white walls with the ceiling fan and blind and that's what struck me right away in calling it the Zen room. It looks contemplative. There is no molding, no wainscotting or anything like that. The celing is plain white also. Mirrors would be okay, except that fung shui says not to have one facing your bed and I do not like a lot of light in my sleeping area.:-)(Not that I buy into fung shui in a big way. I go by what feels right.) The thing that got me to thinking large scale was one of Changing Room's episodes. Somehow, they made a very small room look really great with a HUGE oil painting over the bed, probably 3'X4' at least, as well as a dominant four-poster, etc. The decorator said the large pieces drew the eye away from the dimensions of the room, so that it appeared bigger. I wasn't thinking of anything except maybe creating a large piece of artwork to put above the bed (which doesn't have a headboard or footboard, btw.) Anyhow, you've given me a lot to think about. Thanks!! kat |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: GUEST,Julie B Date: 19 Nov 02 - 01:32 PM This thread is very timely for me because I have just tried my hand at stencilling for the first time and got a very good result. A couple of well placed, single-colour leaf pattern stencils have made a very plain utility room much more attractive. Unfortunately, flushed with success, I then tried some more ambitious stencilling (two colours) in the downstairs loo/washroom. This was less successful and I shall have to paint over it and start again! I guess I should have practiced on some paper before I dived in, but I was having so much fun. Anyway, simple single colour stencils seem fairly foolproof - just be very sparing with the paint. Julie B |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Mudlark Date: 19 Nov 02 - 01:49 PM I don't know about the feng shui aspects, but in our small bedroom in Arkansas, we put in high, "thin" windows, ala clerestory, well above the head of the bed, then mirrored the opposite wall This was actually done to shield the wall from the wood stove, but had the huge plus of letting us, via reflection, look out of the high windows above the bed. The room was very private, yet we could watch the squirrels playing in the trees behind us. We lived there for 13 years and really loved this room, with no bad vibes so far as I could tell. Sometimes something over doorjamb works well, either arched molding or arched stenciling, to carry the eye up, making the ceiling more a part of the room...border stenciling might tend to enclose too much. I love watching Changing Rooms, think it a vast cut above similiar US programs, but tho the changeovers are dramatic and fun, I think for full time living, I prefer white walls, ceiling, with color added by things I can change, like paintings, throws, bed covers, etc. If anybody came in and painted my walls red I'd have a fit! I like the image of your contemplative "zen" room, a great idea for the refuge a bedroom should be. Keep it simple. Problem with "decorating" is that the urge to not stop in time can be overpowering. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: C-flat Date: 19 Nov 02 - 01:49 PM I've been working on my house for a couple years, one room at a time. It's an old property with lots of character and, despite the mess, it's been very rewarding. In one of the living rooms I wanted to create a panelled effect, like a study, around the bottom third of the walls. I found that by using backing paper and stick-on panels, spaced evenly and topped off with a dado rail, then painted in a strong colour, the finished effect(though I say so myself)is superb and a lot cheaper than the real thing. I've also added a bathroom to one of the bedrooms and because space is at a premium, the bathroom has just enough room for a shower, toilet and hand basin. By fixing the tiles in a diamond pattern it makes the space appear much bigger and, as already mentioned, a couple of well-placed mirrors, ideally with a high spotlight trained on it, adds to the illusion. Next up, a new kitchen and a loft conversion! I'll have to start a second job. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Sorcha Date: 19 Nov 02 - 01:50 PM My problem was just the opposite. Huge, rectangular room,16'wide and almost 30'long. What I had when we moved in was your basic No Color from the late '50s. Pale pale green walls, pale pale green sheers, and that awful not quite two tone gold shag........We've almost got the front room done.. white walls, dark green carpet, maroon and navy accents, with just a touch of golden yellow from the Fiesta ware. Pics here, if you want to go look. Now, I have to start on the family room. Almost as big, with dark walnut panelling and a horrid dark burnt orange carpet. All it takes is money............. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Schantieman Date: 19 Nov 02 - 02:03 PM So what can I do in my tiny kitchen? 9 foot by 5 with a door at each end. Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Bert Date: 19 Nov 02 - 02:19 PM Hey kat, we just did a similar thing with Mom's kitchen. The space above the cabinets was boxed in, so we just removed the facing and opened it up. We put some plywood on top of the cabinets to give us a flat surface for displaying stuff (junk).I grooved some one by twos and nailed them flat at the back for Mama's plate collection. So she was able to throw away all those awful springs that she was using. And we wanted to wallpaper one wall that was textured. To do this you take a large sandpaper block and some very coarse sandpaper. Go over the wall and just take the tops off of the texturing. It doesn't take long, just go over it lightly. Then you take some sheetrock mud and a 15 inch blade and fill in the depressions (you may need to go over it twice depending on how much the mud shrinks). The blade will slide nicely over the flattened tops of the texture. We also wanted a grey over white pickled stain look. Do NOT, NEVER, EVER, use water base stain for this. Do NOT use orange paint stripper if you want to use a light finish. your wood will end up orange which will show through the finish. Ready Strip works very well but is a bit pricey. Drop by and take a look sometime. Bert. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: NicoleC Date: 19 Nov 02 - 03:24 PM Bright solid colors can really add space to a room, particularly if you use them to break up just one or two walls. Light floors add height, darker/colored flooring will bring the focus down. My local music shop just did this... I swear the ceiling looks 5 feet lower! (The instruments on the walls also pop out at you! Danger, Will Robinson!) But since this is your Zen bedroom, maybe you shouldn't be trying to make it look big. Maybe it should be your cozy sleeping nook instead? My bedroom isn't much bigger, and I have a massive antique Cal King 4-poster bed that has a huge wooden canopy frame, and it's a good foot wider and longer than the mattress. I finally gave up hope and decided it was my BED room, and went for the full-on bed drapes with plants poking out beside and behind the furniture. It worked out a lot better than trying to make the room look big while hugging the walls to get around the bed! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Nemesis Date: 19 Nov 02 - 05:22 PM My tip .. offer to make tea (lots of it) and let someone else do it .. sorry, but I've only just got an NHS physiotherapy appointment after nearly a year for the chronic (10 years now) thorassic and numb arms/hands problems brought on by too much decorating in the past .. :( |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 19 Nov 02 - 10:33 PM Hell, I'll refresh and move this dying thread back up to the top.
Another example of the LaughKat's current mind-set.... as mentioned in another now0-dead BS thread.
Sincerely, |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Bobert Date: 19 Nov 02 - 10:38 PM Steve: You ain't got a kitchen if it's 9 X 5, you have a galley. You need to llok at the fold out kitchens in a lot of the older rent control building in New York. Good luck, pal. You're gonna need it! Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: mg Date: 19 Nov 02 - 10:47 PM you have too much furniture it sounds like. I would junk the junk highboy and try to move everything else to another location. I would store clothing in the computer room if I could, and move the good highboy maybe to the living room...feng shui I have read says don't put the altar in the bedroom. if it was me I would just have the bed but I realize you probably have storage problems...maybe have one wall built in closet with shelves inside and overflow to another room. I wouldn't put stuff under the bad either.. Also black and white is not a tranquil combination for most people. Maybe a light straw color to go with the black and gold. mg |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Sorcha Date: 19 Nov 02 - 10:51 PM I'll no doubt be sorry I said this, but SHUT THE FUCK UP GARGOYLE, NOBODY GIVES A DAMN WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT MUCH OF ANYTHING Steve, if it is that small, think RV type storage......under benches, under bed, etc. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Bobert Date: 19 Nov 02 - 10:56 PM Nice thing about postin' early and gettin' out is that you miss the roudy folks. Whew, here we were talking decoratin' ideas and it turned into a gorilla war. Danged.... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 19 Nov 02 - 10:57 PM You know little laugher....
-----------------------------------I am going to make this my personal resolution for the coming New Year.
Using your beloved Google - or my superior DogPile.com
----------------I will direct you toward---------------- a better immediate resource for your non-musical .....total B.S. questions....(like libraries and gardens)--------------than fowling the alread foul (YOU know better) litter of the current box.
So----dearest Kat ....here is where it is at...http://www.marthastewart.com/
Have fun - I'm sure she is your style - if not your pocket-book (she is up-scale with K-Mart)
Sincerely, |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Sorcha Date: 19 Nov 02 - 11:09 PM (i am going to regret this one too....) Gargle, it was moi, not the kat that slammed you. Bring it on, baby, bring it on. Dog pile is dog poop, keep using it if you like. You really are such a total feckwit. kat tells me that you don't really exist, and I am beginning to think so to......you better check your stats. Check to see if you really exist, and what planet you are on. I have my doubts.......... (Sorry, loyal members, I have just had it with this ass***le. IT is nothing but a flaming troll.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Bert Date: 20 Nov 02 - 01:09 AM katmeluv, there is actually one hell of a lot of folk art in decorating and remodelling. It's just that some people aren't educated enough in art to appreciate it. I'm glad you started this thread, we can all (well almost all) learn a lot from it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Jeri Date: 20 Nov 02 - 08:25 AM Isn't it 'Changing Spaces'? I love that show! Now, I'm a fine one to talk. I thrive in clutter and tend to build nests of books, sheet music, instruments and accessories, craft stuff I never do anything with but might someday, so why put it away? I have closets, cupboards and trunks that I could put stuff in, but then I'd just have to get it out again when I needed it. Nevertheless, I have ideas about what I could be doing. I don't know that that much can be done to make a small room look bigger. Light colors on ceiling vs walls will make the ceiling look higher and vice versa. A lighter color on certain walls will make them look farther away. Smaller things in the room - furniture, art, patterns - can give the illusion of size because they contrast. I don't think larger things make the room look bigger, BUT I do think they make you quit thinking about the size of the room. They look like you chose them. People see small furniture in a small room and think "My, I'll bet you chose these boring little chairs because the room's so damned small!" They may see the larger furniture and think "Wow, that double chair looks really comfortable - may I sit in it?" They notice the pieces you've selected rather than the room size. Here's the zen part: I think people can try too hard to make a small room appear bigger. The room is small, and I think it's best to just try to work with the way it is. Make it more open - with reflective surfaces*, open cabinets (like kat did in the kitchen) arrangements of furniture and other things in the room, etc, but let go of the idea you can make the room look like something it's not. Don't fight with it. There are people out there with big honking spaces trying to find ways to make them warm and welcoming, and you've already got the structure to do that. *Saw on some show where they bought a window frame and replaced the glass with mirrors, hung it with curtains and everything. May work if you have a shortage of windows. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: GUEST,Fred Miller Date: 20 Nov 02 - 09:25 AM I work with interior designers all day and hate it. Hope to write a movie one day satirizing the particular world I've been watching. Best In Show made us think we might sell it. One thing I do at home is buy mis-mixed gallons of paint, and paint the walls in layers of color--not faux anything, but rather like the way you would paint a picture of a flat coloured wall--just a little more variation and depth. Theory is that moving light is restorative and energizing, color is light, so moving color may feel better. I don't know, but I like it. You have to use some fairly solid color here and there to set it off. I don't like to over-cover floors; that little bit of echo in a room does more to make it feel big than most visual devices can. It's a nice sound. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Schantieman Date: 20 Nov 02 - 09:47 AM People keep telling me it's a galley. Any galley I've ever cooked in goes round a corner and you can reach everything from one place. Mine's linear which means that half the space is wasted as somewhere to walk. Anyway, I s'pose I need cupboards right up to the ceiling and a fold down work surface somewhere? Any experience of these? Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: katlaughing Date: 20 Nov 02 - 10:25 AM LOL, Jeri! You're right about the small vs. bigger. I don't really care if I make it look bigger, it was just an interesting thing I questioned when the designer said it on that show. IUt worked the way they did it and for precisely teh reason you note: the eye is drawn to the furniture and no one thinks about the size of the room. BTW, I think Changing Spaces is the US version. I know on BBC America it is definitely "Rooms." They've been doing marathons of it lately! It's really bad when you see one of those shows and realise it's a re-run! Bertdarlin'...thanks and I'd love to drop by if I can ever get Rog across the Great Divide.:-) You know you're welcome anytime, too. Steve, my kitchen is like that. We've got cupboards along one wall and nothing but a great expanse between them and anything else, i.e. the refrigerator and stove. We've thought about putting in a center island and/or a breakfast bar at the open end which is next to the dining area. I look forward to seeing what others suggest. Fred, if it's anything like Best in Show, you've got a winner! At your convenience, would you please expound on that use of paint? Any particular colours that you like together or that are no-no's? I like the idea of using unexpected colour and like the theory which you mentioned. Also, I agree with you on floor space. Unfortunately this house came with wall to wall carpet. We will be pulling it up and putting down something else, but all in good time. We think the kitchen, dining area, and living room have hardwood which will be nice once it's refininshed. The rest looks as though it is just plywood. mary garvey, I've been thinking about trashing the junky dresser, too, but it is Rog's and I don't want to bulldoze him too much.:-) I don't feel closed in by the furniture, but would like the sapce to look "cleaner" in its lines, etc. The black and white are not as stark as I made them sound. I have a lot of colour in our bedspread which is a lot of shades of green with some reds, yellows, and oranges, plus I have some prints on the wall which have deep rich colours, particularly some Egyptian papyri whose colours echo the black and gold with bright blues, reds and greens. I never in a million years would have thought I'd have B&W in a bedroom or anywhere else, but this black is very subtle and not obtrusive. As for the altar, it has always been in our room, except one time and nothing felt right without it in there, so...feng shui or not...it's there for now. I did have it in the middle of the closet which looks like a nice alcove right now, but it didn't work well, plus we need to use that space for clothes, now that we are more unpacked. I had thought about getting the bedside table out, too, and just put a shelf or some other type of cabinet or something mounted on the wall beside the bed to hold the cd player, books, etc. Let's hear more of what you all have done with YOUR spaces! This is fun! BTW, gargoyle? My Rog says to tell you to go back to playing your air banjo! Thanks everyone! kat |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Bobert Date: 20 Nov 02 - 10:51 AM Steve, I wasn't kidding about the fold out kitchens you will find in lots of the older rent control apartment buildings in New York city. I'd bet if you did some searching you could find a few pics of some of them. They are really quite ingenious and with the space limitations you8 have might be give you some ideas. You didn't mention windows which can mess with any design, or enhance depending on the placement. Also, you didn't mention a dishwasher or refrigerator. Do you need a large refrig or would an under the counter one work fir ya? It would be easier to make suggestions if the room could be visualized and if we knew more about your needs. Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Schantieman Date: 20 Nov 02 - 11:01 AM OK Bobert- thanks Room is 9' x 5'. Door to hall and door to yard opposite each other. One long wall currently covered in units: ____________________________________________ draining Worktop cooker board sink window (1200 x 600) _____________________________________________ door door to to hall yard _____________________________________________ Washing macjine currently out in shed (working) Fridge-freezer in hall. AARRGGHH! Thanks for help! Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Schantieman Date: 20 Nov 02 - 11:02 AM Whoops. The worktop dimensions shunted the front edge of the worksurface along. But you get the idea? S |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Bobert Date: 20 Nov 02 - 11:45 AM Do you have a dining room where you can store dishes in a step-back cupboard or old pie safe? Or do you have to store all your dishes and flatware in the kitchen? Looks like the windown is at the end on the long wall where you have your cabinets and appliances. Right? Do you own the building? Can you close in the window? Is there a window in the door leading to the back yard? If so, then you have two sources of light right next to one another and if the wiodow could go, this would give you some enhanced designed possibilities. I take it that the mdoors are opposite each other leaving the same depth at both ends of the kitchen. Correct? My existing kitchen had some of your same problems and misn't to much larger except mine is 8 X 6 1/2 which does give me the benefit if a center isle. And how are you using the wall behind you? It there enough space for building 5 1/2 shelves from the floor up to about 6 ft with deeper shelves lengthwise above for larger cook ware? The lower shelves could serve well as your pantry freeing up cabinet space on the *built out* side. Just thoughts and questions. I've been messin' with spaces in house all my adult life and ain't half abd at this kind a stuff. Sorch: I grew up in an old house (1840's) that had a big room except ours was 35 X 14 and had the front door in the middle of the room withy windows on eiteher side and two windows at each end. Well, no matter how ya tried to set things up you had two distince sitting areas which just didn't work for the room. Then one day, my mom found a " baby grand piano shaped object" and put it in the middle of one end of the room and the piano fixed everything. Plus, I was quite young and had something to bang on as I was growing up. Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: katlaughing Date: 20 Nov 02 - 11:47 AM Boy, that would be a challenge! I thought ours was similar but it measures about 20 X 10. Bobert's got a good idea, if you can live with an under the counter frig that really helps to open up space. It also helps in keeping leftovers to a minimum and hones grocery shopping skills.:-) Good luck! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Bert Date: 20 Nov 02 - 12:51 PM One trick to make a room look bigger, that my Dad used to use many years ago, is a drop frieze. You have a white ceiling and continue the ceiling paint about a foot or more down the top of the walls. Then you run a wallpaper border around the color join. It's a bit old fashioned, but now that -retro- is an in word, perhaps you could get away with it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Bert Date: 22 Nov 02 - 12:16 AM And does that stainless steel sing need a new look. Use wet or dry rubbing down paper from your auto parts store. Use 400 grit first (or 250 if it's really bad) and finish up with 600. Use it wet with a little soap. You don't have to do it all at once. Just leave 1/4 of a sheet around and give it a quick once over every time you do the dishes. The sink will keep getting shinier. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: katlaughing Date: 22 Nov 02 - 12:18 AM We're going to have to get you a "Handy Andy" shirt, Bert! Thanks! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Interior Decorating - Share Your Tips? From: Schantieman Date: 22 Nov 02 - 03:56 AM Thanks Bobert Your suppositions are correct. I own the house (well, the bank does!) and will make some alterations. The window is right next to the sink which limits the possibilities - unless I move the sink..... There is a window in the door - but the door needs changing anyway. Small fridge is fine (most of the time); I will probably put some shelves or cupboards high up on the blank wall. Many thanks for your input. All I need now is some get up and go! Steve |