tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58699249472532205982024-03-19T00:33:06.430-07:00Splendid Simple HomeKaren Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12549541459604459973noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869924947253220598.post-80328554389989156292014-09-24T10:25:00.001-07:002014-09-24T10:25:23.287-07:00BOOKS!! and MORE BOOKS??<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today the Picasa file needed tidying, and there were some old pictures of our book collection... some from a former house and some from here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love the "in transition" pictures of the shelves being built... by Darling Hubby. Shelves are IKEA cheap, reinforced, added to and finessed with moulding.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">OLD LIBRARY SPACE</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We created another room by making double shelves attached to ceiling and walls</td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />The <b>new library </b>(below) needs culling.There are way too many (CAN there be too many??) books; many are double shelved and I can't find things.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">That shouldn't happen; even in disarray, we need to be able to find our reads! </span></div>
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Karen Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12549541459604459973noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869924947253220598.post-5248444647006825732014-09-04T13:41:00.000-07:002014-09-04T13:51:37.034-07:00First Post: The grand experiment!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hey there! This blog is dedicated to all people who love their environments, rented or owned, enough to make them better, are addicted to color and design and who don't have buckets of $$moolah$$ to to satisfy that "decorating jones" they long to nourish. For years I have been doing houses. I have decorated to one degree or another, every house I have ever lived in. When I was a kid, I was a fool for housing my books and that is still one of my most prominent traits. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And houses, there have been a few! And every one needed something. As years passed, the "house of my dreams" changed a hundred times! Thank God I never had a prayer answered for "my perfect house!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I really have no idea how to put a blog together, so this will be a work-in-progress, a learning experiment, and I hope things I like to explore will interest you too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Just now, I'm living in a rented house which happens to be an historic home in an ante-bellum southern town. My landlord had stripped the woodwork in the bedroom we use as the master, and does not want it painted. Respecting his wishes, I had to arrive at a happy way to think of the room without having all of the beautiful wide mouldings painted shiny white, which I love in every room. Shiny, glossy white reflects light so beautifully and makes </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a room look cheerful and happy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I lived with the natural wood for a while trying to decide how to think of the room, since I could not make it look the way I wanted it to. It is an east facing room, so the morning sun is always there to brighten the room on a sunny day. The more I woke in the room, I began to think of it as my "French farmhouse bedroom." A French farmhouse would not necessarily have all white mouldings, would it? Most definitely not. I added some things to the mantel where the sun makes beautiful shadows in the morning. </span><br />
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