Posted on 08/22/2013 4:22:19 AM PDT by secret garden
huh, they look the same to me, I would go with the cheaper one. LOL
yes, that’s what i thought too.
the shape of the fixture is slightly different and there is more color in the glass on the first one, the second is just a cream color. Only $20 diff between them.
That is nice looking too, but I like the color for a family kitchen.
It looks pinkish on my monitor. Maybe it’s the lighting. I want to do a warm gold in my DR and a light tan or ecru in my family room because we have the burgundy leather couches in there. Paint is cheaper than new flooring. ;)
well it says on there, orange family. just hoping it’s not SU orange when its up!
even paint makes me nervous though. i don’t know how people do those dark statement colors, like a burgundy or a dark green.
Amen, amen, amen. A+ for you!
I hosted Mom’s 100th birthday celebration with my surviving cousins yesterday. I haven’t seen some of them for 10 years. They all live in various parts of CA, and all came from families with intact marriages. Their kids, however, don’t even want to get married. However, that does not stop them from having babies. Now, these relationships are 4 and 5 years old. How do you live with someone for 5 years, have a baby, and never discuss marriage?
I’m the oldest. Therefore my kids are older than theirs, and they are all in intact, long marriages. But, is this what I’m going to face when my grandchildren are of marriageable age? No marriages?
We gave my mom a book yesterday that is 100 years of front pages of the Washington post dated on her birthday. There is room for us to intersperse pictures from her life between the newspaper front pages. (She is a retired journalism/ English teacher.)
My cousins were all having fun readin g the headlines which sound like they could have been written today. 75 years ago, for instance, the Middle East was furious about British and US intervention. The more things change the more they remain the same...
What an absolutely perfect gift! Did she love it?
Thank you! Very pretty, and you provided me with a mental picture of some walls in my future nest-a lightly knocked-down monterrey texture with a peachy-white base coat, with the color you are using and the next darker one sponged and smudged to look like old adobe...
The work on the garage, yard and workshop is pretty much done-we finished all but the hauling away of trash yesterday-that requires my compadre’s big trailer, and he only had the closed shop trailer with him yesterday-but we put all the items for donation, and the larger tools we both use in it.
We counted enough metal framing material to do a good bit of the next house, and enough of the heavy pine flooring planks left over from the upstairs floors to do a couple of good sized rooms in the future nest, plus a full box of heavy wiring, etc.
I don’t do that really heavy lifting and toting much anymore, so my back and shoulders are not at their best, but I’m getting happier by the day...
It looked peachy/pinkish to me, too-that is what inspired my adobe wall imagineering-I think it is just a perfect color family for that.
I’ve never liked those dark, intense colors, for a statement or otherwise. I’ll do them for a customer, or course, but I grit my teeth with every pass of the roller or brush...
that sounds wonderful! i wish you lived closeby to do stuff for me!!
what a great idea!
I wish I did, too-I like what I do so much more when it is creative and pleasing to the senses.
I’m planning to use the lighting fixture I’m using here over the kitchen table again in my nest-an 18 in square copper shade embossed and punched with star patterns. A friend of MrT5’s has a shop in a little tourist trap about 40 miles away where he makes all kinds of copper lighting fixtures-I only have two, but I’m planning on getting more when I build again.
Ooo, copper is very expensive.
It isn’t half bad here-I traded some short pieces of copper tubing left over from construction of hot water lines in the house to him when we bought the two light fixtures, and I still have some left to use for trade to him for a discount on some stuff this next time around. I already called, and he said he’d be happy to make a deal again, because that is what everyone in that craft center does now to make ends meet-the snowbirds are stranded in in the great white north by the Obama economy...
Lol, the Green we used upstairs, turned out to be Jets green when it was actually onthe wall, with white white trim.
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