I would go with a bar area/breakfast or coffee nook. A small cafe table would fit there and a turned around bookcase or an actual cabinet for liquor or storage provided it was tall not long. It w...

I buy 10 packs of wine glasses from Kmart and no one can tell the difference, especially when we use nice china. If you are going to do something, I say try to replace the glass on replacements.co...

I don't like having company for a very long time but we do tend to host lots of guests. We just came off a streak of literally four weekends in a row. I am so glad it's over! Any more than 3/4 da...

This will probably scare people who don't like out of town guests. We have a double bed in our guest room that most people get to use b/c it's comfy and separate with a dresser and night stand and...

After May, it's too hot to sleep outdoors in southern Louisiana. It's like 105 outside right now and it won't cool down until well after 10pm and by cool down I mean go down to the 80s. Other tha...

Why don't you do both and use a colored stain. I love the look of a green or blue stained piece of furniture indoors. You could even do different shades mixed to customize it to your green room. ...

Less is more. Two full size pillows on each side of our queen size bed works great. Our room is too small to be having extra pillows all over the room at night.

I also had this problem and then the paint peeled again so I had to start from scratch. I would recommend talking with painters and really making sure you use the right type of primer. I also rec...

PS love the house

I think you have an easier solution for curtaining those windows that you realize. I live in a post world war II house that also has picture molding and I have been thinking about making curtains ...