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Display Name: Megan @ Rose City Abode
Personal URL: http://rosecityabode.blogspot.com
Member Since: 6/3/10

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Different! I would have done something with the knobs too, opaque glass in the corresponding colors that they're currently painted. Otherwise it's pretty nifty!


Style Shift: Transforming a Painted Dresser Mama With a Dash of DIY Drama
2/22/12 12:02 PM

I love the old radio cabinets, so much potential! This is really well done, congrats!


Before & After: Vintage Radio Cabinet Becomes the Star of the Party
Pondered Primed Perfected
12/16/11 10:06 PM

I also echo the love, especially that staircase.


Chris & Erin's Farmhouse Add-On
House Tour
12/16/11 12:27 PM

I am so dying for the little art deco night stand and I'd love to have the display case above, too.


Live Like a Golden Girl: Estate of Rue McClanahan Auction
12/14/11 10:44 PM

I'm really sad to see that there are 42 cell phone pictures used for a whole house tour. Next time find an art student with a DSLR if you don't want to pay someone, ANYONE will take you up for a chance to be published on AT to add to their list of places they've been published on their portfolio. The right photographer could have made everyone see why YOU are proud of YOUR HOME. I'm holding back a lot of comments because I don't want to come across as mean, but how are your bookcases going to hold up after years of supporting the weight of those books? Even if you're on a budget, with a little patience and willingness to get your hands dirty, you can score used real wood bookcases for the same price (or less!) as brand new cheap crap bookcases. I'm not above pulling a real-wood bookcase out of someone's garbage pile but I will NEVER shell out any money whatsoever for particle board, which is just sawdust and glue. I wouldn't even take a particle board bookcase for free. Ever.

Come on, take these comments to heart and knock us all dead with your NEXT house tour! <3


Lindsey & Stephen's Book-Filled Apartment
House Tour
12/14/11 12:26 PM

Have you tried taking the remaining shade down, looking it over for something that would ID it, and then look on ebay for it? I think you would be able to find a suitable, if not exact replacement.


Cheap Shade Idea to Replace the One Boyfriend Broke?
Good Questions
10/10/11 6:12 PM

Those stripes made me want to scream the second I saw them, and not in a good way. How dreadful!


Before & After: Taking a Room from Meh to Oh Yeah!
Imperfectly Polished
7/4/11 2:35 PM

-like everyone else said, ditch the awful scallopy thingy. Put your red walls elsewhere in the house if you must have them (bedroom!). Then:

-Paint the kitchen walls some kind of pastel to deal with the white countertops and white appliances. sea foam green, blue, lavender...pink...(hey that's close to red).

-If the display cabinet isn't antique and you're not partial to it, I'd sell it. Or at the very least, move it to another room. There are other ways to display plates you rarely use (hang them in a pattern on the wall! Also brightens things up.)

-If your cabinets are wicked organized, remove the doors entirely from the top cabinets and have open shelving. It's hard but I've seen people make that work. If you're not so organized you could have a patterned privacy glass door type deal. You could do a patterned light contact paper against the back of the cabinets.

-get different kitchen accessories, canisters, etc. Go with clear glass or pastels. And ditch your kitchen table. Get something that matches the cabinets with white legs. And matching chairs, with white backs.

-and then you can do your backsplash to match the canisters, the walls, the furniture, the appliances, and tie in the color on the cabinets.


Suggestions On How To Update My Kitchen?
Good Questions
2/9/11 8:27 AM

my husband and I just looked at an apartment that has MAUVE wall-to-wall carpeting. And I'm terrified at the thought of trying to deal with that...or I was...until I saw this. I would probably buy it if I had to...as a starting point for decorating the rest of it. GORGEOUS!!!!


Win This Gypsy Chandelier from High Fashion Home!
Holiday Giveaway 2010
12/2/10 10:17 PM