DinaBrown's Profile

Hi House Voyeur. What I like about using Martha Stewart paints is that her paint chips are very large. I will tape several chips to a wall and look at them for several days, to see how they look at different times of day. Usually one will start to emerge as the best choice. The dining room was a deep avocado green before the Anvil, and the Beet colored wall in the bedroom was lavender before that, and a blue prior to that. I get bored after a few years with any color, and for a gallon of paint & a few hours work, it makes me feel like I've remade a room. Even though I didn't get a quart to test, you always can! Best, Dina

Hi Thorndale, the piece I have next to the stove is a very inexpensive poster, and I had it framed inexpensively as well (in plexiglass). Having a framed print next to a stove is not as potentially damaging as having one in a bathroom that gets really steamy. Mine has been fine, but I'm not a heavy duty cook, either. Let's put it this way, inexpensive posters and prints next to a stove are ok...anything of real value is best left out of the kitchen. :)

Hi all, The buddha overlooking the hide comment is really funny! I had a flokati in there at first, but Sunny mistook it for grass, so it had to go. I felt weird about bringing in the hide, but it was very reasonable, and very flat, so that's what I went with.
I haven't found a coffee table I really like, so that small table usually sits beside the sofa, or in front of it when I am using it.
The Nelson lamp is from Modernica.
Thanks for all the kind words :)