Xandra's Profile

If the roof is good quality - leave it !!!

Take this green color as a base for the a color scheme:
paint your shutters - with same green and use some supplement color: dark green, (or juicy yellow, orange, ... will depend how the other houses around are ...)

Garage doors are huge surface - yuu will need them to match this color scheme - light green, supplement color ....

... if you want really to splurge your money - think about driveway - to use color-matching tiles instead of "boring" black.

Also - if you will go for "greener" look - there are pieces of tiles on the market, which will allow the grass to grow thru.
And they are not so "industrial looking" like a plain concrete or asphalt.

Xandra

Happy Memorial Day to you and all of us -
and thanks for keeping us informed and reminding us about history, which was in fact not just a "history", but personal decision of an individual.

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AND CONGRATULATION to your 6th Anniversary, Apartment Therapy !!!

Thank you for all your great work, time and effort.

I was not with you from the beginning - but now you are one of my favorites places to visit almost every day - I love your happy, optimistic and cheerfull pages.

Working from home sometimes leaves you feeling "lonely" - and your place is a great beginning of my "computer" day.

Xandra

Xandra here again
- (continue on the theme of "FRAMES" from May-11)

How about "silver" frames to match that perfect sized refrigerator ... (I wish to have something so marvelous in MY kitchen ...) - !!! do not even think to replace it !!!!

... and INSTANTLY you will have very sleek, modern, space-age ultra cool look - put pictures or photos inside your "frames" ... some red-orange color of kitchen tiles will "bind" it opticaly together with the floor.

Xandra

Hey, Alexandra ...

LOVE the SPACE !!!

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.... "and like YOUR NAME ... since I have the same !!!"

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Alexandra
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P.S. - Sent me a note .... become my "Pen-Pal" .... not too many of us are there to be "blessed" with such a regal name ....

I was called "Sasha" all my young years - did not like it al all - ... how happy I'm now to become: "Xandra", "Sandra", "Andra", "Al", "Ale" or "Alex" ...

See you ...

It is not a exactly "vintage" looking fan,
but looking good & working well, price reasonable, too ($120-$140).

We had smaller size over 2 years and no problem with it.

Name is "Vornado" and here is the link (to one of them):
http://www.vornadocentral.com/product/043765004180.html

Xandra

LOVE the FIREPLACE !!!!

It gives a soul to whole area.

Think a little "out of box" .... and work your design AROUND it ....

Look at the answers - lots of people were impressed and liked it, too.

Try to live a while in it .... after the rooms will be filled with a furniture - it will look different to you, too.

To DESTROY unusual thing - any barbarian can do ...

... DO NOT BE one !!!

Xandra

Some years ago - I've kept my Xmas Tree till Mid-May
... color of - grayish-green, all needles still attached.

My Secret ?

It was standing in one of these "feed-me" stands,
and was getting a diet of: liquid plant feed and aspirin.

Looked great, BUT - was so petrified - almost like converted to metal ...
... I had hard time to fit it to a hug bag, had to chop it with a bolt-cutter to smaller pieces and at middle of night I dragged it to the garbage bin....

Outside was beginning of a summer ... and I was still sorry for my beatifull Xmas tree ... next year I got one of these artificial ones .... and never was sorry again.

Xandra

Sarah:
here is one "V-CH-S" (Very-CHeap-Solution):

1. Put a Long Vertical Profile Wood (in the color of your cabinets) - or narrow Shelf - ABOVE your Counter ...

2. Either you have a LAMINATOR (or go to some COPY SHOP - and let them to LAMINATE) - some colorfull Photos / Prints / Posters or Part of Posters / Fabric ....

3. Size 11"x8.5" for a Regular page - or 11"x17" for Double page ...

4. ... mount your Laminated pages on Top UNDER your she shelf - Vertically between individual pages with a little overlaps on the sides ...

5. ... HEIGHT of your NEW shelf / Profile could be 11" (Vertical) or 17" high above the Counter.

Advantage - if you do not like it - you can replace them with no problem .... doing this for years ...

Xandra

Ashley,

here are my thoughts:

a. Garage door make-up:
White Framed Picture - (above the garage door) - Width of the garage door & Height - to match the height of the Entrance door Frame

b. DO NOT PAINT this lovely woodwork of Railing,
but MATCH several Accessories around with Wood of the same shade (Picture Frames, Shelves etc..)

c. Large Wall behind Staircase - Scenery Panoramatic Wallpaper (something in orange-yellowish tones) like Autum Leaves or Forrest - FRAMED on all sides by WIDE Wood FRAME of same shade as your Railing.

d. Better and more interesting Central Lighting

e. in the Center of Staircase - hang from the Ceiling - SOMETHING Long, Shimmering, (colors: white, silver, yellowish as the wood) - perhaps also incorporating strings of Xmas lights (with white wiring, not green).

Hope for starters it would help...
Alexandra

Like the second post by: "HeSaid" from Dec.15 -
RED color on the walls will tie all together.

But - what I would suggest:
- WALLPAPER - in RED - abstract theme
... to match the color and pattern of the carpet.

Then RED cushions on the sofas
and some Lighter Red color - and similar pattern
over Windows - as the SECOND layer over your whitish curtains. (Leave them the originals on - layering looks good...)

Red is a great color for smaller spaces, it makes them warm and welcomed.

Do NOT do: BLUE - it is cold and hard to coordinate for LIVING rooms - (but: great for Bathrooms...)

As for new furniture - if the OLD one works, do NOT throw it out... if the color is not to your liking, put some fabric/slipcovers over it - this way, you could have "new" furniture" feeling at will, any time .... and you could match even any real new purchase....

Xandra