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Pinterest can be super helpful with this. Spend a day browsing some home blogs or websites, pinning everything for different rooms you and your husband like. Then take a look at the whole picture and see what trends you are noticing.

I would advise against decorating the whole house at once, honestly. It looks too fabricated. Pick which room you guys want to start in, what you absolutely need to live. I like to start with the bedroom because then you get a nice retreat from the chaos when you're working on everything else. Also, paint decisions are somteimes the easiest to make and you can experiment a bit here, but I find buying actual paint samples and painting them on the walls to be way more helpful than swatches. If you don't like the results, just paint over!

Also, I find it easiest to design a room around a loved piece of artwork or furniture so I have some sort of main inspiration piece in terms of color and feel.

This is not my style at all and yet I find it overwhelmingly gorgeous. Well done!

I had this photo pinned of a similar situation, the walls outside were stucco and not fencing but they had a beautiful succulent green wall type art installation hanging. It was lovely. The fountain and pond thing sounds pretty cool too, especially if you live in an area without water restrictions.

My friend introduced me to this word, and it is so true. The amount of times I have gotten in fights with my husband on road trips because I said I could eat at some point soon and then three hours later he still HAS NOT STOPPED FOR FOOD AND OH MY GOD OBVIOUSLY I DON'T WANT PIZZA HUT AND FINE I WON'T EVEN EAT AT ALL THEN. Good times. :)

I make this with Red Onion and a dressing of red wine vinaigrette. It is DELICIOUS.

The previous owners left us a hose in the backyard, which we found when we took possession and we appreciated. A few hours after our taking possession of the house, I walked into the back yard and at some point in time they had stealthily snuck out there and took it. I was boggled that they would do that, without even knocking and saying they'd forgotten it. Isn't that technically trespassing?

Love this tour! Also, please invite me to dinner.

@mayoo I had the same problem with my romas and after some research it seems the culprit is bottom rot, which Romas are particularly susceptible. It's usually from a calcium deficiency but research says it's more because of inconsistent watering making the plants unable to take up calcium (so it doesn't seem to help much to add a calcium supplement or ground up eggshells, although some people think this works). I simply removed all the affected crop and tossed out, then made sure to water regularly. The later crops seem to be doing well enough now, if you catch it in time it doesn't seem to affect the plant for the entire growing season.

My tomatoes are slowly maturing, the romas are starting to give me a few ripe smaller ones, oddly enough only the plant that is stunted and leaves turning a weird dry brownish on the edges are producing ripe fruit while the big healthy plant has an abundance of green tomatoes that haven't ripened (yet!).

My sungold tomatoes are giving me a solid handful a day, and in a few weeks I will be inundated given the state of the unripe fruit on the plant. My burbank tomatoes for slicing are producing a few medium size fruits but nothing has ripened yet. Being patient is hard, this is my first time growing out in the west and it seems things happen a bit later here than most places, maybe due to the heat and dryness?

nice bikes.

One of my favorite pictures from my last trip to Italy was of a line of like 8 tourists posed with arms up in front of the Tower in Pisa. It never fails to make me giggle.