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Light fixture is definitely DIY. The porcelain bases are a buck fifty, scrap wood is plentiful, the hardest part to source would be the wire "shades"

I'd DIY a version. You can get round tapered legs like this easily at most big box hardware stores. Find a credenza you like, get a top cut down to size and add the legs. Stain and poly....It would look great!

Many years ago, my father drove charter busses for Continental Trailways, based in Denver. One winter, he was the driver for a charter to Estes Park and he and my mother got to stay at the Stanley Hotel. At the time, it wasn't open to the public and my parents were the only guest in the hotel. They spent this cold winter evening with the caretaker as he told them ghost stories all evening. My mother swore she didn't sleep a wink but never saw any evidence of ghosts...<G> It's still one of my favorite hotels in the world.

Amazing lamps. Totally blown away by just the lamps.

Um, in that first picture, is that chair and lamp just sitting on a ledge without any railings? I know Americans tend to by hyperactive when it comes to safety, but that just looks freaky. Of course, it could just be a trick of the pic.

Yeah, we bought a dump of a house. You name it, the house needed it. After years with a maintenance-free 50s rancher, and years of HGTV, we were convinced we could tackle this project. Closed our eyes and jumped. It will be two years in July and I'm amazed at what I've learned. I know a lot of my limits. Electrical and plumbing are best left to the experts. Painting and demo I can do.

You can see what we've done on my blog:

http://domusaurearichmond.blogspot.com/

I love Moroccan. Every few years I throw a huge Moroccan dinner party. Turn my living room into a giant tent, pillows everywhere around a hammered brass low table. Six or seven courses, flowing wine, and if I'm feeling extravagant, hire a belly dancer.

My favorite dish to make is b'stilla (pastilla). I boil chicken breasts in a grated onion, cinnamon, sugar mix until the chicken is cooked through and I have a sweet spice slurry. Grind the chicken. Grind up some hard boiled eggs and toasted almond. Wrap it all up in phyllo dough and bake. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and decorate with more cinnamon. When it is served, it's blisteringly hot, but folks dive into it anyway. So delicious. I really need to start making it in smaller quantities for regular meals.

I love most of this house. Some of the lighting fixtures just need to go (the dining room and porch come to mind immediately). And that door, while cute, looks awful on a craftsman. Sorry. Mixing those two periods jars my sensibilities.

Furnishings, colors, and other details I love. Nice place. And I adore the light fixture in the hall.

I have a glazed terra cotta one that i've never used despite making lots of Morroccan food. I've never cured it and I'm a bit worried about doing it. I think I'll try it this summer though.

I got rid of the microwave over a decade ago. I traded in the coffee maker for a french press about 4 years ago. I still have the hand mixer, Kitchen Aid, AND immersion blender, but the hand mixer MIGHT go but I do use it occassionally. You will have to pry my rice pot from my cold dead hands, but I'm Asian, so that's a given. We've added a juicer and I really like it. The coffee grinder got repurposed into a spice grinder. I still have the two waffel irons and I like them both for different reasons. Blender is dying, but I'll keep it until it goes totally kaput. Food processor gets used damn near every time I cook, so that stays. I still have too many THINGS.