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just because the tree is native, doesn't mean it's going to be healthier. a few comments up, leah h said that the american elms and ashes have been devastated by imported pests. right now there are millions of dollars being spent to keep sudden oak death from decimating our forests and lumber industry. want a walnut tree? watch out for thousand cankers disease. it's not enough to just get a dogwood, but you need to get a dogwood that is resistant to the anthracnose that's devastating the native species: get a kousa dogwood instead. i agonized over this very decision last year, and we finally settled on a hawthorne "Winter King". A few months after fawning and fussing over our beloved symbol of putting down roots in our new house.... we found out that it has hawthorne rust. inevitably it will have to be removed. FYI Winter King is supposed to have better resistance to rust than the species!

what i mean is this: it's so hard to find a "good" tree. I spoke to an arborist and he pretty much said stick to crepe myrtles and japanese maples (in my zone 7b).

@ arcaneincleveland:
SERIOUSLY? I have a room in my house painted almost the exact color and it is not at all depressing. Dark walls make anything presented in front of them luminous. The colors pop off of the objects and thrill your eyes! Why does a baby's room need to be "soothing", necessarily? Can't it be exciting and enriching? A baby will sleep in whatever color painted room one chooses, once you turn the lights off. Your comment was neither constructive, nor does it add to the conversation.

Leah, I love it!

Adorable, yes. Torturous, even more so. I am 38 weeks pregnant and would totally find this cruel.... Why not a pretend bottle of wine, while you're at it? (I'm just joking, it's a sweet gift.)

@ ck8g0:
Thanks for pointing out the black above the upper cabinets; I hadn't noticed it. I agree that it really does make the ceiling look higher. What a great idea! Good job, Dan!

But I don't understand why you didn't fill in the holes from the old drawer pulls? Do you plan on getting new ones? I feel like this kitchen is still in progress and would like to see the "real" after when it's all done.

I think this project looks pretty nice in the pictures and I do like that green with the cabinets. But doesn't it LOOK like contact paper when you're actually in the room? I'm just saying that I like it from a distance but up close I don't know if I'd feel the same. When we bought our house, the old people who lived there before us had found some "delft tile" contact paper and put it up as a backsplash: totally turned me off from the stuff. Anyway, very creative for $28!

forget my kid's birthday. i want this theme for MY birthday! how cute is that cake?!!! we just introduced our son to BB and i'm pretty sure i love them more than he does. we have pretty much the entire library's inventory at our house right now.

Penelope, anyone?

Oh come on guys, people creative enough to think of this for little girls will be able to make something work for tween and teen girls too. You could change out the scallops and pickets and make it bohemian or modern or whatever. I looked at the linkback and it was the girls' aunt who did the mural, so surely she will be around when they want an upgrade. It's not my style, but I'm not a five-year-old girl. I'm sure the inhabitants of this room love it!

Oh I was on martha's site just a few days ago looking for ways to dress up my paper lantern. This is exactly what I didn't know I wanted! thank you! i'll try to do it this weekend while i'm holed up in my house trying to stay cool. Thank God for Martha's minions!

LOL elankat! I'm glad I don't own it because I would never be able to look at it the same!

I wonder if it's possible to take the feet off and make it look less like a robot? unless you're into that kind of robot furniture thing...