LeighM's Profile

This tour made me miss my Richmond row house very much, especially the shot of the backyard. But speaking of cool and comfortable in the summer? This is Virginia! I love the chandeliers, but I would die at night without a ceiling fan over my bed. That said, it is so beautiful, so tasteful. I want to go home and immediately remove at least ten things from each room!

I would like an answer to the question about hanging from picture molding as well. I saw a formula in a magazine once about how long to make the wire, string or filament, made a copy and then lost it in all of my clutter. Does anyone out there know? The molding is hung, but not many pictures because most of the walls are brick!

Here in the South, flowers were always a natuaral part of our home. When we visited friends and family especially my grandmother, we always took a walk around the yard and admired the blooms. My mother always had beautiful flowers in the yard and brought them in seasonally. Even today many many years later, the smell of daffodills conjures up a memory and takes me right back home.

I like this twenty minute thing a lot! I got home a little late last night, but I did the kitchen, wiping off counters and windowsills, the top of the stove, but mainly did the floors by sweeping and then mopping with Murphy's Oil Soap. I even cleaned the kitty's mat under the food and water bowls. I know that it needs a deeper cleaning, but this is good for now.

My challenge is that I will be out of town for the weekend and have company coming from out of town after that, but I am going to try and consolidate and press forward!

What I would really like to see is a show hosted by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan putting the information in his books and apartmenttherapy site to work. I would gladly volunteer to have him come and help me de-clutter and arrange the furniture. I would like to see programs with more step by step features with practical advice. For example, have one episode just on furniture arrangement. Take several examples and show and explain why. Explain in more detail the "bowling alley" and "movie theater" concepts. Another could be on storage solutions. I loved the bits he did on that show I can't remember the name of. That, I believe, could be expanded to make his own show!

Years ago I put some peacock feathers in an old mission type blue pottery vase and have never grown tired of them!

Ah, pinpoints in time! I love them! Sometimes when I am home in the middle of the day, which is not often, I love seeing how the sunlight falls against the hardwood floor in the hallway or feel the breeze as it lifts the curtains in the bedroom. Noticing simple things in detail that often go unnoticed in the course of a busy day is a great way to just be.

When I had first moved into my small condo and was depressed, a friend gave me a picture that he had taken of the kitchen window that looks out on the brick wall of the next building. We had just hung a stained glass moon and placed a plant and a pig cutting board there. This photogragh was just such a lovely composition, it gave me hope; and I have it hanging on the wall of my cubicle at work.

Compositons like these are what keep me coming back to Apartment Therapy!

I just wish I had thought of this when I ran out of steam during a painting job. #3 looks like jaggy crown molding. I love it!

No one mentioned the obvious reason to clean up before going on vacation. What if you hit an abutment! Then your relatives, especially your mother, won't know that you lived like a pig!

All I could think of while looking at this site was that it's a good thing it is a rental. Otherwise, someone with this taste would have moved in and just had to take out some of the light fixtures, and they would be writing in to AT to see if they should paint the woodwork and modernize the fireplace.

I am so happy that all of that is intact with the marvelous views! If I lived there I would feel so fortunate and would probably decorate it in a completely different way, but that's what makes the world go around!