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Our semi-mountain home has wood walls in the living room. Not wide, verticle paneling but diagonal, thin, wainscotting which is angled differently on each wall, meeting in a dark corner. Problem is, on wall had a huge German shrank/shrunk(?) which I don't hate that hides TV and electronics. Getting a decent way to light the corner now is super-tricky, though. Most standing lamps come to can akward height next to the shrank and paper-lantern types look strange too. So for now I've a standing lamp with a bendy neck which isn't bad but its boring beige shade is. Has anyone tried RIT/fabric painting lamp shades? Any luck? I just can't find a good bright one which fits it.

My media fast will have to be tomorrow. I'm still fixing yesterday's (this) project. It was simply replace handles on kitchen cabinets because, not loving the 80s oak and not having money to replace, we thought a handle update would be facelift enough. When I removed the dark once-brass(?) handles, the flourish design outline was left behind on nearly all cabinets. So I scrubbed, sanded, oiled, all to no avail and the new handles look horrid with the dirty outlines behind. So I spraypainted one of the old handles with Rustoleum Silver and while an improvement over the dirty brass, it still looked cheap. So I gave up and went to bed. This morning, I thought, black on the 80s oak shouldn't look bad since our fridge is black so on the way home, bought Rustoleum in Hammered Black. Am now waiting for the paint to dry (looks much better than the first round so far at least) and hope to get them back up before I have to go to bed and before husband gets home at midnight (he poo-poo'd spraypaint all along). So while I wait, I went ahead and started a full-oiling of cabinets and am on a wrist break before I wrap up with the peninsula. This is exhausting but I really hope it'll look so much better after I'm finished!

Since moving in with my husband a year and a half ago, I have been dying to throw a big soiree but the place has never been 'ready'. We've many projects always going and so this time, no excuses: we're having friends over. Collecting addresses/emails is amazingly hard so I haven't _sent_ mine yet but am aiming for second weekend of Feb. We'll be entertainers yet. :)

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What do you use with an almond scent for your floors?