Fall Projects?

[paula1961]

Gayle, I'm going to check your links about the tile painting. I've been helping hang blinds today and haven't had a chance to look yet.

Marilyn, your colors sounds really pretty, I bet that burnt orange and cream look really good together. It's alot of work getting a house ready to put on the market. Are you just wanting a change or like us... downsizing?

Diana, I really like your house. Your carpet is about the same color as some of mine. I like your wood trim. Is it oak? Mine is dark walnut, which I was worried about the colors of paint I chose, but it's coming along nicely with the white blinds. Larry(my hubby) would love that wooden ironing board! He loves antiques! Thanks for posting your pics Know what ya mean about the blue tape, I'll have it all over before long. I still have 9 rooms left to paint Looking forward to seeing your red wall.

[Janet]

I painted the interior here last June 08 and I will never paint again. It was all I could do to walk the next day and I was so sore. It's all done in a country white (off white) and we like it. I want to change our flooring so bad, but it will be a long time probably. Just don't make what we use to and it takes longer to save up. Oh well, such is life.

I love everyone idea though. I'm really anxious to see your red walls Diana. Maybe you should do a video so you can span the room...lol.

[gja1000]

Originally Posted by paula1961

Larry(my hubby) would love that wooden ironing board! He loves antiques!

ME TOO! I love antiques! But I still iron on that wooden ironing board, no kidding. Of course, I have a nice padding on it, but it is my grandma's ironing board from the 1940's

[DianaB]

Oh, that would be great.....to scan the room when I show the red wall!!! I'll do that!! That's a good idea!!!

Paula, yes, our trim is oak and it's stained a medium color.

The ironing board has been a really cool furniture piece. I've used it as a table behind the couch and even as a serving table when I've run out of counter space. It's just been a really fun piece and yet I've always figured that if I grew tired of it I could fold it up and put it away!!

[paula1961]

When I looked at that picture, that ironing board caught my eye. I told my hubby about it and he said his aunt had one many years ago. I had never seen one until your pic. Very interesting how you have made use of it. I bet it makes a good conversation piece too.

Janet, I bet your off white looks good and I know what ya mean about flooring. We are going with vinyl squares in the kitchen. I know that's not really the in thing, but they are really pretty and affordable.

[Marilyn]

Paula, we are selling due to the taxes. Our county tax appraisal folks have gotten really carried away. They are over appraising properties and when we went to fight the apparisal, they discovered that our home is stone, not brick and said that next year our value would increase by $30,000. That will put our taxes even higher. So, even though we love our home, we are planning to sell and move to a home of similiar size (maybe a little smaller) in an older neighborhood with half the taxes. Our value is over $100 per square foot now, prior to the stone discovery. Older homes are valued at around $50- $65. We can save quite a bit by relocating. We will have to do some renovations when we move, but if we are careful where we buy and do this intellegently, we can come out ahead.

Our biggest task to get it ready to sell is to declutter. I'm trying to chip away at it, but really don't know how much will get done between now and the holidays.

[DianaB]

Personal property taxes are just awful!! When we lived in our old house we had a trailer house attached. It wasn't the prettiest but it gave us bedrooms and a bathroom for a cheap price. We had a little wooden porch that came with the trailer at the back door and Glen had moved in some old pieces of sidewalk for the bottom of the stairs. When the tax people came by they measured that piece of sidewalk and we were going to be taxed on it. Glen argued with them about it being old but it didn't matter so he told them "consider it gone" because I'll be moving it away. We were also taxed MORE because we had skirted the trailer. You'd think that they would want it to look nice and that we shouldn't have been taxed on that.

We just received something in the mail about the trailer house. They were wanting info about it. Glen called this morning and said that it had been flooded and wasn't in any shape to be taxed. He talked his way out of it this time.

[Lindsey]

I am putting down laminate flooring at the end of next month, pending approval from the condo board. They had better approve it because I bought it all already! Last Thursday night, Scott and I went out just to see what kind of budget we'd need to redo the flooring, and we ran across this absolutely GORGEOUS laminate on sale for only $0.97/square foot. So I jumped on that and bought enough for my whole place! The color is called Boston Cherry, and it's quite a dark stain but it looks great with all of my colors!
My parents have a lot of leftover tile from the cabin so I am taking that from them because it's just enough to redo my kitchen and bathroom! I am also hoping to buy kitchen cabinets, so I will hold off on that flooring until I get new cabinets installed.
I'm trying to get as much done as possible before February, because the Canadian government has introduced a Home Renovation Tax Credit, so for any renovations I do before February, I will get some money back It was introduced to stimulate the economy and I know a lot of people are taking advantage of it.