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Reining In My Ambitions In My Remodeling My Home

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 I'm all over the place working on this home. It's way more than I imagined and so I had to rein myself in and commit to doing one area at a time. So I started on my master bedroom and bathroom. This photo above is the way it looked when I purchased the house. So so not my taste. I like neutrals with a touch of drama.  You know after you move in your find all sorts of things you don't like and one of them was this bathroom. The lighting was so poor and I thought it was the bulbs until I realized she put the vanity light fixture turned upwards to make the shades look like tulips maybe not realizing that the light is shining on the ceiling not on the room. Another point for me is when you live alone do you close your bathroom door while doing your business or getting dressed? I don't at least I use to until this house I have to because the bathroom door looks directly out to a window in the bedroom. Shades are closed but it's a bit unnerving to me. The bathroom door i

Starting A New .......

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  bright blue and orange    I bought a project! A project not too big but big enough. I moved in last Monday and when I did due to the amount of work needed I just didn't know where to start.  Pick a room Linda and start there, so the kitchen became my pick. lacks organization for pots and pans First thing I had to do was make my cabinets function better. Pots stored in a cabinet as shown would be a mess. I don't like messes. I also like easy don't you just love this blue? The putting together and installing wasn't too hard for this 74 year old. I took my time and didn't make the 20 minute time frame that the instructions said it would take. I did it in 1 1/2 hrs hooray! Could only find 2 pans to stage this photo but you get the idea.  I bought 2 of these Rev a Shelf and will be installing the 2nd one tomorrow. Now all my pots and pans have a lovely place to live and I can find them easily when the mood strikes to cook.