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i have always had a lady crush on joanna

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because it's not like they don't have throngs of super fans

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those wood floors had me swooning

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those tone wood built ins! love

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they probably cost more than my house

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don't you love the color of that leather

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i call that base glove brown

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please take a sec to notice all the groovy houseplants

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it's the back side of that fireplace

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the wood floors

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isn't that bar epic

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but let's get real — i think the really works

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but wait a minute

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those plant hangers are having their moment

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the walls of which are covered in marble rectangles

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once again — a job done by the gaines-es

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lately i've been planning our dutch colonial's living room in my head

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here's the view from that bay past g.o

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victorian turned wood easel

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cowboy grass unisex fragrance by d.s. durga

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but i digress! back to their fab media wall

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please notice the high contrast between the lighter media wall

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i like that our rescued dresser's a whopping 64" long

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its simple

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our options are to refinish our dresser's wood

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install some sort of wood wall behind it

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look how the gray renders the tv nearly invisible

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gray

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country bumpkin christmasi

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i went down memory lane to my country bumpkin christmasi of the past

1993

here's the building i way back in

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to house my country bumpkin retail store

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it was the height of country bumpkin awesomeness

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imagine that — back then

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i'm still loving the buffalo check wallpaper

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that i thought made the most perfect kitchen island

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to our very country bumpkin bathroom

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i super loved that homespun wallpaper

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just say no to the tunic-length sweater when one is 5'0"

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ditto on the unflattering top

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but i digress. back to our apartment

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another of my splurges: the wood-clad

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he said it. the great 20th architect

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but back to me

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houzz not only provides awesome eye candy — it's also interactive

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where one find “the real stuff

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don't you agree that rh's cool industrial furniture

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would be a great fit in an urban/city-inspired boys' bedroom

i noticed that people are hanging 2 lights over the table

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nobody loves a drum shade more than i do

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nobody loves navy ticking stripe more than i do

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our table — the pine is from an old structure in manchester

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ticking drum shades are of the modern-meets-granny persuasion

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quarrel ensued when i told g.o. this was going in our house

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heart-in-hand

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plate rack love

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cottage! wish i was brave enough to do

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i am loving how these kitchen islands are rocking the plate rack. note to self: do this in next kitchen

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wall o' mint

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almost looks like a repurposed doorway. new house decor

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the hanging plate seems to be the most eclectic of all . . . you can even rock the modern

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yesterday i talked how my has evolved from 70's early american to something

2013

my quest to go more “what's happening now” would be the striped pottery barn rug

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as a young homeowner in the seventies

grown men vs a 40 year old house

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life in and around the garden

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an urban cottage

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fun place to get your house fix

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category archives

2017

january 23

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fixer upper goes modern

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by cardinalkay64

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time to talk everybody's favorite hgtv show

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after an iffy start

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i'm sure they'd both be pleased

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meanwhile

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pretty ho hum

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wow! it's so modern

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so modern

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i'm giving thumbs up

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that metal roof

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have you noticed? joanna has a ‘thing

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as do the metal sliding doors on either side of the entry

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honestly

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but not that functional

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which is something i usually embrace

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which is kind of a buzz kill

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the original fireplace had some structural issues

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they have intentionally left the marks from the forms

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i vote yes

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but wait. look at the rest of the living room

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is it faux concrete

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i fear this has gone from industrial chic to cellar hideaway

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an accent of concrete is — walls

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but wait

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look at that wall of metal windows —

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my favorite feature of the re-do

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so much natural light! i live

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they have me yearning to gas up the car

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now

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i'm still not digging the concrete on the other walls

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is it just me

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there's an entirely new master bath

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thumbs up

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but that moment's already taken place inside my very own hacienda

1973

circa

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i'm not sure i want to return! what say ye

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while we ponder that

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these

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they transition into smaller hexes in the shower

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thumbs up

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i vote up

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are you a fan

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are you hoping the next episode features another farmhouse

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stay tuned

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2014

august 2

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media wall musings

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by cardinalkay64

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what fun

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course

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i must incorporate a tv

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me being me

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yikes

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let's see what we have

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we'll have ourselves a nice

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but again — what to do

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a.k.a. the media wall

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that

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just this week while perusing pinterest

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don't you love it

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you might recognize her from the old hgtv show

these kids also own the l.a. design

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hammer

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painted parcheesi

laboratory perfumes scented candle $

106

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okay. so i love everything

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it's that miniscule budget i mentioned

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while it looks like a wall of expensive built-ins

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upon closer inspection

realizes that they've actually used light-toned wood cabinets

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it looks like those are relatively inexpensive brackets

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how they've painted every other wall

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it creates an amazing focal point

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so. that's what i want to try

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instead of the cabinets

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we could use our new/old mid-century dresser

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it's really going to make a statement in our room

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now to match our dresser

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as they matched their cabinets

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paint everything

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i'm leaning toward painting the dresser

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see how the artwork “pops”

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potterybarn.com

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as you no doubt noticed

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from the original loft's media wall

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houzz.com

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yay on the tv “going away

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sure

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now that that's settled

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houzz.com

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stay tuned

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2013

december 24

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by cardinalkay64

1993

christmas

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oregon

just years after this

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we built a home upstairs

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susie

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ben

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seated on an old bench

i at auction when i was

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i splurged on that gas fireplace

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am currently obsessing doing said-same

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in our current re-do

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stay tuned

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meanwhile

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my d ens of santa's

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whoa! kind of looks like a bomb went off

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currently

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stay tuned

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my then-beau

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in that awesome fabric

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at the time

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also noteworthy: the original tin ceiling

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my hand-stenciled border

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at photography than i am now

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i hosted open houses of our pad

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during our town's annual candlelight walk

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x's

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my beloved floors were new

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secured

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susie the dachsie

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these days

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stay tuned

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the main living spaces were all together

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here's a photo of ben

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he's facing the living room

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am thinking using said-same now

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yum

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wow

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but it does show my antique workbench

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let's down the hallway

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there's the patchwork shower curtain that i made

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by sewing together antique 4-patch quilt

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it was always a crowd pleaser during my open houses

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loving the shelf above this door

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somebody call a stylist

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i “keed”

it contained bedrooms

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boy had his own

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there are no photos of said-same

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i seriously wish i still had that pencil post bed

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but no those swag

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i did love them at the time

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isn't it funny that

there are still quite things i did here

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that i am considering doing again

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stay tuned

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2013

june 15

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is it a bore

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by cardinalkay64

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less is more

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okay

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this

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it sits on the side of the fox river just west of yorkville

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when i see photos like these

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i love it

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hey! maybe less is a bore

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he said it

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robert venturi

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post-modern architect

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day last weekend

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that moving my stuff around provides

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i tackled our neglected enclosed front porch

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gave it its warm weather makeover

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i was definitely rocking some less-is-a-bore attitude

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not

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instead

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the quilt is old

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the one is only old enough to have been sold

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at the late

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its beautiful design is called ocean waves

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okay

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as always

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