I would absolutely use the buffet in the living room. It's beautiful.
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I would absolutely use the buffet in the living room. It's beautiful.
TT, may I suggest that you do the work needed and then live in the space for a little while to give yourself time to see the possibilities and options. I found that so helpful when I moved into my house as people came in and innocently made comments about a room that made me expand my thinking.
That is a lovely hutch!
If I cannot put the tv on it there’s no place for it. I found that at a consignment store for $450. Then I paid someone 1100 to make it look like that. I also paid them to make the kitchen cupboards match. I thought we were staying there forever. This is my favorite piece of furniture.
Then make sure to take it with you and use it. Put the tv on it, and if it doesn't work, something else will occur to you to do with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teacher Terry
Razz, I have redone 9 homes and the one I had to live in because I couldn’t afford to fix it right away made me very unhappy. Now I have most of the work done before I move in so it’s just the way I want it. The bathroom is the exception because it’s not as important. It’s also a pain to renovate a small space once you are moved in because it’s difficult to clear a space of furniture, etc.
I have a hard time picturing the tv being too high. Our tv sits on an antique chest of drawers circa 1860 that is 38” high.
is that too high for you? It seems right to me.
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What a beautiful place Terry.
Ours is up 50 inch from the floor, on top of a game cabinet.
Let's hear it for happy endings!
The link to TT’s condo is now dead, but I tracked photos down from her description.
oh man...I would SO use that cool old sideboard as my TV stand along the wall opposite the sofa. TT are you really sure your neck would hurt? I personally don’t like the TV stands that are low.
As an aside, in my condo I’ve decided not to have a TV. While I watch tons of video, I just don’t watch it on the big screen.
Terri I like the balcony and I like the view from the balcony. And I think you are good to have it not overlooking a pool. The constant screaming and yelling from a pool could be annoying.
IL, the link worked for me just now. I have a bad neck injury from 8 car accidents. Our tv stand is lower. I would never leave that piece behind. It’s going somewhere:)).
Thanks for the appliance tips. I may just leave the white dishwasher as it blends into the cabinets.
The link worked for me. It looked like I was getting some sort of error message, but then it opened up.
That is a lovely place, and I personally think I would dislike living in a high-rise, so I like this better than the other building. It looks like a deadhead currently lives there, and surely that is good luck! :)
I was excited about living in a high rise on the 11th floor. The views of mountains and city lights would have been great. But Reno is a Windy City especially in summer so it may have been to much. They didn’t allow doggie visitors and a good friend brings her 2 yorkies when she comes. Downtown
can be noisy and has homeless which are negatives. I figured I wouldn’t hear noises way up there but who really knows.
This seems to have worked out perfectly. The unit is just the right size, and your costs are lower. Living in a neighborhood you love is a huge plus.
TT, I stayed for a week a few years ago on the top floor of one of the big hotels in Reno, in July. It was hot and windy, all we could see out the windows was dust swirling... I was disappointed because I thought we’d be able to see the mountains. It was quite a pleasant view several floors lower.
I love your buffet. I can’t quit see the legs/feet. Would it be possible to take off an inch or two to reduce the height? If you love it, please take it with you!
Chrisgo, that sounds awful and disappointing. I am definitely taking my buffet. It’s fancy and curvy on the bottom. It’s a creative solution but don’t think I want to cut the legs. I need to measure the difference between that and my tv stand but do know the stand is lower.
It is a creative solution, agreed.,I guess you could cutt off one set of round knobby feet But he probably wouldn’t lose much in height. You cant cut further down into off the big round balls, it would lose all of its character.Quote:
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I doubt I could bring myself to do that. Someone suggested cutting down my dining room table and that isn’t happening. Luckily it will fit in the condo.
I actually did cut off a tall table back 30 years ago to make our coffee table, and it's been with us ever since. Yesterday my son came out to visit and he said, "it's so nice to see all the old things" but I think the coffee table was actually the only two things from that far back.
Or maybe he meant us...
lol. :~)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
It must have been nice for your son to have some references to his childhood. We can't fit much of our old stuff in this house, but we have our old farmhouse table and my great-aunt's Governor Winthrop desk. The two pieces hardly go together, but what the heck. I can't part with either.
Terry, your buffet is beautiful. How much of the furniture from your house will you be able to take to the condo?
Taking a good look it wouldn’t be steady without all of the legs due to the small piece above the ball. Catherine, I am taking the couch, my chair and 2 small tables for living room. Leaving him the big end tables and coffee table. I bought a small coffee table. I am taking the bed and desk for my office. In the dining room my table and chairs, antique dresser and a small cabinet. In my bedroom just my nightstand and long dresser with mirror. All the bedroom furniture is mine but don’t need it. We have 2 patio tables so taking the smaller one which still seats 6 people.
we have a king sleep number bed that I love. I am buying a queen that will elevate when I want. It will be good for when I am sick and can’t lay flat. That’s the last bed I will need. Ours is 17 years old and as long as you can replace the pump they last forever.
I would totally use it in the living room and put the TV on top. (We have our TV on top of our old stereo stand and our necks actually like it!).Quote:
Originally Posted by Teacher Terry
I have a really bad painful neck from 8 car accidents. I need to figure out if it will work for the tv.
So I measured and it’s only 7 inches taller. So I decided you guys are right and I am going to try it and if my neck hurts then will use my tv stand. For the past 16 years my walls have been cream with green accent walls in every room but my bedroom which had a maroon accent wall behind my bed. I am now thinking cream with a grey accent wall should go nicely with the kitchen and my couch is grey, cream and beige. For my bedroom I bought pink sheets and a gray comforter. I am thinking I will paint a light pink on the wall behind my bed. Comments or suggestions welcome!
That shade of green in your current house is very close to the color in my house throughout. And then, my favorite decorator, Laurel Berg has this yellowy-green in her house as does one of her favorite decorators. I am now calling it senior lady green, haha. But I love it and I will have a version of it in my Hermann house throughout. With cream trim! Instead of white trim as ?I have here in the city.
But none of this has given you any useful info. I am terrible with colors, it takes me months to decide.I can’t help.
It’s great that you will give your sideboard a try as tv stand. It is a nice piece of furniture and it will fit nicely there.
Well, gray everything is very popular right now.
I actually LOVE gray and would have chosen that as main color if it wasn’t already so over used IMHO. My condo currently IS grey.
Gray is a flexible and handsome neutral. Make sure the undertone is warm rather than cool if you are going with cream (a warm) main color.
If I were decorating now, I would consider wallpapering a wall or two. You could go with a small repeating pattern or go bold with large motifs.
IL, I wasn’t a senior when I chose that green 16 years ago:)). Thanks for the tip about the grey needing to be warm. Because the condo is small I don’t want any dark colors. I also bought a red toaster and electric can opener because of the white and black kitchen but I don’t want to paint red anywhere. My pictures and niknaks have pink and green in them.
Jane, in the past I have used wallpaper for a accent wall but you need someone very good at hanging it for it to look good. I am just going to use paint.
I will never use wallpaper again. When it is glued on wallboard, it is almost impossible to remove without gouging the wall. I suspect that the paint that that home builder used was cr*p not sealing the wallboard. The wallpaper was quite costly with its own glue so now I trust no wallpaper or provider unless I expect to have the same for the rest of my life.
They now make these big peel off wallpaper murals that interest me, but I’ve decided against using one.
Traditional wallpaper scares me for the reasons razz mentions.
As far as warm undertones versus cool undertones: I read an article about this a couple years ago and ever since, I’ve been thinking about that. The author of this article cautions you to keep your undertones consistent in your house. There is less clashing in this approach.
My condo will be cool colors and I want the white trim to be cool undertone. My Hermann house will be warm colors and I want the trim to be cream which is obviously a warm color.
After I read that article, my own kitchen then started bugging me because The floor tile, a lovely dusty gray, is cool, I guess. The wall color chosen 25 years later is a warm green color I think those are clashing undertones although somebody with acute color analysis skills could convince me that the gray has warm undertones rather than cool undertones.
But likely the stuff in my kitchen clashes. I do know there are too many surfaces.
I suck at picking paint. A good friend at work helped me with the colors I have. I have a friend that is a artist that will help me this time. I think I mentioned that this same friend is redoing my coffee and end tables that I bought specifically for the condo because they are small in size. Her husband did any repairs that were needed first.
So condos are for sale like crazy at the first place. Now 13 in a total of 125. I am sure it’s due to the high jump in association fees. The 2 bedrooms have a fee of 836. Some of them are 1600 sq ft and cost 500k. There’s also a small lawsuit in the building but people can get mortgages because it’s less than 10% of the total building. It’s from a prior commercial tenant on the first floor. Only 2 have sold but not closed yet. I really feel like I dodged a bullet.
My condo fees are $311 per month and that includes extra money for a heated garage. It’s crazy luxurious, that old heated garage. I don’t care about it, but it sure was a big selling point for DH in convincing him to buy this condo. He parked his Mercedes Benz in it where it will sit most of the time.
That’s funny IL. In this climate I don’t care about a garage. We have car ports which keeps the little weather we get off the car. My HOA fees are 373 which includes all utilities except electric and sewer. I even get my a/c included. I was told my electric bill will be about 30/month.
Smallest space we lived in was our cottage up north we loved it packed it all up and moved there in '08 it seems. A chalet with upstairs really not much other than a bedroom and a cat walk with 1/2 bath. I told this story a few times I think, but it was mid life crisis and shuck it all, sell everything and go north and live a real simple life in the middle of "no where". Ok so good learning experience, where you vacation is not where you should live. Isolation is great dream to visit till we lived there! Anyhow so cute and small, but husband still jokes about how he was laying on the bed and could see the other end of the house and the walls were so close! So I think we need a bit of room.
That’s funny biking lady. 2 people definitely need some individual space. Being isolated would suck on a daily basis.
I need to live in a fairly densely populated area. I can enjoy my solitude without living like Ted Kaczynski. Squirrel soup is not, as Iris Lily might say, my jam.Quote:
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AS we like to say; A place to get away is only good when trying to get away from something.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
First month I remember thinking OMG what did we do? Husband was happy as he could be grating the two track road on his 8N, no internet or cell service. Second month I believe I was adjusting,,,maybe. Husband announced he was Rotting! Third month he was on a plane to NYC and then to Turkey. Me I moved back to from where we came in a home we bought down the road from where we were 3 months before. We had the northern Mi home(s)for 17 years prior so it was not like we had never been there. we actually sold the place and never returned.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teacher Terry
I will say it was one of the biggest lessons in life we ever had.
I remember when we were looking around for a, at the time, weekend place. The teeny Elsah, IL is the cutest place around and I was jonesing for one of their old stone houses.One day when were there DH looked around and said in his serious voice “ok, but what are you going to DO here?” no restaurants. No commerce. About 35 houses.Quote:
Originally Posted by BikingLady
He brought me Back to earth. See? Sometimes I do really listen to him.
After that, I expanded my search to include a town with many and strong cultural institutions. it is true that tiny Elsa has tiny cultural institutions, is extremely insular and you have to be a native and you have to be a Christian scientist to get your foot in the door.
Hermann is much more lively with a dozen wineries and tourists. The cultural institutions there do rely heavily on families that have been there for 150 years, but that’s fine. I don’t expect to be a queen bee I am very good being a footsoldier in any organization.