[Ganoderma]

so you don't want me to try and find out where they bought their wallpaper?

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

We've been together for a good long while, actually. She's been helping me with projects, but we're both looking for ideas to make the bedroom more "zazzy."

The room itself isn't bad at all, but I do need to expand the master bath and closet. They're both pretty small and tight as the house was built in the early 70s.



I could actually use some ideas there, too. My front yard lacks "curb appeal." I recently painted the house which helped tremendously (it used to be a flat primer gray... on stucco... and now it's a rich chocolate milk color, with white milky trim.

Seriously, do you have any ideas? Here's the basic layout:

PHP Code:

neighbor__|___F__|//My House//////|____F______| neighbor
neighbor__|      |//My House//////|           | neighbor
          |        |Dvway|                   *H*
          |        |Dvway|            *LO*   *H*
          |        |Dvway|                   *H*
          |        |Dvway|                   *H*
          |        |Dvway|      *S*          *H*
          |        |Dvway|  [MB]             *H*
++++++++++++++++++        ++++++++++++++++++++++
street                                        street
                       street
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


Where:

F = fence
H = hedge (red tipped verdenia I think)
LO = Live Oak (but it's still growing and only a few years old, so small)
S = somewhat older tree of unknown variety, no flowers
MB = brick mailbox

If there is already a she involved in this my advice would be to let her do all the planning, make all the decisons and fix it up exactly the way she wants. Trust me, this will get you laid far quicker and more often than trying to make it sexy from your point of view no matter what your point of view is!

[InfiniteNow]

Wise words, friend.


Funny, too... I showed her some of the suggestions made in this thread, and she responded immediately, "Isn't that EXACTLY what I told you to do like two years ago!"

I'll leave it to you to figure which suggestions about which she was commenting (and no, it had nothing to do with Barry White, octagonal beds, or whiskey dispensers).

[freeztar]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

(and no, it had nothing to do with Barry White, octagonal beds, or whiskey dispensers).

How's the landscape architecture going?

[InfiniteNow]

Originally Posted by freeztar

How's the landscape architecture going?

Nothing major. We did spend some time last weekend moving stuff around. The honeysuckle we'd put in by the garage was struggling... really really bad (think concrete) soil, so we pulled that out and put it on the other side of the house, which turns out to be a good balance with the second honeysuckle we'd put in which is doing splendidly.

I also moved the sage bush I'd planted near the entry, as it was getting too big, so it has a nice new home. We put down some pea gravel along the walk way (that same stretch of "concrete" soil), and put in some potted annuals we'd picked up from a few different local nurseries on Saturday on top of that gravel. It looks much better, and should be simpler to maintain.

All in all, good stuff.

TBH, though, I'm moving quite slowly on any and all house work. Still working on my project at work (which is taking a lot of hours) and studying Chinese at the university in parallel... I'm not feeling a lot of energy or available time to keep up with the house.

Either way, though... I'll keep chipping away at things little by little. This weekends project is to get into the attic and finish a repair I started a few months ago... as I need to do so before our Texas summer hits and things get too much hotter.

Cheers.

[InfiniteNow]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

We put down some pea gravel along the walk way (that same stretch of "concrete" soil), and put in some potted annuals we'd picked up from a few different local nurseries on Saturday on top of that gravel. It looks much better, and should be simpler to maintain.

Btw, out of the ones we did plant in pots, this one is DEFINITELY my favorite. It just makes smile, and you can't top that!

It's called Intensia^® Star Brite, and is a Phlox hybrid: