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Dawn wrote: "I got a new car yesterday!! I am so super stoked, it's beautiful. It's a black 2017 Mini Cooper S with black rims, so it looks very stealthy. Hopefully stealthy enough to keep me from getting any s..."Oh my goodness, girl! Your new baby is gorgeous! You sure do love your Minis. :-) Can't remember, is this your second or your third. I'm thinking second.
I like them. Super cute and cool. They really suit you.
Dawn wrote: "I hate painting but my sister loves it, so most of our house has been repainted 3 or 4 times over the last 15 years. Even the outside has been painted twice. What colours are you going with Terri..."
You had your living room painted a groovy colour...what was it? A warm yellow?
We've gone fairly neutral in the upstairs main living room kitchen/dining, but colour everywhere else. Nothing too loud though....except for one guest room which is yellow. It turned out so good and I'm so happy when I see it and walk into it.
If a person has a house where they can get away with a yellow room, they should go for it, :-) Yellow is such a cheery colour.
I think the only room we aren't going to paint is my study. I think I have a picture of that room on my profile. It stays duckegg blue. I love it too much to change it.
Terri wrote: "I'm thinking second.I like them. Super cute and cool. They really suit you...."
You are correct, this is the second. The lease came up on the last one so I traded it in for a much fancier new version. I liked the last one, I love this one.
Terri wrote: "You had your living room painted a groovy colour...what was it? A warm yellow? ..."That's the dining room/library that's yellow. With the big french doors. My living room is red, really, really red.
I love colour, glad to see you're putting some in. Almost all the new houses I see have neutral cremes and browns, I always find it a little boring.
Agree. People in new houses get a bit scared of colour. They may put colour in the kids rooms, but everything else is neutral. I get tired of seeing off white colours in houses. We went a shade of white in the laundry....because the new floorcoverings in there do the talking!
Also did a sandy cream in one of the guest bedrooms, but that's because the tv room next to it is a khaki green colour. A lot of colours don't go with it.
The living, kitchen, dining that we are painting right now is the most neutral. And yet it is still a colour. A pale greeny, sand colour.
Sounds very nice, more soothing than my house. :)
Haha. Yeah. Maybe. :-DThing is, with our house, it is large with lots of rooms. With that many rooms and living areas, you can end up clashing.
So while our upstairs living, dining, kitchen is a pale green cream. The downstairs living area which is just as big is dark Khaki. Went for the risk downstairs, and then went for pale upstairs so these two large spaces didn't clash.
I think the only colour we haven't used this time around is the red range. We had a dark red bedroom for 13 years. This time we went with a deep grey.
We needed a break from red. So we went for Yellow, grey, caramel brown, blue, white, a lavender purple colour we call blueberry yoghurt (cause thats what it looks like), a couple different greens, grey blue, and a couple rooms are still to be decided. One may end up an orange colour.
But no red. Don't want red for a while.
With 6 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a whole bunch of living spaces, it has been a challenge to embrace colour without it looking like a kaleidoscope. Haha.
Plus the upper part of the house is over a hundred years old and we try to use colours that are sympathetic to its architecture.
If my house was all new I think we'd go a bit more adventurous in all rooms. :)
Hows your bookshelves going in your yellow room? It was the yellow room where your bookcases are?
Surely you've had to put more in by now? :)
We had a whoops while renovating my bookcase area. A couple bookcases got blown over in the garage (where they were stored) and got smashed. Got to find money in reno budget to replace them. :(
Oh my. That post did get long. Hopefuly not TLDR
Nice, I like lots of colour. We have a tiny house so less chance for clashing but the living room is red, the kitchen/laundry is three shades of green, the spare room is two shades of blue. My room is green and blue and my sisters is blue and grey. We had to paint the hallway creme and the bathroom is so small is stayed white. We do have a coral pink front door too.
No more shelves in the library (yes, it's the yellow one), we maxed it out when Dad built them. And we don't really have any other space to add more so we're to the point where if we buy any books we have to get rid of some books. Actually what I've been working on lately. Time to clear out some of the old SF and Fantasy books I don't read any more.
I'm having to clear my books out too, Dawn. To make way for a series I've started collecting. Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London series.
Yeah, I'm collecting more literary, mystery and non-fiction, so something had to give. The science fiction books I've had sitting around for over 12 years but never read?? They're on their way back to the used book store.
Coral pink door? I really like the sound of that. We're putting a new front door on as part of our big reno. I wanted to paint it a colour, but unfortunately it cops it from sun. The manufacturers warranty will only cover a door that is exposed to sun if you paint it a light colour..ideally, white.So white it is. High gloss white with gold brass handles.
Since we got new floor coverings and redecorated as part of our reno, my hubby had to have a gentle word to me the other day.He said "do you think maybe you should have a books in/books out policy now)."?
I actually agreed. I don't want to cover EVERY wall with bookcases. Covering one wall is probably enough.
Like you guys I am about to make some tough decisions. I have a stack of old books that my Dad gave me. When he had a clean out I couldn't stand to see books get thrown.
I'm tougher now. Not many of them are good quality. Yellowed old paperbacks from the 70's. Time to throw them and only put quality and good vintage on my shelves.
Terri wrote: "Coral pink door? I really like the sound of that. We're putting a new front door on as part of our big reno. I wanted to paint it a colour, but unfortunately it cops it from sun. The manufacturers ..."Yeah, the house is a pale creamy yellow and gray, so we added the door colour to spice it up.
Our house also is pale creamy yellow and grey. :) That's why I wanted a colour door too. Although I was thinking navy.
Dawn wrote: "Yeah, I'm collecting more literary, mystery and non-fiction, so something had to give. The science fiction books I've had sitting around for over 12 years but never read?? They're on their way back..."Never been a big reader of science fiction, fantasy, yes. But not zipping around in space.
I've taken to leaving books in random places with a post-it note attached reading something like "Please take me home and read me".
Oh, Margaret, that is such a great idea!!! I'm going to do it also!!
Not my idea, May. The actress Emma Watson started it on the London Underground.
I would like to do that too. Sounds like fun. Only, I don't really go anywhere to leave a book.Only cows and cockatoos where I go. :-D
Margaret wrote: "Dawn wrote: "Yeah, I'm collecting more literary, mystery and non-fiction, so something had to give. The science fiction books I've had sitting around for over 12 years but never read?? They're on t..."I've never been drawn to science fiction either! Don't even like time travel stories.
I've enjoyed reading thru all of your reno posts and color choices! I'm in an apartment that (in all their wisdom) painted every wall a hideous light brown color :(
There are some really lovely brown paint colours, from dark to light, but every wall? That is boring.
I've read a couple sci fi. It never grabbed me though.Does Douglas Adams class as sci fi? I've read and liked them. :-)
Yeah. Douglas Adams counts. I loved his sense of humour. And Ford Prefect is a classic character. :D
Terri wrote: "There are some really lovely brown paint colours, from dark to light, but every wall? That is boring."This isn't a nice brown. Its a weird 1960/1970s beige. And you can't paint over it :(
Have always loved Ray Bradbury's "Dandelion Wine" and I'm sure he is in the Sci Fi genre.
Terri, could you leave a book @ the grocery store each time you go???
Bobby wrote: "Have always loved Ray Bradbury's "Dandelion Wine" and I'm sure he is in the Sci Fi genre."Yep he is,
I've always liked 50s/early 60s era sf and he's one of those I grew up reading
Have any of you read The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth?I just got off the phone with my eldest son, and when I told him I picked up The Whale Road and Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh from the library, he reminded me he has recommended The Wake umpteen times. I could see him rolling his eyes at me on the phone. I'm wondering if it's any good--the book, not the rolling of the eyes.
I tried to read "The Wake", Tamara. Only the fact it was borrowed from a friend saved it from being thrown against the wall with extreme force.I found it pretentious.
May wrote: "Terri, could you leave a book @ the grocery store each time you go???"Not really. No seats where I shop. Which is once a fortnight. Sometimes once a month if hubby does it for us on way home from work. Maybe the coffee shop though. I don't go to the coffee shop often, but if I do, there is that option,
I see 17 users have tagged The Wake as Fantasy. And the Green Man is on that cover.Is it fantasy? Or are people tagging it as such due to it dealing with early pagan religion?
Margaret wrote: "I tried to read "The Wake", Tamara. Only the fact it was borrowed from a friend saved it from being thrown against the wall with extreme force.I found it pretentious."
Good to know. I'll let you know what i think of it.
Terri wrote: "I see 17 users have tagged The Wake as Fantasy. And the Green Man is on that cover.Is it fantasy? Or are people tagging it as such due to it dealing with early pagan religion?"
I didn't get far enough in to give you an answer on that.
I used to drop a box of books off at my grandmother's nursing home.... the people who still had their faculties intact were so appreciative.
That's a good idea, Allie.
That is also a good idea.We have a small community centre at a nearby rural village. They often put out the call for books.
When I sort through my books, I'll give them any decent ones. Any dog-eared, yellow, crappy ones will get thrown in bin.
I guess you don't have recyling out there in the whoop whoops? All my buggered books go in the recycling bin.
We sort of do. Many roads around here get the rubbish service. You wouldn't believe the goat tracks those garbage trucks have to traverse. There's a recycling one and a regular rubbish truck.Most people on our road have bins, but we opted out as our driveway is too long to be running bins down to the front gate.
We have to take our own rubbish to a small local rubbish depot. No recycling bins there. :-(
I give the ones I don't like or feel I'm not going to reread to the public library.
Lovely. Now Syria is getting the crap bombed out of it.I hope the Middle East is still in one piece when I fly through it in just over 3 weeks. :(
Aren't the areas you might have once flown over to get to the UK no fly zones these days?They'd be detouring these poor war ravaged nations?
Sad news to announce sorry I'm not sure where to update you all. Recently we had a new member Lynne Pennington who I was quite friendly with we were emailing each other as she was out in the US outback. She recently had a heart attack, I was able to track down information from another group she was a member on. RIP Lynne.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Sorry Terri for linking to another groups page, I can remove the link if you prefer.
Absolutely heartbroken. John Clarke dropped dead yesterday. Known to Aussies for his political satire, for most Kiwis his character "Fred Dagg" was the epitome of the kiwi farmer, black singlet, shorts, gumboots & floppy hat.Stupid songs, silly sketches, sharing his humour with my dad was an important part of my childhood. He recorded a kiwi version of Billy Connolly's Welly Boot Song, called, appropriately The Gumboot Song.
But my favourites will always be the Flea Races, and his version of We Three Kings - We Three Trevs.
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