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Antique door knobs get me going

March 29, 2007 by Tricia

Oh my! Can you tell that Spring is here?

It seems that between this blog and my gardening blog I’ve been doing a lot of posting about getting outside, wanting to get out and work in my garden, and resuming our home renovation projects (so we can start new projects!).

It’s gotta have something to do with Spring. I mean, I’m still feeling sick so I’m not all that peppy, but I keep having all these thoughts about getting things done around the house and tidying up the garden. It must be that feeling of renewal that spring gives a person. At least the fact that I’m starting to get excited about our reno projects and other things must be a good sign.

So you know what got me going this time? Antique door knobs. That’s right. Door knobs of all things. BTW if you like antique door knobs check out the Architectural Classics site as it has a very nice collection.

You see, if you read the post prior to this one I mentioned that our house was built in 1927. One of the few things we haven’t changed in the house is all the door knobs. We really like the antique style – they are so much more ornate and attractive than modern door knobs.

The old outer door on our enclosed back porch had colored cut glass door knobs. We got ride of the door but kept the door knobs! When we finish our living room dining room reno I’d like to put a nice French door in the opening between the kitchen and dining room, and perhaps replace the basement door with a French door as well as the two doors are almost side by side when viewed from the kitchen. I’d put the cut glass door knobs on one of these doors. Of course, I’ll have to find another set of door knobs almost exactly the same for the second door.

Does anyone else like the look of antique door knobs better than modern ones?





Filed Under: Decor, Fashion, Home and Lifestyle, Home Renovation, Shopping Tagged With: antique, Antique door knobs, cut glass door knobs, French door, garden, Gardening, home, Home Renovation, house, plants, remodeling, renovate, renovating, renovation

Planning the decor of our unfinished living room dining room

March 29, 2007 by Tricia

Well I was just talking about my interest in interior design in my last post. Lately I’ve been talking about our renovation projects on my Home and Gardening blog more than on this site.

I’m just dreaming of getting our living room reno finished. We are in the middle of a big job. We have to finish or well … start putting up tin ceiling tiles. I purchased almost 100 of them 2 x 2 feet square three years ago. I had to paint them myself and I’ve actually antiqued them to make them fit with the style of our 1927 house.

Once the ceiling is done wide baseboards and lovely wide molding will be applied to the walls, and other than a little bit of redecorating our living room dining room reno will be finished.

In anticipation of finishing our renovation I’ve been looking at a number of home décor sites. At this point we don’t have anything on our walls. I have some very nice paintings that I’d like to put up and that will help, but it needs more.

The living room portion of the room is on the north side of the house it’s very dark. So I’ve been thinking that putting a nice mirror, perhaps like this art deco style mirror somewhere in the living room where it will catch some of the light from the south side of the house. The mirror is a piece of art in itself and will add beauty to the room, but if it can lighten or brighten the room as well it will add function.

What do you think? Isn’t that just a lovely mirror?

Filed Under: Decor, Home and Lifestyle, Home Renovation Tagged With: art deco, art deco mirror, ceiling tiles, home, Home Decor, house, interior design, mirror to brighten room, molding, renovation, Shopping, tin ceiling

Adorable new Spring line of baby clothes

March 25, 2007 by Tricia

Chris and I have been hoping to have a baby of our own for a long time now. Unfortunately my illness makes it a bit harder to become pregnant, but we are hoping that before the year is over that a baby might be on it’s way.

Since babies are on my mind these days I’ve been paying a little bit more attention to stores that sell baby clothing and accessories. One of the stores that I’ve bookmarked is called Baby CZ. I’m sure that a lot of the mothers who read my site will be interested in Baby CZ.

Baby CZ was founded and is managed by fashion designer Carolina Zapf. The store has built a great reputation and has become well known for it’s line of luxury baby clothing. In fact, they’ve just come out with their new Spring line and it’s on sale too!

The baby and children’s clothing lines that you’ll find at Baby CZ are well made using quality materials. I’ve gone through the site looking at many of the designs and I think the styles are just adorable. You’ll find everything from dresses, cardigans, jackets, blouses, accessories and more at this online store. They even have cashmere baby clothes!

If you have a baby or young child, or need to buy a gift for someone that does visit Baby CZ today.

Filed Under: Fashion, Gifts, Home and Lifestyle, Shopping Tagged With: accessories, baby, baby clothes, Baby CZ, blouses, cardigans, Carolina Zapf, cashmere baby clothes, child, designer baby clothes, dresses, fashion designer, fashion designer Carolina Zapf, gift, Gift Idea, jackets, kid, luxury baby clothes, online baby clothes, well made baby clothes

Spring is here – the garden is coming back to life

March 25, 2007 by Tricia

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In about two months one small area of my garden, near the patio, will look like this. The Rhododendron will be blooming with it’s large cherry red flowers, the hosta leaves will be in perfect shape as yet untouched by nasty slugs, and the peonies (karl Rosenfield) and day lilies will be preparing to bloom.

Spring, late spring and early summer are the time of year that I think I enjoy the garden the most. Almost every day there is something new to look at. During that time of year the plants are growing fast, and a plant that didn’t have flower buds one day suddenly seems to develop tiny flower buds almost over night.

A few of the plants in my garden have started to show signs that they are waking up. I can’t wait until several more plants come back to life and start to grow.

Who else is excited now that it’s spring?

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Filed Under: Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: daylilies, daylily, dormancy, flowers, garden, green thumb, hosta, new growth, peonies, photo, photos, plants, Rhododendron, spring, sunday, wake up

Thinking about getting a home improvement loan

March 25, 2007 by Tricia

Being off work and not being able to bring in a secured income obviously has me thinking about money a lot these days. I wish I didn’t have to worry about money as much as I have been since I’m sure that’s not helping me get better.

I am really happy that we were able to remortgage our home last year in late June. I can’t believe it’s been almost a year already. I guess that means we’ve owned our own home for almost 6 years now.

As you might know if you’ve been reading my blog for a while now, we’ve been trying to renovate our home on our own. Not only have I been sick for the better part of two and a half years, but my husband got sick for a period of time in 2004/2005. He’s better now, but both of our illnesses caused major delays in our renovations.

I think we’re about ready to start finishing off some DIY jobs we had already started, but I’ve really been starting to think about possibly getting a home improvement loan and hiring a contractor to do the rest of the work that we want done. I don’t really want to do that, but just in case something happens I’d rather have the house finished than continue to live indefinitely in a state of unfinished renovation. Perhaps some of our unfinished work is even contributing to my illness. Who knows.

I don’t think we’d have a problem getting a home improvement or a secured loan as we’ve been very good about paying down our mortgage. Chris has a steady job and I can verify my internet income.

I guess I’ll have to check into whether we’d qualify for a loan or not given our circumstances. I think we would but I’ll have to check it out. One of the places that I might check will be the UKpersonalloanstore.co.uk they have a lot of information about the various types of loans that one might apply for, as well as articles, loan tips and they even list companies through which you can apply for the various types of loans that they discuss. The site is very user friendly, and people living in the UK in particular will find the information on the various loan products helpful.

The whole idea of taking out another loan is not something that really appeals to me at this time, but it would help us finish off our house and of course, if we decided to sell, or had to sell for some reason we’d get the full house value. I can only imagine how much the value of our home might be if we tried to sell right now with the living room unfinished! I don’t even want to think about it!

Filed Under: Finance, Home and Lifestyle, Home Renovation, Services Tagged With: articles, home, home improvement loan, house, illness, information, Job, loans, remortgage, renovate, renovation, secure, secured loan

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