And a Pinteresting we go! Interior/Exterior design id thread

That sink in photo 41 has a face!

What I wonder when I see things like that is who the hell is cleaning this place?! That's a full time job!

Still.... it is kind of mind blowing that someone would spend that kind of money doing this.

Not only are they really pretty, but you'll never forget to put your spices away again!

I hate to think what someone who buys & renovates that house will do to it. The space is amazing and lots of original woodwork. I'd buy it.

I'd kind of love a house that big. We could have the Lego room we've always dreamed of. 325k for a house that size makes me wonder what's wrong with it.

I didn't say that house specifically.

Though it would put me near my goddaughter.

LOL yeah $325k is twice as much as my friends paid for their newer (obviously smaller) in MUCH better shape house in the same suburb. It’s pricey for around here.

I love that second house so much! And the stove is indeed fabulous. 

Ooooh, I love that blue!  We switched our house from a drab slate blue a bunch of years ago, and that kind of cheerful blue was a consideration for us.  Alas, "beachy" is kind of not the most congruous vibe for our not-anywhere-near-a-beach neighborhood.  I'm living beachy-blue-house dreams vicariously through you! 

(I mean, not that we feel we have to answer to our neighbors.  We grew up on The Big Orange Splot, and that message of doing whatever the fuck you want with your house really stuck with us.) 

(We ended up going with pink [with black shutters, white trim, and bright green doors], and I am fairly confident all our neighbors hate it.  But our neighbors include people who repainted their house, which was khaki with khaki trim, and went with an even more khaki, with khakier trim.  Who DOES that?)

It's a soft sort of preppy pink.  I tend to think of it as "cottage" pink.

This is what the color was when we moved in (and those are our first fruit trees on the day we planted them!):



And this is what it looks like pink (this picture is a tinch washed-out; it's a bit more saturated in person), with some of those trees a bit bigger (this was taken about five years ago; the trees are even bigger now ):

Thanks!  And the blue really wasn't that egregious.  The other house we lived in the longest was also blue, though, so we were looking for a change.  I feel like the pink suits the spirit of our house better, though.  And the painters, without our input on it at all, did this to the weirdo garage door on the side of our garage, that opens into the backyard.  Talk about a life-improver!  It makes me smile every day I look out there, that splash of green:



(NOTE: You know how I've mentioned that we do zero yardwork that isn't related to our vegetable garden?  Um... yeah.  This was taken in October a couple of years ago, right before building the second floor on the garage.  So, like, that's the tail end of a full summer of weeds growing there.  And the stuff growing in front of that window on the left was our blackberry bramble, so it was functional. But the roof-high skunkweed?  And the waist-high other weeds?  And best, the weed-filled window box?  That's just how we roll at stately Dick n Hisses Manor.  Heh.)  (For the record, none of this is visible from the front.  And the blackberries were lost in the remodeling job.)

Oh man, resale value.  That is... never a consideration when we start in on home improvements.  Clearly. 

I'm watching Good Bones (which I quite like) but I just hate open shelving in the kitchen. It's such a waste of space, and not everyone has nice dishes!