[OT] I'm MAD! (as in crazy)

> I also ordered this for the adjoining entry hall (also from > Macy's but I can't find it on their site):>

Sure is grand. I love your choice of colors for the rugs. I think wood floors with area rugs are the best look a room can have. Juno

> I also ordered this for the adjoining entry hall (also from > Macy's but I can't find it on their site):>

I approve. Carry on.

Really. Nice selections. Will look very rich.

Gorgeous is the one word that comes to mind in describing your choices.

Emily

I am so looking forward to the sleeker, cleaner look. The room echoed a lot with NO furniture and the wood floors, got a little better when I moved some of the furniture back in, and I'm sure it will be perfect when the area rugs arrive. I finished painting the adjoining dining room late last night. One problem with rooms which have no separation is that you have no stopping point for paint. Ah, well, everything really needed a fresh coat of paint. I also removed all the baseboards, gave them a light sanding, new stain and top-coated with low-gloss Varathane. Looks like an entirely new house! ;-)

Next is faux painting the "faux" rock fireplace to more closely resemble rocks. It has been "builder white" for 38 years....

Beverly

Wow, thanks ever so much, I don't know what I would have done if you had disapproved...

Thanks, it'll leave me a bit poorer. But happy!

Beverly

Thanks, I had a very nice sales associate at Macy's, he kindly took all the ones I wanted down (they were all hanging ) so I could actually see them on the floor and in close proximity to be sure the colors harmonized. Younger DD also came over and looked at a couple of the samples I brought home, and we brain-stormed on the best size, etc. It's difficult making important choices without someone to bounce ideas off of.

Beverly

You are really doing a huge update!!! Good for you!! It really will be like a whole new house. And the rugs are Yummy!!!!

Sharon

Did I mention my new fridge? Speaking of being a bit poorer......

I really does feel completely different! I was always sure that color on the walls would compete with pictures. However, the new paint color "Behr Wheat Bread" is lovely, a nice neutral taupe. It really doesn't add much "color", it just sort of perks up the walls. And of course, just having freshly painted walls is a big improvement over the 15 year collection of dings and bumps. ;-}

Thanks, I am so looking forward to having them. Now if I can just keep my elderly dog from finding a favorite place on one of them to potty.... :-(

Sympathy!

When I remodeled the kitchen 6 years ago, I decided to upgrade all the appliances at the same time: Stove, dishwasher and refrigerator, all in stainless steel. $$$$!

On the recommendation of a friend I selected a Frigidaire glass-top stove, and then decided to go with Frigidaire for the other two as well so the exterior trim would match.

Worst decision I have made in a **long** time. I LOATHED and HATED the stove. I finally replaced it with a SS Kitchenaid dual-fuel (sold the glass-top turkey to the neighbor across the street, I don't think she actually "cooks"). The DW is a POC (flooded the floors a while back and has to be run on the pots-and pans cycle to get anything clean, plus the rack arrangement wastes space), and an expensive part in the refrigerator gave up just before I was leaving on a trip, thankfully while still under extended warrantee.

All things considered, I would have been better off keeping the old white GE appliances, and just replacing each one as it gave out.

Beverly

I remember the tale of the stove. Meanwhile, I got a 24" glass-top Kenmore range and I love it. My dishwasher is an 18" Kenmore and it works very well. I had a relatively new Maytag fridge - about 8 years old, I think. But it was getting harder and harder to hunt inside it, and I kept standing up under the freezer door, leaving me with ugly swellings on the top of my head. I ended up getting an LG French door with bottom freezer, and it's only 30" wide, which is the space I have to put it in. My kitchen is not exactly roomy. All appliances are white. I insist on it.

That's my other knock on the Frigidaire refrigerator with top freezer: It has a lovely curved front surface on both doors, and I can't count how many times I have taken something from the fridge section, stood up and whacked the back of my head on the bottom of the freezer door. One would think after a few times one would learn not to do that. But nooooooo......

I love the idea of a French door fridge, but I didn't need it for my space, and the price is quite a bit higher. I probably should have looked more closely at the bottom freezer option, I'm sure it's more energy efficient. And one uses the fridge section much more often, so having it at eye level makes a lot of sense.

Next!

Beverly, who has to get to bed the sleeping aid is kicking innnnnnnnnn.................zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.................

It actually wasn't that much more expensive than the others I was looking at. Maybe because they really want to make sales right now. We could have done without the French doors, but it's sure making it easier for one person to get past the other person getting something out of the refrigerator - we really don't have a lot of room, and the kitchen functions as the passageway between the living room and the stairs to the basement where DH's office is.

DH says they are more energy efficient. I forget exactly why. He said but it's been a while. Since he was, for several years, a refrigeration dept. head for a poultry plant, I just go with whatever he says on refrigerators. lol

I can ask him again what makes them better if you would like.

Sharon

I'm in favor of getting tools which work for the workspace and intended purpose, so ya' done good.

Beverly

lf I remember my high school physics correctly, it's because with the upper freezer, and a door which swings opens, the cold air flows out and down when you open the door. Conversely, with a bottom freezer, you pull out the entire drawer/section in an enclosed space and the cold air doesn't

*go* anywhere.

It's the same reason that a chest freezer is more efficient than an upright freezer with a door. I don't like the difficulty of locating food in a chest freezer, but I actually found a small (5 cu. ft.) chest freezer which has a small drawer at the bottom, about a third of the total space. Makes arranging and finding frozen foods much easier.

Thanks, but mine is fairly new, so I'll have to live with the one I have until it wears out. Which will probably be any day now....

Beverly

I'd like to find a small chest type for the garage to keep more food when I can't get to the store. The drawer sounds great.

-- Emily

The drawer is a wonderful feature. I don't have to move a lot of other things to get to the stuff I want.

There are lots of 5 cu.ft. chest freezers made. The one I have was at Sears about 6 years ago, but I don't think they still carry it. I'll look up the name and model number for you if you want to do a search.

Beverly

I'm happy with it. Now if I could only solve the washer-dryer dilemma. Washer in the kitchen, dryer on the back porch. I did recently get a nifty wheeled basket like those in laundromats, only smaller.