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Oh, cobble, I hope you’ll still feel that way when you see the mess I left in the kitchen.
Gotcha jackal.
The other thing I’ve seen done with a chair rail is wallpaper below and a complementary paint color above.
“I was forced to take the subway twice yesterday.”
Does your Supervised Release parole officer know about this? I thought he was supposed to have a special bus for you! : P
Oh and CGar the house doesn’t *require* any work. What I negotiated was to buy a move-in ready house with zero planned projects on day one. That freed me up to just decide which projects I feel like tackling on my own schedule.
Chair rail – interesting idea CGar. hmmm…
Arkady, that was a bunch of mumbo jumbo. Groovy stories are a valuable resource for everyone.
“I have my mom’s recipe, cobble. Will have to find it for you.”
Have I told you how much I love you recently? : D
Happy Easter and Passover to all. :o)
Totally unrelated,
but here’s a nice video by Maxence Cyrin.
It’s a piano version of
The Pixies classic:
Where is my mind?
It features Greata Garbo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NZdggNUvq0
Cobble, I would be happy to make them for you if you will tolerate them out of the box. Or use the Streit’s box yourself–they are really good! And I didn’t even use real chicken soup.
jackal, I thought the idea was to buy a house that required no work?
That said, your solution for the bathroom sounds good. That’s similar to what I did in my old house. Instead of a row of tile, in one bathroom, I put in a chair rail and painted different colors above and below. In another bath, the lower half of the walls were tiled, with a decorative band of tiles at the top, and then painted above.