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A Dirty Filty Estate Sale

I have been making an effort to stay away from thrift stores and other places that might tempt me to accumulate more neat stuff.  Why?  Why would I do that?  Well the fact is, I have my house on the market and it is getting difficult to find places to stash my loot and not look like a hoarder.  But I subscribe to a feed that tells me about estate sales being held within a 60 mile radius.  I rarely travel very far for a sale with the price of gas and all.  However, there was one today that was within a few miles of home and I couldn't tell myself, NO! It was in a 4000 square foot three story building.  Nothing was priced .  It was one of those..."make a pile and we'll quote you a price.  The bigger the pile the better the price."    In fact, that is exactly how they advertised it so I knew the rules before I left home.  Optimist that I am, I was convinced that meant I could make a huge pile and get it really cheap. Stuff was helter skelter.  It was filthy d

Exterior Painting

I'm a big fan of color and I'm not afraid to use it on walls, furniture, lamps, chandeliers, floors, you name it.  That's all on the inside of the house.  On the outside I'm much more conservative.  And the reasons for that are what I'd like to talk about today. This is not a post on color theory or what works and what doesn't based on research done with color.  There are a great deal of books on that subject.    I just want to talk about  being a sensitive neighbor and getting professional help when choosing a exterior color scheme...unless, of course, you are very confident in your ability to choose wisely.    There are those people who do a great job choosing a paint scheme for the outside of their building.  And there are those who could use a little direction. I'll be the first to say, it's not an easy task.  There is much to consider when  choosing colors for the outside that make it so different from choosing for the interior s