posted on September 6, 2001 07:16:39 PM new
What does your place look like? Are you the decorator type? What style of furniture do you have? What's you favorite room and why? Show us a picture of your place or favorite room!
posted on September 6, 2001 07:27:17 PM new
Early warehouse. When we had to suddenally move my mother in law in with us we had to clear out all my eBay stuff from the second bedroom into the living room. We don't have a living room anymore and being doubled up for dresser and closet space with my wife means the whole place is jammed and cluttered. I am ashamed to show how bad it is.
When she goes in a nursing home we will have a house and life again.
posted on September 6, 2001 07:31:14 PM new
...hahahahahahahahahahah!
Ok, now that I'm done laughing, I'll try to answer.
What does your place look like? My house looks like 3 cats, one 14 year old girl, 3 boys ages 17, 19, 21, and two parents live here. On any given day you can find cat yak on the floor, dirty socks on the steps, bookbags and shoes all over the place, unwashed dishes in the sink, and piles of dirty laundry.
Are you the decorator type? Well, that depends. Is there a cat yak motif?
What style of furniture do you have? The kind you can easily clean cat yak off of, and can take 150 pound boys pitching themselves on.
What is your favorite room and why. The get-a-way Cottage we go to each year for our anniversary has a beautiful sitting/living room. No cat yak in sight.
posted on September 6, 2001 08:02:02 PM new
My decor is just that. "My decor". I like to think I have my own style. It's called busy (well most people call it cluttered). We owned our house for 4 years before we got a shed. Guess what's in the shed. Yep, Ebay stuff and lot's of it. We have a 3 bedroom rancher (my room, his room and our room). The living room stays the cleanest because the animals (5 cats and 2 dogs) and I hardly ever go in there. That's why it stays clean. Oh, I've been working on my organizational skills for awhile now.
posted on September 7, 2001 01:23:28 AM newROFL at Meya!!!
Mine is about the same as Meya's : minus the kids, add 3 more cats (total of 6) & a dog and add my mother who does't bend so well anymore & brought all of her years worth of stuff! At least it's easier to clean the cat yak off the wood floor which is in half the house. And no, I ain't sharing a picture either.
posted on September 7, 2001 03:06:17 AM new
Our house is carpeted with newspaper for the puppy, upholstered in siamese cat hair. We have accessorized with priority boxes and styrofoam popcorn.
You got it-I'm back in business, just can't give it up!
I do have a real job, working from the home. My beautiful sunroom is wall to wall file cabinets, computer, and papers I haven't filed yet. This was going to stay office, but the 'conference table aka breakfast table' is covered with goodies to photo and list. And nobody takes pictures to use against me later!
This must be a disease of some kind, and I can't find a cure. I'll probably be listing from the rest home.
posted on September 7, 2001 04:10:56 AM new
When you walk in my front door, there's a path (flanked on each side w/cartons of books and tchockes) through the living room to the kitchen. I haven't navigated to the sofa in months, though my housemate occasionally sleeps there (apparently he doesn't mind climbing over boxes to do so).
Since we're both busy working right now, the dishes are piled to the ceiling, but there's a clear path to the fridge and coffeemaker. Two coffee cups are always clean.
The cats' space is actually one of the neatest because none of them sells on eBay. We have a little "house" for their litterboxes. If we don't clean them by their deadline, they kick turds out where we can see them. That does get attended to.
There's a path from my bedroom door to my bed, but I have to move boxes to get into my closet or the bottom drawer of my dresser.
My office is more of the same: path from door to computer, flanked by cartons.
The bathroom is lovely and clean - when the cats aren't playing "let's slide on the chenille rugs and hide under the tub."
posted on September 7, 2001 04:35:53 AM new
My house is an old fishing camp that had an addition put on in the 1970s. The old part(kitchen,dining room) has wide plank walls that have been painted a saturated blue. The newer part has the typical exposed beam ceilings that were popular in the seventies. The furnishings are eclectic - bamboo chairs, plain oak desk,Corbu lounge, and built-in bookcases. I've got a bamboo fishing pole, a fishing tableau on a bookshelf, and photos of fishermen around. (I live near the river.) In my entryway, I have a funhouse mirror and a velvet German Shepherd painting. And cat hairballs barfed up throughout the house.
posted on September 7, 2001 07:39:28 AM new
I sit a big fan shooting down the hall because it equalizes the air conditioning in the rooms.
One day I came in and spilled a 20 cubic foot bag of styro peanuts right in front of the fan.......
It was really interesting all the places they ended up.
posted on September 7, 2001 08:13:07 AM new
Nah!! Irene This is the RT you don't get away that easy, what is NORMAL??
Gravid Just think of the fun you could've had if you had a kitten to chase all those wonderful peanuts around. They love 'em. That must have brought an "OH, Gee Whiz" response when it happened!!
posted on September 7, 2001 08:16:44 AM new
My inventory is neatly stacked on labelled shelving in the basement or in hanging file folders. Shipping room is also in the basement with supplies tucked under the shipping table or in a small cart (which rolls under the table).
posted on September 7, 2001 08:57:30 AM new
Waiting for decorator to arrive....Taking the big plunge: moving out of the huge cardboard box computer came in...to a somewhat larger box, which will be lined with E-Bay Logo wall-paper (if Ebay survives from it's heavy losses: it's stock lost another $1.62 so far this morning)...The carpet will be "patchwork" made up of unused USPS Priority Label, as I orderd far more than I will be able to use in this lifetime...Furniture will be assortment of texture and size packing boxes....Not decided on the main colour, yet...
Now, my cat...That's a different story! She's got taste...
******** Gosh Shosh! My "About Me" Page
posted on September 7, 2001 09:47:56 AM newOK, Irene, you asked for it! This is war!! Neatness is a liability in this business, we cannot have this in our midst...Gravid, where is that fan!! Shosh, LOLbring on those labels we have some wall paperin' to do at Irene's, anybody have empty cartons to add to the ambiance...this gal needs help!!
I used to have a delightful dining room which I took great pleasure in both for entertaining and our own meals on weekends.
Now the dining room table is lost under goods to be photo'd, photo set up, packing materials under table....sniff, sniff...chicken kiev, prime rib, or Soul Florentine just doesn't taste the same in the kitchen! Like the best cup of coffee is served in a fine china cup and stirred with a silver spoon..it really makes a difference in the taste (I swear!)
posted on September 7, 2001 10:54:35 AM new
zilvy -- "OH, Gee Whiz" yeah something like that. "Oh sweet Mother's fudge" and other expressions.
Stockticker has a basemant! I can't start to imaigine all the things I could do if I had a basement or a garage. I wouldn't have to spread a sheet and then vacuum up to cut a few pieces of wood.
We have 927 Square feet. I have some friends that have a bigger great room with beamed ceiling and a giant fireplace.
But then my mortgage is $312.00 a month.
HAHAHAHA.
posted on September 7, 2001 11:22:20 AM new
Gravid: Before you envy me my house, Gravid, perhaps I should mention that I also have two furnaces - comes in handy in the Zone 3 climate I live in here in Canada. Not many people without a basement in this climate.
posted on September 7, 2001 12:18:11 PM new
I do have a concrete tile roof. Unlike shingles which last 10-15 years, the tile will only have to be replaced every 50 years.
posted on September 7, 2001 12:22:19 PM new
Irene, came I come live at your place? Or better yet, will you come visit me and clean up my house to be as tidy as yours? I will even give you my bedroom to sleep in and I will take the floor. But give me advance notice..I have to get the priority boxes/packing materials/tape/dogs/cat off the bed
posted on September 7, 2001 12:30:27 PM new
This time of year - your place instead of mine. I don't mind the dog or cat on the bed - as long as they don't snore.
posted on September 7, 2001 07:39:30 PM new
In the living room there is the dogs chair in a nice black fur fabric (she's a Rottweiler), and the cat's footstool which has a much fluffier look to it. The sofa usually has priority mail boxes. On every bare surface there is something waiting to be sold or waiting to be mailed.
I won't even try to describe my kitchen where my office is. I clean it at Thanksgiving, and Christmas Eve because that's the only days of the year I actually cook on the stove and not in the microwave. Also clear the table so that we can sit and eat.
In reality my place looks like a store. During the holidays it looks like a decorated store.
posted on September 7, 2001 07:46:58 PM new
Ebay stuff is gradually covering surfaces in our house, which used to look pretty neat. My husband is out of town for a week so I've been dragging stuff into the kitchen to take pictures, and every kitchen surface has neat stuff on it waiting to be described. Hope I get it all done before he returns.
The awful part here is that we are very serious about selling the house and moving into a condo with no yard work to do. But I don't know how I can show our house until I've sold a lot of the stuff!!! This is SO HARD. . . . What to do, what to do!
: minus the kids, add 3 more cats (total of 6) & a dog and add my mother who does't bend so well anymore & brought all of her years worth of stuff! At least it's easier to clean the cat yak off the wood floor which is in half the house. 
And no, I ain't sharing a picture either. 
Hippy wannabe 
~^~
Not many people without a basement in this climate.