Saturday, March 1, 2008

Help please...topic: RUGS!

I am in need of a new rug to spruce up the entryway for when we put our home on the market next week. I have exhausted the options within driving distance and am looking for some online help. Please let me know if you have any suggestions...

I am just kicking myself for not learning how to tile & tackling this floor. We have lived with this awful linoleum and I have some words of wisdom...if you have a rubber backed rug, don't let the sun beat in on it or it will discolor the linoleum underneath. Our floor is ruined...which is why we need another 30"x50" rug. I could just buy another one like this (cats have annihilated this one) but I am looking for something plain & basic that is different...


I am always asked about this piece of furniture in the hallway so I thought I would share with you one of my home organization workhorses. I HATE having mail all over the place. Well, I hate any clutter really. So this is my little mail sorter. There are six basket drawers; four small, two large. The small baskets house 1) my mail 2) hubby's mail 3) financial mail 4) coupons. The large baskets hold 1) my large mail/magazines 2) hubby's large mail/magazines. Tadaaa- no clutter! Everything gets sorted the minute the mail gets walked in the door and if it doesn't have a place to go then its new home is the trash can. :) The empty plantar on the top is our outbox. [& the bell hanging from the door is not some quirky decor; it is how Rusty tells us he needs to go potty]

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey, it's Meghan. I have a decorating question for you...We're remodeling our kitchen. Knobs on drawers and handles on cupboards or vise versa? Here is the link to our cabinets, they are in spice maple:
http://www.premiercabinetry.com/gallery/ds_kensington_sq.htm#

The knobs I have are http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&productId=100534854&N=10000003+524096+90401+4294966414
The handles I have are the same finish and very basic.