QB,
Good for you and your remodeling...you made me laugh talking about your husband's spots...sounds like he doesn't move much. I can't get mine to sit still...which is good...he's always into something.
When you talk about your transplant what exactly are you referring to? I must have missed hearing about that.

Ouch...sorry to hear about the burns on your carpet but it was a blessing in disguise, ey? I'm glad you are going to get the flooring you want. Keep us updated on the progress, please.

Dee, I just wanted to add my respect and admiration for you...I've read your story in Our Voices, visited your site, read your posts throughout the various forums, drooled over these pictures of your handiwork and creativity, and I just have to tell you how very much I admire you and am inspired by you. I'm thoroughly enjoying getting to know you since your return.

These rooms speak such beauty, hospitality and welcome...

Eagle...I am so humbled by your words...I don't deserve them but thank you so much. HUG HUG HUG HUG HUG HUG HUG!!!You are so precious.
All I can say is God had bigger plans than I ever dreamed of and I'm so thankful that in the moment when life could have ended for me, I was lifted up by Him and the thoughts of my two children. Between the three of them, they saved my life...literally. It took me a year to share the pivotal moment in my life with BWS (Dotsie helped me), but I'm glad now that I did. I'm where I am because it wasn't my time to leave and I'm with who I'm with because finally...finally, I made the right choice. For Eagle Heart and anyone else to say I've inspired you brings tears to my eyes...simply because for so long I hated myself and everything about me. But, maybe putting my story out there on BWS so others could see there is an alternative to giving up was part of His plan, too. I truly am living a completely different life now...I'm happy, with a man I adore and who loves and respects me, and I'm so glad that I can show you through pictures how good life can be when we let it. Please, please, please understand that when I show things I'm proud of it's not to boast...but, as Eagle Heart recognized, it's to show hope and love and a spirit in finally finding happiness and doing what I truly wanted to have my whole life but never had...a husband in every sense of the word and making a house our home. I've invited many of you to come by our home anytime and 'sit-a-spell' but, Eagle, you have a personal invitation. It would be my honor to play hostess to you here. Bless you, sweetie, for your kind and loving words. I'm so touched by them...more than you can know.

Ladyjane shared in another forum that when we acknowledge and celebrate (I'm paraphrasing) the things we do well, it inspires others - I think her words were that it gives "hope and endurance". And you would be living testament to those words, because when you share all that you've had to struggle through to get to your here-and-now, it inspires others (including myself) to keep the hope and stay the course. We never know what's around the next bend, and sometimes the words we share out of our own experience are just enough to keep someone walking toward that next bend, instead of giving up. And those few extra steps can make all the difference.

I take your personal invitation to heart...and I offer the same to you...my house is small, eclectically furnished and the guest room is painted in what many have called a hideous turquoise, but it's full of love and warm welcome...actually, the theme throughout our house is adopted from Princess Lenora's signature - Love and Light.

Maybe my summer project will be to finally paint those walls a more lovely and lighter colour!

Eagle Heart...you're a treasure...and I thank you for the heartfelt invitation to your lovely home. Don't change a thing...your home sounds wonderful!

Louisa, the Harraseeket is indeed a beautiful inn. New England is peppered with them, isn't it? Southern Maine and the coast is B&B"ville".....many, many both big and elegant and small and homey. I'm only about 20 miles west of Portland. That should give you an idea. I worked out of South Portland for eons.

Oh and I lived in Wiscasset for 13 years...another great place and area for inns and B & B's

Louisa, I did a search for Benjamin Moore's Opal and found 6 different hues with "opal" in the name....
http://www.myperfectcolor.com/SearchResu...amp;Search=opal
Do you know which one you mentioned that reflects the colors in the room?

LadyJane, it's just Bejamin Moore's Opal. Nothing else in the name. They may not make it anymore, but we used it about two years ago the last time. They might have to mix it. Sometime you would think the walls are white, then you look at the ceiling and you can see the difference. We have carpeting that is somewhere between burgandy and red. Not quite as dark as burgand. The walls pick up the warmth from it. We had deep green in the bedroom once for a while and picked up the green in there. It looks darker in my small pc room than in the dining room.

Not far from Portland? It takes us about an hour to get to Ogunquit with traffic. So we aren't that far. My son is building in Harrison, which I had never heard of until then.

Ah...okay, Louisa. That narrows it down a bit. In the link I posted, I now see that there are just two opals that are so alike that it's quite hard to see any difference at all and that must be what you used. I love colors that relect things in a room. Before I left Wiscasset, I FINALLY had my lavender bedroom! I had always wanted it. The walls were a very light lavender, carpets were plum and I stenciled wisteria all around the doors. I absolutely adored that room. What I loved most about it was depending on the weather and the different times of day, the walls changed color. They could look almost pinkish at times, darker and lighter at other times. I miss that so much....another reason my ex-husband bothers me so much! Anyway, yes, I'm quite close to Portland. I have a nephew in Harrison. It's one of those rural areas that are up and coming with new homes.