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Renovating or re-decorating? Check out Farrey’s

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If you are planning to renovate or redecorate your home you should take a look at Farreys.com online selection of products for the home.

Anyone from a regular home owner, DIY’er, interior designers or even general contractors would find that Farrey’s has a wide selection of items that will enhance a homes decor. I’m just sorry that I didn’t find this site three years ago when we were renovating and redecorating our home.

On the Farrey site you’ll find everything from kitchen fixtures, bath hardware, ceiling fans, lighting, door hardware, and a variety of home products.

We are thinking of renovating our kitchen and our bathroom so I’m going to be sure to keep this site in mind when we are ready to start our new project. In the meantime I can browse through the sites name brand products by top manufacturers such as Hinkley lighting, Casablanca, Craftmade, Minka, NuTone and many others.

I’ve already added this site to my bookmarks so I can visit it when I’m ready to renovate or even redecorate. I really liked the design of some of the products that they carry.






Blinded by the light

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I’ve often thought of having some blinds installed in our house. I think I would probably have them in our south facing rooms since the sun is so very bright from early morning until at least noon. It’s absolutely blinding at times. There’s nothing like trying to cook something in the kitchen and not being able to see what you’re doing because it’s so bright.

I guess I shouldn’t complain. We only have a couple of east facing windows, no west facing windows, and the rest face North which makes at least half our house fairly dark.

If I had blinds installed in the kitchen at least I’d be able to partially shut them when the sun was too bright, and open them up fully again when the sun wasn’t shining directly in through that window.

I’ve actually been thinking of renovating the kitchen. That can’t happen until we finish the living room/ dining room (this weekend I hope) of course. I might even hold off until we’ve finished renovating the basement as well. I think getting more space in this house that we can use is more important than having the kitchen of my dreams. However, the kitchen is on the list of reno’s that we plan to do.

I’d like to give the kitchen a Mediterranean feel. It’s fairly plain right now, so it wouldn’t matter if I picked blinds that would suit the future kitchen because I’m sure they would fit in just fine with the current design and colors of our present kitchen.

I’ve always liked bamboo and wooden blinds as opposed to metallic, fabric or plastic blinds. I guess I’d better start looking for blinds soon since the sun is getting stronger and my kitchen is getting brighter!

I redecorate when it’s too cold to garden

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Now that it’s cool outside and we can’t be in our gardens do your thoughts begin to focus on the inside of your home? Mine do. At least in December, January and February as it’s too early to really begin thinking of even starting seedlings, the only things that I do plant or garden wise during those months is maintain my houseplants and the plants that I’ve brought in from outdoors.

That leaves plenty of time for me to think about home renovations- of which we are deep into these days. This weekend our tin ceiling will go up in our living room dining room!

I also think about decor.

This is the time of year when I move furniture around to give a room a different look, or buy new furnishings to replace old and worn furniture or again to renew a rooms look.

Some of you might have kids that are growing older and might begin to think of redecorating their rooms, perhaps buying some kids furniture. One site that you might want to look at while you search for furnishings for your living room/ dining room, bedrooms or kids rooms might be www.greatpricedfurniture.com.

As the sites domain name implies they have great prices on their furniture and more importantly some very nicely styled furnishings. The link that I’ve listed above is for childrens furniture and if you visit the link you’ll see some very nice dressers, chairs, nightstands and beds. I like that some of their furniture designs for kids are smaller versions of adult style furniture. Kids like fun stuff but as they grow older they also like to have things that are similar to what their parents and other older family members have. Purchasing furniture designs such as these is one way of telling your child that they are maturing.

Have a look at the site and see what you think of all their furniture designs. I’m sure you’ll agree that they have some quality products.

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