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Comments (57)In response to Mymabee, I live in a gated community for seniors therefore there are no children around here. Half of our residents are snowbirds. As far as sharp glass and a little poop. Get your facts straight, first of all residents are required by the rules to walk their pets with a leash, something many are violating. Secondly, it is not a little poop. We have many ferrel cats located here because residents don't follow the rules and feed the cats. It is my yard and I didn't enjoy picking up three to four piles of pop daily. Cats are smart enough animals that they realize that their paws COULD get cut if they encroached on my property, so they avoid it and no animals have been harmed. Now if I had a tumbler machine, I would tumble the glass. Cats still don't like larger stone, Arizona stone, but they like gravel. I'm on a strict budget and didn't have funds to replace all the gravel with another stone. I have placed a sign that indicates (and yes animals don't read) but residents can read and ensure not to let their animals use my yard to poop. Perhaps if they took the approach the beaches in Southern California and areas in New York where they issue a citation, it would be a different story. Basically I have the right to enjoy my yard, not everyone else and their animals or stray animals. I'm recycling glass that would otherwise fill the landfills, I'm saving huge costs in my design, and I have yet to get a complaint from the residents where I live. Most applaud my design and work. Now acrylic pieces, very expensive and I believe I said I was on a strict budget. Now, one last comment, the cities of Palm Springs, Cathedral City and Palm Desert use glass in their landscape I have found out. But I checked, no one uses all of the non tempered glass (including the particles that look like white sand) or auto safety glass. So if those cities are using glass in the islands of the roadway, that is more open and accessible than my place....See MorePOLL: Do you compost?
Comments (103)"We don't compost because the process puts the maximum amount of METHANE into the air." No, it doesn't......well, not if you do it properly. Landfills, where stuff gets buried and is prevented from contact with oxygen in the environment, is where a lot of methane is produced. But if you (or your municipality) composts properly, turning the decomposing material frequently to allow proper exposure to air and making sure it doesn't dry out, then only a very minimal amount of methane is produced or released. No biologic body will stay inert, so get that idea out of your head. Depriving that old banana peel of oxygen in the landfill allows it to decompose in an anerobic environment, thereby producing vastly more methane....See MorePOLL: Marble countertops - Yes or No?
Comments (145)More months have gone by since my last comment. No new etched. A few small scratches but nothing else. I wanted to update to add...I left an oozing bottle of grape seed oil on the counter and it was all over the counter. Left a dark mark. I washed it with mild dish soap and there is zero sign it ever happened. I have a watermelon colored kitchen aid mixer and one night after making something, I tipped the whole unit back and slid it across the countertop...left a huge pink paint mark that didn’t wash off. I got out the baking soda, wet a paper towel and in less than 2 mins it was completely gone. I’ve gotten so much stuff on this marble and I have yet to find a single thing that hasn’t come off with a little baking soda or dish soap. We’ve had it for a year now, used it super hard...I’ve even rolled out buttery dough several times directly ON MY ISLAND...and it’s still gorgeous. The same people who “can’t tell” that quartz isn’t marble probably wouldn’t notice any of the tiny imperfections that have happened because they’re less obvious to the eye than the fakeness of quartz pretending to be actual marble. Just sayin. (I’m not anti-quartz, just anti-“stone imposter” quartz. If I wanted a solid color counter, I’d totally get quartz.)...See MoreKitchen cabinet help
Comments (59)Thank you all for your suggestions! Some really great ideas in here. To update, we've found a contractor (who used to be a designer) that we like and will be implementing a lot of the ideas offered. Here's what we've decided to do: - Add a border/molding to the cabinet doors, and paint them a shade of white - I've given in to the husband - Add molding to the soffits to better "connect" them to the cabinets and ceiling and paint - Remove any decorative cabinetry borders and replace hardware - Granite countertops (I still can't decide if we should go white or dark, but our kitchen gets minimal sun) - Change the linoleum floors to hardwood to match those in the rest of the house (another reason for my going with the white cabinets) - Remove the cabinets above the stove and add in a nice (higher) hood - Put in a gas range (in the current stove spot), potentially adding cabinets under the range and removing that oven - Move the fridge to the wall to the left of the entrance to the dining room door and have a cabinet built in around it - In the old fridge spot, build in a microwave and a convection wall oven We should be able to get all this done within budget, though we've decided to postpone everything but the floors until June (a few months after the baby comes, rather than trying to fit it all in this month). Again, thank you all!...See Moremksmth zone 7a Tulsa Oklahoma
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