I love the color in this living room and the oversized pieces inviting comfort.
Kimpton Hotel Palomar
“Sunday snuggles in the living room.”
This design encourages conversation. I would sit beside my friends, drink in my hand, and enjoy catching up.
Paisley H
“A home is made of walls and beams; a living room is built with love and dreams.”
Isn’t this elegant? Over the top, but welcoming. I love the fireplace and the candles and lanterns resembling a fire pit. The combination of wood and stone and glass and views is a fantasy come true.
Scandi
“My happy place, wrapped in warm hues.”
This one is my personal favorite. SO cozy for reading, watching TV, eating popcorn, having kids and animals in your lap…
I have never been able to afford much in the way of beautiful room designs or fancy stuff to furnish them, but due to my active imagination, I can enjoy picturing myself in fantasy rooms I find on the net. I hope you enjoy dreaming, too…
Color Harmony Palettes
We don’t have to worry about “money”. We don’t have to consider “practicality”. We can just relax and enjoy the idea of living in these rooms…
I love the emphasis on plants in the actual plants, the green of the pillows, and the art behind the bed. I love the wood and the texture of the rug under the bed. The color scheme is quite restful.
Freepik
Wow. And wow, again! Talk about a view! What a luxurious place this is! Hopefully, they don’t have any neighbors close by… :o). My word for this is PLUSH. I want to crawl into that bed and enjoy the beauty of nature.
Treza Karg
This room really is on my wave length, really speaking to me on so many levels. The design of the windows really showcases the beautiful woods outside. Again I love the plants and the rock wall and fireplace are to die for!
Once upon a time many years ago, I dreamed of living in a lighthouse. I loved the curling stairways in them and dreamed of living where the waves crashed around me.
When I got older I dreamed of stairways in my dream homes that would make a statement. These photos illustrate what I consider dream stairways.
Now that I’m proud to be older than dirt, I appreciate either NO stairways or elevators, but that doesn’t change my drooling over the creativity and artistry of these gorgeous creations.
I look at these images of what people have created as living spaces and drool and dream. It’s kind of a mini-vacation, drowning yourself in the beauty.
Lisa Smith – Pinterest
This one would give me even more motivation to keep walking at the gym – so I could negotiate these stairs with ease. I would love to see inside!
Marlene Alcocer – Pinterest
I would become a slug here – spending all day with drinks, books, and music here. You could come, too!
Michelle Reichhold – Pinterest
I will have to ogle this one from afar. For some reason, I get the urge to make bread – something I’ve had to cross off my list until further notice. Maybe a pot of beef stew in the slow cooker…
I would love to curl up here, with my coffee and a book, and while away the afternoon….
RoomToGo-Pinterest
With my fantasies, I definitely would be the cleanest person on the planet. This shower is wonderful, with places built into the wall for soap, shampoo, etc. The only thing I might add is a ‘lip’ between the shower area and the rest of the bathroom so the water would stay where it’s supposed to be. Fantasies abound here, though, for me…
Tonia Rogers-Pinterest
The only problem with all of this staggering beauty is that I would have trouble getting anything done if I actually lived with any of this. So beautiful!
We actually built a greenhouse on our property. I loved trying to make it work. Ours didn’t look like the dream one above, of course – it was more like a Quonset Hut –
Grower’s Solution
We discovered, over several years of trials and errors, that it wouldn’t work for us unless we could supply heat and air conditioning for it. That was completely unaffordable, though we tried several ideas, and a storm finally brought it down. I’m glad we tried it, though.
PlantedShack.com
Oh, I would love to have something like this! Isn’t it gorgeous? Can you see yourself with a drink in your hand, sitting at the table or lounging in a recliner, breathing in the nice weather with your feet up, visiting with a friend….
Pinterest – no attribution
I just love this, and I’m one who hardly ever takes a bath! I prefer hot showers, letting the hot water beating on my back take away the cares of the day. If I were lucky enough to HAVE this tub, though, I would certainly come around to the idea of lazing in here, up to my chin with hot water and bubbles, laying back and saying, “AHHHHHHH!” On a practical note, though, it might be difficult to get OUT of this one without breaking your neck…
As I travel in the net, looking for nice things to share with you, occasionally I stop – dead in my tracks – drooling. Not a pretty picture, I realize, but honest. I love stained glass, domed ceilings, luxurious bedrooms, plants, big, plush beds, and light – and this one has ALL of these! Talk about dreamworthy! I could fantasize for DAYS over this one… I wish I could have found more pics of this room so I could enjoy all the details.
Carla Dawson-Pinterest
I would be so much CLEANER if I had this gorgeous tub! Of course, my skin would shrivel up after staying in the bath too long, but those are DETAILS. Don’t interrupt my fantasizing! After drooling for a while, I DID go back and find that there IS a faucet for filling it with gloriously hot water. Just lean back, water to your chin, surrounded by warmth. AHHHHH! And it’s PRACTICAL – at least a little, with the stepping pad when you finally get out… :0)
When I found this photo, I teared up. What a glorious art station! It’s just beautiful, looks like it has SO many supplies all beautifully organized…
I still love it, but reality raised its ugly head and slammed me in the nose. This is a lovely fantasy, and I look at it longingly, but even if I could have this in one part of my art room, it wouldn’t look like this if I started to work at it.
Most of all, I’m a slob. And, to be able to do many of things I try to do, I would need to be able to flatten the drafting board part. And there aren’t any electrical sockets to plug in equipment, nor a place to set a container of water or tissues, or bottles of paint, or….
The list goes on and on, sadly. but it IS a beautiful fantasy, and I’ll keep the picture, just to remind myself how maybe real artists could use it…
I’m throwing my husband into this hole I had dug in the back yard.
At 2 a.m. this morning the light went on. My husband was sitting up, pulling the covers off me as he rummaged through the sheet, blanket and comforter, muttering. I determined that he was, in fact, awake.
We played a game of ’20 Questions,’ since he wouldn’t tell me directly what the problem was. FINALLY, after I got up, we straightened the covers, and I again asked him what he was looking for, after we determined he wasn’t cold, or too hot, or….. He finally said he was looking for the rope that went around the comforter, pointing to the stuffing inside it. We discussed THAT for a good 5 minutes before he agreed that the comforter didn’t HAVE a ‘rope’ running around the edge on the inside, that we didn’t need or want one, and that we should go back to sleep.
I was so frustrated with him at that point that it took me a good hour to calm down – and warm up – enough to try to go to sleep again.
When I got up this morning and came downstairs, he said, ‘hi,’ but had the towel over his eyes and was under his throw in his recliner.
Can you imagine taking a walk and coming upon this gorgeous place? I would have to watch my footing here, but it would be worth it to walk very slowly, looking all around, stopping to dream a bit…
Wow. I would LOVE to be able to spend time walking here and enjoying all the beauty. Whoever did this created another ‘world’ for people to enjoy, whether physically, being able to actually GO there, or just visiting vicariously, like we are.
I think I see a light, so it looks like you could walk here in the evenings, as well. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Pinterest – sorry, no credit to the artist was provided on this
I found this on Pinterest, and it revived my long-held wish that I could draw. Of course, if I COULD, I would do little else.
It would be so satisfying to be able to create like this, making people REACT, with just a pad of paper and a pencil.
I have a book that, if you work your way through the lessons, teaches you to draw. (Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards). I’ve tried it a couple of times now, making it through 2 or 3 of the 9 (I think) lessons, but then I bog down, totally intimidated.
Today I was reading through some of the reviews of the book, trying to get motivated to try it again. Someone said Keys to Drawing by Bert Dodson was a really good book for people trying to figure it out, so I’ve ordered a used copy of the paperback.
I don’t expect to become the next Grandma Moses, but it would be really satisfying to be able to look at something, try to draw it, and have others recognize what it is, rather than feeling like a 5-year-old.
We have decided “positively” (:0) ) that we will call a hiatus in converting fluorescent fixtures with regular fluorescent tubes to LED tubes unless we HAVE to because of failing bulbs. The one exception to this is the 8 foot LED tubes my husband ordered to put in our shop. The remaining ones in the house are in much-less-used areas, so we can put a cap on this project soon.
DRIVEWAY SENSOR PROJECT –
After fighting with our driveway sensors for another half hour in the rapidly increasing heat this morning, we have now designated this project one for the “FALL.” (We are trying to change the sound one of the two make so we can figure out if we have a vehicle in the driveway or just a deer – or our cat.) It’s too hot for my husband to walk down, stand in the heat, and then walk up over and over. We were using walkie talkies, but they weren’t working well, either. The gremlins are out in full force these days.
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Sleep Review
DREAMS –
I was dreaming of all kinds of things I would like to try in the art room. Maybe now that we’re not changing lights or working on the driveway detectors, I can get up to my art room for a bit today.
Josephine Neuse – University of Illinois Extension
I have a wonderful square foot garden that my husband and I created several years ago to enable me to enjoy gardening even as I get “more mature” and less able to get down and up again from my hands and knees and do heavy lifting.
We built SIX 4′ x4′ wooden ‘tables’ up on top of iron supports. We surrounded the six tables with fencing, then added chicken wire around the bottom to keep small critters out. We threaded neon tape through the fencing to make it VISABLE to the deer who come through from time to time. We added a screen door so there is a definite ‘inside-the-garden’ and ‘outside.
The tables are about my chest height and filled with “Mel’s Mix,” a soil substitute mixture of peat moss, vermiculite, and at least three different kinds of compost. We filled the boxes with the mix, after making the mixture in a used cement mixer. That’s the heaviest part of the gardening I do now. :0)
We marked the ‘squares’ of the square foot garden using wire criss-crossed over the tops of the boxes. We mounted a sprinkler head in the center of each box, tied together with hose, for daily irrigation.
We used to have a greenhouse that we built from a kit on the other side of our property, but since we couldn’t afford air conditioning and heating for it, it was truly a dream and wasn’t really useful to our efforts. We finally took it down when it was heavily damaged by a storm a few years ago. Now I buy plants from town.
I can just walk into my garden area, taking my spreadsheet diagram of where I want to plant things, move a bit of soft Mel’s Mix, and plant. My plan enables me to rotate my plants, avoiding disease and increasing yield. I also have not followed what I COULD do with my square foot garden, and spread my plants out a bunch for easier care.
Right now I have the boxes weeded and covered with weed cloth held in place by bricks. We’ve had several big storms and so far, the cloths are staying in place. That will hopefully enable me to plant without a lot of weeding first in the spring. :0)
I’m going to concentrate on lettuces, since I plan for us to eat a lot of salad, growing several kinds. My husband likes me to plant head lettuce, so I do, if we can find the plants. Otherwise, I try to plant three or four different kinds. I also want to plant a lot of spinach so I can use it in our salads, plus freeze some. I’ll grown radishes, sweet onions, and of course, I’ll use the two brick planters on the other side of the house for tomatoes. I’m at the dreaming stage now, so I’ll peruse lots of veggie magazines to see what else I might plant.
I WISH I were a good cook. I love the idea of growing herbs and spices, but I don’t tend to USE the fresh stuff much. I buy a bunch or two at the store, use a bit and end up tossing the rest when I haven’t used it fast enough. Maybe I’ll try a couple of the ones I use most often, trying to grow them in the kitchen, rather than in the garden….
It’s FUN to dream – especially while we’re expecting snow any minute here.
Our son is now a property owner all the way across the world from us. This is a view from the condo he bought. Property ownership will make him more secure – always a good thing.
We are happy for him. He is living where he wants to live, although the next dream is a second home ‘in the country’ there. He is as safe and secure as there is in the world today. He is able to live the way he wants. It just doesn’t get better. WE would be happier if he had someone to share his life with. My husband pressures him for ‘rug rats.’
Happily, he seems to be accepting our words about how proud we are of the man he is. I honestly have never personally known anyone who is kinder or more generous than he.
May he be ‘happy as clam’ (where did this expression come from? Are clams really happy?) in his new place.
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