#mermaid tile backsplash

[harpe-et-nitroglycerine]

Great Room Kitchen in Tampa

Inspiration for a mid-sized transitional l-shaped dark wood floor and brown floor open concept kitchen remodel with a farmhouse sink, shaker cabinets, gray cabinets, quartz countertops, multicolored backsplash, glass tile backsplash, stainless steel appliances and an island

[foreverhisteddybear]

Great Room - Transitional Kitchen Open concept kitchen - mid-sized transitional l-shaped dark wood floor and brown floor open concept kitchen idea with a farmhouse sink, shaker cabinets, gray cabinets, quartz countertops, multicolored backsplash, glass tile backsplash, stainless steel appliances and an island

[sketchshelter]

Transitional Kitchen - Kitchen

[bomberqueen17]

kitchen status

ok well. so. we're at the point now where the countertop guy (his name was Ken and he had a cool laser thing and confessed he often enjoys playing with people's cats with the laser thing when nobody's paying attention; alas our cat is not home and missed her chance) has come and measured, and now the countertops are due on January 4th.

Today the electricians are finishing the installation of all the outlets and such, which is exciting.

My mother advised me that the one thing she regrets about her kitchen remodel of, gosh more than ten years ago now, is that she didn't immediately install shelf liners. So I am going to do that. A cursory websearch told me that you can in fact make your own from fabric, but I think I am going to mostly buy premade ones, since they're not very expensive and I want this to get done.

BUT I do have a lazy-susan corner cabinet that's got these big round shelves that the liners won't easily fit, so I am going to make my own slightly-padded lil quilted guys to go on those, I think that's the most expedient thing. i intend to fill that cabinet with my saucepans and baking dishes, so it doesn't need to be spillproof and grippy and all that.

ANYWAY the next thing I need to think about is COLORS. I found a bunch of my notes from when we first started thinking about remodeling the kitchen and my big conclusion was "i don't want gray! i don't want a kitchen all in shades of gray!" and guess what my new kitchen is all shades of gray. BUT. that's because I realized that getting brightly colored cabinets would lock me into one color. Like blue-- a lot of bright blue options in cabinets or countertops exist, but then you're locked into that specific shade of blue. And what if the cool accessories you wanted don't coordinate? No.

So I figure, i will pick ONE very bold color, and will paint the east wall around the window, the window trim, and the west wall and entryway that color, and then perhaps a secondary bold color will be what the dishes, spoon rest, and other replaceable accessories will be in. (I think some floor rugs too, at least in a couple high-traffic areas.)

But I need help choosing colors, so please do weigh in.

The kitchen is all in shades of gray with both warm and cool tones. The floor is grayish-mottled faux stone vinyl with a kind of warm cast. The cabinets are warm wood washed blue, which comes out to a fairly cool grayish color. The countertop will be a mottled mostly-white quartz composite. The backsplash will be (boring, I know, I know) white subway tiles.

The neighboring room, the living room, which the kitchen is now wide open to, is bright, saturated buttercup yellow, with royal purple trim. (The bedroom is deep royal purple with bright scarlet trim.)

I don't like pastels or desaturated colors. The colors I prefer are primary or secondary colors in jewel tones.

So I'm currently considering cobalt blue, emerald green, pthlao green, deep teal, mermaid blue, royal purple, or bright crimson as my main color, with the smaller secondary color being either goldenrod yellow, bright scarlet, bright orange, bright turquoise, or metallic gold.

My everyday china is in the classic Blue Willow pattern, and a few of the pieces are mended with gold kintsugi from the time period in which Dude was into doing that. We also have some CalamityWare because his sister bought us a bunch of that-- and that includes some soft furnishings, a pair of kitchen towels and a hot dish mitt and an apron and such.

Middle-Little advised me that the Pantone color of the year is "Peachfuzz(TM)" and that a pale peach or bright coral would be great colors for the kitchen, and she is correct, but that is not in the slightest bit to my personal taste so I won't be doing that. Alas. She's super correct though. But I have discovered I am allergic to those types of colors. What category is that? I don't know but I know my answer is No. And I feel like anything on-trend will soon be dated. (Also, and I do know this by chance, the Pantone Color Of The Year for like 2018 was a coral color, and like, why. Why do they keep coming back to this.)

I don't know what that means but that's my story and I'm sticking to it, LOL.

[cleansepro]

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Deep window and appliances cleaning

Scrub and sanitize kitchen sink and backsplashes

Cleaning and disinfecting toilets, mirrors, & basins

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Power washing outdoors

[phantombs]

Tangled. Cường and that wolf he keeps ride a shared and strained wavelength. / Content warning(s): Drug use (pain killers).

The water’s gone lukewarm.

The faucet yet plonks with a steady rhythm all drip, drip, drip.

Cường’s knees hike up further, flush against the cool, porcelain tub, and bleeds out the last of his pain-wrecked shivers. His body’s smoldering, withering with a swallowing heat, and there’s fires in his veins on a conquest, rolling and devouring.

His belly. His chest. Swamped in his lungs with tendriled smoke.

Hahahaha. Not feeling well, boy? a sneer chortles from within him, dragging and unkind – like nails, beastly through ungiving soil. Cường blinks lazily, gaze swimming and lost upon the backsplash of his bathroom tiles, dim with the diluted citylights in his living room, and deigns to answer. His finger taps idly beneath the water, light against the skin of his bitten thigh.

Oh! Swimming in it, the poison you like so much.

It flickers now, his eyes, to the toilet tank crowned with a tissue box, a popped-open prescription bottle.

“Yes,” he says more than he thinks he thinks.

Another laugh, trembling with the depth of an ocean plunge.

It’s becoming clearer to me how you aren’t likely to handle me alone. But that, I’ve known.

Cường looks back to the tiles, condensation dribbling obscure patterns in his oxy’d daze, and slips further beneath the lapping water. Maybe, he thinks back, dark hair splaying atop the surface, feathered out and mermaid-like.

His tongue’s fat like cotton, and his head’s slowed like tar, leaking, messy, an oil drum riddled with holes.

Everything’s becoming more than he can handle. He could bring his palms together desperately to hold the leakage, but the flow, he finds, is on a tireless, unending current. He doesn’t trust his muscles to speak anymore.

So, he doesn’t.

Cường’s fingers roam, gentle against the teeth marks marring his leg.

Do you hate me? the question comes, tinged with a flavor of laughter.

A car honks far, far away, somewhere beneath the yawning height of his dingy apartment, and Cường thinks on it. He breathes, water rippling gently to his gusting exhale, and lets the bleed of narcotics plunge him headlong into – bliss, freedom, a prison of unclear, water-colored thoughts. He doesn’t hate. He doesn’t much love, either, though, but he’s never been a soul to wallow in pity.

Even with the agony of turning. Even with the weeks like this, so hazy in his fragile, glass-like existence. He draws a human face on the tiles’ condensation and lets his lids shut marginally, lashes half a-flutter.

No.

Oh. Do you like me?

Silly. You’re too old to ask this. No, I don’t. I don’t like you. He doesn't like them as much he doesn’t like how his heart races with fear or love, or the way his lungs grow as he breathes in air. They only do. They simply are, he tells himself. He doesn’t hate them so much as he doesn't hate anything else. I’m just me, bruised and battered, and you in my skin are only me.

The beastly titter rings again, and he envisions it, that hunch-backed, toothy thing shuddering cruelly through his barking howl. He reclines back, head pressed against the bathtub’s rim.

You think you speak so plainly.

Cường doesn’t offer anything to that. His bathroom door’s left ajar, and he smells the burning incense wafting through.

What time is it? 7am. 8am. 10am. Night?

His naked leg straightens further, and he hazily notices a bruise on his knee.

Purpling, pretty as the season’s lavender.

But at least I keep you company, don’t I? If I’m you and you’re me, there’s no him or her or someone else for you.

Yes. Yes, I think you’re right.

Cường slips his head under the water.

I’m in so deep. You can’t get rid of me.

He doesn’t remember the care to.

[nancyqstudio]

Mermaid tile.  Coastal backsplash art at Nancy Q Studio.  Artwork by artist, Nancy Quiaoit. https://www.etsy.com/listing/744613069/mermaid-ceramic-tile-decorative-beach?ref=shop_home_active_15

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Designer Tiffany Duggan created this colorfully patterned townhouse for a young man. Interesting textures and bold colors were used to add character. Love the backsplash.

She chose a quirky color combo by placing a bright orange sofa in the library.

And gave him a tranquil green home office.

A gray master with a few pops of bright color.

Lovely colorful guest room.

The bath has navy blue mermaid tail tile and a rustic mirror. 

https://www.studioduggan.com/#home

[chokefriends]

Pit-town Strays Ch.3

Kidlaw softness and redneck shenanigans in a northern mining town. Everything’s fucked but whatever.

Rated T, no warnings. 

Ch. 1 - Ch. 2 - [Ch. 3] - Ch. 4 - Ch. 5

Read on Ao3 too, I’m Ossicle

The next morning was a comfortable jumble—coffee, laundry, and UFO ‘documentaries’ playing in the background on the big tv. Kidd thudded around in his boxers, yelling at Nami to put some actual clothes on for once, and burning toast in the oven.

“If your toaster wasn't being a radio, you might get toast out of it,” Law pointed out.

“Ah fuck that. I got a laptop with a broken fan that runs hot enough to burn the table… I can probably rig that up and it'll work. Hm.”

Law shook his head. “Whatever. Towels? I'm gonna shower.”

Kidd waved a hand as he dug around in a kitchen drawer full of tools. “Use whatever one, they're all pretty clean.”

Law found the stack of clean towels, and locked himself in the bathroom before going about his usual, highly involved routine. It wasn't like either of these tar-pit kids cared if his nails were trimmed or stuff like that, but he liked feeling put-together in the details, even if he'd slept in his clothes and had kind of a hangover.

He got out of the shower to find Nami sitting on the counter, chewing a toothbrush.

“Nami! The door was locked!” He hid behind the shower curtain and grabbed his towel.

“Yah.”

“That means don't come in!” he emerged with a towel around him and tried to shoo her out.

“What is it that?” She pointed at his skin.

“Tattoos.”

“Tattoos are hurt?”

“No, they're fine. Out.” He picked her up and set her outside the bathroom door, then closed it.

“My toothbrUSH!” she screeched.

Law cracked the door enough to stick the toothbrush out, then closed, locked and latched it. But the doorknob fucking rattled again like two minutes later.

“Nami, WHAT,” Law shouted, then scrambled to hide when Kidd responded.

“Nami says she needs Band-Aids! I dunno what for, but...”

“There's some on top of the fridge! Go get those!”

“What? No there's not.” The doorknob rattled again.

“Yes there is! Fuck off, I'm fucking half dressed!” Law called from behind the shower curtain.

“Oh, I don't mind—”

“I do!! Just go look on the fridge and let me dress!”

“...taking all fucking day in there…” Heavy footsteps went off the hall.

Law sat down wearily in the tub, letting out a deep breath. He rested for a minute, letting his eyes wander over the black spots drawn onto his jeans with sharpie. All his clothes ended up like that—he doodled the spots whenever he was bored in class or hanging out by himself. Just his thinking-patterns.

He shook off the thoughtful moment and reached one hand out of the shower curtain to grab his t-shirt and hoodie. He finished dressing in the shower.

“My turn yet?” Kidd grumbled when he finally reappeared.

“Oh, you do wash?”

“Haha. Go to hell.” He belched and grabbed the towel from Law.

---

Things were calm in their chaotic way throughout the rest of the morning. No more texts came from back home, and Law let that issue settle to the back of his mind. Nami seemed happy, though she started pointedly ignoring Kidd as soon as he made motions to leave for work. She focused instead on sticking band-aids to Law's shirt.

“The hell is she doing?” Kidd wondered. “Nami, the hell are you doing? Stop wasting those. I can only get the animal ones when the old blind lady's working the cash.”

“She saw my tattoos and decided they were boo-boos,” Law grumbled. He watched disapprovingly while Nami carefully patched up the sharpie spots on his jeans too.

“Ohhh, heh. You got tats?” Kidd looked him over quickly, but they were all covered up.

“Yeah, a couple in blackwork. They're kinda personal so I don't really show em off.”

“That's fuckin sweet, I wanna get some but they're so expensive. The piercings, I can at least do myself.”

Law shrugged. “Yeah, I got a friend with his own machine who does it for me.”

Kidd watched Nami, a little smile sneaking over his face. “Aw, that's actually pretty cute…” He took out his phone and held it up for a picture.

Law tensed. “Uh! I don't like pictures of me.”

“No? Kay I'll just get one of her then.” The phone made an obnoxious fake camera snap sound.

“...Great.” Law slouched in his chair with his head propped up on one fist.

“What you wanna eat later, any takeout requests?” Kidd asked.

“Whatever.”

“Chicken bucket?”

Law shrugged.

Kidd waited but just got more silence. He tried his sister. “Nami: chicken?”

That one was definitely ignoring him. Kidd gave up with an impatient growl and left for work, stomping his way outside with extra force.

“Ah fuck…” Law regretted his terseness as soon as the other had gone. Now he felt bad. “Nami, stop. Kidd said don't waste those.”

“Haha… yah.”

“Nami. I said stop.”

She startled at his harsh tone, and started to cry. Law sighed in frustration as she tried to climb up into his lap for comfort.

“Law, you hug me. I'm Nami and you hug me.”

“Law doesn't like hugs, Nami.”

She insisted, “Kidd is always hug me and give me a band-aid.”

“Kidd lets you have what you want too much,” Law observed.

But he picked her up to sit on his lap. She applied a final tiger band-aid to the middle of his chest, and he scoffed and massaged his temples.

“Nami, a locked door means don't go in. Okay?”

“Hmhmhn.” Now she was ignoring him and humming to herself. She picked up the pencil on the table and started adding her own designs to Law's stats assignment.

“Nami.” He took the sheet away and she looked at him in outrage.

“No!” she scolded him.

Law scolded her right back. “Hey! Listen! Closed door is no.”

“NO.”

“NO,” he said even louder. Great, now he was getting in a shouting contest with a toddler.

Nami wasn't having it, though. She slid down off his lap and went to go damn well do her own thing. A moment later, she came back and took the band-aid right off his chest before leaving again.

He shook his head in disbelief. “Damn, that's cold.”

---

Law brooded at the table for a while, staring past the little pile of photocopied practice sheets he was supposed to be working on and coloring his nails black with sharpie. A chair scraping the floor next to him brought him back to reality. Right… he was babysitting.

Nami climbed up on the chair and handed Law a little jar of something. Black nail polish.

“Heh. You think black nails are pretty, Nami?” Law smiled and accepted the peace offering.

“Yah.” She watched him shake the jar and inspect the contents. Her own nails were an even, glossy black—the product of Kidd's steady hand.

“I think it's nice too…” Law started on his left thumb, trying to match Kidd's technique.

“Our’s dad is say no, it's haggy.”

“Haggy?”

“Yah.”

“What's that?” Law could mostly decipher her toddler-speak, with all its fumbled f's and chubby-cheeked babble, but sometimes it took a minute.

She paused and thought. “Hm.”

“Haggy…” Law thought, and then got it. “Oh… fuck. Nami don't say that to anyone, that's bad.”

“Is bad?”

“Well… it's not bad to be, uh, that. But it's mean to say it to someone. It hurts.” He paused and looked at his hand, half-painted and definitely messy. He bit his lip and stubbornly went about doing the rest too. “Anyway, black nails aren't bad, they're babely. Especially on guys. Like your brother.”

Nami seemed satisfied. “And witches too and mermaids?”

“Definitely. Babely and not bad...”

She watched Law move onto his right hand, fumble it, and make a blob. “You do it bad.”

She dodged Law's attempt to give her an even bigger blob, and ran off screeching gleefully. Law gave up the task with a sigh and picked up his phone instead.

---

You: cheese fries.

Kidd: cheese fries??

You: cheese fries

You: or whatever you want

You: its your money

Kidd: cheese fries!!!!! !!; ✓✓✓

---

Kidd got back earlier this time. Law looked out the window, surprised to see it was still daylight, but a little relieved. Nami had been an on-and-off terror again that day. The little hellion signaled her joy at Kidd's early return by running up to him and screeching like a banshee.

“That’s a great new noise,” Kidd winced.

Law wasn't listening. He was looking at the message that had just popped up on his phone.

Bellamy: dad asking where u is……..

You: just tell him I took off early this morning

You: friend's place

You: back really soon

Bellamy didn't reply and Law swallowed a surge of panic. “I think I gotta go,” he mumbled.

“Cheese fries,” Kidd countered, holding up a brown paper bag.

“My dad’s home, and he'll want me to check in…”

“Cheese fries and I drive ya.” Kidd kicked off his boots and headed for the kitchen.

Law fiddled with his phone for a moment, but there were no more messages, and he'd asked for cheese fries, and hey, what was another few minutes anyway. He sat at the table with the two unruly redheads, both talking with their mouths full and shoveling down the fries without pausing to swallow. Kidd cracked a beer but took it slow, catching Law's glance. Nami quickly stuffed herself and fell asleep under the table with a blanket. They let her be while they ate.

“It’s the municipality's depot shop, so yeah, crooked as hell, but good-crooked, hahaha,” Kidd was explaining his new job around a cheesy mouthful.

“Oh? What kind of corruption is the good one again?” Law stirred his own fries into a mushy mass.

“Kind that pays cash and don't ask about certifications.”

“Oh, heh…”

Kidd shrugged. “Yeah. Little lax on the health and safety, but least it's not the Pit.”

“Yeah.” Law replied vaguely.

His strange host finished his greasy gravy-and-cheese mess and leaned back in his chair, stretching as much as he could in the small space. The black nails and metal-studded lips were such a weird contrast to the prissiness of the room—dusty lace valances and bonneted geese painted on the tile backsplash. The long-limbed boy just seemed so ill-fitted here; almost crammed in.

“So you got yourself a mess there, eh.” Kidd started, delicately.

Law sighed. “Yeah, well it's not really a ‘mess’. I'm probably overreacting. My Dad's just a little nuts about rules and family responsibilities… of which I seem to have the greater share…”

“Yeah, that's shitty.” Kidd chewed thoughtfully on a toothpick. “I wasn't tryna pry.”

“It's cool.”

“I meant your mani, though,” Kidd gestured with the toothpick at Law's left-handed paint job.

“Oh! Yeah that? Mess.” Law gave an embarrassed laugh. His left hand was okay, but his right was just a blobby attempt at two fingers.

“Want me to…?”

“Uh. Yeah. Maybe. Just if you want to,” Law laughed again, a little too loud.

“Yeah definitely. There's remover in the bathroom,” Kidd suggested.

Law went and cleaned off the smeared black on his right hand and returned. Kidd shuff-shuffed his chair over to Law's and shook the little vial of polish.

“Okay, gimme your uh…” Kidd noticed Law's flinch as he went to grab his hand. “Or actually, just put your hand on the table, here?”

Law placed his hand in the table, fingers spread, and Kidd went about his art. He somehow did each finger with only two strokes, leaning in close to execute the little flicks with peak precision. He laid his head right on the table, pillowed on an arm, to complete the thumb from up close. Law watched him frown in concentration.

“Nice. Don't move for ten minutes.” Kidd grinned when he'd finished. He blew lightly on Law's fingers with a pwfff to dry them.

Law put his head on his arm too, settling in across from Kidd. “Thanks.”

“Pfffwww.”

“Pffffffw,” Law puffed back at him.

“Haha, weird,” Kidd admitted.

“Mhm…”

Law drummed his painted fingers and didn't say anything for a couple minutes. Kidd let the silence stretch on, watching him as they both rested their heads on the table.

“...You worried about going back, huh.”

Law lifted his eyes to meet the other's, but then looked down again. They were too direct, felt like lasers.

“Doesn't matter. I’m needed back home,” he mumbled.

“Yeah?”

“Yeah. Or ‘required,’ I guess.”

“Hm,” Kidd mused.

“We don't got a mom, so.”

“She gone, or?”

Law shuffled and scoffed. “Well she was never my mom. She divorced my dad before I was ever adopted, and left their two sons with him. Went off somewhere. She comes back sometimes but she's like, a rich brat. I think she's actually very minor royalty in one of the shittier parts of Europe?”

“Heh, screw her then.”

“Definitely. So anyway, someone needs to make sure shit is in order. And watch my brothers,” Law explained.

“They're grown up, though, right?”

“Well, Dellinger's thirteen… and a little special… But actually, yeah, he's fine by himself. Way more than Bellamy was at that age.”

“Well, so you can just keep staying here!” Kidd decided.

Law laughed and rolled his eyes. “I can't just stay.”

“Yeah you can.” Kidd countered, honestly, and Law didn't really know what to say. Kidd pressed on, “Why not?”

“Don't think people around here like me much.”

“You think they like me here?” Kidd snorted. “They don't matter anyway. Nami likes you, and she never likes anyone.”

Law smiled to himself, thinking of the animal band-aids. “She's a good kid.”

“Just around you.”

Law withdrew back into silence, though he didn't make any move to get up, or to shake off the way their fingertips were lacing together loosely. He kept his head on the table and chewed his lip, looking at their matching fingernails instead of at Kidd.

“I kinda do too.”

“I... probably gotta go, for real,” Law responded after a flustered moment.

Kidd sat up with a casual shrug. “Yeah. I'll take you on the bike.”

“But, yeah, um… Maybe I could just come by sometimes, like after class, and, study here or just hang? Would that be cool?”

“Yeah!” Kidd's grin was so fierce and genuine it was impossible not to grin back.

---

They took off on the bike past all the tar-paper houses. Their windows were lighting up as the sky dimmed into grey dusk. Here and there firepits and packs of noisy kids sent up flurries of light and activity.

“The carpool again,” Law yelled to Kidd as they drove.

“Not all the way home?”

“Not unless you wanna run into my dad…”

“I don't mind,” Kidd shrugged.

“I mind.”

Kidd pulled into the carpool, stopping under the orange glow of the streetlight just as it flicked on. Law pulled off the helmet and dismounted with a little flutter in his stomach.

“So uh. Tomorrow?” Law leaned a casual hand on the bike handlebars, trying to be all smooth as fuck.

“Yeah…” Kidd watched him with a little smile.

Law leaned in, an answering smile tugging at one corner of his mouth. He didn't rush it—it was kinda nice to be the one looking down at Kidd for once.

But then something pinged the back of Law's awareness: A sound that sent all his internal alarms off. A car he knew… and not the old Volvo.

“Shit…” he looked up and down the highway.

“What, something up?” Kidd looked around too.

“Uh.” Law listened another frozen second, and then took off in a flat run for the trees.

“Okay cool see ya,” Kidd called to his back.

“Yup!”

---

Kidd sat on his bike and kicked his heels into the gravel for a moment after Law had taken off.

“Whatever,” he decided. Weird guy could go be weird or whatever. Not like Kidd cared. He fit the helmet onto his head and the lingering scent of hair oil and cloves struck him, close and unexpected…

Kidd felt his face and neck heat up again.

“...fuck,” he grumbled. He crossed his arms and looked around, staying hidden in his helmet and waiting for the stupid whatever feeling thing to pass. It didn't. “Fuck!” he told the streetlight.

He revved the bike and tore away onto the highway, weaving around the recent-model Caddy that was making its stately way past. It honked sternly.

“Fuck off, hippie!” Kidd yelled at it as he speed away.

[bewered]

Tangled. Cường and that monster he keeps ride a shared and strained wavelength. Content warning(s): Drug use (pain killers).

The water’s grown lukewarm.

The faucet yet plonks with a steady rhythm.

All drip, drip, drip.

Cường’s knees hike up further, flush against the cool, porcelain tub, and bleeds out the last of his pain-wrecked shivers. His body’s smoldering, withering with a swallowing heat, and there’s fires in his veins on a conquest, rolling and devouring.

His belly. His chest. Swamped in his lungs with tendriled smoke.

Hahahaha. Not feeling well, boy? a sneer chortles from within him, dragging and unkind – like nails, beastly through ungiving soil. Cường blinks lazily, gaze swimming and lost upon the backsplash of his bathroom tiles, dim with the diluted citylights in his living room, and deigns to answer. His finger taps idly beneath the water, light against the skin of his bitten thigh.

Oh! Swimming in it, the poison you like so much.

It flickers now, his eyes, to the toilet tank crowned with a tissue box, a popped-open prescription bottle.

“Yes,” he says more than he thinks he thinks.

Another laugh, trembling with the depth of an ocean plunge.

It’s becoming clearer to me how you aren’t likely to handle me alone. But that, I’ve known.

Cường looks back to the tiles, condensation dribbling obscure patterns in his oxy’d daze, and slips further beneath the lapping water. Maybe, he thinks back, dark hair splaying atop the surface, feathered out and mermaid-like.

His tongue's fat like cotton, and his head's slowed like tar, leaking, messy, an oil drum riddled with holes.

Everything’s becoming more than he can handle. He could bring his palms together desperately to hold the leakage, but the flow, he finds, is on a tireless, unending current. He doesn’t trust his muscles to speak anymore.

So, he doesn’t.

Cường’s fingers roam, gentle against the craters marring his leg.

Do you hate me? the question comes, tinged with a flavor of laughter.

A car honks far, far away, somewhere beneath the yawning height of his dingy apartment, and Cường thinks on it. He breathes, water rippling gently to his gusting exhale, and lets the bleed of narcotics plunge him headlong into -- bliss, freedom, a prison of unclear, water-colored thoughts. He doesn’t hate. He doesn’t much love, either, though, but he’s never been a soul to wallow in pity.

Even with the agony of turning. Even with the weeks like this, so hazy in his fragile, glass-like existence. He draws a human face on the tiles’ condensation and lets his lids shut marginally, lashes half a-flutter.

No.

Oh. Do you like me?

Silly. You’re too old to ask this. No, I don’t. I don’t like you. I don’t like you as I don’t like how my heart races with running or fear or love, or the way my lungs grow as I breathe in air. They only do. They simply are. I don’t like you when I don’t like me. I’m just me, and you are me.

The beastly titter rings again, and he envisions it, that hunch-backed, toothy thing shuddering cruelly through his barking howl. He reclines back, head pressed against the bathtub’s rim.

You think you speak so plainly.

Cường doesn’t offer anything to that. His bathroom door’s left ajar, and he smells the burning incense wafting through.

What time is it? 7am. 8am. 6pm. Night?

His naked leg straightens further, and he hazily notices a bruise on his knee.

Purpling, pretty as the season’s lavender.

But at least I keep you company, don’t I? If I’m you and you’re me, there’s no him or her or someone else for you.

Yes. Yes, I think you’re right.

Cường slips his head under the water.

I’m in so deep. You can’t get rid of me.

He doesn’t remember the care to.

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Christina Anstead’s Top Design Moves To Try This Summer

HGTV

Christina Anstead is probably best known as the star of “Flip or Flop,” renovating houses with her ex-husband, Tarek El Moussa. After her divorce, she’s carved out her own home design business and HGTV spinoff, “Christina on the Coast.”

But how well do you know Anstead’s aesthetic? In a nutshell, her stylish Southern California renovations tend to be bright and to focus on inside-outside living.

Often called “coastal chic,” her ideas might just be the perfect inspiration if you’re looking to freshen up your decor.

Curious about her signature updates, to see whether you could try them at home? Read on to learn Christina’s best solutions for making your space feel extra summery this season.

Dress up your outdoor space with rugs

A rug can bring inside comforts to the outside.

HGTV

Summer is all about spending time outside, which is why it’s important to make outdoor space welcoming. Anstead often achieves this by placing a rug on patios and decks.

In one episode of “Christina on the Coast,” Anstead notices that the back patio’s concrete floor looks a little uninviting. With the addition of a rug, though, suddenly this unused spot is transformed into a second living room.

Black, gray, and white outdoor furniture feels modern and chic

This chic furniture makes the yard pop.

HGTV

Anstead has a large backyard, and she draws on her own home for one of her best summer design ideas.

Of course, her yard is already gorgeous, with a large pool, dangling lights, and beautifully manicured grass. But perhaps the best feature of the space is Anstead’s choice of backyard furniture.

She has a lovely black, gray, and white theme, which not only creates unity in this large space, but gives the yard a sophisticated, modern look. Her yard includes not only tables and chairs, but also plush loungers—perfect for tanning or just relaxing after a swim.

Install accordion doors to bring the outdoors in

The doors help give this space a fabulous flow outside.

HGTV

Nothing creates indoor-outdoor flow quite like accordion doors. In one home, Anstead decides to make the most of the great patio space. For the long living room, she installs stunning accordion doors that run the full length of the room.

This gives the home lots of natural light and a great view of the backyard. When the doors are open, the patio blends with the living room, making the entertaining space twice as large.

These doors practically disappear.

HGTV

To give this house a real indoor-outdoor feel, Anstead picks outside furniture that complements the cozy indoor furniture. With the doors open, it is hard to tell where the living room ends and the patio begins.

Get a long dining table

This long table is the perfect place to gather after barbecuing delicious summer meals.

HGTV

Summer is the perfect time for a barbecue, but with friends and family, it can be challenging finding space for people to sit. Anstead has a perfect solution.

She likes to include a long dining table in her designs, often of fresh, natural wood that’s perfect for summer. The tables she picks look great both inside or on the patio, whether for buffet style meals in the backyard or summertime meals inside.

Add a blue backsplash

A blue backsplash can give your kitchen a fresh summer look.

HGTV

Want to bring that summery feel indoors? One great way is by using bright colors that make the space pop.

Anstead proves this in one episode of “Christina on the Coast,” with the beautiful blue backsplash she uses in the kitchen. The fun octagonal tile is a reminder of the ocean.

This backsplash gives off serious ocean vibes.

HGTV

Not ocean-inspired enough for you? Another of her kitchen renovations also gets the full beach treatment, with a blue backsplash Anstead describes as looking like a mermaid’s tail.

Use natural wood

Wood brings a natural vibe to this bathroom, perfect for a casual summer look.

HGTV

Bold colors may scream summer, but not every summer look needs to be obvious. White and wood tones can achieve a more mature look.

This wood door gives the bathroom an earthy feel.

HGTV

In one bathroom renovation, Anstead uses wood tones liberally. With a mostly white design and a pop of wood in the vanity, the space looks relaxed and subtly beachy. To finish off the look, she adds sliding doors in light wood.

Use tile that shines

This glossy bathroom tile brightens up the sink and the shower.

HGTV

Anstead knows that tile can really glam up a kitchen or bathroom, and it’s no surprise that she tends to go for tile that shines.

In one bathroom renovation, she picks a beautiful white tile with extra sheen and a hint of texture. It somehow gives the walls an illusion of movement, like the ocean.

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Watch: Christina El Moussa Lists the Family Crib: Is It Already a Flop?

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Christina Anstead’s Top Design Moves To Try This Summer

HGTV

Christina Anstead is probably best known as the star of “Flip or Flop,” renovating houses with her ex-husband, Tarek El Moussa. After her divorce, she’s carved out her own home design business and HGTV spinoff, “Christina on the Coast.”

But how well do you know Anstead’s aesthetic? In a nutshell, her stylish Southern California renovations tend to be bright and to focus on inside-outside living.

Often called “coastal chic,” her ideas might just be the perfect inspiration if you’re looking to freshen up your decor.

Curious about her signature updates, to see whether you could try them at home? Read on to learn Christina’s best solutions for making your space feel extra summery this season.

Dress up your outdoor space with rugs

A rug can bring inside comforts to the outside.

HGTV

Summer is all about spending time outside, which is why it’s important to make outdoor space welcoming. Anstead often achieves this by placing a rug on patios and decks.

In one episode of “Christina on the Coast,” Anstead notices that the back patio’s concrete floor looks a little uninviting. With the addition of a rug, though, suddenly this unused spot is transformed into a second living room.

Black, gray, and white outdoor furniture feels modern and chic

This chic furniture makes the yard pop.

HGTV

Anstead has a large backyard, and she draws on her own home for one of her best summer design ideas.

Of course, her yard is already gorgeous, with a large pool, dangling lights, and beautifully manicured grass. But perhaps the best feature of the space is Anstead’s choice of backyard furniture.

She has a lovely black, gray, and white theme, which not only creates unity in this large space, but gives the yard a sophisticated, modern look. Her yard includes not only tables and chairs, but also plush loungers—perfect for tanning or just relaxing after a swim.

Install accordion doors to bring the outdoors in

The doors help give this space a fabulous flow outside.

HGTV

Nothing creates indoor-outdoor flow quite like accordion doors. In one home, Anstead decides to make the most of the great patio space. For the long living room, she installs stunning accordion doors that run the full length of the room.

This gives the home lots of natural light and a great view of the backyard. When the doors are open, the patio blends with the living room, making the entertaining space twice as large.

These doors practically disappear.

HGTV

To give this house a real indoor-outdoor feel, Anstead picks outside furniture that complements the cozy indoor furniture. With the doors open, it is hard to tell where the living room ends and the patio begins.

Get a long dining table

This long table is the perfect place to gather after barbecuing delicious summer meals.

HGTV

Summer is the perfect time for a barbecue, but with friends and family, it can be challenging finding space for people to sit. Anstead has a perfect solution.

She likes to include a long dining table in her designs, often of fresh, natural wood that’s perfect for summer. The tables she picks look great both inside or on the patio, whether for buffet style meals in the backyard or summertime meals inside.

Add a blue backsplash

A blue backsplash can give your kitchen a fresh summer look.

HGTV

Want to bring that summery feel indoors? One great way is by using bright colors that make the space pop.

Anstead proves this in one episode of “Christina on the Coast,” with the beautiful blue backsplash she uses in the kitchen. The fun octagonal tile is a reminder of the ocean.

This backsplash gives off serious ocean vibes.

HGTV

Not ocean-inspired enough for you? Another of her kitchen renovations also gets the full beach treatment, with a blue backsplash Anstead describes as looking like a mermaid’s tail.

Use natural wood

Wood brings a natural vibe to this bathroom, perfect for a casual summer look.

HGTV

Bold colors may scream summer, but not every summer look needs to be obvious. White and wood tones can achieve a more mature look.

This wood door gives the bathroom an earthy feel.

HGTV

In one bathroom renovation, Anstead uses wood tones liberally. With a mostly white design and a pop of wood in the vanity, the space looks relaxed and subtly beachy. To finish off the look, she adds sliding doors in light wood.

Use tile that shines

This glossy bathroom tile brightens up the sink and the shower.

HGTV

Anstead knows that tile can really glam up a kitchen or bathroom, and it’s no surprise that she tends to go for tile that shines.

In one bathroom renovation, she picks a beautiful white tile with extra sheen and a hint of texture. It somehow gives the walls an illusion of movement, like the ocean.

The post Christina Anstead’s Top Design Moves To Try This Summer appeared first on Real Estate News & Insights | realtor.com®.

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Arplis - News: My 14 Goals for 2020

Goal #1 – Take Full Advantage of Having My Husband Home 24/7 The HH found me a heart shaped rock. Goal #2 – Take Better Care of Myself.  I got to go on a mini adventure with my friend Heather, the HH finished the kitchen tile, and I made some new pottery pieces. It was a good week! Goal #3 – Get Organized I am a week behind on my painting goals… Whatever. Playing in the garden trumps EVERYTHING. And that’s all I have to say about that. There are two rainy days in the forecast for next week though so I should be able to get some painting done then. The plan: March 1 – 7 Finish Up Hooking Projects for Etsy Update and Finish Tile in Kitchen HA HA HA March 8 – 14 Paint Kitchen Walls, Trim Doors and Office Door {Find new project for HH to get started on} March 15 – 21 Paint Master Bedroom Walls, Trim and Doors March 22 – 28 Make/Hang Window Treatments March 29 – April 4th – Finish up New Etsy listings Goal #4 – Get Proper Window Coverings on All Our Windows.  Well, I still have 6 Roman shades to make for the sun room while I know I need to get those finished before the weather starts to warm up {to block the afternoon sun/heat coming into that room, I also found some great curtains at the Home Depot this week that I think I’ll be using on all the upstairs windows. Goal #5 – Master Bedroom Make Over The rug I ordered for the master bedroom looked so good in the family room that I decided to put it there instead. I also ordered some cheesy mermaid pillows {totally out of character for me} and hey, what do you know, the room is almost done now. Goal #6 – Kitchen Update He chose the Snow White grout! I wanted a light and bright kitchen, and I got one. The HH thinks he did a horrible job. I think he did great {and especially for his first time}. This week I plan on painting the rest of the kitchen white and fixing the shade over the sink and then it will be done and I won’t have to think about it ever again! I think it looks SO MUCH better than before! Mini makeovers are just that. MINI. If this was our forever house we would have bought new cabinets and changed out the flooring. But it’s not our forever home and so for around $1,000 we were able to update the hardware on the cabinets, install new light fixtures, change out the backsplash, add a Roman shade and bought white paint to cover up the yellow walls. Goal #7 – Install Vegetable Garden On it!! Yesterday I pulled up the back patio area to make way for the new garden boxes the HH is going to build me {next week I hope}. The beds will be about 4′ 6″ x 6′ 6″ which I think is a pretty decent size for growing vegetables. I also rounded the corner on the espalier bed and will now be working on digging up a gazillion clumps of Iris {and moving those to along the back fence} to make room for my vertical growing area {slender bean tepees and black eyed Susan vines} as well as what will be the new back patio/bbq/eating area. The giant compost heap at the back of the property is still frozen so I’ll get to that as soon as I can. The plan is to clean up the back of the property {currently littered with a ton of old stumps and rotting wood rounds and weeds} and get that leveled off in the next month so I can plant a row of hosta along the back fence area and some Canadian Hemlock trees along the side of the fence to hid the neighbors backyard. It feels SO GOOD to get my hands in the dirt again. FYI: If you still haven’t ordered your seeds, Botanical Interests is currently offering 30% off online seed orders with code SEEDS30 at checkout. Goal #8 – Explore More of Maine  Looking forward to my next day trip with the HH! I think it will have to be on a cold or rainy day though because I want to save my sunny days for working in the garden. On the radar for exploring Maine this month: Bar Harbor, Maine Lincolnville Center General Store in Lincolnville, Maine Wallace’s Market in Friendship, Maine Alewives Fabric Store in Nobleboro, Maine Harpswell, Maine and Bailey Island Goal #9 – Host Some Sort of Get Together I think it will be a summer BBQ. Goal #10 – Read/Listen to 12 Books This week I listened to The War I Finally One  {having already listened to The War that Saved My Life last year} while working on pottery. I also popped by our local library and picked up a few books to tide me over until they re-open again {they are taking it  on a week by week basis}. This week I’ll be reading: Vertical Gardening Front Yard Gardens The Complete Cooking Light Cookbook Beach House Style Other Books I’ve Picked Up From the Library This Year: Olive Kitteridge Smitten Kitchen Every Day: Triumphant and Unfussy New Favorites Natural Color: Vibrant Plant Dye Projects for Your Home and Wardrobe  The New Bungalow Kitchen  Container Gardening by Stephanie Donaldson  A Piece of the World The War I Finally Won Goal #11 – Learn A New Skill or Craft My neighbor has been learning the art of fused glass {and coming up with some really cool pieces} and I’m hoping to learn how to make stained glass pieces soon. I also went over and checked out their greenhouse and will be starting the tomato seedlings over there in a few weeks. I’m excited! Goal #12 – Visit 12  Museums, Historical Homes or Botanical Gardens {and bakeries too!} January Maine Maritime Museum Maine Mineral and Gem Museum The Island Market  Cafe DiCocoa Hungry Hollow Country Store February Two Fat Cats Bakery Portland Museum of Art Speckled Ax  Atlantic Baking Company Rockland, St. George, Cushing and Port Clyde Maine March Bar Harbor and Desert Island Adventures Day One, Day Two and the Summer Cottage Rental Tour. A Really Awesome Bakery {that I’ll tell you about in a few days} Goal # 13 – Reach 5,000 Etsy Sales by the End of The Year  As of this morning, I have made 3229 sales on Etsy. That’s up from 2804 on January 1st. I didn’t hook a single thing last week but I  did update my Etsy shop with a bunch of new wool bundles {and will add more today + a few patterns}. Goal #14 – Once a Month Menu Planning {for 2} The fridge and freezer are stuffed to the gills and gardening season is fast approaching and we need to get a few freezer meals done before the chaos starts! Finding time though…. Gaaa. It’s a little hard right now. Have YOU made any goals for this year? If so, DO TELL! We all want to hear about them. Have a great Sunday everyone, ~Mavis Mrs. Hillbilly’s Update No update The post Week 11 of 52 appeared first on One Hundred Dollars a Month. This content was original published at One Hundred Dollars a Month and is copyrighted material. If you are reading this on another website it is being published without consent.          Comments I have wondered the same thing. Maybe she will address this for ... by Kathy Wolfe I used King Arthur's. The sandwich rolls were fine, but the ... by Mel Awesome! Do you have a link to the brioche recipe you use? by Christa H. I voted for the dark grout, but I have to say the white on ... by Holly I'll ask about the greenhouse. 🙂 by Mavis Butterfield Plus 5 more... Related Stories Week 12 of 52 Week 10 of 52 Week 9 of 52 #12GoalsForTheNewYear

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Home Renovation

  Hello everyone! How are you doing today? I hope you enjoy this beautiful home renovation done by Molly Griggs Interiors and with photography by Marina Storm of Picture Perfect House (also featured here). This is a two-story colonial home that belongs to a young family of four. They purchased their home and it was gutted to the studs to make it more open and functional for their family.

In my opinion, this home feels trendy without being over-the-top. I am sorry, but please correct if I am the only person thinking that people are overdoing when it comes to trends lately. There’s too much of the same and very little authenticity out there. Every house looks the same and everyone seems to be using the same “formula”. I have been working hard to find spaces that have a “soul” and I hope you enjoy seeing how beautifully renovated and decorated this home was. Nothing feels overdone and you can picture people actually living in these rooms. After all, that’s why we spend time and money with our home; to comfortably live in it.

Have fun seeing this lovely family home and feel free to pin your favorite interior pictures and share this house tour!

  Interior Design Ideas: Home Renovation

White kitchens will always be a classic choice, add neutral walls and dark-stained hardwood flooring to the mix and you certainly will end-up with a space that will stand the test of time. I feel that you can and should have fun with accessories, such as decor, lighting and even with certain pieces of furniture, but try to keep the main elements classic, especially if this is not your forever home. Classic and neutral sells.

Kitchen Layout

This kitchen features a fantastic layout and plenty of natural light, which is so important.

Countertop

Counters are Taj Mahal Quartzite. Taj Mahal Quartzite is a natural stone and it features a soft white background and subtle gold veins.

Beautiful Runners: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Kitchen Faucet & Sink

Kitchen: Kohler in polished nickel.

Sink: here & here – similar.

Cabinet Paint Color & Hardware

Kitchen Cabinetry and Trim paint Color: Benjamin Moore “Super White”.

Cabinet Hardware: Lews Pulls & Knobs in brushed brass.

Backsplash

The kitchen backsplash in 3×6 white subway tile.

Pot Filler: Kohler.

Woven Pedestal fruit Tray: Here.

Hardwood Flooring

Flooring is solid Oak hardwood in dark custom stain – similar here & here.

Get this Casual-chic Look:

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Lighting & Cabinetry

Lighting is Visual Comfort Katie Pendants – Others: here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Cabinetry was custom-designed by the interior designer.

Counterstools

Counterstools are Serena & Lily in Fog. These counterstools are comfortable and super easy to clean, which is a must when you have kids (of all ages) at home.

Bar

This kitchen also features a practical bar with built-in beverage fridge and upper cabinets. Great design!

Wall Paint Color

The kitchen walls are Benjamin Moore “Classic Gray”.

Window Treatment: Woven Wood Shade  similar here.

Dining Room

The kitchen cabinets continue to the dining area, allowing for more storage and counter space, which can also be used a butler’s pantry when entertaining.

Visual Comfort “Darlana Linear Lantern” – similar here (more affordable option – best quality when compared to others).

Dining Chairs: Ballard Designs, painted to match cabinets – Similar Host Chairs: Here.

Similar Side Chairs: Here & Here.

Dining Table: Custom from Here – Similar: Here & Here.

Living Room

This is why I love this home… because it feels like a real home!

The decor is approachable and comfortable, and that’s how I also like to live.

Paint Color

Paint color is Benjamin Moore OC-23 Classic Gray.

Similar Pillows: 3x 24×24 Tassel Pillows (similar here), 2x Block Print Pillows, 1x Blush Pink Pillow, 1x Lumbar Pillow.

Similar Sofa: Here.

Coffee Table: Here, Here & Here.

Rug: Mistana – Others Similar: Here & Here.

Tray

A woven tray brings some texture to this glass coffee table.

Coffee Table Decor

I like how the designer decorated the coffee table without over cluttering it. Simple is always best.

Sconces

Sconces are Savoy House.

Laundry Room

Upstairs you will find a newly-renovated laundry room with sliding barn door and dark grey cabinets. Trim, walls and barn door are painted in Benjamin Moore “Super White”.

Grey Cabinet Paint Color

Laundry room cabinetry is Benjamin Moore “Kendall Charcoal”.

Counters are white quartz.

Backsplash is white herringbone backsplash.

Hardware: RH – similar Here.

Lighting: RH – similar Here, Here & Here.

Floor Tile: Patterned ceramic tile – similar here.

Kid’s Bathroom

This kids bathroom is really a show apart. Can it get any more perfect than this? I don’t think so! Notice the stunning sink and the classic yet fun color scheme. Wallpaper is Hygge and West “Mermaids” in Red Coral.

Great Wallpaper Sources: Here & Here.

Sink: Kohler.

Vanity Paint Color

Bathroom cabinetry paint color is Benjamin Moore “Hale Navy”.

Countertop is white quartz.

Lighting: Rejuvenation “Carson” Sconce.

Step Up

This bathroom comes even with pull-out step stools under cabinet for kids to reach sink.

Cute Step Stools: here & here.

Hardware: RH – similar Cup Pulls & Pulls.

Pivot Mirrors: Rejuvenation.

Tiling

Walls feature 3×6 white subway tile wainscotting.

Flooring: Matte white penny tile.

Mudroom

This home keeps getting better! The mudroom is filled with creative ideas, from its herringbone tile to its cabinetry.

Flooring: Ceramic tile in herringbone pattern – similar here.

Lighting: Visual Comfort Hicks Pendant – similar here & here.

Letter Pillow: Jonathan Adler.

Cabinetry

Mudroom cabinetry, trim and walls are painted in Benjamin Moore PM-1 Super White.

Working Station

You can’t go wrong with a working station and this is a great spot for it. By elevating the desk you create enough height for a file cabinet on each side. Countertop is stained wood.

Counterstool: Gabby.

Powder Room

This has to be one of my favorite powder baths I have shared lately. This space features classic wainscoting, blue and white floral wallpaper, acrylic bathroom basin and a dramatic dark hardwood flooring.

Wainscotting in Benjamin Moore “Super White”.

Roman Shade: Here – similar.

Vanity

Basin console vanity with acrylic base is from RH with custom Taj Mahal Quartzite countertop – similar here.

Faucet: RH – similar here.

Mirror: here – similar.

Toilet: Kohler.

Blue & White Wallpaper

Wallpaper is Schumacher “Pyne Hollyhock” in Indigo.

Sconces: Visual Comfort “Bryant” Sconces.

  Many thanks to the photographer & interior designer for sharing all of the details above!

Interior Design: Molly Griggs Interiors.

Photography: Picture Perfect House (Instagram)

Builder: Lakewest Custom Homes.

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