Thoughts on Sheen Striping and Wainscoting

So, I have thought about doing sheen striping in our dining room. I thought it might give it a little flair without being over the top. I have a conservative, traditional style, and LC is uber-conservative. When I mentioned stripes last night, he lost all color in his face and reminded me that he's "super conservative." This is nothing crazy. Our walls are a neutral beige color despite the picture of it at the end of this post. It's not yellow, I promise.  I like neutrals and love the color that is already on the walls. So, I have two questions for you ladies, first, what are your thoughts on sheen striping. It's just using the same color paint but with different textures i.e. matte/flat and semi gloss/gloss. It looks like wallpaper sans the paper. I am thinking I would do it a lighter color like maybe an ivory or cream type color just to make the room appear brighter and bigger.

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And the second question is your thoughts on wainscotting. I love it. I love love love love love it. Our floorplan is open as in our dining room is off to the side.  It's defined by the column. It's not an enclosed room per se when thinking of a traditional dining room. So, my question is would you put wainscotting in there? LC says it might not look right, but even though it is open and doesn't have a doorway per se, I think you can just put it around the walls and stop where they naturally stopped. What do you think? I think it's enclosed enough to do so.

You can see there is still a small wall behind the column where the wainscoting can wrap around. So, it's bigger than an L shape. It's almost a u-shape. Sorry, for the poor pic quality. It's off my iphone. We still don't have the net. Yes, I'm still alive and dying a slow death without my tv and pc. What do you think? Would wainscoting look dumb? In case some of you don't know what wainscoting is, I put a pic below. Most people have seen it even they don't know the technical name for it.

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Dying here!

Not literally, but still I digress....I have been sans technology for an official week now. No joke. Just Iphones. LC even joked about not getting tv or internet; because, we have our phones. Yeah, that's not happening. We have an appointment with the cable company on Wednesday no, not the EVIL cable company thank goodness! That will make a week and a half.  I feel like I'm in the Stone Age. I missed my Monday night which  is my F.A.V.E. night out of the week to watch tv. These are the shows I love:

Emmy Award nominated TWO AND A HALF MEN* has been the Number One-rated sitcom on television for the past four seasons. It's a comedy about men, women, sex, dating, divorce, mothers, single parenthood, sibling relations, surrogate families, money and, most importantly, love. More specifically, it's about the lives of two brothers, one brother's son, and the many women who surround them. Charlie Harper is a well-to-do bachelor with a house at the beach, a Mercedes in the garage and an easy way with women. His casual Malibu lifestyle was interrupted when his tightly wound brother, Alan, and Alan's son, Jake, came to stay with him. Complicating matters further are Charlie and Alan's narcissistic, emotionally toxic mother, Evelyn; Alan's deeply neurotic ex-wife, Judith and Charlie's domineering, unapologetically blue-collar housekeeper, Berta. Despite the complexities of their lives and their own strained relationship, Charlie and Alan have one thing in common - they both love Jake and want what's best for him. As a result, they manage to create a little family unit that promises to make each of them a better man.

The Big Bang Theory*
Leonard and Sheldon are brilliant physicists, the kind of "beautiful minds" that understand how the universe works. But none of that genius helps them interact with people, especially women. All this begins to change when a free-spirited beauty named Penny moves in next door. Sheldon, Leonard's roommate, is quite content spending his nights playing Klingon Boggle with their socially dysfunctional friends, fellow CalTech scientists Wolowitz and Koothrappali. However, Leonard sees in Penny a whole new universe of possibilities... including love

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER* is a comedy about Ted and how he fell in love. It all started when Ted's best friend, Marshall, dropped the bombshell that he was going to propose to his longtime girlfriend, Lily, a kindergarten teacher. At that moment, Ted realized that he had better get a move on if he, too, hopes to find true love. Helping him in his quest is his friend Barney, a confirmed bachelor with endless, sometimes outrageous opinions, a penchant for suits and a foolproof way to meet women. When Ted meets Robin, he's sure it's love at first sight, but destiny has something else in store. The series is narrated through flashbacks from the future.

ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE*, based on the bestselling memoir by Mary F. Pols, is a comedy about a single woman, Billie, who finds herself "accidentally" pregnant after a one-night stand with a much younger guy, and decides to keep the baby...and the guy. A newspaper film critic, Billie is barely surviving a humiliating breakup with her charming boss, James, who's still trying to resume their relationship. Pregnant, after a brief fling with her "boy toy" Zack, Billie and Zack make an arrangement to live together platonically. Billie's party girl best friend Olivia, and Abby, her conventional, younger married sister, eagerly look forward to the new addition and offer their own brands of advice and encouragement. But when Zack and his freeloading friends, including Davis, start to turn her place into a frat house, Billie isn't sure if she's living with a boyfriend, a roommate, or if she just has another child to raise.

The shows are all pretty funny! Hopefully, if you haven't checked them out, you will. I laugh til my stomach hurts every Monday=)


*All sitcom summaries are directly from cbs.com

Our new furniture

Well, almost furniture. LC's parents are ordering us our new bedroom furniture. I hope it comes soon. I hate seeing boxes. I want it to be organized and organized NOW. I am so thankful and grateful for this gift. It will look great in our master bedroom. We are putting my bedroom suit into one of the guest rooms.

This is the collection we have chosen for the bedroom:

I'm pretty traditional. I liked the look of this collection. Granted it is brand new furniture, but, to me, it has the look and lines of antique furniture. I'm not big on ornate stuff with a lot of carvings or anything contemporary for that matter either. It's just not my style. But, I do love going in other people's homes who do relish those styles. It's almost like borrowing something for a bit but not having to commit to it. Ha!

We also chose the Tortola dining room collection as well:

So, what do you think???

Is it Xmas already...

Geez, I don't know about y'all, but it seems this year has just flown by. And, it seems that Christmas ads and campaigns come earlier and earlier each year. I remember this will DEF show my age when Christmas season didn't truly start until the day after Thanksgiving. That was the day you could officially put your tree up! Nowadays, you can put your tree up whenever. Heck, when I was in college, my neighbor didn't take his lights down at all. He kept them up year round. He said that it was festive and saved him time from taking them down and having to put them back up. I call this L.A.Z.Y.

I came across this, and it just put me right in the Christmas spirit. I'm not a huge VB fan, but I like some of it. But these, LOVE LOVE LOVE!

Tibi sale on Rue La La

I'm so trying to get out of debt! But there are so many cute things on Rue La La today from Tibi for a good price. Someone go buy that long caftan for me; so, I can live vicariously through you!!! It's invite only, and if you need an invite, here's my link for one. All I see is your first name when you sign up; because, they send me an email letting me know that "Sarah" liked Rue La La. Ok girls, go get your Tibi on, make sure to let me know what you get=)

LooK at my pretty that arrived today...

Awhile back, I won the giveway hosted by Her Southern Charm. It was a $100 gift certificate to Cambria Cove. Earlier this summer, I saw a bracelet in one of the fashion mags I was reading, and I so wanted to get it or something similar. It was thin silver bracelet with a charm attached, and the charm was a metal copy of a wax seal with an initial on it. So pretty! As I was browsing Cambria Cove, I came upon these, and this is what my winnings went towards:

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The only thing I didn't like is that the only rolo chain offered was 16". I didn't realize how short that is until I received it today, but nonetheless, it's very very pretty! I found the brand on other websites and will def order a longer chain so, I can get more use of the charm.

Thank you Her Southern Charm!!!!!!!!!!!!

First Official Day at the new house!

If you follow me on Twitter, then you were able to see a few pics of the house. Sorry, I can't find my camera nor does it take good pictures since it's a POS. So, you can look on my Twitter profile to check out some pics. Sorry!!!!

This is what it looks like in our house right now:

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And, I cannot find anything. Poor LC was late to work because he couldn't find the box that had his work shoes and belts. I had to drag a pair of pants out that I have not seen since college; because, I have two HUGE black garbage bags filled with nothing but my laundry. So, I'm in my car headed back to work from dropping off cable boxes at the EVIL C*omcast on my lunch break yes heinous C*omcast took up another one of my lunch breaks. you have no idea how much of my time has been wasted at their office and look down to see a bright splash of pink. I'm like hmmmm what is that. Oh, it's totally a splotch of my bright pink underwear. Yeah, my pants are split down the seam. And no, it's not because my pants are too tight. These are actually big on me. Ah, at least it's in the spot where no one will see unless they are a perv. Because, hey, my co-workers shouldn't be staring down there anyways. And well, I guess I'll squeeze my legs a little tighter when I walk to ensure that none of my no-no spot shows. Geez, I am ready for a glass of wine......