Home & Garden

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before but fall is my very favorite time of the year. This probably sounds odd, but I feel more refreshed, more optimistic, and more ambitious during the fall then any other season. Maybe I’ll finally stop procrastinating and go ahead and purchase the dining room set I’ve wanted for so long.

I found a great selection of dining sets over at Great Priced Furniture and I do believe they live up to their name. I really, really like this North Shore Gathering Table Set.

In addition to great prices, Great Priced Furniture offers a 30-day money back guarantee and GE Consumer Financing with no interest and no payments until February 2009. I’m still looking at other dining sets on their website but so far the gathering table set is my favorite.

It is hard to believe summer is nearly over and fall is almost here. I never did buy the mailbox I was talking about a few months ago so maybe it is time to start thinking about that again.

Mailboxixchange is a neat website that features high quality mailboxes. I’m tired of our current little leaking mailbox so I’m looking at some of the post mount residential mailboxes. We live about 2/10 mile from the hard road so I’d like to have a big heavy duty mailbox as a replacement.

With over 1500 residential and commercial mailboxes it should be pretty easy to find just the one I want.

I’m on a campaign to improve and replace several things in my home and ceiling fans are on the top of my list. I recently found a website that has a selection of more than four hundred unique ceiling fans from thirteen manufacturers. This is the largest selection available online.

When we bought our mobile home a few years ago the people we bought it from promised to install two ceiling fans before delivery - one in the master bedroom and one in the living room. After the home was delivered, you guessed it, there were no ceiling fans installed. There were only a couple of gaping holes where the fans should be. Of course I got on the phone and let them know about it and they said they would take care of it and would send someone out with the fans to install them. Ha! By the looks of the fans they sent someone to the nearest discount store and bought two fans for the blue light special.

I’ve been checking Farrey’s website and looking at some of the fans they have listed there. I think I like the Hunter fans best.

I bet I have more tools in my house then most people have in their garage. Maybe that’s because we don’t have a garage. We do, however, have a shed but whenever I tell my husband to “get that stuff out of my house” he always says “there is no room in the shed!” I’m getting pretty tired of it.

I believe that just about anything that can be stored in a garage could be stored in our shed and I found some really nifty items for garage storage over at Car Guy Garage.com.

I’m wouldn’t mind having these 16 mixed storage bins with shelving for our shed. I know what would happen though. He’d fill it up and then say “there is no room in the shed!”

Here is a great way to spice up any part of your home with one of your own original photos. At PhotoFiddle.com you can turn your photos into a work of art.

Instead of using tired old prints and canvases I think it is a much cooler idea to use my own photos for home decorating. I signed up for the service and tried it out myself. LOL, I’ve spent a couple of hours on their site just uploading my photos and creating masterpieces from them.

The services at PhotoFiddle seem reasonably priced to me and the service is as easy to use as 1, 2, 3. All you have to do is upload your picture, crop the part you want to use and then apply your design. There are tons of designs to choose from from oil paintings to comic strips to collages to pencil drawings to, well, you name it and I bet PhotoFiddle has it.

Here is an example of a finished product.

Have you ever shopped for furniture online? I never have but I have wanted a new dining table for about a year now and I’m finally at a point that I think I can afford one. Soon. Very soon.

As I was browsing Best Priced Furniture.com of course the first link I clicked was Clearance Furniture. I’m always on the lookout for a bargain and Best Priced Furniture.com has 3 pages of clearance items. The thing that is really cool here is that a good portion of these items offer free shipping. Are there any words that are a bigger turn on than “free shipping”? Keeping it clean here I will say “free shipping” are the two words that can really get me excited. Not only does Best Priced Furniture.com offer free shipping on clearance items but they offer free shipping on some of their other furniture as well. Gotta love that.

Best Priced Furniture.com offers quality furniture at reasonable prices and selects their suppliers with three major criteria in mind: quality, service and value. All that sounds good but what about customer service? One of the reasons that I hesitate to order from any online store is lack of customer service but you won’t find a lack of customer service at Best Priced Furniture.com. There are several ways to contact Best Priced Furniture.com. They have three phone numbers listed - local, fax and toll free. They have their physical address printed on their site. They have a contact form and of course they have an email address. Best Priced Furniture.com’s customer service representatives are available Monday through Friday during normal business hours (9-5) Pacific Standard time to assist customers by answering any questions they might have before placing their order as well as helping customers find the furniture they need at the lowest prices.

Okay, back to the item I was interested in purchasing in the first place, a new dining table set. We don’t plan to stay in this trailer forever and I’m not looking for anything fancy or expensive. This 5 piece counter height table set is similar to what I have in mind. (And did you notice it has “free shipping? hehe) The finish is a little lighter than the idea I had, so I guess it is time to try out that customer service number.

I really do live in a mobile home but I don’t live in a trailer park - we own the 2 acres that our home is on. When we bought the home a few years ago we always had the idea that we would build a house on this property one day. Now my husband says he’d rather live closer to his work and we’re not sure if we will be building here or not.

I have been putting off doing any improvements, upgrades or enhancements to the home but this year I’ve really gotten into a home improvement frame of mind. One thing that needs improvement at the moment is lighting. Our home faces north and we positioned it to be surrounded with oak trees. This placement makes for a very pretty outdoor view but it also blocks out quite a bit of light.

I’ve been browsing Farrey’s the last day or so and with hundreds of thousands of lighting fixtures, lights, lamps and outdoor lighting my poor mind is going on information overload! That’s right, hundreds of thousands of lighting applications. Now that’s a selection. Fortunately Farrey’s is easy to navigate and I can shop for lighting by brand or application or style. I think my favorite line of lighting applications is George Kovacs but I still have more browsing to do. I just need to decide which ones I like best.

I don’t have a waterbed but my son and daughter-in-law do and they really seem to like it. Well, I’d have to say they like it most of the time because every once in a while I hear my daughter-in-law complain about all the trouble she has finding waterbed sheets, and especially waterbed sheets that fit.

It would be awful if my daugher-in-law had a blog with a category call “the Old Lady” where she rants and complains about her mother-in-law all the time like I do here, but if she does she can just take it down now because I have found the perfect site for her that is devoted to bed sheets only. The section about waterbed sheets is very informative and I’ll be sure to forward the link to her.

My home is on 2 narrow acres of land and is set pretty far back from the road. When we moved here we decided not to use a mailbox at all and only used our post office box to receive mail. As it turned out that idea wasn’t so hot so my hubby put up a small mailbox in case we ever had to give out a physical address.

The problem with that is our mailbox is way too small so if anyone sends me something by US mail the mail carrier leaves a notice in my mailbox and I then have to drive to the PO to pick it up. My other problem is that my current mailbox leaks. This wouldn’t be so bad since I mostly receive junk mail but once in a while someone mails me something (like NetFlix!) that I prefer to keep dry.

I may have found a solution to my problem with mailboxixchange, a neat website that features high quality mailboxes. I’ve always prefered post mount residential mailboxes myself but with over 1500 residential and commercial mailboxes I’m going to have a hard time deciding which one I like the best.