{"id":949,"date":"2010-03-24T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2010\/03\/the-misfits-challenge-help-decorate-my-house.html"},"modified":"2014-08-22T16:03:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T21:03:30","slug":"the-misfits-challenge-help-decorate-my-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2010\/03\/the-misfits-challenge-help-decorate-my-house.html","title":{"rendered":"The Misfit&#8217;s Challenge &#8211; Help Decorate My House"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The Misfit, from <a href=\"http:\/\/justbeinginfertile.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">IF<\/a>, has graciously offered to help me figure out what to do with my problem room.\u00a0 She\u2019s brilliant at design, and I\u2019m not so much.\u00a0 She said \u201cShow me pictures of your room and of a room you like and I\u2019ll give you helpful hints\u201d or something along those lines.\u00a0 Yippee!\u00a0 I may actually figure out this room before we move.\u00a0 I thought some of you might like to play along.\u00a0 Look at the pictures and tell me what you would do with this decorating dilemma.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/__cIxBvfbwM4\/S6qGgOmDioI\/AAAAAAAAAog\/Sa7Us8HVMzs\/s1600\/pictures+043.jpg\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/__cIxBvfbwM4\/S6qGgOmDioI\/AAAAAAAAAog\/Sa7Us8HVMzs\/s320\/pictures+043.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0I think this room was supposed to be a <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1269466423_0\">formal dining room<\/span>, but  it is much too small for our family to use that way.\u00a0 It is right off  the entryway and between the kitchen and <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1269466423_1\">family room<\/span>.\u00a0 The only thing that is a must  is the <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1269466423_2\" style=\"background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;cursor: pointer\">stained glass<\/span>  hanging in the window, it is too difficult to move and covers the view  of my neighbor\u2019s ugly <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1269466423_3\">air  conditioner<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pics of the family room, too.\u00a0 It is  not \u201cdone\u201d but is  the room I am happiest with so far.\u00a0 It is the perfect  green \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 (Green  tea by Behr)\u00a0 I like Art Deco, modern and antique  thrown together in  an eclectic mishmash.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s relevant,  but I also  collect Mexican <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1269466423_4\">Talavera  pottery<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/__cIxBvfbwM4\/S6qJNH3G6aI\/AAAAAAAAApA\/97Co4XUukhY\/s1600\/pictures+049.jpg\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/__cIxBvfbwM4\/S6qJNH3G6aI\/AAAAAAAAApA\/97Co4XUukhY\/s320\/pictures+049.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>View from the entryway.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/files\/__cIxBvfbwM4\/S6qJEVYuDUI\/AAAAAAAAAow\/hsxqgzcAzH0\/s1600\/pictures+047.jpg\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/files\/__cIxBvfbwM4\/S6qJEVYuDUI\/AAAAAAAAAow\/hsxqgzcAzH0\/s1600\/pictures+047.jpg\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/__cIxBvfbwM4\/S6qJEVYuDUI\/AAAAAAAAAow\/hsxqgzcAzH0\/s1600\/pictures+047.jpg\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/__cIxBvfbwM4\/S6qJEVYuDUI\/AAAAAAAAAow\/hsxqgzcAzH0\/s320\/pictures+047.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Family Room<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/__cIxBvfbwM4\/S6qJIMtOaDI\/AAAAAAAAAo4\/trXHlNZ2kEY\/s1600\/pictures+048.jpg\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/__cIxBvfbwM4\/S6qJIMtOaDI\/AAAAAAAAAo4\/trXHlNZ2kEY\/s320\/pictures+048.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>One more of the Family Room<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t wait to hear the suggestions.\u00a0 P.S. The Green chairs were originally purchased for the piano room, but I couldn\u2019t find what I wanted for the Family Room.\u00a0 If I found the right chairs for in there, they could be moved.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Misfit, from IF, has graciously offered to help me figure out what to do with my problem room.\u00a0 She\u2019s brilliant at design, and I\u2019m not so much.\u00a0 She said \u201cShow me pictures of your room and of a room you like and I\u2019ll give you helpful hints\u201d or something along those lines.\u00a0 Yippee!\u00a0 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Misfit&#039;s Challenge - Help Decorate My House<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Misfit, from IF, has graciously offered to help me figure out what to do with my problem room.&nbsp; 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