Featured The Plate Wall is Making a Comeback

I love me some Erin ! I had a plate wall at one time,and a mirror wall at another. Yes I used to get influenced by trends ! Hence my hardwood floor story and the hatred I have for them now !

 

How can you hate hardwoods Johnny??? We changed tile to hardwood!

 

Johnny-You've whetted my appetite ! Who's Erin and tell Us the hardwood floor story ?

 

Very pretty! But yes a very singular and fancy style. It would look even better on a medium to darker color wall.

Lolll I told my husband it's like when the millennial trend was hanging shallow round and oval baskets on the wall. I didn't hate the look of that trend--they can be beautiful and the texture is lovely--but cleaning the dust must have been quite the chore.

I think we'd all readily accept a Chihuly wall though.

Yessss this is what I mean. Doing fun group shapes and paying attention to color and design to make one nice vignette. Symmetrical is fine too, but just thinking about the whole picture instead of just displaying random ones.

 

The closest to a Chihuly wall I've ever come was a photo of a Chihuly installation that my niece got for Christmas last year.

 

Birmingham Museum of Art has a installation and I've been a few times. I forget which Vegas casino has a gigantic one, but I've seen that. There was also a garden installation at the Atlanta botanical gardens pre-covid. The husband is a fan so we'll go if we're in a city with some. They are very pretty but it's hard to mess up art glass. Add light and it's always beautiful.

 

Erin Napier from Hometown ! It was a while ago when I discovered i hated hardwood so heres the story... We had carpeted floors and I decided I simply had to have hardwood. Mind you I grew up with wood floors and youd think Id have remembered that but I digress. So off to the hardwood store we go and order floors installed. The installation itself was a nightmare that went on for 3 weeks thanks to an alcoholic installer who I finally had to throw out and get someone else to finish. They were lovely and I was very happy UNTIL I realized they are dust catchers from hell and made the house very noisy ! Sound just bounced off them ! I ended up spending a fortune on big throw rugs and every time I had to clean those floors I cursed myself for giving into trends! I like carpet,I always have , and they are so much easier to clean ! Hence,I hate hardwood and my next home will have wall to wall .

 

@ola402 your fancy plate is very nice! I bought my mother an antique plate years ago & had it placed in a frame so that she would display it. The framing was expensive but worth it. Wannamakers oooh I remember that store.

 

@johnnycb09 having a 2 story house and had the entire house done at once I planned, boxed & researched. On top of the under layment we had natural cork layed on top for sound absorption, even on the steps. It also gives a better cushion so we did the entire house that way. Worth the extra $$. I have a big yarn looking broom that I use daily almost like what they refer to as Cuban mop with shorter string like pieces. Dust be gone. I have a thinner version for under furniture. Both have washable heads. I clean them weekly, the kitchen floor however is done almost every day. Spray wipe done. Upstairs since no one goes upstairs much gets vacuumed monthly & mopped.

 

We have hardwood with rugs. Vintage linoleum in the kitchen. I can't have wall to wall in my bedroom, or at this point rugs at all.

 

We have hardwood in all the major areas with carpet in the bedrooms, tile baths, and vintage lino kitchen. I've never had an issue with sound but our house isn't open plan and there are lots of furniture and soft textiles for absorption.

 

My house is much like mirana's. Carpet in bedrooms and hardwood floors or tile elsewhere. I've concluded that you just have to lay area rugs to cut down on the echo chamber effect. I like area rugs so for me that's no problem. My son has a black cat and found this very wide sweeper thing to do his LVP floors. He says it's so easy to just swish the thing around and pull up all the cat hair and dust. The sweeper goes under beds and furniture with ease. I''ll see if he has a photo of it.

 

What a great idea! Wish I had thought of that. But we're getting ready to remove the carpet from the family room and dining room (which are large rooms) so I will definitely consider cork under.

 

Bellagio. DH and I stayed there back in 2015.

 

@ola402 it really makes a huge difference on the old spine as well. Unfortunately, carpets do not make breathing with horrible sinuses easy. Similar to stuffed animals in a babies room. We knew when we were building, that this would be the first major thing to be done. And it was major since we did the entire house, but very worth it.

 

This is the sweeping dry mop my son bought and he loves it. He can do his whole house in minutes and even sweep under the beds and furniture. He has very few area rugs to get in the way. It's from Lowe's

https://www.lowes.com/pd/SWOPT-24-in-Micro-Dust-Mop-60-in-Steel-Handle/1001215984 OR

SWOPT 24 in. Smooth Surface Head with 60 in. Steel Handle Microfiber Dust Mop

It looks like it would work very well. I have something similar from Bona. The mop head is not as wide and it has a similar dusting pad that velcroes on. I have hardwood in the kitchen and first, sweep with dry attachment, then take off and apply the damp cleaning/polishing head. It's much easier than the old way I did it.

 

Yes similar to what I use. It can also be used lightly sprayed for light dust particles