And when your child comes in from playing and sits on the $6000 chair and he's got an almost-melted chocolate bar in his cargo shorts (he's already been twitching all over the chair) and smeared hands slippery from trying to dig it out but already the chocolate's come through the shorts onto the chair, well, you do get the picture...@carolins. That's a neat website. Wish there was one for the US. Speaking of the your homeland, the Netherlands, my best friend relocated from there with his new bride twenty years ago. Every one in a while he misses the terrible weather. You know, cold, rainy, cloudy, foggy, and if and when we happen to get a day something like that (we're in N.E. Florida) he misses home! BTW he's one of the best physical therapists I've ever met and I used to go through them like toilet paper!. He got rid of a terribly bad spasm that I had in one form or another for three decades, and he did it in three sessions. It changed my life.

I agree with the above comments. need to look at colours and wall coverings as well as adding decorations with mirrors, pictures etc. What type of style and colours do you like? I would use your likes as a means of starting a picture board with things you like. My oldest son is nearly 20 and I am only now reorganising my house to suit the adults living in it. take your time and enjoy your creative inspirations, get ideas from books, TV and magazines, but don't go for trend, go for things that say "you".

I never thought of that either. I can see the logic, though: if your dining room is right beside the deck, why also have a table on the deck? Have a nice sitting area instead. (Disclaimer: my dining table is beside the deck, and I have a table on the deck as well. Another failure of design sense on my part, I guess).

Oiling and waxing won’t change the colour without sanding off any protective coating and oiling with a stain. Sanding isn’t hard, just a light sand to remove the coating. As always start with a less obvious part like back of leg when staining to check colour.