I am in Australia but a weed is a weed and I agree with Design Solution Group, that I too just pull by hand, unless there are too many rearing their ugly heads, as is the case right now with Spring upon us. I mulch very heavily with wood chips or similar but the weed seeds still blow in from all over the place, so if you think by mulching, you'll have no weeds you're kidding yourself but the amount of weeds to deal with, will be, with good mulching, about 10%, so it's definitely the most important thing any gardener should do, especially, now that many of us have a ride on mower instead of a push mower, we tend to be quite extravagant with the area of garden we now have versus say 50 years ago. I have to say that for me, at this time of the year, I simply don the backpack or hold the hand sprayer, a little Zero or Roundup and a shield on the end of the spray nozzle to protect against drift, and I'm off to spray and I spend perhaps an hour and save allot of weed pulling by poisoning these weeds. If I tried to pull these same weeds, it would take me approx. 2 - 3 hours on my knees to save my back. Just to let the readers know also, that the chemical I've mentioned with Glyphosate being the active constituant, is very safe to use and in fact when my husband, a farmer, did a compulsory chemical handling user course, he learned that this chemical is almost safe enough to drink without actually doing that, safer to use than the hair dye we women use to colour our hair and is safer than a very popular diet drink that if consumed to excess can cause death. So don't be afraid to spray to help lighten the burden of excess weeds at times, less weeds means that the plant you are nurturing and has at times cost many dollars, doesn't have competition from the weeds for nutrients and moisture. It is also an interesting fact that weeds, like simple grass if it's in the wrong place is still a weed, puts out a toxin surrounding it's root system to try to kill its nearest rival to protect itself from peril!! I have attached a photo of an area of my still newish or young garden taken last spring, as I now have another rather large plant bed to the left of the picture. This area is the smaller section of my front lawn and I have also attached photo's of my bulb/flax garden beds, of which there are 5 up the driveway, an early photo of my small cactus garden and a garden area around my fish pond, also an early photo with the plants now quite developed. I honestly do not have allot of work even with all this area with the biggest job once a year being, having to pull all the dead branches from my 40+ flax plants. AND Watering during summer would be the longest ongoing job in my garden!!!

Try a mid-century modern rug like Hemphill's Rex Ray Area Rug Collection or Jaipur Traverse Caracas. I looked up 'mid-century modern rug' and chanced upon these on Houzz. I like the muted colours which would soften the cream on brown. The mid-century motifs would highlight the mid-century chair. Good luck!

Unfortunately susan_ 66 there is colour is psychologically and historically related either way, and dark blues re more often not considered masculine when building an interior. I worked in a design centre where much time was spent picking apart colour association, and used it to help market the products in imagery. There are feminine blues ofcourse, but my comment specifically mentioned indigo and low chroma colours, which are toned. With black and greys, and I used the phrase 'added masculinity' referring to the boldness and strength of colour they bring to soft and delicate colours of blush and peach. Just from that you can see how colour is associated, bold and strength= male, and soft and delicate = female. it is what it is. In my example, ie an interior, I meant it to be masculine. Baby blue I wouldn't have thought was masculine, but is a gender specific typically only when there are two options. Pink or blue!

My 10c worth: If I was to make a door like the one in the pic, I would use a piece of 38mm thick Triboard. Having a good-looking exposed track system is expensive for a larger or heavier door. Also make sure there is sufficient strength above the door in the right place to hang the door. We sell these sliding track systems in NZ, Id recommend the Henderson Rustic 80 system. Looking online overseas, theres some pretty good deals, but there's always the quality risk. Nor sure how much you are able to do yourself, there would be lots of savings to be made there, as usual!