Hello Sharon, I'm guessing you're referring to questions you have posted in the Advice section? If so, click on Your Houzz (top right corner). You'll see a tab that says Posts, next to Ideabooks. Click on this tab and all of your discussions will appear. Hope this is helpful!

The best house I have owned I designed myself. (That's not to say it was perfect...when you design it yourself the mistakes can annoy you) This link explains how I went about it House Design

I would have two sofa's, one where the single arm chair is, I would bring the other sofa towards the fireplace /TV and place a sofa table behind it, a single arm chair could go between the kitchen and TV, loving that big Island cheers

I really feel for you. I had a similar experience when a neighbour recommended someone she knew who was 'really good'! He was extremely lazy and, apparently, suffering from depression and he had split up with his girlfriend! He did a dreadful job which took a week - because he was too depressed to work on some days - he only did about half the job and I wasn't impressed. It has ruined my relationship with my neighbour because she knew him to be really good. She won't even come into my place - I assume she doesn't want to see the mess he created! To top it all off (I had paid him cash - fortunately only half of what he 'wanted' (not 'earned') so he wouldn't be paying tax on it )- I didn't get a receipt. He also took my house keys so I had to have the locks replaced. Such a mess and then, I had some tradies through a couple of weeks later for an unrelated job and they asked me when I was getting the place painted? When I told them it had just been done, they really didn't know where to look. I seem to constantly get ripped off, so I'm not getting much done any more - too expensive and depressing.