Modern Home Decorating

I am decorating my Bedroom in a Bohemian/Beach Theme, I would really like a comforter, home decor items etc. A store other than Pier 1 or West Elm…..small business stores or corporate I don’t care!!!!!

There is New Bohemia in Austin (South Congress Avenue "SoCo")

Have you tried Urban Outfitters? They have cute Bohemian bedding, rugs, pillows etc. They have a location both in San Antonio and Austin:

15900 La Cantera Pkwy, #19100 San Antonio 78256 and in Austin UT Campus 2406 Guadalupe St. Austin 78705-4809

We had this recent project which has a theme of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. It was actually a room for a kid who really likes Mark Twain books. So, his mom wanted us revamp his kid’s bedroom to that effect as a surprise. We got everything ready and worked out. From the bed to the antique cabinet back to the walls. We were about to hand over the room a few days before our deadline when we realized that we didn’t do anything with the windows except paint it. We needed to come up with a quick solution and we did. We just installed old Louisina-inspired wood plantation shutters. Our client loved it!

1. The stinging cells found on the tentacles of the cnidarians are called

polyp
medusa
nematocysts
collar cells

2. What is the function of the osculum?

to use its flagella to move the water
to let water into the sponge
to open at the top and allow water to leave
It is the area in the center of the sponge.

3. Invertebrates don’t have a

brain
backbone
mouth
stomach

4. Phylum Porifera includes what animals?

sponges
jellyfish
flatworms
roundworms

5. The Platyhelminthes phylum are animals that are

round with arms
flatworm-like
jellyfish-shaped
scale-like snakes

6. What is a complete digestive system?

having a mouth but no anus
having a mouth and an anus
having no mouth but having an anus
having no mouth or anus

7. What is the largest group of animals?

insects
spiders
crustaceans
vertebrates

8. What animals are in the bivalve class?

snails
slugs
clams
octopuses

9. What is the part of the mollusks that is a layer of tissue that secretes the shell?

foot
shell
visceral mass
mantle

10. Leeches are important in

breaking down waste material
producing oxygen
reattachment of ears
causing blood to clot

11. Which of the following structures do all arthropods not have?

jointed appendages
an exoskeleton
a segmented body
antennae

12. Which of the following parts of the sponge is used to allow water to flow into the sponge?

osculum
collar cell
pore cell
central cavity

13. Which of the following is not a cnidarian?

sponge
jellyfish
hydra
sea anemones

14. Which of the following is not a benefit of coral and coral reefs?

reduce beach erosion
clean bodies
decorate homes
habitat for fish

15. The Portuguese man-of-war is a

jellyfish
sea anemone
porifera
hydra

16. Which of the following is not bilaterally symmetric?

earthworm
roundworm
sponges
mollusks

17. The part of mollusks that functions for feeding is the

foot
shell
visceral mass
mantle

18. Which of the following is not a class of Mollusks?

gastropoda
bivalvia
crustacea
cephalopoda

19. What does echinoderm mean?

has an outer skeleton
has a head, tail, front, back, and left and right.
has both a mouth and anus
has a spiny skin

1. nematocytes
2. to open at the top and allow water to leave
3. backbone
4. sponges
5. flatworm
6. having a mouth and a anus
7. insects
8. clams
9. mantle
10. reattaching ears (in the dark ages)
11. jointed appendages
12. central cavity
13. sponge
14. decorate homes? (is this one not obvious)
15. jellyfish (although it really isn’t, but that is the answer you want)
16. sponges
17. visceral mass
18. crustacea
19. spiny skin

Me and My Friends made a list of Ideas and we don’t want to leave anything out!! We have ALOT, so please don’t comment saying something rude.
Here it is– *Swim at night.
*Draw on the road.
*Make a collage.
*Get my nails done.
*Make balloon notes.
*Read.
*Decorate a tank top.
*Make smoothies.
*Get random people to sign t-shirts.
*Write down what you do EVERY day.
*Carve my name in a tree.
*Enter a random Competition … AND WIN!!!!!!!!
*Swim with Dolphins.
*Find a way to earn Money.
*Have A picnic
*When you go somewhere public go up to a random person and do the yo gabba gabba dance!
*Go up to a random person and say Bieber blast HA!
*Rock Climb
*Create a crazy dance move!
*Swim in Michigan Lake.
*Make your own language.
*Talk to strangers in your own language.
*Go to a ballgame.
*Ride a boat.
*Go picking at a farm.
*Blow out balloons, put a message in it and hand them out.
*Blow out balloons, put a message in it and let them go in the sky.
*Set up a lemonade stand.
*Go canoing.
*Go to a Museum.
*Tie-Dye t-shirts.
*Have a summer fling.
*Road trip.
*Go to a water park.
*Splatter paint some were.
*Stay out late.
*Sleep in.
*Movies.
*Dance on a table.
*Climb a tree.
*Have a picnic.
*Have a cook out.
*Go a whole day barefoot.
*Water fights.
*Watch the sunset.
*Watch the sunrise.
*Play in the sprinklers.
*Go to the zoo.
*Build a sandcastle.
*Go to a park.
*Catch fireflies.
*Lay on a roof top.
*Leave inspirational quotes in random places.
*Burn all my school stuff in a bonfire.
*Jump in the water with all my clothes on.
*Stay outside all day.
*Get a tan.
*Get a job.
*Party it up.
*Get a new phone.
*Go to the beach.
*Go to the river.
*Watch 100 movies.
*Tag cars.
*Take pictures.
*Take pictures with random people.
*Go shopping.
*Meet new friends.
*Try to surf.
*Go camping.
*Go fishing.
*Sleep under the stars.
*Camp in someones back yard.
*Fry an egg on the sidewalk.
*Sneak out.
*Make a slip n slide.
*Wash your hair in the rain.
*Dye your hair crazy colors.
*Make t-shirts.
*ride on a motorcycle
*get a bunch of people u know(like ALOT) and play a scavenger hunt in the mall
*fireworks
*dress up like a bunch of weirdos and walk around
*have a charades night
*dress up with your friends and randomly go trick-or-treating
*go to a public place with your buds and scream as loud as u can "I WON THE LOTTERY!!"
*day of baking cookies/cake/brownies or whatever and decorate them with lots of yummies :3
*make over night.. friends get 2 do your makeup
*truth or dare with lots of people
*karaoke
*smores ;D
*in the middle of the night run by every neighbors houses ringing the door bell (without stopping)
*prank call (call pizza hut, give them a wrong address.. or call Walmart)
*Sneak out of the house with your friends
*dare each other to do a prank and see who gets away with it
*cut the power off in your house at night play hide and seek in the dark
*jump around in the rain
*go somewhere public and pretend like your dieing
*fart in your friends face wen they fall asleep
*jump on a train that u have no idea were its taking u
*get on and off any random bus that is coming your way and c were u end up and try 2 get back home
*try 2 stay up for a few days without sleeping
*burn all your notebooks
*climb a tree somewhere and spy on people walking by
*drop water balloons from the top of a building on people walking below
*try to sneak into as many movies as u can in 1 day, starting at 12AM.. until 12AM the next day
*at night sneak over to an old persons house & garden their yard, watch them come out in the morning
*randomly help people with their bags at a Walmart or a Store for an hour
*build the AWESOMEST sand castle at the beach
*bonfire
*draw with chalk on random persons driveway
*have a race with your friends on the back of a store cart
*run around in the sprinklers
*finger painting!!!!!!
*spend a night on the beach
*fill water balloons with different colors of paint, post them 2 a wall, then pop them with darts
*make weird designs on your body with your sunscreen so wen u tan, u will have weird lines all over
*crazy hair day, paint and gel it
*twister
*have a sleep over
*go paint-balling
*have a sleepover and play runway
*at the mall, go in a store and put their clothes on, then pretend your a mannequin in the window
*ask 2 use the microphone in the store 2 find your mom, then instead just sing a weird song
*make out with the car window as your driving
*Bungee Jumping.
*Indoor skydiving.
*Paint balling.

hello friend
I read your ideas list. And i think if u need some fun in
this summer than u can do:
Read,
Writing,
Swim with Dolphins,
Have a picnic,
Rock Climb,
Create a crazy dance move!,
low out balloons, put a message in it and hand them out,
Have a cook out,
Meet new friends,
make painting.

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Me and My Friends made a list of Ideas and we don’t want to leave anything out!! We have ALOT, so please don’t comment saying something rude.
Here it is– *Swim at night.
*Draw on the road.
*Make a collage.
*Get my nails done.
*Make balloon notes.
*Read.
*Decorate a tank top.
*Make smoothies.
*Get random people to sign t-shirts.
*Write down what you do EVERY day.
*Carve my name in a tree.
*Enter a random Competition … AND WIN!!!!!!!!
*Swim with Dolphins.
*Find a way to earn Money.
*Have A picnic
*When you go somewhere public go up to a random person and do the yo gabba gabba dance!
*Go up to a random person and say Bieber blast HA!
*Rock Climb
*Create a crazy dance move!
*Swim in Michigan Lake.
*Make your own language.
*Talk to strangers in your own language.
*Go to a ballgame.
*Ride a boat.
*Go picking at a farm.
*Blow out balloons, put a message in it and hand them out.
*Blow out balloons, put a message in it and let them go in the sky.
*Set up a lemonade stand.
*Go canoing.
*Go to a Museum.
*Tie-Dye t-shirts.
*Have a summer fling.
*Road trip.
*Go to a water park.
*Splatter paint some were.
*Stay out late.
*Sleep in.
*Movies.
*Dance on a table.
*Climb a tree.
*Have a picnic.
*Have a cook out.
*Go a whole day barefoot.
*Water fights.
*Watch the sunset.
*Watch the sunrise.
*Play in the sprinklers.
*Go to the zoo.
*Build a sandcastle.
*Go to a park.
*Catch fireflies.
*Lay on a roof top.
*Leave inspirational quotes in random places.
*Burn all my school stuff in a bonfire.
*Jump in the water with all my clothes on.
*Stay outside all day.
*Get a tan.
*Get a job.
*Party it up.
*Get a new phone.
*Go to the beach.
*Go to the river.
*Watch 100 movies.
*Tag cars.
*Take pictures.
*Take pictures with random people.
*Go shopping.
*Meet new friends.
*Try to surf.
*Go camping.
*Go fishing.
*Sleep under the stars.
*Camp in someones back yard.
*Fry an egg on the sidewalk.
*Sneak out.
*Make a slip n slide.
*Wash your hair in the rain.
*Dye your hair crazy colors.
*Make t-shirts.
*ride on a motorcycle
*get a bunch of people u know(like ALOT) and play a scavenger hunt in the mall
*fireworks
*dress up like a bunch of weirdos and walk around
*have a charades night
*dress up with your friends and randomly go trick-or-treating
*go to a public place with your buds and scream as loud as u can "I WON THE LOTTERY!!"
*day of baking cookies/cake/brownies or whatever and decorate them with lots of yummies :3
*make over night.. friends get 2 do your makeup
*truth or dare with lots of people
*karaoke
*smores ;D
*in the middle of the night run by every neighbors houses ringing the door bell (without stopping)
*prank call (call pizza hut, give them a wrong address.. or call Walmart)
*Sneak out of the house with your friends
*dare each other to do a prank and see who gets away with it
*cut the power off in your house at night play hide and seek in the dark
*jump around in the rain
*go somewhere public and pretend like your dieing
*fart in your friends face wen they fall asleep
*jump on a train that u have no idea were its taking u
*get on and off any random bus that is coming your way and c were u end up and try 2 get back home
*try 2 stay up for a few days without sleeping
*burn all your notebooks
*climb a tree somewhere and spy on people walking by
*drop water balloons from the top of a building on people walking below
*try to sneak into as many movies as u can in 1 day, starting at 12AM.. until 12AM the next day
*at night sneak over to an old persons house & garden their yard, watch them come out in the morning
*randomly help people with their bags at a Walmart or a Store for an hour
*build the AWESOMEST sand castle at the beach
*bonfire
*draw with chalk on random persons driveway
*have a race with your friends on the back of a store cart
*run around in the sprinklers
*finger painting!!!!!!
*spend a night on the beach
*fill water balloons with different colors of paint, post them 2 a wall, then pop them with darts
*make weird designs on your body with your sunscreen so wen u tan, u will have weird lines all over
*crazy hair day, paint and gel it
*twister
*have a sleep over
*go paint-balling
*have a sleepover and play runway
*at the mall, go in a store and put their clothes on, then pretend your a mannequin in the window
*ask 2 use the microphone in the store 2 find your mom, then instead just sing a weird song
*make out with the car window as your driving
If you want to take this list for your list go ahead!

I would
Go up to people an ask if they want a massage
Give my friends massages
Tell people the world is going to end
Glare at strangers

We have bought a small beach house in Maine and after much interior and exterior work I am just beginning to decorate it. I do not want to go out and buy all new furniture because the house would then feel like a home and not a vacation spot. That being said, I have been collecting furniture from tag sales and flea markets. I have 3 nice beds, 1 is an old fire house wrought iron twin bed, another is a full size four poster bed with acorn finials and the 3rd is an old simple queen maple bed. The poster bed I will re-finish, the maple bed will be painted and the wrought iron needs painting as well. Also, I have 3 night stands, old and dated with leather tops and casters for rolling the pieces. I will remove the casters and want to paint the stands but I’m unsure what colors I could paint with black leather tops. Same goes for the dressers, I have 3 old dressers, one has really nice sea shell drawer handles, the other are just simple old hardware. I will replace the hardware with colored glass knobs on the two dressers and obviously leave the sea shells alone. I have a big rectangle wood kitchen table and 6 miss-matched wood chairs. Should I paint each chair a different color or co-ordinate them by painting them all the same color? What about the table, should I paint it? Maybe just the legs or top?
Okay, I need help with colors. I want to keep things very light and breezy. Not sure if I’ll keep walls white (probably at least to start with) and accent with ocean colors. Imagine that this was your beach house and you were decorating, what would you do with the furniture?

Select a color pallet. Blues are the obvious and logical choice for a beach house. But the shade of blue will dictate what other colors you may want to pull into the house. Here are some suggestions:

Brights: Turquoise shades, periwinkle blues, coral (not peach, not pink, not orange, coral), tans and brighter yellows.

Classic: Navy blue, cream or white, splashes of red

Beachy: Light blues, tans, light yellows and some raspberry or pink tones.

If all of your chairs are different, you may want to make them cohesive by painting them all the same color and perhaps just leave the seats wood. I would leave the tabletop wood and paint the legs. Tabletops take a lot of abuse and a painted top needs maintenance whereas a wooden finished tabletop wears much better if finished with the correct products. I would paint the table legs and the chairs the same color and use a colorful rug and accessories to bring in a color.

Painted furniture is very beachy cottage and it gives old flea market finds new life and charm. I would paint the body of the leather top end tables off white and sand down the drawers with a light stain finish. Painting these night stands any other color seems like they will not fit in to your beachy theme. And, using a light neutral color will not fight with the black tops.

White washing furniture is a good idea, too. And, stain now comes in many colors that will add so much character to your flea market finds. Check out the dozens of stain colors on Minwax.com. These stains are great and can really transform a piece of furniture. I like colored stain because it does not ever chip or need touch ups like paint does. Stains allow you to add color to the body of furniture and leave the tops wood tone, which is a great combination.

Add color in the small spaces. Paint a bathroom with a coral or red or turquoise accent wall. That wall at the end of the hallway can be a bright color, too.

I would not paint everything white. That is too stark and why paint white now just to change it later? Use ceiling paint throughout the whole house that is a blue tint or maybe a yellow tint. Really, check out the shades of white with a tint of color. Use light breezy colors such as light creamy yellow, ecru, light blues. White is just too stark. If you must paint everything "white" go with the color of Hellman’s Mayonnaise. It is much easier to decorate with that stark white. White adds no warmth.

I like whitewashed maple for the bed. Spray the wrought iron bed would look great in a creamy white, too. Sometimes you need to just pick the bedding first. That allows you to decide on everything else with confidence.

I have a client who lives on the Connecticut shoreline. She painted her entire interior in her house a light shade of yellow. Some rooms have green accents, some blue, one lavender, one navy, yet another raspberry. You really do not realize her entire house is yellow because each room takes on a different feel due to the colors within that individual room. Yet, the entire house is cohesive and has that beachy feel throughout.

My Fiance and I are planning a beach wedding for April of next year (in Myrtle Beach, SC)! I want to rent a huge house and have the wedding on the beach, right outside of the house then have a cookout / reception there. My Fiance and I are not the "fancy" type ..we are jeans & t-shirt kind of people but I DO plan on wearing a wedding dress. My questions are, how should I decorate the house for the cook-out reception? And would it be okay to do a beach themed reception when we come home? We live in West Virginia and will be having our reception at the Knights of Columbus banquet hall.

Also, is it okay to skip the dancing at the house – besides the fun party dancing after a few drinks.. and save the first dance, father daughter and all that for our reception at home?

*Asking here because it’s where I get the best answers. Asked in "Weddings" and got one so far! )

that is so cute… go to theknot.com i got lots of ideas there..my wedding isnt until 2012 but im already looking. goodluck