Need tips on making a kitchen look rustic and a bathroom match dolphin decor?

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Kayla Harp

I am remodeling my kitchen and bathroom soon. I want a rustic-looking kitchen that still has modern conveniences. It's not a huge space and too much wood would make it look a lot smaller. Any tips on how to do that without overdoing wood?

Also, I want to match my bathroom to my dolphin decor. I want to make it look like a beach somehow (without the tacky ocean wallpaper). Any suggestions?

Thank you in advance!

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Sometimes rugged, but often cozy, rustic kitchens have a timeless and natural appearance. Wide-planked wood floors, antique brass hardware, knotty wood cabinets, and hammered copper all contribute to the earthy atmosphere of the rural lifestyle.
Rustic kitchen design can also reflect styles from other regions, including Southwestern styles, Farm and Country styles, Desert/Adobe styles, and Lodge/Mountain motifs.
To complete thje look, if you have the space, be sure to include an old rustic kitchen table and chairs for informal meals. You'll want to hang out a while in your cozy new kitchen. Instead of glossy polished countertops, try honed or flamed granite which has a natural satin appearance. Butcher block countertops look fantastic on rustic kitchen islands. If you're feeling adventurous, soapstone or honed marble are also make great rustic countertops.
LOTS of rustic kitchen pictures here:
http://www.kitchen-design-ideas.org/rustic-kitchen-designs.html

As for your bathroom, you want to stay away from blue paint... too tacky. Try beach colors such as light beige, tan, or if you must mix blue and grey. Add shell lamps or light switches, big seashell soap dish, or shadow boxes with starfish, sand dollars & shells. You can add seashell or starfish shower curtain holders and even towels. Also anything nautical will blend nicely with the dolphins.
But too many dolphins can be overwhelming, so be careful.
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What are some 16th birthday party ideas: games, food, music?

For my 16th birthday i wanted to have a beach party. After that i was thinking everyone could come back to my house for a sleepover in the backyard. (Girls and Guys will be in separate tents) Do you have any other ideas for the party?

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You could divide the party into a few groups (by bday month, or boys vs girls) and play games like... Apples to Apples, Pictionary, telephone pictionary is great*, Cranium, imaginiff would be fun if everyone knew each other well, Taboo. Thats that for board games.... but the classics like Spin the Bottle, and 7 min in Heaven. lol

Food. cake of course. although if you want to just have a buffet of food you can have lots of cupcakes along with finger food like carrots and other veggies, mini sandwhiches, chips and dip. Drinks. Juice and soda.

Music. Just have mix CD's or a playlist on your iPod playing in the background. Maybe have speakers inside and out.

* Telephone pictonary is a game where all you need is paper and pencils. Say your playing with 10 people.. You will need 10 stacks of paper with 10 pieces of paper in each stack. (Size should be like a quarter of a 8"x11" piece of paper) Everyone has a stack and writes a phrase like "Puppy eating from the kitchen table". All stacks are passed clockwise. Each person has a new stack with a phrase written on it.. They draw that phrase on the next piece of paper in the stack and places the written phrase at bottom on stack. The stacks then are passed agian. Now everyone writes what they see or think the phrase is like "cat liking a bowl of leftovers". And so on until a stack comes to the original owner and you can see how the drawings and phrases have progressed. If your with the right group of people the game is quite hilarious.

Have Fun!!!

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Is it expensive to do a mosaic in your home?

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Princess V

I don't have lots of money, I might be able to buy a house soon and I am a very creative and artsy person. I have always wanted to make my house a work of art, you can't do that when you rent. Anyways, does it cost a lot to do mosaic's? I want to do one for my kitchen backsplash and one for my bathroom. What would a good practice project be, I would like to try it out on something that isn't permanent first like a table or something.

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Have a go at mosaic borders around a mirror (glued on to a piece of ply board) they are small project areas so not too frustrating; and working with smaller pieces fragments of tile, mirror, shell or stone are easier to create and theme with. Broken tile fragments from building sites are free (with permission of course) bits of broken coloured glass look fantastic especially the blues and greens and reds and especially if they have ribs or textures. Coloured marbles (the type kids play with) cut in half add depth and dimension - very inexpensive just to name a few ideas... your only limited by your imagination. I have done mirrors, lamp shades, and a kitchen back splash in ocean themes (live near a beach) they look fantastic. A great Idea.

How can I run my home like a daycare so I can teach my toddler developmental milestones?

heather

I'm a stay at home mom with a 4 month old and a 20 month old. I want to learn ways I can teach my toddler developmental milestones that he may miss since he isn't in daycare. Things like talking, learning shapes, putting away things, ect. Any advice or links to web pages would be appreciated.

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Well, as you say, the milestones such as learning shapes - you show your child shapes as they come up in everyday life - "We'll use the round kitchen table for lunch today, see it is like a circle" or "Put your little cars in the shoe-box shaped like a rectangle" .

For colours you just do the same - make learning a game, don't just do the usual primary colours (red, yellow, blue) - teach your child Apricot, Tangerine, Turquoise - teach MORE than they would learn in pre-school (which incidentally, is a relatively new idea, for thousands of years children have learned what they need at their mother's knee)

We home school and my 15 year old daughter has never been to school, she has learned everything at home, or on field trips with her home-school groups, workshops at the local University, travelling with me around Canada, the US and the United Kingdom.

I'd say talk to your children, all the time, talk about the weather, the days of the week, talk about what you are doing, where you are going, what you are making for lunch - not just "Lunch is ready" - but "Today I made delicious cheddar cheese sandwiches for our lunch and those crunchy sweet green grapes you enjoy so much!" Enrich their language, supply them with a full vocabulary of words for them to use.

Make sure they have paper, crayons, pencils etc, turn the TV off - go for walks, even a walk to the park or beach can be an adventure for children, there are birds to see, caterpillars to examine, pine-cones and leaves or shells and drift-wood to find and display when you get home.

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