How to Hang Pictures on Stairs and the 12th OY Vey Q&A

Today is the 12th OY VEY!!! Q&A!!! Tuesday!!!

NEW RULES!!!!!

I am only going to answer questions that I feel would interest lots of my dedicated and loyal readers.

(translation: only questions I find interesting)

I know, I know.....

I am a meany!!!!!

Don't be offended if I don't answer a question you've submitted.

It doesn't mean it's a silly or stupid question.....

It just means that I've been around a looooonnnnnggggg time,

and I find

EVERYTHING

boring.....

SOOOOOO.....

with that said, let's get on to today's story, and you can ask your questions at the bottom of the post.

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On Sunday, I went over to my buddy and bidness partner, Kris's house.

I've been showing you guys her living room. 

I am going to continue with that room on Thursday,

 but with Sunday's experience fresh in my mind,

 I would like to regale you with our exploits.

Kris and I sometimes channel Lucy and Ethel. 

We take turns, 

sometimes I'm Lucy,

sometimes Kris is Lucy.

When things get really hairy, we are BOTH Lucy.

On Sunday, we were both Lucy.

Kris needed help with hanging pictures on her staircase.

We had lucked out at an auction, and she snagged a 

wonderful set of hand colored framed botanicals for a pittance. 

We don't know why no one else bid on them.....

THEY WAS STOOPID!!!

Here's a shot of them piled up ready to be hung.

Kris didn't want to hang them without my fabulous expertise.

You think she'd have learned by now......

I have been compared to a bull in a china shop.

(but only in the nicest way.....)

So I laid them out on the stairs, to figure out how they would hang.

And I started with the bottom one.....

I measured and did mathematical equations and used a laser level and furrowed my brow.....

I had figured out how they would hang so that they would work out 

perfectly!!!!!

I measured side to side, and from the step to the top of the frame.....

 I WORKED IT OUT EXACTLY!!!!!

IT WAS GOING TO BE PERFECT!!!

OOPS......

Not so great.....

Thank goodness the wallpaper hid my boo boos.....

Now let me just say at this juncture....

These prints must have been hung in a hotel, 

because they had to be hung on two brackets on the back,

 so I had to use two nails for each picture,

 and the nails had to be level.....

So my goof caused two holes in the wallpaper.....

No problemo!!!

We hang so much #$%  on the walls that the boo boos get covered.....

So I took the print down, and decided 

"$%# It! I would just eye ball everything, screw measuring stuff!!!!"

This worked much better!!!

So I kept on going.....

All the way up the stairs.

BUT WE WEREN'T DONE YET!!!!

We don't stop with just framed prints!!!!

That's right folks, we now hung 

PLATES!!!

Kris had found some wonderful Arts and Craft style floral hand-painted plates on ebay.

They worked beautifully with the prints and the wallpaper.

So here's the first one....

Check out this plate....

OY, now I still had five more to hang....

So when I was pounding in the nail for the second plate.....

We had a leetle problem....

I guess the nails we were using didn't have big enough heads to hold the prints.

SOOOOOO.....

One fell off, knocking the next one, and plummeted down on Kris.

She wasn't hurt, 

but more importantly,

the prints didn't get broken!!!!!

The baseboard had a little contusion, though.

Thank goodness I've gotten so good at using Elmers wood filler.

Kris is going to replace all the nails with screws, 

so when her heavy footed gigantic son comes home from college,

 and he goes galumphing up and down the stairs, 

the pictures won't jump off the walls and commit suicide.

ANYWAY....

back to hanging the plates....

I love the combination of all the golden colors.

Here's a shot looking up.....

Here's a shot looking down.....

The plates just are beautiful.

We still have the downstairs hall to do.

Years ago I found this terrific antique settee for the front hall, 

and had it upholstered in a paisley.

I just love mixing patterns.

Makes my toes curl.....

So, this is the view from the living room.

The whole house flows from room to room with these warm colors and rich patterns.

So, that's our story.

If you think designers are perfect, and never make mistakes. 

all I gots to say to that is.....

HA!!!

So, now on to the questions.....

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This is a question and answer party!!!!!

Only questions, please you guys. 

If it isn't a question, I'm taking the @#$ link down.

This is how it works.....

On the first Tuesday of the month

You ask some design questions,

and I answer them for FREE!!!!

Just remember-----

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR.

(Just sayin')

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Latah, Gatah

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This Ain't No Dog #$%!!!!

If you're just tuning in.....

I am showing off a room I did for my good buddy and bidness partner, Kris.

We started on this room 15 years ago, 

and have been adding dogs ever since.

She's always sneaking more in.

When I'm done showing off this room, I will show what we still have to hang on the walls.

Yes.....

she has a few more dogs to hang!!!!

On Thursday, I showed the right side of the fireplace.....

moving at a glacial speed.....

today I am going to show the left side!!!!!

SO!!!

This is the left side!!!!!

Over the side table are these three dog pictures.

Now I want you guys to know, that I have been the one to hang almost every picture in this room.....

On the table below are just a few more canines....
They be lookin' to the right.....

This guy is lookin' to the left.
He's hangin' out over the sofa....
He's Staffordshire.
(China, not terrier.....)
(Get it????? Do you know what a Staffordshire Terrier looks like?????)

Here's an overview, so you can see where we are.....

FYI....This is a picture of a Staffordshire Bull Terrier from Wikipedia

I will now give you a side by side comparison!!!!!

The guy on the right is a pug.
It's very confusing!!!!
He's a Staffordshire Pug!!!

Whatever......
Back to the sofa wall.
Kris and I were at an auction, and this painting came up for bid.
WE LOVED IT!!!!!
It's by no means the best painting in the world.
The anatomy is a little off......
The technique is a little off..... 
BUT THE PRICE WAS GREAT!!!!!
There's just something about this painting that vastly appeals to me.
These dogs just tug at my heart.
And they don't poop in the house!!!!

Over the terriers are three more pictures....
of dogs.....
in case you were wondering.....

Some more to the left.....

and then on the table, we thought it would be a good idea to have some dogs.....

In with the dogs are collections of a few other items. 

These are Boule d'escalier 

(newel post finial for a staircase)

Kris found them on the French ebay.

She got it into her pointy head that she could start collecting something other than dogs!!!!!

This is a paper clip
 (It clips paper!!!)
(It's a dog!!!)

this is a book end. 

(It ends books!!!)

(OK, that's just silly. They hold books up.....)

(some more dogs!!!!)

These are Indian clubs.
 (They were used for exercise in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.)

Swing them around, juggle them, loose weight!!!!!
(These are not dogs.....)

And here's Kris's husband when he was little with his boxer!!!!! 
(The dog, not his underwear.....)

 These are toss pillows. 
(Pillows one can toss!!!!!)

(Can you tell that I've started to get a little punchy????)

Nothing like a needle point of a dog....

Under the coffee table is the basket that holds Petey the Dog's bed. It was getting cleaned when I took this picture, but it's all comfy and cozy....

And here's 
Petey!!!!!

He's a million years old.

When I first met Kris he was a puppy.

I've known her 15 years, so you do the math.....

On this note, Petey and I will say.....

"Have a great Sunday and take me for a walk!!!!!"

Latah, Gatah

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Gone to the Dogs

Continuing the story about Kris's living room,

 I will now go into

nauseating exhaustive detail.

This is an overall view of one angle of the room.

There are more angles!!!!

But I will start with dissecting this one.

Here's a close up of the mantel....

A few dogs......

Isn't the painting fabulouso???

I'd go away for the winter, only to come back and find more paintings of dogs for me to hang.

I'd ask Kris....

"When did you get this?????"

And she'd reply.....

"I've had that for a long time now....."

Now, this may work on her husband, but it ain't workin' on me!!!!!!!

Then I'd ask.....

"Where'd you get it?????"

And she'd answer....

"ebay"

You can find some neat paintings from Europe on ebay!!!!!

Or she'd answer.....

"At an auction."

And I'd say.....

"How come we don't go to these fun auctions when I'm up here?????"

And she'd nail me with a steely glare, and point out that

I'M THE ONE WHO ABANDONS HER IN THE WINTER,

 AND SHE NEEDS TO HAVE TO FIND OTHER FRIENDS TO PLAY WITH.....

I've lost track of the point I was making.......

Let's see.....

living room.... details.... painting.......

Oh yeah, the mantel!!!!!

Check out these cool inkwells....

That's a pencil holder in the middle....(I think).

She keeps finding more cool stuff.....

She may even have more sh#$ in her house than I do.

Aren't these hurricane lanterns wonderful????

They probably came in handy on Monday.

To the right of the fireplace is a ball and stick book stand.

This is a style of Victorian furniture for which both Kris and I have a major weakness.

Kris can't pass up one of these, and has a second one by the hall door.

A few more dog pictures hang above it....

Quel Surprise!!!!

To the right of the fireplace hang some little tools, with........

wait for it.......

dogs on them!!!!!!!

I had to get a close up.....

Give us a theme.....

any theme.....

and we run with it!!!!!

So, that's if for the right side of the fireplace, next up.....

dum de dum dum.....

the left side!!!!!!!

Latah, Gatah

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