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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
The decorating board is funny.
This is how my posts usually go:
Me: I'm looking for help decorating.
The board: What is your budget?
Me: Next to nothing.
The board: Come back when you have enough to demo and reno the whole room. There is no point in decorating if you are going to change it later.
Me: Ummm...later might not be for a few years. Please help me decorate!!!
Le sigh.
Re: The decorating board is funny.
TTC September 2010 thru October 2011
SA February 2011: Normal
RE App. October 2011 - Recc. Clomid and IUI
Taking a break from TTC to pursue adoption
Met our 2 year old son in Russia July 2012!
Court trip October 2012
Home November 24 2012!
adoption blog: addingaburden.com
Oooh! Can I see pictures?
And I posted down below about my bathroom if you have any helpful tips. I just want to decorate, not renovate
Add some color, spruce it up a bit...that's all. 
Do people really seem that way? I guess I never paid attention. You can totally do a room on the cheap, you just have to know where to look! 90% of my decor was bought on clearance! Hell, even the tile I bought for our dining room, and bathroom was bought on clearance. A lot of the girls on the D&R have unlimited funds to do whatever, and buy furniture off Pottery Barn. Don't be discouraged!
Yes. Someone told me not to bother decorating my bathroom until I was ready to renovate. Ummm...yeah no. I need to get some color in there and pick out towels and rugs. We're having a lot of people over in a week and half and everyone will be using that bathroom. Eek.
Who told you this?
You can totally transform a room with paint and accessories. You don't need to change the floor or the vanity to make it look nice. Geez. Sounds like someone on that board needed to take a chill pill.
And I remember a post/poll ions ago where a good 50% of the girls said their income was disposable and their husbands paid all the bills. I was shocked. Yeah, must be nice, huh? Lord knows how much nicer our house would look if that's where all my money went.
Ugh. I was just asking for ideas on paint colors and towels and rugs. So annoying.
Oh yea I see that post now! Sorry I wasn't paying attention earlier
I should take some pics once I get this place cleaned up a bit. The only thing is that it is really hard to take pics of our place b/c it is so tiny, you can never get far away enough from a room to get it in one picture! lol. I'll try post next week
TTC September 2010 thru October 2011
SA February 2011: Normal
RE App. October 2011 - Recc. Clomid and IUI
Taking a break from TTC to pursue adoption
Met our 2 year old son in Russia July 2012!
Court trip October 2012
Home November 24 2012!
adoption blog: addingaburden.com
If I would have waited until we could demo, my house would still be undecorated. That's the dumbest thing ever.
And GAH! I want my income to be our fun money. That'd be REALLY nice.
Wow! I didn't realize my sister was on the Nest.
So far in 11 years of marriage, they have been in three homes and I think she remodeled each room 2-3 times before moving. She even made her husband move furniture around the night the Red Wings won the Stanley Cup in 2002. That is just wrong...it gives wives a bad name. Poor guy.