Spring Home and Garden 2015

Spring Low-Maintenance Landscape Page 4

Small Growing Spaces Page 7

“What Is It?” Quiz Page 8-9

Creative Lighting Page 15

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Inspiration: The starting point

PAGE 8-9 What is it? Can you identify these hardware store finds?

to successful design

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Great plants for a low-

PAGE 10 Xeriscape: Water wise, desert savvy

Go from color bewildered to

PAGE 13 Conquer the self-doubt ‘demons’ for DIY success

maintenance landscape

color beautiful

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Local artist lays down a new floor, and so can you

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Small garden. Big bounty.

PAGE 14 Rustique Diva’s Vintage Market to bring nostalgic treasures to Wenatchee

PAGE 15 Creative lighting for a comfortable

Making the most of small growing spaces

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Inspiration

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All are important things to know when considering your color palette.

the starting point to successful design

hhh, spring! After a long, dark winter most of us are ready to throw open the doors and windows and revel in the renewal of spring.

We might also be ready to renew a few things inside our homes, from the simple — new carpet in the family room — to the more involved — a new master suite. Whatever the size and scope of your dream project, it must begin with inspiKaren Bass ration! Maybe you are even Special to building a new home. Even The Wenatchee World more inspiration required.

Design websites are another fabulous resource for inspiration, from the very popular Houzz and Pinterest, to the less well known, but equally stimulating, Remodelista and Design Sponge.

Be observant. Take notice of elements around you that are interesting and visually pleasing.

Ask questions both of yourself and others. What do I like about this room or photograph? What paint color is that?

Gathering ideas and compiling them into a file is a great tool to employ as you begin to think about starting a project.

Take pictures of color combinations, pieces of artwork, furniture arrangements, even gardens that evoke a mood or a sense of style that represents the feeling you want to create inside.

Once you have these foundational thoughts in place you can set about choosing materials, furnishings and accessories from various resources to achieve that aim.

I love the idea of starting with color. If you look around your home, inside and out and think about it, you will probably know what colors inspire you and which ones leave you flat. You can create a mood, hide architectural flaws or visually shrink or expand space with the use of color.

So where does your inspiration come from? For many, it’s hard to find this starting place. Amid so many choices today, it can be hard to focus and narrow it down.

Start with what you already have, or a place you have been, an object such as a favorite piece of Italian pottery, a favorite work of art, or a recent stay at a boutique hotel. These can all be the spark that inspires your unique and beautiful room.

A favorite piece of Italian pottery, a favorite work of art, or a recent stay at a boutique hotel can all be the spark that inspires your unique and beautiful room. Photo provided/Karen Bass

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Color can convey coolness or warmth. Does your room face the sunny south or the chilly north? Even though we live in a northern climate, we are blessed with a lot of sunshine.

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If your project is as simple as selecting a paint color, start by seeking the advice of a professional. Unless you are a person who works with color a lot, you may not be able to select the right color the first time. The very saturated color of the cobalt blue pottery in your kitchen that you just love might not be quite right on the walls. Ask your color consultant to help you enhance the pottery without overwhelming you with color.

For larger projects, begin by determining the requirements of the designated space.

How do you (and your family) use this room (or rooms)? What sort of mood do you wish to create? Are the desired style and character determined by existing elements? What about budget?

Don’t be afraid to let your inspiration craft a room that evokes the kind of place you want to retreat to after a long day. The well-decorated room, or entire home, is one that combines balance, scale, proportion, rhythm and space, but also reflects the homeowner’s personality and individual style of living.

Karen Bass is an on-staff designer at Inside Design Carpet One Floor & Home store, 2101 N. Duncan Dr., Wenatchee. Contact her at 662-9500 or via www.insidedesignc1.com.

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Great Plants

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for a low-maintenance landscape

number of customers ask for advice on landscape ideas and plant selection with the criteria “I don’t want any maintenance.”

The short answer is there no such design.

Xeriscape (droughttolerant landscape) plants still require some water and at least annual grooming for appearance and health.

Mike Chase Native plant-based Special to landscapes require The Wenatchee World pruning, thinning and cleaning so they look like landscape and not a forest. Like all living things, plants shed older growth during their various life cycles and therefore require attention to keep their appearance suitable for what we consider a landscape.

Go to town The best examples of low maintenance landscapes surround us in business parks and municipality plantings such as city street medians. These landscape designs are selected for aesthetics but with the maintenance budget being a major consideration.

All of the plants are hardy, easy to care for and typically drought tolerant. As you travel around town, take a look at strip mall

Blue oat grass, Helictotrichon sempervirens

landscapes and parking lot islands and you’ll see low maintenance plant varieties.

Choosing plants An example of a low-maintenance tree is the Autumn Blaze Maple (Acer x freemanii ‘Jeffersred’). A fast-growing shade tree, at maturity it is 50’ high by 40’ wide with green leaves in the summer and brilliant red-orange, long lasting color in the fall. Drought hardy once established, this maple doesn’t produce messy seed pods (known as “whirleybirds” by some). The only maintenance required is raking leaves in the fall and occasional lower limb removal in late winter for shaping.

Shrubs are typically low-maintenance by nature and one outstanding variety is Magic Carpet Spiraea (Spiraea japonica ‘Magic Carpet’). Magic carpet grows to two feet, is naturally mounding and produces clusters of pink flowers in early summer. Foliage has bronzy-red new growth that moves to a golden green with an orange tinge. The only maintenance required is dead leaf removal in the fall. It can take heavy pruning if required for shaping.

Grasses can either be deciduous or evergreen. The evergreen Blue Oat Grass (Helictotrichon sempervirens) grows to a 3’ spiky clump, is drought tolerant and offers the contrast of blue-grey leaves for year round interest. The only maintenance

Autumn Blaze maple, Acer freemanii “Jeffersred”

required is giving it a haircut in early spring.

Many perennials bloom for a limited time and require dead heading to encourage extended bloom periods. Moonbeam Coreopsis (Coreopsis verticillata ‘Moonbeam’) behaves more like an annual with blooms appearing in late spring and continuing until frost. The 18” mounding plant loads up with small, butter yellow flowers with absolutely no dead heading. The only maintenance required is cutting back in the fall along with most perennials.

Keeping it low maintenance Weeding and watering can easily become the most time consuming part of landscape care. Exposed earth beckons for weed seed germination so the remedy is a thick layer of mulch or a combination of weed barrier and mulch. If only applying mulch, establish a “base layer” of at least three inches and top off as needed over the years to refresh the look. Less mulch is required if using weed barrier. Both approaches also conserve ground moisture for your plants and reduce water requirements.

If a professional irrigation system isn’t in the budget and you want to

limit hand watering there are cost effective solutions. Battery operated, single-zone water timers are around $40 and fit right to your faucet and hose connections. Tie this in to weeper hose, drip lines or sprinklers and you won’t have to worry about missing a day of irrigation.

While planning your low-maintenance landscape don’t forget who is in charge of the project. Think about plant varieties that appeal to you that might not be considered low maintenance. Try making the majority low maintenance and leave a few “holes” for specimen plants that will offer color, variety and bring you joy personally. Beyond landscape it’s your yard so have fun with it.

Happy planting!

Mike Chase owns Leavenworth Greenhouse & Nursery of Leavenworth, established 2007; 548-5814, www.leavenworthnursery.com

Moonbeam coreopsis, Coreopsis verticillata “Moonbeam”

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Expert Tips

to go from color bewildered to color beautiful

by Christine Pratt World staff writer

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aving a hard time choosing a paint color from the thousands of color options at the paint store?

You’re far from alone. Color choice can be daunting. For years, Wenatchee designer and fabric expert Mary Marsten has been helping her customers go from color bewildered to color beautiful.

Here are some of her favorite tips: — Splotch test The colors on the chip strips paint stores give away for free will always look different in the differing light conditions of your home. This is especially true if the color is bright and you’re considering a semi-gloss or gloss finish. “Always, always, always,” buy sample portions of the paint colors that catch your eye, Mary says. Take them home, brush splotches of them on the wall and study them at different times of day and under differing light conditions. “You might not like how it looks some of the time, but if you love it at the best time of the day, I would go with it,” Mary says.

— Picture trick Take your pictures off the wall and paint your sample splotches where the pictures were hanging. If you become distracted from the project after a few days, you can always rehang the pictures to conceal the splotches until you have time to choose a color and paint.

— Home style The style of home and the colors of other rooms can help determine color pallet.

A sleek, modern design is perfect for clean,

sophisticated warm light and medium tones with crisp contrasting trim. A funky Victorian home, with its moldings and eccentricities, can have a more playful palate. Purple, anyone?

— Trending trends The goldish earth tones popular in decades past have been displaced by warm brownish grays, pewters and creams.

Complimentary shades of yellow-green and purple are huge now, as are the “mid-centurymodern” colors, furniture styles and patterns used in the 1950s. We have the cable series Mad Men to thank for that one, Mary says.

— Consider an accent The color you love the most may be too overpowering for an entire wall or room, but you don’t need to do without it. Consider choosing fabrics in your preferred color and use them for pillow cases or window treatments.

— Copy cat Keep your eyes open for pleasing color combinations in nature, magazines, store displays, and in the homes and other buildings you visit. Check out the color tools and ideas on the Pinterest website. Then copy them or let them inspire your own variations. “That’s what we all do,” Mary says of designers. “Even Martha Stewart copies some of the time!”

Goldish earth tones popular in decades past have been displaced by warm brownish grays, pewters and creams. Mid-century modern colors, fabric patterns and furniture are also huge. Photo provided/Pinterest.

Finally, try to relax and have fun with color selection. Sample portions of paint are a small investment and can easily be painted over if you don’t like them. Choose colors that make you feel happy or peaceful, mischievous or energized. “It’s your house,” says Mary. “If you like it, that’s what’s important.”

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Laying It Down

local artist installs a new floor, and so can you

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he goal was a simple one. Or at least it was simple to say it out loud. “I want to turn the first floor of my house into an art gallery.”

Ron Evans

Special to The Wenatchee World

I’d remodeled my home into a duplex 15 years ago and I had been a landlord ever since. However, after the last tenant had to be evicted I decided (with zero hesitation or regret) that I was not meant for landlordin’.

The first and biggest challenge of my ‘Make It An Art Gallery” project was dealing with the floor.

When the space was an apartment, the floors were a mixture of soft laminate tiles and carpet. The tenant’s pets did a number on both. And I’m sure you can guess which number that is.

I knew I had to pull the carpet up, but doing so only revealed a deeper look at the sadness I was up against. Years of pet . . . damage is truly a thing to behold. Most of the wood was intact structurally. Odor-wise, we had troubles.

I researched how to deal with pet odors embedded into the sub-flooring and found a product called KILZ Oil Based Primer. The idea isn’t so much to clean or remove the odor, but

to essentially put a cap of sealant over it. It worked wonders.

I must warn you though, this primer is nasty stuff. It’s even illegal in a few states.

Unaware of this harshness I dove in with a 2-hour session of painting the stuff onto the sub-floor. The fumes made me ill for an entire day. I worked the rest of the sealing project in 30-minute shifts with an hour between and every window in the house open.

A painter’s respirator is highly recommended here, too.

Once the sadness of the troubling odors had been vanquished, it was time to start thinking about the new flooring. Carpet was out since I had been hurt so deeply once. Never again.

I knew laminate flooring was the way to go for the look and durability I needed for my gallery.

I was originally leaning toward the East Wenatchee Artist Ron Evans poses on the laminate floor he installed himself in his art gallery. His own self-adhering soft laminate tiles but, while researching the product, I learned artwork adorns the walls. Photo provided/Ron Evans. it was not designed to be laid on spent. Carpet is forgiving of unevenness, but snap easily and quietly. Others really need to chipboard, which was what most of my rooms laminate will punish you for it. be pounded into place, like the Pergo Max I had. bought.

Finally, I was ready to lay the new flooring. I I then turned to hard laminate flooring went with Pergo Max for a couple of reasons.

The first room (the smallest in the house) which can essentially be laid on any flat The padding was already glued to the bottom. took me three days to finish. The last one (the surface. That’s a key element here. Flatness.

That spared me the time of rolling it out largest room) took one afternoon. I had it separately. If you’re going over concrete, you My house was built in the mid-70s and down after the first full room, and you will too. will need a vapor barrier under the padding, has done some This is a very doable project as well. settling over and I have been quite the years, but The most important satisfied with the results. nothing too reason I went with Pergo I spent about $2,000 major. I did, Max was durability. You re-flooring 650 sq. feet. however, have can buy tiny samples of the Pergo Max is not cheap, but to level up one different brands and styles I didn’t want to have to do room so much of laminate at the hardware this again any time soon that it required store. These are cheap and I so I went for the top shelf laying a thin recommend doing this before on this. A powered miter layer of new buying. Take them home, walk saw, jigsaw, knee pads, sub-floor and on them, wipe your feet on hammer, rubber mallet, feathering the them. Then, take a key to it. Go and a good quality difference with medieval on those little suckers.

S-bar are essentials for installing floor patching See what it takes to do real laminate flooring. Did I mention knee pads? compound. damage to them. You may be surprised how

Like most renovations, prep work is where the bulk of your time and Robots stand guard over the durable, laminate floor that artist Ron Evans installed efforts will be himself at his East Wenatchee gallery. Photo provided/Ron Evans.

differently they will respond to your assault.

As for the installation, it’s just one of those things that takes a bit of practice to get.

Watching the YouTube videos helped, but it took me a while to realize that there are many different styles of tongue and groove. Some

Ron Evans is an East Wenatchee artist and musician. His new gallery, RadarStation, opens April 3 for special events and appointments only at 2201 Grant Road. Contact Ron at ron@boronfilms.com.

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Small

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Big Bounty

Making the most of small growing spaces

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ot everyone has the luxury of 50 acres to spread out on when planning their home garden. Urban agriculture is a hot topic these days. It takes on many forms, from roof top gardens to patio planters.

One of the largest challenges to gardening in an urban environment is working with less than ideal conditions and limited space. Gardening in tight spaces requires a mindset and often Eron Drew different the goals and milestones Master Gardner are measured on a different scale from their rural counterparts.

Probably the most common constraint for small-space gardeners is living in an apartment. A south- or west-facing balcony is a garden waiting to bloom. Container gardening is the preferred method for this situation.

Oftentimes, people do not consider 5-gallon buckets to be suitable containers for gardening but they have a sufficient soil volume for growing tomatoes, cabbage, kale and other veggies that would otherwise not be possible in this environment.

Buckets also have the added advantage of

mobility. It is possible to move them from one place to another as the sun migrates with the changing season. Your garden has the luxury of always being located in full sun.

Sunday, March 29, 2015 can be planted much denser. This method of planting is great for new gardeners as it encourages experimentation with a wide variety of different plants in a small area.

Alternatively, when living in a hot environment such as the Wenatchee Valley, salad mix, spinach and cilantro can be planted in the shade created on the backside of a vertical planting. This shady space will help to prevent bolting and should extend the season for these cold-loving crops.

Whichever method you choose to use for your small space, Happy Gardening!

Columns by WSU Master Gardeners of Chelan and Douglas Counties appear regularly in The Wenatchee World.

Learn more about the program at http://wwrld.us/MasterGardenerCD.

“Square-foot” gardening is another approach to small spaces. In this method, the garden bed is divided into 12”x12” squares. Each square is planted with a different type of vegetable. Larger plants such as broccoli or tomatoes are allocated to a spacing of one plant per square, while spinach or lettuce

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Many city lot owners may only have a 4’x 8’ space to garden in. Curbside gardens can still be successful and are an excellent way to become more involved with your neighborhood.

Understanding the physical space needs and rate of maturity of the plants you are working with can help you maximize your yield in a tight location. This technique is known as “inter-planting.”

For example, radishes and carrots can be inter-planted within the same row. The radishes can be used to space out the carrots, helping to limit the amount of thinning necessary as the carrots mature. Typically the radishes will mature within a few weeks and will be harvested, leaving space for the carrots to fill in and finish their development.

This Astia Container Zucchini, French bush variety, was developed for container growing and small space gardens. It’s productive and easy to harvest. (Courtesy Renee’s Garden/MCT)

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Runner beans, peas and cucumbers can all be trellised to grow vertically.

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What Is It? Can you identify them? Hardware stores are like treasure boxes filled with weird and wonderful objects. Here are a few we spotted on a recent visit.

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➊ Drill-powered pencil sharpener

➋ Foam Ear plugs

➌ Sliding T-bevel

➍ Caulking tool

For do-it-yourselfers who love their power tools. This is, basically, an elementary-schoolstyle pencil sharpener kicked up a notch.

Snug it into the chuck of an electric drill, insert a dull pencil in the other end and pull the trigger – gently. Works great.

Disposable foam ear plugs are familiar to anyone who works in big industry. Home improvement centers now sell them in fun colors. They’re a must for anyone working for extended periods with loud power or garden tools. They muffle and protect – with style!

This is an easy guess for the woodworkers among us. It’s used for setting and transferring angles. Its handle is usually made of channeled wood or plastic. The blade pivots and can be locked at any angle. It can copy an existing angle or be set to a desired angle using a measuring device, like a protractor.

It can then be used for adjusting the tilt of a saw blade for precise miter cutting.

The triangular-shaped head of this tool is trimmed with rubber. It’s used to press a bead of caulking into a corner joint. It takes a little practice to master, but leaves a perfectly uniform seam in its wake. Lots of pros just use their index finger to achieve similar results.

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➏ Contour Gauge This tool is time-tested and truly ingenious.

Hundreds of short lengths rigid wire slide perpendicularly and freely through a central

guide bar. Press the gauge up against a curved or carved piece of wood molding and the wires contour to its profile. Craftsmen and women then use the tool to transfer the exact profile onto wood or tile to ensure a perfect fit.

➐ Watering Stake It looks like a fancy yard ornament, but it’s also a useful tool. Fill it with water and drive it into the soil of a potted plant. The tool

releases water gradually, so if you have to leave home for a few days, you won’t return to a wilted plant.

➑ Strap Wrench Handy for installing polished plumbing fittings — like the shiny chrome, curved pipe extension that comes out of the wall for a shower head — without damaging the finish. The strap is wrapped around the chrome pipe or other fitting and cinched down. The wrench can then be used to tighten the fitting in place.

➒ Tile Suction Cup A pair of these can be used to set large,

heavy floor tile in place without pinching your fingers. One of the cup’s two handles is lowered into a horizontal position (shown), the cup is pressed against the tile and the handle is lifted to engage the suction for lifting the tile. Lowering the handle releases the suction, once the tile is in place, scratch free.

➓ Bucket Lid Remover Think of this as a large, specialized top popper to remove the lids off 5-gallon-style buckets, like the ones atop large buckets of paint. Works great and saves your fingers.

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Xeriscape

water wise, desert savvy

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ispy grasses sprout like green fountains. Sprays of purple, yellow, pink and white sway in the breeze. Groundhugging creepers unfold with texture and color.

We dare you this spring or summer to stroll past our WSU Master Gardener Xeriscape Garden in Wenatchee Riverfront Park without admiring its thriving desert beauty.

A xeriscape is living proof that using climate-approMaster Gardner priate plantings is more than just water wise. It’s an appealing, natural fit for North Central Washington landscapes and a fascinating pastime.

Terry Anderson

In dry parts of the country like ours, xeriscape gardening can save 18 percent to 50 percent on water use, when compared to a traditional landscape.

That’s huge. A xeriscape guide published by the state of Oregon says more than half the water used by a typical household annually is for outside landscaping. In fact, national statistics show that only about 1 percent of the treated water produced by utilities is actually consumed. The rest is used on lawns, washing machines, toilets and other uses that send water down drains.

The interest in Xeric Gardening is increasing

dramatically, not only in arid areas like Central Washington, but in other areas, especially those that are facing water shortages and rocketing water prices.

What is xeriscape landscaping?

First, let’s identify what it is not.

Xeriscape is not dry gardening only.

It’s not “zero” gardening, where plants, trees and turf are torn out and replaced with rocks and gravel.

Instead, it uses regionally appropriate native and adapted plants, watered according to their needs, to create attractive, low-maintenance landscapes.

Why use xeriscape?

WSU Master Gardeners are usually working in the Wenatchee Riverfront Demo Garden Wednesday mornings. The garden is a short walk north along the Apple Capital Recreation Loop Trail from Pybus Public Market.

Photo provided/Terry Anderson

• Less Water — Waterwise gardening helps extend our water supplies, be they irrigation water or domestic water.

• Less Chemicals — You should be able to see a reduction in use of fertilizers, pesticides. Many drought tolerant plants require less fertilizer. Native plants attract beneficial insects. Mulching helps control weeds.

• Less Run-off — Excessive watering wastes water, carries off contaminants, leaches

nutrients out of soil • Less Maintenance — Good mulching means less weeding.

• Less Energy Use — Fewer natural resources and less electricity for producing fertilizers, chemicals and pumping water. And…less of your own energy.

• Less Cost — Less water, fertilizer, pesticides = less dollars spent.

Xeriscape landscaping is based on seven, universally accepted principles: 1) Plan and design 2) Selecting the plants 3) Soil improvements 4) Creating practical turf areas 5) Efficient Irrigation 6) Mulch 7) Maintenance

The WSU Master Gardeners’ Wenatchee Riverfront Park Demo Garden combines the beauty and water-wise practicality of xeriscape gardening in North Central Washington.

We don’t have enough time to go into the details of these seven principles, but search online for “seven principles of xeriscape gardening” to get the information you’ll need for success. The Chelan County PUD also has a good online primer

and large list of xeriscape plants, including photos and descriptions. View them at www. chelanpud.org/xeriscape.html It may seem overwhelming, at first, so take it slow and enjoy the journey. Try just a portion of your yard at a time. Test the techniques and plants you will use before applying them on a larger scale.

Know what and how you’re going to plant before you turn a single spade of soil. You might join a garden club to share your ideas, successes and failures.

And please visit us. We Master Gardeners are usually working in the Riverfront Park demo garden Wednesday mornings. It’s a short walk north from Pybus Public Market along the Apple Capital Recreation Loop Trail.

Stop by and ask questions. We love to share our knowledge!

Columns by WSU Master Gardeners of Chelan and Douglas Counties appear regularly in The Wenatchee World.

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Conquer the Self-Doubt ‘Demons’ for DIY success

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something new and save money wins out over this internal tug of war. I’ve learned a thing or two about battling these demons. Here are some tips.

ome-improvement projects for me are ongoing battles with self-doubt.

Tiny, tool-belted figures appear, one over each shoulder. One wears a halo. The other has a pointy tail and horns.

— Don’t be afraid. If you think you can do it, you probably can. Enough information exists in print, on the web and out of the mouths of DIY-friendly experts to get the job done. Research is half the battle.

The angelic one reminds me how nice my tile job, woodworking project, new can lights, ceiling fan, larger bedroom, pocket door, doublepane window, toilet will look when it’s finished or installed. She marvels at my abilities and reminds me how much money I’ll save. The end result will be stellar, she says, it’s already looking soooo nice.

— Triangulate. When working to dispel doubts, never trust a single source. Always ask more than one “expert.” View more than one Internet video.

Read related chapters in the how-to books sold by the big-box DIY stores. Don’t rest until you get the same or similar advice from at least two sources. Then, reconcile what you’ve heard with your own common sense.

The tool-belted devil juxtaposes each angelic encouragement with a pointed jibe. You’ll burn the house down, for sure. That tile you’re sticking down is hideous. That’s not the right thinset cement. You call that square? That copper fitting’s going to leak for sure. It’s going to cost you. A lot.

Ultimately the desire to solve a problem, learn

— Allow enough time. Your project will probably take at least twice as long as you think, especially if you’ve never done it before. This is normal, even if everything’s going well. This is especially true in older homes, where surprises lurk. Take your time. Work at a time of day when you feel fresh, and enjoy it.

— You’ll need tools. Good tools turn frustration into satisfaction. New projects are great excuses to start or add to your tool arsenal.

You don’t have to buy a bunch of tools at once.

Accumulate them over time, as needed. A big tile project, for example, is less daunting with an $80 wet saw. Factor this into your budget. It’s worth it.

— Measure twice or thrice, cut once. This bit of advice has been around since the dawn of construction. Heed it. You’ll save a ton of money and time.

— Plumb and square. Learn what these mean.

Live by them.

— Do careful demolition. Forget every DIY show you’ve ever watched in which a home owner takes wanton swings at a wall with a sledge hammer. You never completely know what’s inside a wall or behind a built-in. Demolish with finesse rather than force. You’ll avoid disaster and might even manage to salvage some of the lumber or materials for reuse.

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he vendors at Waterville’s Rustique Diva’s Vintage Market have an eye for finding treasures and they’re headed to Wenatchee next month for a first-time sale at Pybus Public Market.

If you go What: Rustique Diva’s Vintage Market Where: Pybus Public Market When: Saturday, April 25, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Why visit: Friendly vendors with a great selection of vintage collectables, handcrafted jewelry, furniture and more, just in time for the Apple Blossom Festival.

Kim Katovich and Jennie Munson Special to The Wenatchee World

You never know what you’ll find when you visit a Rustique Diva’s Market. We’ve seen traditional collectables such as Bauer pottery and antique linens, as well as beautiful handcrafted jewelry, iron and glass works, repurposed furniture and unique and fun home decor.

This year we’ll see the additions of amazing signs from a small, family business, custom hand-sewn pillows, vintage clothing in an adorable little travel trailer, and a variety of items specifically with the gardener in mind.

With such an eclectic mix of items, we are certain that the Market will have something to interest everyone.

The Rustique Diva’s Vintage Market began in 2011 as a fundraiser for the Waterville Elementary School’s Parent Teacher Organization. The PTO was in the early stages of its inception and in need of some funds to support its educational goals. Establishing a fundraising event during one of Waterville’s biggest

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We set up our first Vintage Market in beautiful Pioneer Park in the heart of Waterville. We will admit that we were pleasantly surprised by its success. The feedback we received was fantastic. Shoppers appreciated the ambiance, friendly vendors and the wide variety of goods and collectables they found, so we set to work to make our next show even bigger and better!

In our second year, we invited the Sisters on the Fly to join us. Sisters on the Fly is an outdoor women’s group with over 4,000 women. These fun-loving women from all over the U.S. and Canada get together to camp, fish or hike, often in tiny, vintage trailers that are brightly painted and fashionably decorated. We admire their adventurous spirit! It has been so much fun having them as a part of the event. Market patrons love to peek inside their campers and vote for their favorites.

Over the next few years we continued to try to find ways to expand and improve the market. So much so, that we have added a

second show to our calendar.

We are excited about the prospect of Wenatchee patrons becoming acquainted with the many talented vendors that Waterville has come to know and love.

With the addition of more vendors and a nominal admission fee at the Waterville show, we have been able to give back, not just to the PTO as we originally planned, but to other local Waterville organizations, such as the local food bank, skate park and drama club.

Recently, we have been asked to, and are considering, adding two more shows in other towns. The prospect of expanding even more, is an exciting one. It’s nice to think about what we can do with the opportunity.

We are very grateful for all of the support we have received from our friends, family, Waterville City employees and community members for helping us give back to the community we love and hope to be able to continue for a very long time.

Kim Katovich and Jennie Munson are co-organizers of the Rustique Diva’s Vintage Market. For more information, find us on Facebook or send an email to rustiquedivas@ gmail.com. See you at the market!

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A lack of light, poor quality light, or light glaring in our eyes can make us feel uncomfortable, irritable or anxious.

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It’s important to know what lighting options are available and where to use them when planning a new home or renovating an existing one.

Many kitchens are now located within a larger space with other activity zones, so designing the various layers of light is more complex.

There are infinite possibilities! Light can come from recessed cans in the ceiling, wall sconces, pendants, chandeliers, tracks, rails and lamps, or hidden behind architectural details. Most lighting plans include the majority of these sources to create layers of light. Separate switching for task, ambient and accent or indirect light gives you the ability to create different levels of light as needed.

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Energy efficiency is another cause to celebrate. LED bulbs are more efficient than the CFL (compact fluorescent lamps) they are quickly replacing. They emit more light per watt, last longer, create less heat, and don’t contain the hazardous waste component, mercury, found in CFLs.

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Exterior lighting should follow the same principles as interior lighting to create a safe and calm environment around your home.

Fixtures that direct light down to the area that needs to be lit are recommended by the Dark Sky movement (darksky.org) and greatly enhance our ability to see stars in the night sky. Light pollution is a serious problem on our planet.

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Professional lighting designers, architects and interior designers are a wealth of information and can help you every step of the way. Some builders also understand these concepts and can help with a lighting plan.

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They allow for one more “tweak” toward creating exactly the amount of light you want in the moment. It’s important to check dimmer labels for compatibility with the systems they control.

Think about music volume control and the intrinsic quiet and crescendo This kitchen is filled with creative lighting that includes the decorative pendants, lower task lighting in the soffit, of a symphony. One should be able and under-cabinet lighting. Recessed fixtures in the to walk toward and away from light at ceiling can help illuminate the island. Photo provided/ times, just as you would find a chair Shannon Cline. in the shade to enjoy a beautiful, sunny day. In other words, create For do-it-yourselfers, some of the larger nuance, interest and magic in your settings! retailers have professionals on board.

The biggest and most exciting advance in “Illumination is the silent partner of archilighting is the LED (Light Emitting Diode) bulb. tecture”, it’s been said. Even the best design Once only able to produce the colors red, can fall short if the lighting design is poorly yellow and green, these tiny bulbs were used done. almost exclusively as the “on/off” lights built Used creatively, light will enhance every into appliances or for street lighting. Today, moment you spend in and around your home. cool-burning LEDs can produce any color, including whites in a spectrum of shades.

“Kelvin” number ratings gauge the spectrum from cooler, blue-white to warmer whites of up to 2,600 on the Kelvin scale for shades similar to incandescent bulbs. Look for the

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