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We are not home improvement types. Eduardo watches quite a bit of HGTV and is pretty handy, but I am useless in that regard. Recently, I've been getting bored with our house/set up and have insisted on some changes.

First, I rearranged our very cozy living room/dining room space so that there is some definition between the 2 spaces. I bought a $99 carpet at Target that provides that definition and makes the living room part of the room much more inviting.

Second, we (Eduardo) painted our kitchen cabinets. They used to to be white and needed paint badly, so I talked to New Mexican Sarah who is a painting expert and got her input. We chose Benjamin Moore Tropicana Cabana- it's a bright but not too dark turquoise. So far just the top cabinets are done. They look great. Eduardo did a nice painting job and the color makes the kitchen brighter and more "fun." I think Eduardo also likes that we are adding some color to our house from the tropical palette. Dominicans don't really do earth tones.

Finally, yesterday we purchased a new dining set. The one we have is at least 30 years old. It's a quality table, but the style and stain do not match the rest of our stuff, and the captain's chair are overbearing and way too large for our space. This is what we bought.




We chose the counter height table because I read the higher tables tend to make small spaces look larger. The stain is beautiful in person, and the table closes down to quite narrow and opens up to a large square that seats 8-10.

Next step: replace crumbling front retaining wall. That's an expensive project but really needs to be done this summer. Suggestions for ways to do it on the cheap?