Notices by ouinne (ouinne@wandering.shop)

Pro tips for heat waves -
- Open the windows after dark, close them again before dawn.
- Fans. Lots of fans.
- Blackout curtains don’t just block light, they block a fair amount of heat. Put them on all the windows that get direct sun and keep them closed during the day.
- Stay inside unless you absolutely have to go out. Mowing or whatever can wait until the sun drops or before it gets high. My rule is if I have to do something outside it’s done by 9 or not at all.

- Keep your dogs inside, heat stroke hits them faster & harder because they’re smaller & closer to the ground. They can die before you know what’s wrong. They need constant water access. If you have fans they should get one, too.
- Heat can be emotionally & mentally taxing. Try to check in on your feelings more often in the heat.
- If you’re thirsty in the heat you’re already dehydrated, drink even if you’re not thirsty. If you’re sweating a lot you should drink electrolytes.

In a completely predictable turn of events, Chloe has decided the new water fountain is the devil and just refuses to drink from it so I had to put back out their water cooler water bowl because you can neither lead a Chloe to water nor can you make her drinks. 😭

“ Designing a space is a job for a person who relishes bringing order to chaos. Use lists, charts, and spreadsheets, and store it all in three-ring or digital binders. Cross-reference every detail.”

The New York School of Interior Design book about home design (titled Home) really gets me, yes to spreadsheets about howse

I am still a bit miffed that my realtor corrected me about the mountain laurel in the backyard by calling it rhododendron but if those are rhododendrons they are dying because they’re wee as heck.

Also enjoy this thing about native shrub of Pennsylvania which I plan to use heavily since the people who owned my hopefully new house have a barren wilderness of grass and it is just too much to mow. https://primexgardencenter.com/native-shrubs-for-pennsylvania/

Also I plan to look at doing a rain garden since we do not have a shortage of the key ingredient. https://extension.psu.edu/rain-gardens

CHECK! IT! OUT! https://www.stormwaterguide.org/

Admittedly I have to design for hound so no I would not have a breakable glass thing and a tall metal thing on a table at just the right height for boops with nose or swishes of tail, but everything else works.

This ticks 100% of my boxes (interior by David Scott in the New York School of Interior Design: Home, the foundation of enduring spaces book)

This is also a sweet look, a+ max relax. (Room by Drake/Anderson).

Ok this one I can see objectively some people would flip over it, it’s not bad, but I want to scream and throw holy water on it, it’s not restful at all. 😂 (harry heissmann)

Also in the image text I forgot to mention on top of everything else the full floor rug is CHEETAH PRINT

Also I am scrolling around my neighborhood looking at the other houses like mine and it’s clear a lot of people do not understand the assignment.

I could literally not sleep in there, there’s too much to look at for me to feel relaxed.

I like this room but I couldn’t have it in my house. (Alexa Hampton)

Aside from the busy-ness, dogs would be constantly banging into things and either hurting themselves or breaking the furniture. I could deal with the latter but nothing would induce me to risk the former.

When I say I read these architecture books and constantly evaluate all of it in relation to hound comfort, I know y’all knew I wasn’t joking but I really really am not. 😂

This takes a lot of nice elements and somehow manages to ruin them all into profound blandness. (Not saying the designer because I’m being kind of mean.)

This is really nice, the book breaks down in detail the different roles a designer, an architect, and a general contractor take in doing interior renovation/design right down to things like the difference between a sales order and a purchase order and how that difference affects what the end customer has access to, information wise or that if you hire a subcontractor directly the GC may charge a 10% fee to allow for the cost of coordinating with that contractor.

Ok look I guess even my great aunt pearlene needs a room designed just for her.

Oh dang it has a specific sequence of final steps from the floors to the furniture, with the work I’m hoping to do this is incredibly helpful so I know what I need to tear out first!