Using different types of outdoor lighting is a great way to improve the beauty of your homes curb appeal.  Just about any type of outdoor light fixtures can be used from landscape lighting, burial posts, ceiling lighting, hanging lights, post lighting, wall lighting, and security lighting.  Outdoor lighting has also become very creative to suit the style of your home.  You can choose from rustic, traditional, contemporary, modern, mission, craftsman, and even old world to gothic styles of lighting to decorate your home.    

I am totally intimidated by home improvement projects.  My husband and I, we are not do-it-yourselfers.  I have so many great ideas for the bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen but the task just seems so daunting.  I guess the room I would want to do first is the kitchen.  I would love a Tuscan theme with fancy cabinet pulls, a faux finish for the walls, and some roman shades for the windows.  For the bedroom a new cherry headboard and a fresh coat a paint in the bathroom would be fantastic.  I guess the best thing to do is start with one room and go from there.       

When my husband first purchased our house (before he knew me) he installed mini-blinds on every window.  Mini-blinds aren’t a bad way to start out when you first buy your home but now that we’ve been here for 7 years we are in serious need of a window treatment upgrade.  So, about 2 years ago we rescued an abandon newborn kitten from my in-laws backyard.  Little did we know the damage and destruction he would cause in the time we’ve had him.  He has completely destroyed the mini-blinds.  I don’t know how he does it, but behind our backs he chews the individual blinds in half and then rips them from the threading that holds them together.  So now that our blinds are destroyed and useless at keeping our privacy I am faced with ordering new ones.  A task I have put off as long as possible without people on the street being able to peer into our windows.  I procrastinate horribly when it comes to “do it yourself home improvement projects.”  Nevertheless, it must be done since I don’t want strangers rubber-necking into my living room window.  Does anyone know of cat proof blinds?