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Posted by Michelle on Mar 26, 2011 in Misc
The new TV and blu ray are being installed now! We’ll have a wall of TV when they are done installing and linking everything together. And yes, we are just dorky enough to want two big tvs in the same room.
Thank goodness Jeff’s brother Jay is a whiz at this or it would have cost arm and a leg for installation.
Posted by Michelle on Mar 26, 2010 in Hayley
We finally decided Hayley was ready to move to a bigger room, so she took Jeff’s big home office and he took her room. She decided she wanted it black and hot pink with the theme ‘punk princess’. So we got paint, vinyl decals and all sorts of stuff and we got to work. It’s pretty much done however I’d have more photos if she would ever reasonably clean up her room. So this is mostly the work in process and parts of her room.
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Posted by Michelle on Jan 21, 2009 in Hayley, Jeff, Michelle
Several of my friends named it Snowbama day since we got six inches on Tuesday the day of the inauguration of President Obama, it made me chuckle so I keep using it. Besides all we did that day was either snow or inauguration related anyway.
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Posted by Michelle on Aug 2, 2008 in Michelle
Hooray, we finally ordered our new living room furniture! I finally twisted Jeff’s arm into it by making it be my anniversary gift. [10 years tomorrow in fact, I love you more now sweetie than I did even then.]
We got the couch, love seat and ottoman in that dark brown leather. The ottoman will be used for extra seating, ie video games closer to the tv.
The tables are darker actually and insanely heavy stone. hayley actually found these and I flipped over them.
And then two recliners in this pear color, which is more muted when you see it for real.
I had them drag pieces over to look at it all together and it looks good together.
I’m going to replace the sofa table on the back wall with a large square grid bookshelf but that will take some time to sort out with some places because we all know I’m picky when I have an idea in my head. I’ll toss in some green accessories to pick up that color.
Posted by Michelle on Nov 2, 2005 in Hayley
We went nuts for Halloween. Strobe light, fog machine, tons of sensor things (you walk by and they scream), bloody doors, spider webs everywhere, ghost in the trees, luminaries in the yard. I missed a lot of cool things to get photos of – mostly the glowing light/sensor stuff but oh well!
Hayley and her friends did a lot of it and I didn’t even care that stuff looked so nutty, it was charming! People loved it – some people were even taking photos with their cell phones of their kids and the Mummy. Little kids couldn’t handle all the noise and fog
It was so fun. I stayed out on the porch working some of the toys to freak people out. It is our tradition to give out glow stick bracelets and necklaces with the candy, so I did those too.
Hayley pretty much went nuts. She had a friend sleepover and three other neighborhood kids ask to Trick-Treat with her. I was so happy for her to have people want to go with her and then everyone come over to her house. We got pizzas for us, her friend and her mom and out next door neighbors came over too.
Next year, I’m just going to plan on throwing an after-party for everyone!
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Posted by Michelle on Jan 23, 2004 in Jeff, Michelle
As most of you know, Jeff & I are obsessive college sports fans. We love to collect UNC (me) and VT (Jeff) stuff – the pile got to be extensive enough where we devoted an entire room to it.
I’d say it is about 60% UNC stuff, 40% VT stuff. And since I took the photos, I’m highlighting some of my favorite UNC stuff.
Left side view: big wall of autographed photos and some of the stuff
Posted by Michelle on May 4, 2003 in Michelle
A friend of mine has been after me to take some photos of my house. I finally did and I thought I’d post them here as well.
One of the reasons we picked this floor plan was the way everything was open and flowed – either french doors or arches with no doors between most areas. The rooms are huge to begin with and coupled with the “flow”, it gave the house a very comfortable feel.
It was originally a three car garage but since we don’t have kids and it’ll be 16 plus years before they drive, we had it changed to a two car garage and the kitchen/living room expanded. So your eyes don’t deceive you, this is about the biggest kitchen you’ve ever seen.
We’ve lived here almost three years now. Later, I’ll post photos of the four bedrooms upstairs and the bonus room that is a memorabilia room.
Front of house on sunny day
library with the wallpaper we made from book pages
Dining room – every photo turns out bad. But the art and chair pads are sage, the walls white. I got the table last summer from Workbench and it has sliding leaves that make it so it can seat 10 comfortably.
hallway from library and dining room (thank you Martha Stewart mirror kit). That table opens up as a CD holder but I fell in love with since it was narrow and I needed a hall table.
Hallway with two magazines framed (ESPN and Entertainment Weekly) that one of my websites has been in
my messy office (laptops are in living room right now)
downstairs bathroom
Living room view into the kitchen/breakfast table. to the left is a great B&W photo from NYC
Huge print I love (it is five feet by 3 feet)
my sweet 40in sony vega TV and fireplace (sorry for all the messy cords, Jeff was playing xbox and I’ve got 2 of my laptops in the living room changing machines). Above the fireplace is an awesome shot of City Lights bookstore in SF that we visited on our honeymoon.
kitchen view one
kitchen view two
kitchen view three (sorry, still haven’t packed up the mosaic stuff)
breakfast area/bar/craft corner
corner before outside. I found those boxes at an close out furniture store – they are fake leather covered with a map pattern on top.
Posted by Michelle on Apr 23, 2003 in Michelle
Still a bit messy and it isn’t done yet – we’ve got the first two levels of sealant down and will keep applying it until it stops absorbing. Also we are going to run a thin line of caulk in the bottom and top gap. We left that gap so the grout could expand.
And you’d have to see the rest of the kitchen to see why we used a tile with a bright blue with the countertops in a milder blue. We have a bunch of bright blue accessories in the kitchen. Plus the kitchen is huge, so the bright blue/yellow stands out.
Thanks to www.smashingtimes.com for the tile and help. I wish I lived in Dallas to visit them!
Posted by Michelle on Mar 21, 2003 in Jeff, Michelle
The make your own wallpaper experiment is done – and it looks great!
Posted by Michelle on Mar 3, 2003 in Michelle
Not much to report…
That’s about it.
