Archive for the ‘before’ Category

Musical chairs

Friday, June 5th, 2009


I moved the pair of Bertoia diamond chairs from the living room into the master bedroom to modern things up a bit…well and because they got pushed out of the living room by the new butterfly chair and orange lounger.

The Bertoia diamond chairs replaced this pair of Brown Jordan chairs. So, to keep track…the bedroom before is above with the more regency style chairs.

Then the Brown Jordan faux bamboo chairs ended up moving to the kitchen breakfast bar to replace the Bertoia side chairs

Which then had to be moved out to the patio…


So to recap, a little diagram:

Living room—-Bertoia Diamond—Bedroom—Jordan Brown Faux Bamboo—Kitchen—-Bertoia Side—-Patio

Wow that was lame! And for another equally lame recap:

I have many chairs and only one butt. (-/ = chair, 3 = butt)

-/ -/ -/ -/ -/ -/ > 3

I’m just super addicted to chairs – its like crack. I gotta get my fix.


FILED UNDER: after, bedroom, before, decorating, furniture, kitchen

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Ghetto

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

So whats this mess? Oh, just another ghetto solution at the Brick House.

When I was laying out the new kilim I was reminded of the stupidity of it.

SERIOUSLY cable guys? This is your solution for the cable going into the den? You drilled through the living room hardwood floor and ran it through the closet and the built in desk like 10 feet instead of installing it in the DEN.



The black arrow marks where the den cable comes out of the the living room floor (because – of course thats where it should be). Its just sort of randomly placed and is a constant eyesore.

Add this to the long list of shoddy ghetto solutions that the “previous owners” left for us the “new owners” to amend. One day I hope to crawl under the house and have this whole place cabled correctly. Ugh, spiders. Yuck.

That is probably why I’ve put it off for over a year.

FILED UNDER: before, living

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Priming

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

We spent the weekend trying to finish up the exterior priming of the house. Its like entering the fifth level of hell getting the primer in all the cement nooks and crannies. At least the house will finally be sealed! No more water weeping in and screwing up the interior plaster.

We still have this side of the house to do (first the weeds need to be cut down) and parts of the garage. Then we can get to the actual painting of a color besides blinding white primer. Hooray…I guess…

I’m very tired of painting at this point.

FILED UNDER: before, exterior

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