From the monthly archives: July 2011

Gray Doesn’t Have to Be Dreary

By On July 29, 2011 · 1 Comment

I had friends coming from Chicago for a visit a couple weekends ago and was in a scramble to get the new place ‘visitor ready.’ The living room was pretty much complete, the hallways had done away with the awful sky blue and in its place a nice crisp ultra white paint was freshly applied. [...]

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Office Space

By On July 14, 2011 · 2 Comments

What do you get when you have two extreme nerds living under the same roof? A lot of fighting over who gets to use the desk for their nerd stuff. I want to use it to comfortably expand my mind by browsing the happenings on the ‘interwebz’ (also known as may-jah facebook or twitter stalking) [...]

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Kitchen Bar.. but not that kind..

By On July 10, 2011 · 73 Comments

I’ve never been one for cooking. Up until recently (and by recently I mean 8 days ago), my repertoire of dishes didn’t go much beyond buttered noodles and grilled cheese sandwiches. So naturally, I didn’t think I’d really care much about a kitchen, but alas, miracles truly do exist. It’s like having a kitchen of [...]

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Some Inspiration

By On July 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment

So, what are we going to do with the place?  We’re not sure yet, but here are some pictures of stuff we want to use as sort of inspiration.

I’d say we’re definitely going for a look that’s very minimalist meets contemporary retro. Can’t wait to see what we come up with!

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The good, the bad, and the downright icky

By On July 8, 2011 · 1 Comment

Got a little behind on the blog with the whole hoopla of flying back from Cali and then moving out a mere 1.5 days later. Defying all odds, however, I managed to keep my cool, get annoyed and grouchy only 2 or 3 times (hey, for me that’s good so no judging here!) and not [...]

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