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Keeping peace.
We’re enjoying the residual excitement from the trip and taking it easy this week. We’ll be back with some projects and updates soon. :) Oh, and don’t mind our dust if you happen to notice a few changes around the site as well.
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Progress: Dining Room
Ta-dao! How you like us now?! Still so-so? Oh. Anyway, as always we celebrate progress. Sometimes it feels like things around here aren’t moving very much. Mostly because we’ve been hopping from project to project just to stay excited (and tending to more important things). This room is definitely not finished. We’re planning on getting…
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Progress: Bar Hopping.
Remember our bar? Would you like pictures of some unimpressive progress? No? Too bad. We’ve been wanting to raise our makeshift bar up a bit higher since we purchased our little Besta over a year ago. We couldn’t find anything tall enough that would work with the piece. Until I came across Hairpin Legs! Gasp,…
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Chairs.
New chairs for the dining room from Overstock. Sturdy, sexy, comfy and relatively inexpensive. We wanted 6 chairs, but decided that most of the time it would only be the two of us having dinner. So it didn’t make sense to buy 6 pretty and expensive chairs. Instead we bought four great but not amazing…
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Pillow Talk.
Update on the patio: The party went off without a hitch. Actually no, we ran out of food. But, we are family food-based party newbies no more! (we’re used to feeding everyone alcohol and hors d’œuvres) Next time we’ll be prepared. But back to the whole “Red California” post. We purchased all the major stuff…
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Red California Summer
It’s 9:50pm as I sit down to write this and it is currently 55º outside. Coincidentally, that was also the high for today. It’s very unusual for Southern California to still be experiencing (cali-)winter weather. Our springs and summers are usually indistinguishable. I know I promised updates on our living room a whiiiiiiile back. But…