it's easy being green

Last weekend, encouraged by the warmer weather, we went to the nursery and bought some green for the backyard.

Including a whole range of herbs, peppers, kale and tomatoes.
To be honest, Thom did most of the work but a few other people pitched in as well.

After a long day of labor we headed out to Barcade to unwind.


Now we have a whole summer to enjoy our beautiful backyard. Hopefully some yummy goodies to add to the BBQ too...

heat

Besides being one of my favorite movies, it's also a nice thing to have when taking a shower. We just replaced our water heater yesterday since the old one was leaking all over the cellar floor. And hot damn do we have hot water! I didn't even realize that maybe we shouldn't have to turn the hot faucet alllll the way on and not add any cold water. In fact, I've found that I no longer know how to ajust the hold and cold faucets to reach the perfect temperature. I nearly got second degree burns this morning.

One other benefit of the new water heater has been making us feel old, old, old. You know you're an adult when you're married and get excited about buying a new water heater. When did that happen?

Naturally, while the plumbers were in the cellar they mentioned that we might have a few other issues to take care of - joy. Thank you 100 year old house

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a space of my own

Ever since seeing the beautiful picture of the black tub and white bathroom I've been fantasizing about what we could do to our master bathroom. This picture has me dreaming of double sinks. And, while not for our bathroom, gorgeous dark wood floors. After a year and a half of living in a house with worn down, patchy subfloor I salivate at the thought of floors like these. Walking around the house in bare feet! Can you even imagine?

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sit down - stay awhile

Sure the house is still a mess. But at least now there's a place for people to sit.

Our new Room & Board chairs arrived this week and they fit in perfectly to the front parlor.
And Thom's Christmas present to me has taken up residency in the den. It's surprisingly comfortable.

adding a little class

These are the kinds of images that make we want to paint everything white. It just looks so clean and fresh. So the opposite of the house now. And I imagine our furniture and artwork would be so much more striking against this background.

This picture especially gives me inspiration for our upstairs bathroom...
Would it really be such a sin?

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boxing day

Thom miserable because I made him get up at 7 am for the room and board sale all with the goal of getting these. Amazing that he didn't kill me when we realized that we could have done it all online from home.

Coffee break.

And back to Brooklyn...
Thom filling out the paperwork to get our marriage license!
Waiting in line... we did this for a while. After almost 2 hours the license was ours! By the way, Thom's not actually green with nausea. The room is just that unfortunate.

for when we win the lottery (my that list is getting long)

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i couldn't agree more

with every word that comes out of this woman's fingertips. In fact, the major highlight of my holiday season last year was Thom bringing home a set of their hand soaps. He loves me.

I'm going to paint everything white - and you can't stop me!

sigh

Just visiting the chair at Room & Board.

perhaps for the front parlor?

just fantasy shopping again...

you'll never guess

this is a coatrack! Can you even imagine? If only I could talk Thom into this one. Sigh, it would never work...

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time to buy a lottery ticket

sigh

our house got a score of 78% - what about yours?

We may have to buy a new house just for this.

busy fantasizing over here

I've been dreaming of one day finding the perfect lot for a gorgeous pre-fab home.

it's really hot

It's been sweltering in NYC and, while we have AC in a couple rooms now (thank goodness), it's really not cutting it. Time to brainstorm other ideas...and think cool.

so cool, so creepy

these would go with the baby cup head, don't you think?

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don't hold your breath

This is just one of many reasons why we need to have the closets redone in the house. Currently this closet is in the middle room (between the main and guest bedrooms). It's actually bigger than it looks but the shelves don't make good use of the space.

We may have paused in the house renovations to plan the wedding but someday we'll actually reverse this closet. It shares a wall with our bedroom so we can make a much larger closet in our bedroom and close off the closet on this side. In fact, this will be the next renovation we undertake as it involves moving a wall and is the last thing standing between us and shiny, beautiful floors.

This room will then become the office. And maybe we'll actually be able to store all our shoes in the closet. Imagine that.

nothing more rewarding than a good deal

I picked up some new summer sheets for our bed at the Jonathan Adler sample sale. Someday we'll have a real bed too...