28 February 2010

yea baby


Swinging like Austin Powers would fondly approve, with the new mini-library and Don Draper Drinks Deck in the Dome.

23 February 2010

Re-Rack


No...thats not an order to set up another pool game on the (still here...)pool table.

I moved the wine rack and then took down and then moved one of the shelves up the wall so that I could roll the dishwasher in underneath it and make a little bit more room in the kitchen...

All Charged Up


Thinking this recently arrived shipment is a Kelby K production...thanks dude!

21 February 2010

White out


The battle with all the wood trim in the dome will never really end, but I made a little bit of progress this weekend around the bay window. Also cleaned up the candle convention some as well as pulling out the ikea lamp that was dangling over the couch. I'd set up a restraint so it wouldn't be so close to the couch (after Thor hit his head like six times in 4 hours on it), but in moving things around decided to just hang it from up top above.

Still too short


Got some new chairs for the kitchen table. Much more comfy, although I'm still a little too short for them...

Meet Bon Jovi


I've had it some five years, but only now do I have a name. (Thanks to Liz Lemmon, who in a recent 30 Rock tried to make out with some plants thinking that it was John Bon Jovi after hallucinating following a medical procedure) I now welcome "Bon Jovi" into the dome.

Bon Jovi, like in real life, is HUGE. Stays inside all winter, and out on the deck all summer....

16 February 2010

Is it wrong to be wistful?


Over just a couch? Which, officially, was the first non-futon multi-person sitting device that I bought. Way back when I'd been living in Indy for all of two years and was working on this being a grown up thing, which of course is still a work in progress kind of situation.

This was, as many can attest, a very comfortable couch to nap on. And the matching ottoman was an ideal foot rest, magazine rack, and dinner table to boot. After seemingly forever (I blame the challenge of selling a couch while out of the country/state/etc. And, too, the what-was-I-thinking? strange color palate), I have finally sold this puppy, with folks having actually come over and taken it away...

I needed to sell it, as the rough math was that there was (looking for this photo to show...) about 32% of the floorspace available in the main room, as there were two full size couches in a room that is not, well, full-size. (tall ceiling, though!)

So it has found a new home, and I'll admit, that when the guys that came to pick it up said, "he wants to test it, since it'll also be his bed..." I had to feel as though it was going to be appreciated in its new home.

So the ongoing de-clutter, de-content process rolls on. Slowly.

02 February 2010

The heat goes where?



Shot from when it was a little bit snowy and cold here. Anyone want to guess where there might be a little lack of insulation?

Not quite there yet...


Yes, lots of things that were planned for the dome (including lots of items up for sale not yet cleared out...)for January were left un-done as the Rolex 24 absorbed the full scope of time.

Hopefully we can get some things (windows? implementing elements from the comprehensive energy audit? list is big...) done this month.

Got an email today looking for homes for the Home Tour in the Fall, which is A) a great event and B) how I came to meet Donna Sink.

Alas, the Dome just isn't quite there yet...