I just finished putting the TV, VCR, DVD, and stereo system (including) speakers back into the entertainment center (the cables have been cleaned up since I posted this). My wife finished touching up the paint and I am very pleased with her work. She is not finished with all the living room, but she is close.
I know that it looks a tad weird having a 27 inch (68.5 cm) TV where a 45 inch (114 cm) one should go, but we are not TV people and the distance from that wall to the one opposite it is pretty short, about 14 feet (4.25 meters) and with a couch opposite the TV, it is even closer.
We are using all Sony equipment except the tape deck. It has not worn out/broken yet and it 15 years old. The TV is 9 or 10 years old and the speaker system is about 15 years old. The DVD player is a 5 disc carousel and is 3 years old and the receiver is about 4-5 years old. I bought it used from a colleague for a very good price. The speaker stands are 5 years old and the TV stand is less than a year old.
The rest of the area will be filled with books, pictures, and candles. I hope to publish photos as son as my wife finishes touching up the rest of the walls and trim. We need new furniture but that is not in the budget any time soon. We have too many repairs to do first!
Here are a few pics of the house after we had a few things done outside. This one is of the 8 foot (2.4 meters) cedar fence we had put in last summer. It is about 155 liner feet (47 meters) long.
This one is of the back patio with the Rubbermaid building. The building is setting on the new patio extension. The yard is not flat and we liked the shed being near the house. We want to eventually cover the patio so we can keep the heat off us and actually *sit* outside sometime. It is very hot in Texas without shade.
Here is the front of the house, circa last year (all the photos except the entertainment center are from last summer). The fence goes around half way around the house then towards in. I had considered extending the fence closer to the front, but I did not want it to look like a fortress. I would not have such a high fence if we did not have neighbors so close to us.
For nostalgia sake, I had to include a photo of our old house in North Carolina. We lived about 5 miles (8 kilometers) outside the city limits, 8 miles (12.8 kilometers) from the closest grocery store. Country living with city convenience. While the house did not look like much, it was our first home and we miss it and all the little quirks it had (the shape being the oddest. It literally was a huge cube without anything to give it shape).
It sat on a sloping lot (common in NC), was pier and beam (no slab foundations like in Texas) and had a 2 story storage shed in the back. Since it was in the country, we had a well (it was very deep...something like 250 feet) and had the best tasting cool water all year long. We also had a septic system that was grandfathered in. It was a "flow through" system that was consisted of multiple chambers to hold the waste, one of them being a "sanitation" chamber that we charged with chlorine tablets every month.
Interesting comparison to the 'burbs in Texas, eh?
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