The House of Change

A few months ago Bre and I had decided that we wanted to put our house up for sale this spring and move........move where? No clue. Well with the wonderful economy outlook we made the decision that we are going to stay in our house for several more years. So what does that mean to Bre and I assume most women.......change the house we are in. I completely understand why. If I was at home with the kids all day every day having to be in the same rooms and look at the same stuff every day and night I would probably feel the same way (And for the record I tell Bre all the time how I could never do what she does and I appreciate what she does for our family!).

So we began the "House of Change" with a rearrangement of furniture in the living room which made a huge improvement in space (yes Bre I admit that the couch did fit on that wall!) I then painted the room which got rid of the "kid disaster area" markings on the walls. We also had Champion Electric (Brian Woodall's company) change all of our horrible flourescent light fixtures in our finished basement to recessed down lights (huge improvement). Thease are some small things that made a big diffence and to my advantage did not cost an arm and a leg.

Since we have lived in this house Bre and I have never really liked our finished basement. Most of that was the lights being way too bright and humming like you wouldn't understand but we also didn't really like the way it was arranged. We have a office and a living room area. So my suggestion was get rid of the office and make it a home theater room (guys rejoice everywhere). This has been a dream of mine for years now but the cost of the technology for a decent HD projector and screen was a little out of my reach financially. Until now....... So Bre finally agreed (half-heartedly of course) to let me make my change to the house (just in the basement, I have no say in the areas seen by guests). I now have my dream........ a 1080i Full HD projector and 93" screen with full surround sound and dimmable lights!!! I can't believe it. The most awesome thing about it is I spent less money on the projector and the screen than I would have on a 50" HD LCD TV...go figure.

So after we got the theater room wired up and working we needed to go furniture shopping.......for a nice couch to sit on while enjoying the new room. My only request is comfort. No I don't care what it looks like. I just want it to be comfortable. So Bre went looking for a couch and she finds several she likes but couldn't decide on any. Last weekend we went looking some more after church and ended up at Ashley furniture where Carter and Bentley played on all of the couches. Here is a picture of Carter's couch static hair........


Well needless to say we still don't have a couch yet but we moved our other couch from the basement in there temporarily but we are definitely ready for the big game on Sunday!