New Kitchen!
Jul. 23rd, 2006 03:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisNope. Not mine. Sherry and Lee's. They moved in about the same time I did. It's interesting to see what is important to them and what they have done. They have excellent taste and good sense of interior design so they were way ahead of me. Plus there are two of them which makes a difference. They redid all of their lighting a couple of years ago - ceiling lights/spotlights, etc. And some work on their terrace. A built in to hide the mechanism for the built in air conditioning they added.
They have the original carpet (and have it in good shape) but their walls are beautiful colors.
And last week they pretty much gutted and replaced their kitchen. They rebuilt a lot of the cabinets and put a wood laminate on them with sleek stainless pulls that match their new appliances. They got a built in stove so took their new counter up into a backslash all the way around. I would not have picked their counter top but it looks nice and it's very different than mine plus they really increased the size of their peninsula so they could seat about 5 people there comfortably for a meal! It's very nice looking all of it.
They also had their HDTV tuned to the tennis game and I finally was able, for the first time, to understand what the HDTV hoopla is all about. Very nice. You could just about smell Andy Roddick. Mom would have been very impressed. They got the TV about a year ago. Some day when I figure out how to hook my 3 Tivo's from one, I might consider it.
I'm thinking cool thoughts and those thoughts bring me back to Summers in the North Carolina mountains. When I was about 13 or 14, Mom and Dad - long in love with the North Carolina mountains - built a house in Blowing Rock. It was a vacation home three level A-frame. It was a great house. It was built for fun and for crowds and for years and years it was filled with both.
Blowing Rock was a tiny town full of flavor and character. There were year round residents but the town doubled and sometimes tippled in the Summertime with people like us. Our family had year round and vacation friends. The mountains had no tv reception and cable - unheard of in the flatlands where you could get all the stations over the air - was born. My Daddy's friend owned the cable company and the folks up there thought he was a god. Without him there was no tv.
The guy who built our house was another local who was revered by us and by everyone else. He'd drop by every Saturday that we were there and have a beer with Daddy and spill the town poop. We loved him. (I heard last year that he was still alive. Very very old but living with his daughter and enjoying winding down time.)
The town was a fairly easy 2 hour drive from Winston-Salem. In the summer it was cool - my Mom called it 'free' air conditioning. But, we were not just Summer people. We were Winter people, too. We spent every holiday up there and lots of weekends all winter long. About the second or third winter after the house was finished, Blowing Rock opened up the first ski slope in the area. It was tiny but it was all there was and we didn't know any better and we were so grateful.
Winters were great and the snow was great but the Summers were magical. And cool.
They have the original carpet (and have it in good shape) but their walls are beautiful colors.
And last week they pretty much gutted and replaced their kitchen. They rebuilt a lot of the cabinets and put a wood laminate on them with sleek stainless pulls that match their new appliances. They got a built in stove so took their new counter up into a backslash all the way around. I would not have picked their counter top but it looks nice and it's very different than mine plus they really increased the size of their peninsula so they could seat about 5 people there comfortably for a meal! It's very nice looking all of it.
They also had their HDTV tuned to the tennis game and I finally was able, for the first time, to understand what the HDTV hoopla is all about. Very nice. You could just about smell Andy Roddick. Mom would have been very impressed. They got the TV about a year ago. Some day when I figure out how to hook my 3 Tivo's from one, I might consider it.
I'm thinking cool thoughts and those thoughts bring me back to Summers in the North Carolina mountains. When I was about 13 or 14, Mom and Dad - long in love with the North Carolina mountains - built a house in Blowing Rock. It was a vacation home three level A-frame. It was a great house. It was built for fun and for crowds and for years and years it was filled with both.
Blowing Rock was a tiny town full of flavor and character. There were year round residents but the town doubled and sometimes tippled in the Summertime with people like us. Our family had year round and vacation friends. The mountains had no tv reception and cable - unheard of in the flatlands where you could get all the stations over the air - was born. My Daddy's friend owned the cable company and the folks up there thought he was a god. Without him there was no tv.
The guy who built our house was another local who was revered by us and by everyone else. He'd drop by every Saturday that we were there and have a beer with Daddy and spill the town poop. We loved him. (I heard last year that he was still alive. Very very old but living with his daughter and enjoying winding down time.)
The town was a fairly easy 2 hour drive from Winston-Salem. In the summer it was cool - my Mom called it 'free' air conditioning. But, we were not just Summer people. We were Winter people, too. We spent every holiday up there and lots of weekends all winter long. About the second or third winter after the house was finished, Blowing Rock opened up the first ski slope in the area. It was tiny but it was all there was and we didn't know any better and we were so grateful.
Winters were great and the snow was great but the Summers were magical. And cool.
