Anyone born after the 1990’s is likely unfamiliar with Buns of Steel, a classic exercise workout program of the 1980’s or with my personal buns of steel (which I don’t believe have been sighted since 1995).
Baby, lemme tell ya, I’m going to try to get glamorous gluts and a styling 6-pack before too long. Today the Nordic Track treadmill John bought me for Christmas, 2012 was finally taken from my sister’s garage and assembled in Stella. I have to tell you, she looks MaVEEluss. I hope someone (or a couple to twenty someones) soon will be saying that about me. John, Sharon, and I so desperately need to get back into better physical form.
Here are a few pictures I’ve taken of partially completed rooms. While only partially completed, they do give us visual respite from the box bombs of the attic, garage, and every inch of closet space in the house. And, I’ll include a before and after fence picture to highlight our intelligence. It was one of our more brilliant life-time decisions.
Exercise Room – modest in its equipment, better health will be ours as a result of including it in our house design plans.
C’mon baby bow my flex (sorry Jim Morrison).
The exercise room also will serve as an office (and will likely be where I iron clothes since there’s a 46″ TV and a nice TV/music sound system in there), hence the old kitchen cabinet between the windows. The cabinet is one of the first ever antiques I bought. I’m glad I was able to find a home for it as storage for office items in the new house.
Family Room – love the storage in this coffee table and the fact that it’s on wheels and can raise to fit right over us for snacks and martinis while lounging on the sofa. Clearly, it’s the reason we need an exercise room.
Family Room – again, there’s stuff sitting about, but until everything has been unpacked what is presently on display may not remain where it is. Don’t know if you remember the reason for the cloth in the doors of the large cabinets. The subwoofer is in the left cabinet so the right one had to match it.
Buns of Steel Can Be
Dangerous in
Thunderstorms!
The Master Bedroom – I wish it were more evident how lovely the window treatments are in this room. The colors so perfectly pick up the shades of blue in the bed quilt and pillows. I love this room, it’s so tranquil. I hope my old stuff fits in well. In choosing colors for the new house, I was very mindful of things to be used from the old house. We needed to be frugal each step of the way.
And now the promised before and after fence pictures.
Fence posts installed on Monday, 3/24. Fence installed on 3/26 – picture of that to come later. Is your eye keen enough to discern why we wanted a fence?
Ahhhh, after fence.