Hello HD

I need to back up a little and tell you what truely prompted this overhaul on the house. The T.V. in the den went out....nothing more, nothing less. The Boob tube goes and and all of the sudden replacing it becomes this thing that morphs into something between "While you were out" and "Trading Spaces". The new T.V. is a flat screen HD eye sore that of course no longer fits into the armoir that held the old one. Since the armoire is now out of the picture we have to find an HD T.V. stand. Once this is done the T.V. no longer "fits" right in the den where the old one stood. Since the armoire is moved and we have to find a new place for the T.V., of course we may as well go the distance and update.

The shape of our den is obiously from the LSD flashback the contractor was in the middle of. So the new T.V. will only look best in front of the fireplace.

I'm posting a picture of what the fireplace looked like before we started and what it looks like now. The sweet little girl in the picture is Emma. We were trying to give her curly/wavy hair by roling it in socks while it was still wet. It is a vast improvment over the orange juice cans that my mom used to make us sleep in...but that's another blog!

Fireplace before...



This is what we've ended up with so far...Looks like I'll have to find a new place to hang the stockings.