Kitchen and Living Room Updates

With all the business of planning a wedding and attending several other weddings this year, we didn't really get a whole lot done around the house. We did manage to buy a few little things and make room for some wedding gifts amid all of the commotion.

First on the list was a better place to store our pots and pans. Since we received an awesome new set as a gift from our friends we figured hanging them up would allow us to both display them (because they're pretty!) and access them more easily than if they were stuffed inside a cabinet, like the ones we had before. We got this hanging bar from Amazon and now they're super convenient to use! We also got a new trash can, which probably isn't exciting to anyone except for me. Our old cans were plastic and grimy and the lids had stopped working super well, so we replaced them with this shiny new stainless steel version that contains both the trash and the recycling inside. Both bins inside are 8 gallons, which is about the perfect size for what we can manage to get through before it starts to smell. With recycling and composting, we throw away very little, so over the course of a week we never really filled up our 13-gallon can before it would start to go sour. Now it's much more useful and, of course, pretty to look at.

 

 

 

The other big change is that we bought a projector for the living room! We moved the LED TV we had in here before into another room so now the projector is our only TV in here. We got a fancy remote-controlled retractable screen so that when we aren't using it we can roll it up and see the pretty decal that we labored over applying to the mirror behind it several months ago. Nick spent about an entire weekend wiring everything up so that the cables run from the media computer and audio receiver in the TV stand up through the wall and ceiling to the projector on the other side of the room. Since these photos the wires are hanging a little more nicely, but who has time to take more pictures? Now we'll just have to decide if we need to invest in some nice blackout curtains to make this room good and dark during the middle of the day.