Don’t Do This

I’m not sure if I will put this under SU&SW since it isn’t happening to us, but we’ve heard about it happening to someone that we know, so I figure I’d share and hopefully spare someone some heartache.
If you are interested in an 8 burner La Cornue range and a Sub Zero Pro 48 fridge, [...]

Pottery Barn vs. Restoration Hardware

Holly and I went out the other night for some retail therapy for her. My retail therapy comes when we buy a TV, but for now, we went to Pottery Barn and Restoration Hardware for lighting, fixtures and some furniture that we are going to need. Talk about two totally different experiences.
In both [...]

Scott’s House – 1 Year Later

From this:

 
 
To this:

1 Year
Tomorrow marks the 1 year anniversary of Scott’s House. Since it is also the end of the quarter and I’m in sales, it is going to be hard for me to post so you’re getting the anniversry post a day early. W00T!!!
I can’t believe that it has been [...]

Home Depot vs. Restoration Hardware

Anyone that has been reading this blog for any amount of time understands that we have champagne taste on a beer budget. I’m pretty cheap. Holly has been pretty cheap. We are at the point now, where we are bragging to our friends about how little over budget we are on this [...]

Sweet – Scott’s House – Fast Growing Blog on WordPress

I logged on tonight only to see that Scott’s House was ranked on Friday as one of the fastest growing blogs on WordPress.com.
This is actually the 3rd or 4th time that I’ve been listed, but it is still really, really cool to see this.
I wasn’t the fastest growing site, but I was ranked #67 putting [...]

My Blue Mantel

Well, we purchased our mantel the other day.  Actually, it is this one here to the right, however, we got it in a very dark, heavily distressed blue with a nice little gold leaf trim.  Holly found it on MantelsDirect.com.
The people at MantelsDirect.com are great and they offer a wonderful warranty if you aren’t buying [...]

Stilt Walking is Rad

I think that stilt walking is pretty cool. When I see these guys, I think of that episode of the X-Files where the drywall guy was killing people, but showing up in their pictures before hand.   I know, it’s dorky, but these guys are amazing in their agility and skill to do their jobs, [...]

Garage Days Re-Revisited

Since Metallica were such a bunch of bastards about the whole Napster thing, I’m stealing one of their titles for my post.

I spoke with Sig at Morgan Hill Garage Door Company today.  It was a pretty simple process of picking out our garage door.  He said go to the website, pick out a door and [...]

The Pools

I’ll admit it, I’ve probably been a bit unfair about the state of apartment living.  Despite the Elephants (who per my previous post, have moved out), the thumping bass, the white carpet / white tile, the loud water heater, the very loud HVAC system, the people (actually the people are pretty nice for the most [...]

The Elephants Have Moved Out

Migrating Elephants – Kent Jordan
Regular readers will recall our nemesis upstairs, the Elephant Trainers.  Good news, Wednesday night I mentioned to Holly that it has been unusually quiet in terms of the crying babies and thrashing circus animals.  When I took the dog for a walk the next day, I noticed that the Elephants had [...]