so last night while trying to sort through stuff and get the satellite radio connected inside the house, so many things came light. one of them being i had over 13 audio cables for left and right channel, and a whole plastic storage tub full of cables to things i had no idea what they belonged to anymore. another thing came to light was the hardwood floor, though beautiful at one point, is trashed do to the previous owners not really appreciating what a beautiful thing hardwood floors can be.

while sitting on the scraped, abused, roughed up floor and being nearly strangled by audio cord spaghetti, i thought about some of the flooring steven and i spied at home depot, but not lowes. it was click in place wood flooring with a black tint to it, but reflective. seeing as the walls are going to be mostly black, i knew that reflective sheen would be just right for this space. looking at the home depot website, i don’t see such flooring, sadly. i did find the exact same thing on another site, let me show you:

black wood flooring

this isn’t quite what we saw, but similar enough. so, while thinking of this, i began to think of other ways to store said radio and audio receiver in a nice manner that could possibly also store other things. at that moment (when swearing profusely at some ac adapter tangled in the mess that i couldn’t fathom what it was supposed to ever go to that we didn’t already have hooked up to something), i thought about a beautiful cabinet i saw at ikea once. it think it would fit beautifully in the feel of the room, so i  got up and pulled it up on the screen to show steven. he agreed it is beautiful and maybe one day we could afford it. i sighed deeply, really tired of day dreaming about one days, but know there is no other way. but man, it would be amazing in the room. take a look!

IKEA STOCKHOLM

both steven and i love things that have room underneath them. for me, i like the sense of open space and openness it brings. let us not forget the fact, way easier to clean underneath things that are open below them.

so, that as a cabinet with the audio equipment and then get little shelves (eventually) for the speakers through out the house (currently only four, more will have to happen… eventually).

i get too excited about making things pretty and get frustrated when i don’t have the means to do it when i have the energy and excitement to do it RIGHT THEN. it’s such a flustering realization. it didn’t help matters more that my hand was literally stuck in a jumble of cords at the time and in my frustration i went to shake a mighty fist at the cruel turn of events in which money didn’t fall from the sky to make my humble shack into a beautiful and amazing home, which lead to me hitting myself in the face with the previously mentioned fistful of cords.

ah, life.