Rec Room Ruiminations

We have a rec room, the Colonel and I, and it is a very nice space: Knotty pine, tile floor, fireplace, view of the Cascades. Yet something about it just hasn't clicked. It's sort of dark, for one thing, and the lighting is sort of problematic as well.

But I totally rethunk it over the weekend, and I think it came out pretty well.

I started out by drawing together several problematic parts into one problematic corner (the corner where the foundation sagged in the 1965 earthquake. Everything kind of slants in that corner)

That's where I put the Silver King Milk Cooler, sitting on top of the Merry Mates Record Cabinet, the Cocktail Bar, with the Family Heirloom standing in as a back bar. Voila! A fabulous little cocktail corner. The beauty of it is that people won't notice the slope, or if they do, they'll blame it on their drinking!



I also coerced the professor into helping me move the Kimball Organ downstairs (there was too much junk in the Living Room) so now we have a true entertainment room. I serenaded the dogs last night with a selection of broadway tunes, and they just loved it!