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Mar 29 2012

Gorgeous Metal Accents in the Living Room and Kitchen

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Recently, I’ve noticed a trend of using metal tiles to accent your home in decorating.  The use of metal in the kitchen is nothing new.  Many people have stainless steel appliances throughout their homes.  I’m particularly fond of the way stainless steel looks in a kitchen.  I like how it looks sharp, clean and cool.  For some reason it makes me think things are sterile in a place where I know that’s important.

Decorating with metal in the kitchen seems familiar to me.  However, decorating with large metal statement pieces in other parts of the home is a new idea to me.  A fireplace covered in stainless steel tiles is eye catching and very breath taking. These tiles aren’t necessarily all perfect square 2″ x 2″ squares either.  There are tiles manufactured to look like cobblestones, circles, hexagons, bricks and even mosaics.  There really are a lot of choices to from.

My kitchen has stainless steel appliances, so I’m no stranger this type of accent in my home. However, I’ve never thought to add metal pieces of accents to other rooms in my home.  Maybe this will be a project I might pursue in the future.

Mar 10 2012

Change Your Clocks for Daylight Savings Time

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Two times a year we have to change our clocks here due to daylight savings time.  I don’t really mind it that much in the Fall when I get to sleep in for an extra hour.  But when it means I have to get up an hour earlier tomorrow morning, I’m not really too excited about it.

Thanks to technology I don’t have to change the clocks on my computer or even on my cable box. However, I still have to go around and manually change all of the rest of the clocks in my home. I have more clocks that I realized.  I have a clock in each of my bathrooms, alarm clocks in our bedrooms, the microwave, and a nice wall clock in the living room.  I even have one hanging outside on the patio.  The digital clocks took no time at all to reset, but the analog clocks required me to take them off the wall and rehang them.

Now that I’ve changed all of the clocks in my home, I have to remember to change the clock in the car before I go to church in the morning.  Clocks, clocks, everywhere sheesh!