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Our first meal in the dining room!



Living room furniture! Just need a coffee table now. Trying to figure out the optimal couch-armchair arrangement is difficult.

Dining room now furnished!

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Taken with my Blackberry

Painting!

We spent most of the past Memorial Day weekend painting. Well, Sze-jun did and I helped by pointing out missed spots or attempting to use the roller.

Sze-jun: "But you'll get tired!"
Christine: "No I want to help!!"
Sze-jun: "Um.... ok."
.... after a few minutes of painting
Christine: "Ok I'm tired."

Here is the hubby painting the accent wall in the living room.


Our new 'atmosphere blue' bedroom!


The completed accent wall, now 'stone' colored.


We got our paint from Restoration Hardware. I was curious where exactly their paint comes from. For example, Pottery Barn branded paint is actually sourced from Benjamin Moore Paints.

Landscaping ideas

We like to get ideas for landscaping simply by taking walks through our neighborhood and checking out what other houses have done. Houses around our area have done some beautiful things to their landscaping.



The video's a bit blurry, but you can get a feel for what this house did with their front yard. It's so organized and clean!

Strolling through the neighborhood

Beautiful at sunset!

Paella fun

We don't use our kitchen as often as we'd like because we have the luxury of being fed at work. However, this past weekend there was some serious cooking going on!

Early stages of the paella...


Paella simmering. Tasted as good as it looked, which was very.


Pablo and Shelley hard at work. Well, we helped a little :)


The entire Spanish dinner on our new breakfast bar/nook:


I have to say, I absolutely love this breakfast bar. It's extremely useful for dining, displaying food, for actually being a bar (we have yet to do this... we're waiting until we throw a real housewarming shindig), and of course -- displaying pretty flowers.