Home Improvement, Part 9

The basement is now furnished. Last week Kris picked up some more shelves. So now more of our miscellaneous stuff has a home.

Over the weekend we went shopping big-time. We picked up a futon, which Chester has already seemed to claim as his new favorite place to sleep.


The new futon offers a relaxing spot for TV viewing.

We also picked up a new TV and DVD player.

When we bought the new TV for our living room last year, we decided to stick with a standard TV and we told ourselves we would spring for an HDTV the next time around. But at the time, we had no idea we'd be in the market again so soon. An HD set is still out of our price range, but I was hoping to at least get a flat-panel LCD set. That we could have afforded, but we would have had to sacrifice on screen size. Finally we decided we'd get a tube TV, but still go widescreen. We got a good deal on a 30-inch widescreen JVC TV.


We can now watch TV and movies in 16:9 glory.

When I was first watching regular TV on it and seeing how the image was distorted to fit the 16:9 screen, I was a little unsure as to whether or not this purchase was the right thing to do. Then I popped in a DVD. Oh. My. God. It looks so cool seeing a widescreen movie fill up the screen. We definitely made the right purchase!