Living Room Almost Done…

So, here’s the latest video of the living room…

More pictures at my Flickr stream…

The Living Room Project

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I\’ve been on vacation for the last week, working on remodeling the living room of our house. Its been a slow, slow process – I didn\’t finish scraping paint until last night. I won\’t go into all the details right now (it\’s late) but I did want to point folks to the photos and videos I\’ve put together of the project:

Photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/morphosis7/

Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/user/morphosis7

I\’ll have to upload pictures to Flickr once I\’m done tonight – we finally started putting paint on the walls tonight, with the help of my sister-in-law. I think the room is coming along nicely, finally – but there\’s a lot yet to do.

How Walkable is your neighborhood?

My friend Jamie recently posted this to his biking blog, and I thought it deserved to be passed on:

Walk Score.com – How walkable is your house?

Essentially, you give it your address and it will search Google’s database for nearby amenities like groceries, schools, hardware stores, movie theathers, etc. It scores how close everything is, and assigns your address a 1-100 score indicating how walking-friendly it appears.

Now, it doesn’t take into account things like the presence of sidewalks, the size of the street, speed limits, etc – but it does seem to give a decent thumbnail-sketch indication of how good your neighborhood is.

My house scored 42 of 100, which on their scale is “not walkable”, or:

Only a few destinations are within easy walking range. For most errands, driving is a must.

The closest:
0.30 miles Park
0.35 Grocery store
0.44 Restaurant
0.49 Dry cleaner
0.50 Bar
0.50 Drug store
0.53 School
0.76 Coffee shop
0.77 Bookstore
0.89 Library
1.18 Hardware store
1.60 Movie theater
2.22 Day care

I looked up some of my previous apartments, and my parents’ house – my apartments fared much better (duh – I was blocks from High Street), while my parents’ house was very poor (again, duh – they live in a cul-de-sac suburb)

Thoughts…?