{"id":814,"date":"2013-07-09T17:02:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T00:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=814"},"modified":"2013-07-09T17:02:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T00:02:36","slug":"choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=814","title":{"rendered":"Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/deck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-815\" alt=\"S\" src=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/deck-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/deck-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/deck-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/deck.jpg 1162w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>So, there&#8217;s the deck.\u00a0 Concrete tomorrow.\u00a0 Party soon!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, we came home and made a list of what still needs to be purchased.\u00a0 The list is daunting.\u00a0 The rental garage is chock-full of items and there is so much more to do.\u00a0 Yesterday, we walked into several flooring stores and started to look at flooring for the upstairs loft area.\u00a0 So many choices.\u00a0 We thought about a fabuolous white-washed oak laminate.\u00a0 Then we dug deeper and had concerns about laminate.\u00a0 Bamboo?\u00a0 So green!\u00a0 So beautiful.\u00a0 So pricey.\u00a0 However, we keep reminding ourselves that this is IT for us.\u00a0 There won&#8217;t be another house.\u00a0 We want this to be fabulous and at the same time we want to be able to have a cup of rice now and then.<\/p>\n<p>Then we started looking at backsplashes and tile for the shower and flooring for the bathroom and after a very brief time our heads were spinning.\u00a0 Eyes glazed over.\u00a0 We went to three stores.\u00a0 Minds had been blown.\u00a0 Hence, the list making.\u00a0 We need to focus on one thing.<\/p>\n<p>So, we just made a decision about our kitchen cabinets.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t tell you how good that feels.\u00a0 Hickory.\u00a0 Love it.\u00a0 Local custom carpenter &#8211; love it even more.\u00a0 Did I mention we are supposed to be in a home show?\u00a0 Up the ante, my friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, there&#8217;s the deck.\u00a0 Concrete tomorrow.\u00a0 Party soon! Yesterday, we came home and made a list of what still needs to be purchased.\u00a0 The list is daunting.\u00a0 The rental garage is chock-full of items and there is so much more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=814\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}