In The Hopper For Turbodizin
Ok, so now that we are holding it down at a new URL, we figured you folks may be wondering what those lively features that we mentioned would be coming soon might be. Well, there is plenty to look forward to so here is simply a smattering of exciting projects and developments coming to Turbodizin…
#1. A Turbodizin Nursery: If people could get pregnant by popular demand, Sherry and I might simply be having octuplets. And since so many of our readers were crossing their fingers that our big announcement would be a baby, we figured it was high time we did a nursery makeover, even if it is not in our house. My sister Emily (check out her remarkable casa right here) is due in October and she recruited us months ago to majorly transform her empty bedroom into a nursery for her little one on the way. We are both geeky-excited about it. With a before like this you know it is going to be dramatic:
Yes, there is an excellent track door leading into one side of the room (the other side is accessible through a regular doorway) so there are already some fairly remarkable features to work with. Is it weird that before pictures in fact make our mouth water? It is pavlovian. And as for expanding our little family, it is not in the works yet but it is certainly something we look forward to in the next year or so.
#2. Videos, Baby: We have already ordered some video equipment to make it swift and straightforward to wax poetic whenever the mood strikes. And we also have a little TV appearance coming up so that should be lively/potentially-embarrassing.
#3. Our House’s History: We never knew you folks were so curious about our house’s original owners until we began receiving quite a few emails and comments asking if we have ever heard from them. Well guess what? Last week we heard from them. The original owners who lived here for nearly forty five years contacted us after coming across our journal through a friend. Oh the tales they told. And we cannot wait to spill all the dirty details about our humble house’s past. Let us simply say there we plenty of new discoveries. And speaking of discoveries, here is an old post about how we found some fairly remarkable things under our old cabinets when we redid our kitchen (the bottom one is a childhood drawing by the woman who contacted us from back when she was five years old!):
#4. The Usual Suspects: Of course we have more Reader Redesigns, Burning Questions, House Crashing adventures, Design Dilemmas, before & afters, Hands-on projects, follow-up posts (how do we like our new bed a month later? how’s our edible garden doing?), Fab Freebies, and a slew of walkthroughs (hanging art, painting paneling) on our list. So keep an eye out for that stuff coming down the pipeline to a computer screen near you.
#5. Another Katie Bower Play Date: Ever since we visited Katie and her husband Jeremy over at All Bower Power to crash their house and make a lively little video, the people (you, our dear readers) have clamored for more. And we like to give the people what they want. So we already have a meet-up on our schedule…
#6. Some Bathroom & Basement Action: So many of you were hoping that our big announcement was a total basement or bathroom makeover that it got us even more excited to take on both of those major projects. We cannot promise a wrapped up product anytime soon, but we are formulating a plan and hope to kick things into gear in the near future (we are simply saving our pennies for a little while). And we know you are all about instant gratification but time flies when you are busy enjoying items 1-5 on this list, right? Until we “break ground” (literally) on both of those projects, we will leave you with a picture of our dank, dark, and oh-no-you-di’int basement. We cannot wait to get to work.
So that is what is cookin’ here at Turbodizin. Who is hungry? Anything else you’d like to see in the coming weeks or months? Consider this a suggestion box of sorts.
p.s. psst, have you updated your bookmarks / reader / blogroll / outgoing links / Twitter/ Facebook yet? If you are still heading our way using old TYH methods, they will not last for long so do not forget to make the switch! We’d hate to lose a single one of you lovely people.
