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Back To The Drawing Board

Here’s a little behind the scenes Friday bid-ness. Remember us saying how we recently debated how to best share our house hunting experience while still respecting the privacy of the sellers’ homes we were critiquing? And how we finally opted to share only a doctored image of the exterior, like this one below?

Cottage In Woods

Well, we actually came to that solution only after this sad first attempt to disguise each home occurred:

Sketch Bungalow

I love my wife. And I think she’s very talented. Really. Especially with her cute drawings of our home’s floor plan and our lot (both of which came out really well). Which is why it wasn’t easy to look her in the eye and tell her that I didn’t think her crooked colored-pencil “interpretations” were, uh, the way to go.

Sketch Cape Cod

Luckily for me, Sherry took one more look at them and cracked up. Then we turned to our trusty friend (you may know him as Photoshop) for the job. Oh and we used the Paint Daubs filter to work our blur magic. As for how it all went so terribly wrong, Sherry blames Danielle Staub (she was catching up on some Real Housewives reruns while getting her colored pencil on). That beeyotch ruins everything.

So that’s our little behind the scenes Friday outtake for you. Have any of you had to resort to Plan B after Plan A was an epic fail?

Comments

  1. Laura B. says

    I have no clue why I thought you went to NYU–I thought you mentioned that before! Woohoo SUNY, I went to a SUNY school as well (Fredonia)!! :)

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  3. Jennifer says

    I loved the Danielle comment. ahahhah! Laughed out loud. She does ruin everything… liking the new laid back style :)

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  4. MaryB in Richmond says

    A friend of mine saw a mug the other day that said “Life is all about how you handle Plan B.” Isn’t that just PERFECT?

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  6. Teresa says

    You asked if we knew who was buying some of this stuff… and I just have to say that last weekend I was in this place called “Trader’s World” near Cincinnati (it’s a MASSIVE flea-market type thing). They definitely had a couple of those knights decorating the place…and I also spotted that toilet paper roll near the bathrooms as another little odd decoration tool.

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  10. Lehigh says

    John and Sherry-this post is hilarious, and in my mind really encapsulates why it is that I think the sky is the limit for you two. You both ooze talent, creativity and vision, yet are so self-deprecating, which makes you so relatable and real. That is not common. I wish you much happiness and joy this holiday season and look forward to seeing what wonderful things 2011 has in store for your family.

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  13. Candice says

    Thanks! This post made me snort out loud – shouldn’t drink water while catching up on my blog reading I guess :) I loved the pictures, as well as the Housewives line, and I don’t even watch that show to get the inside joke!

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  14. Bryanna S says

    I really don’t see why you wouldn’t have gone with the drawings. Funny, Whimsical, adorable… basically the perfect way to go :D they conceal the house way better than the minor blurring anyway :D

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  20. gemma@thesweetestdigs says

    Too funny! Watching Real Housewives and doing some crafting, eh? Sounds like a great afternoon to me, even if the drawings did come out a little crooked.

    Congrats the new house! Looking forward to watching the transformation…

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  21. cody says

    I just wanted to comment that a lot of the posts have been really funny lately. I appreciate seeing your humorous side in the blog along with all the neat projects and ideas :)

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