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mumzie

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Before you get too carried away, I'm referring to my "bowling office".
My eldest son moved out last weekend. I have a bit of clean up and repair to do to his old room, then I'm moving in!!
I'm decorating the room with all the stuff I've been collecting over the years. In addition, I picked up some used pin decks, so I'm going to wainscoat a wall with them.
Here's a few of the things that will serve as "decor" in my new found second home...

A bowling fabric valance for the window.
Bowling wallpaper border.
A number of plaques/awards/framed newspaper articles.
Bowling area rug (when budget permits)
Ball rack (removed from a local center when they remodeled)
Ball spinner and table
Some display bowling balls (retired with honor)
and lots and lots of collectibles:
Magic bowling ball
salt and pepper shakers
planters
old photos
bowling barbie and friends
maybe a quilt or something with all the pins/patches attached.
My old bowling shirt from when I was around 14.
My college bowling shirts
Old name plaques
Etc...

So, in a couple of weeks, when I'm posting to this forum, I'll be doing it surrounded by all my bowling stuff!!!

I'm soooo excited!!!
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northface28

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Re: Well, I'm finally going to get something I've wanted for YEARS!!
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2004, 04:44:02 PM »
You should arrange to have one lane put in this "den".
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RSalas

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Re: Well, I'm finally going to get something I've wanted for YEARS!!
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2004, 04:46:24 PM »
I already have a place in my house where I display all of my awards, trophies, press clippings, and so on.  It's about six inches square.  
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JOE FALCO

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Re: Well, I'm finally going to get something I've wanted for YEARS!!
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2004, 04:47:31 PM »
Sounds great! Love to see pictures before and after! Seems you talked about this before .. guess it's finally going to happen. Good luck .. look forward to seeing some pictures!
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Re: Well, I'm finally going to get something I've wanted for YEARS!!
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2004, 05:34:06 PM »
All good things are worth waiting for --- sounds like you'll have something special when you get done.  (You can redo the floor in maple laminate and put the "arrows" in the appropriate spots....lol) -- Congrats!!!!!

da Shiv

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Re: Well, I'm finally going to get something I've wanted for YEARS!!
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2004, 06:23:34 PM »
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I'm decorating the room with all the stuff I've been collecting over the years.


You mean there are people whose whole house doesn't look like this?  Uh, oh....

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mumzie

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Re: Well, I'm finally going to get something I've wanted for YEARS!!
« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2004, 06:24:24 PM »
Believe it or not, we did actually talk about either using the pin decks as flooring, or figuring out a way to inlay bamboo flooring (maple color) with dots and/or arrows.
But - I had to stay somewhat calm, and remember resale...
Hubby was trying to figure out how to get the dimensions right, so he could set up the "heads" complete with gutters and gutter caps represented by different color flooring. Now - THAT'S excessive...

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mumzie

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Re: Well, I'm finally going to get something I've wanted for YEARS!!
« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2004, 06:25:34 PM »
Shiv - there's gonna be one less person who's whole house looks like that...
Right now, I think the only room that doesn't have bowling stuff in it is my boy's bathroom...
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da Shiv

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Re: Well, I'm finally going to get something I've wanted for YEARS!!
« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2004, 06:27:20 PM »
mumzie--
     We crossed posts in the ether again.  This is getting to be a habit.

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janderson

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Re: Well, I'm finally going to get something I've wanted for YEARS!!
« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2004, 07:52:17 PM »
Good for you, Mumzie.  Sounds like fun

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Ernie McCracken

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Re: Well, I'm finally going to get something I've wanted for YEARS!!
« Reply #10 on: July 08, 2004, 10:50:01 PM »
Wife and I just bought our first house and I get to decorate the basement with bowling stuff.  I'm really excited to get going on it.  We close in 22 days!
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Re: Well, I'm finally going to get something I've wanted for YEARS!!
« Reply #11 on: July 09, 2004, 02:46:09 AM »
Smart move Mumzie, every time one of my kids left home I turned their rooms into something else and sold the furniture.  No sense taking a chance of them returning.  Took too long to get them to move out.
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