electronics

Custom Cabling

by Alison Moore Smith on June 21, 2011 · 7 comments

When you design your own home, you can customize not just the placement of rooms and look of the architecture, but also the function of the home. Custom homes that are well-designed not only look good, but make your life more comfortable and productive due to the built-in efficiencies. One of the things we did [...]

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Gaming On the Move

by Alison Moore Smith on September 30, 2010 · 1 comment

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of PlayStation(R) Move. All opinions are 100% mine. If anything truly enhances family time, I’m  completely on board. But as I’ve told you before, I’m not a huge advocate of “screen time.” Sure, it’s attractive. Still the value of spending more and more time staring [...]

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Best Toys: Wii

by Alison Moore Smith on August 12, 2009 · 9 comments

Our very first major purchase after we married in August of 1985, was a Mac 512k (aka the “Fat Mac”). We only bought it under the condition that for every penny Sam spent on computer related paraphernalia, I got a matching fund for clothing. Soon, I became enamored with the little box and we had [...]

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Peerless Universal Wall Mount for Flat Panel TVs

by Alison Moore Smith on September 23, 2008 · 5 comments

Three moves are as good as a fire. And as we moved to the rental home to be closer to the build site, we probably did lighten our load of about a third of all our stuff. Two of those things were the small entertainment unit and the television from the master bedroom. Sam replaced [...]

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Westinghouse TX-42F430S 42-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV

by Alison Moore Smith on September 20, 2008 · 9 comments

Focal point. That was the big debate. While I agree that it’s silly to position all the furniture in a room so that you have to crane your neck to see the television, the thought of building a family room all around a TV set makes me cringe. It’s about family, right? Not about staring [...]

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