Passing Go

I’m a nerd. I’ve never been shy about saying that. When we bought our home, one of the first things I wanted to do was find some posters I saw way back when and put them in our basement. No big deal right? So what were the posters of, and how did this come to be? Well, here:

That’s right, Monopoly posters of Boardwalk and Park Place. I first saw these on an episode of MTV Cribs. Yeah, don’t judge me, I was bored and chowing down on a bag of cheetos when they did a profile of Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s house, and in one of his rooms were these posters. I loved them, and I have always wanted to find them. The problem, they don’t exist, at least no where that I was looking. My good friend Josh (who also helped me with the tile in the half bath) happens to work at a screen printing shop, and wouldn’t you know, he can accept illustrator files and print them out. He told me he’d be happy to help me out with any custom prints, so I mocked up these beauties in illustrator one afternoon and sent them over to him. He printed them on some foamcore for me at 22″x28″ and I found some decent frames at target.

Once I got them all framed and ready to go, it was just a matter of finding a decent space for them. We have this little nook area in our basement that we really wanted to utilize for bookshelves. The more we thought about it, we thought it would be neat (and more functional) to put a small pub table in there. After countless attempts to find the right size, we were walking through Bed, Bath and Beyond and saw this table. With a 20% off coupon in hand, we picked it up for a great price.  We’re slowly making our basement a comfortable hang out spot, something we really didn’t have in the old apartment.

I’m really happy with how it all looks. It makes me smile everytime I go to the basement. Plus, I should mention that on one of our first dates, MC and I ended up playing monopoly with her friends Anne and Court, so these posters remind me of when we first met. Good times. And in case you are wondering about bobble heads, well that’s a whole different story (again, I’m a nerd).