Angie and I always look forward to Feburary because it is Parade of homes time. 28 homes for us to tour, judge, love and hate. Every year we learn new things about our future homes This year we learned that we HATED brown. There were 5000 versions of brown houses, rooms, walls, carpet, decor, couches, everything was brown! The last house we went to was gray and it was such a refreshing change.  I discovered that the coolest stoves are one with a griddle in the middle. There was a house that had a least 5 different colors in every room which taught me that simple is best.  Some of the more crazy things we saw were a mirror with a TV inside it. A room with two TVs in it,  a secret theatre in the kitchen, and lots and lots of secret nooks.