How a couple of Tar Heel players live, off the grid

You can tell a lot about people just by snooping around their place.

Take Tar Heel wide receiver Jesse Holley and safety Kareen Taylor. The teammates, who have lived together for two years, share an apartment in the Colonial Grand at Patterson Place complex in Durham.

While the guys are pretty easy to figure out on the surface -- both are very into sports and enjoy watching movies -- there are quirks and qualities about these two that lurk just below the surface.

A peek under the bathroom sink reveals that Holley, who also played basketball on the Heels' 2005 NCAA Championship team, is a sucker for fancy toiletries such as Bath & Body Works aromatherapy scrub. Look next to the bedroom door and you'll discover Taylor's tackle box, rod and reel. Taylor, an avid fisherman, stores the equipment there when he's not taking fishing trips to Jordan Lake or his native Virginia.

Details such as these make Holley and Taylor's apartment a little different from your typical bachelor pad. Recently, the guys, who are finishing up their senior year of school and their last year as roommates, gave us a tour of their apartment and a peek at how they live.

The living room

"Most athletes don't have a living room like this," Holley says as he points out the tidy, color-coordinated room with black couches, white throw pillows and unscathed coffee and end tables.

"They just have the video games and the mismatched chairs. We even have the touch lamps. That, I love."

Across from the couches sits a typically large television on a cabinet with DVDs and videos underneath.

"We have the infamous movie all athletes and rappers have -- 'Scarface,' " Holley says with a laugh, pulling out the DVD. "But you don't have to have that to be an athlete."

In the living room, you'll also find Holley and Taylor's third roommate: Roscoe, their 2-year-old Betta fish. "People come in and you must speak to Roscoe," Holley says. "He's family."

The kitchen

"I spend more time than Kareen does in this area," Holley says, pointing to the oven. "I'm the cook. My baked barbecue chicken, that's been a favorite. I have a special sauce."

But Holley admits that Taylor pulls his weight in the kitchen too: "Kareen does the dishes. I hate to do dishes."

The fridge is mostly filled with drinks -- orange juice, milk and beer -- and breakfast essentials including bacon, eggs and packets of Waffle House pancake syrup.

Not a fan of regular milk, Taylor also keeps his soy alternative here.

"Soy milk, it's the best way to go," Taylor says. "The whole milk, I can't drink; the 2 percent, it's too light. So I go with the soy milk, and it's got to be the vanilla flavored soy milk."

Holley's room

Marked by his former basketball locker nameplate hanging above the door, Jesse's room is the larger of the two.

The closet, a massive walk-in, is full of clothes, neatly folded and hung.

"I have a crazy sneaker and clothes fetish," Holley says. "I have more pairs of jeans than most anyone you know in college. Coming up, I didn't have a lot of clothes, so when I got a little money, I just went a little bananas."

Along the top shelves of the closet, Holley keeps his shoe collection, which includes a particularly rare pair.

"I have a pair of sneakers that only about 50 people in the world have," Holley says as he pulls the gleaming white shoes from their place. "They're the 2005 Final Four edition of the Nike Air Force Ones.

"They've only been worn one time and that was at [former basketball teammate] Jackie Manuel's wedding. Jackie broke his foot and couldn't wear dress shoes, so we all had our tuxes on with these shoes."