Living without a kitchen, or in the “fake kitchen,” for two months was hard. But it was well worth the results. And now, we are eating every meal here in our new space, happily at home. Last week we did a weekly meal plan, something new and foreign to this family. Usually it’s me standing in the […]
Renovations are happening. In a BIG way!
So if you didn’t guess by the posts last week, we were at the beach. That’s because carpenters were demoing the upstairs of our house. And I wanted to escape being there, with the noise, the mess and the total craziness of the whole thing. The carpernters, who are also the lead contractors from Clinch River […]
Renovations update, window restoration in the news
Renovations on our 90-year-old craftsman house continue, as it goes from being the brown house to becoming the blue house. The old layers of paint are getting scraped off and slowly, the blue is going up. The trim is going from yellow to creme and accent colors of a creamy orange well soon go on […]
Renovation update: new doors and picking paint
As I mentioned a few weeks back here, we are doing some long over due renovations to our 90 year-old craftsman house, known as and blogged about as “The Brown House.” We have a green LEED certified contractor who has handcrafted oak carriage doors for our garage, made from wood he harvested himself, on the property […]