Starting last October, the windows in the my awesome front porch began getting replaced. There are 14 of them, and the windows were very, very old. To no avail, we tried to paint them. It just didn’t work. So began the great window project. I wasn’t willing just to get rid of all these windows,...
It’s been a while since I did any kind of update on This Old House. There’s always something going on around here. Constant change and work, and I imagine someday I will tire of it. But for now, watching this place bloom into what is has…..has just been plain fun for me. Even if there are...
The old house has had a few updates in the last couple of months. We’ve been enjoying everything single thing that gets done around here. We replaced the carpet in the loft. It’s creamy now. Brighter than before and MUCH softer. (It had flat office type carpet in it before, not terrible, but not me.)...
When you set out to re-do a new home there are a few things you should be warned about. It always takes at least twice as long as what you thought. And things that, even things made of rock and dirt, are super expensive, if not the most expensive. Which is why I had to...
So last weekend we decided it was time to get estimates on carpet for the loft. We chose the carpet in about 10 minutes (we have never really been long debaters about things like this, and the choice was not that hard) The carpet was buckling everywhere and it’s like office carpet. I needed furry carpet...
