
An old dining set newly painted bright yellow sits underneath our largest apple tree. My boyfriend’s Bulldog and my Shitzu posing on the porch Items being washed for our garage sale. (very little actually sold) but boy did our Salvation [...]

An old dining set newly painted bright yellow sits underneath our largest apple tree. My boyfriend’s Bulldog and my Shitzu posing on the porch Items being washed for our garage sale. (very little actually sold) but boy did our Salvation [...]
for this. Really should be just saving for roof. I haven’t built a model in a while & I just cleaned my tool area in the basement … Thinking I may do a rough mockup in 1/4 foam core (and then [...]

Greek revival’s are very very common in our neck of the woods – heck this cabin is just the next town over. But I have had a hard time finding any houses that are the same combo of the 1830′s [...]

Before (I forgot to take a picture before I disassembled it): After: Inspired by Eddie Ross’s spray painted mirror I bought this mirror at our local salvation army for 2.99 – although I liked the white I disliked the plastic [...]

For my upcoming birthday my mother bought me a chicken lamp I had been eying – I love chickens – both in real life and in ceramic form (see the chickens lined up on top of the cabinet in the [...]

So earlier in the summer I bought the above book and devoured it cover to cover. One of the reasons that I initially bought it is that her house is similar to ours (I know that ours is MUCH more [...]

This was the way our back wing looked the morning we went to pick up our tub – we had enthusiastically ripped out a kitchen, bathroom and part of the ceiling. it took us almost 3 days to clean it [...]

Forgive my silly title I had a hard time coming up with one The tub arrived safely in New York! Look at all the other free stuff I got – SCORE! A view of my parents Farm from the tub’s [...]

image from MSL I wonder if it is beyond my skill set? we shall see…. I know my way around the tool shop – but making something sturdy, that won’t collapse like a pile of sticks? I am not sure… [...]
Here is just another renovation blog. Here is the story – I grew up on a farm in upstate NY and when I am in city I invariably miss the country. So my siblings and I often end up back [...]
This is just a little ‘illustration’ I did of the house facade in Photoshop to help me envision what the house would look like without the extended enclosed porch. I just couldn’t help but post it along with the floor [...]
Our house seems to be a hodgepodge of Greek Revival styles. It has the accentuated pediment of the earlier Greek Revival New England design but has the layout and window placement of the later ‘Midwestern Greek Revival farmhouse’. I don’t [...]
My father bought me this book this summer when we were out looking for furniture at the local antique /used furniture shops in the area. To Grandfathers House we Go – A Roadside Tour of American Homes By Harry Devlin [...]