One of the hangups we have about the kitchen door/window issue is that a regular sliding glass door, while adding a tremendous amounts of light, wouldn’t look right on our house. We definitely need something a little more “historic”, so I went looking online to see what dreamy options exist (all out of our price […]

Teague has been hard at work on the drainage for the new foundation wall. He was happy to find that our ’93 minivan had enough power to haul 1600 pounds of concrete home from the local hardware store! Now that the concrete has been poured, we’ve got to sit tight and wait for it to […]

The house had some serious drainage issues when we bought it. All of the upper flat roofs of the house drained to the back annex that we are currently deconstructing. The roof of the annex had no rain gutter, allowing all of the run-off from ALL the roofs to drench the foundation and subsequently flood […]

Honest! This has absolutely nothing to do with my house, but I thought it warranted a post nonetheless. He’s at the University (where I work) giving a speech, and NBC needed a quick comment from him about the Pope. Our tiny office has an even tinier satellite uplink studio in it, so we can send […]

You may remember this pink and purple gingerbread Victorian from the neighborhood tour I posted a while back. It’s one of my favorites in town because of the incredible attention to detail. Everything about the exterior echoes certain design elements, right down to the flower trellises. It’s on the market now – the man who […]