The Truth Comes Out
The truth is…while I like cottage style, shabby-chic interiors, I am not going to paint everything white! I love my kitchen with its white shaker cabinets, but I also love … Read more…
Old Slab Out — New Slab In
I think this might have been the patio before the back deck was installed…who knows…Nevertheless, the concrete had seen better days and it just looked sad. 🙁 The old slab didn’t … Read more…
The Afters – After All This Time
I just created a new section tab on my blog: After Photos. Check it out! Let me know if I missed anything you wanted to see.
All Decked Out
The deck was already here but it didn’t have any railings and one end of it was quite high off the ground (the lot slopes). So, in order to make … Read more…
Door re-do
I originally wrote about this door project on 5/21/15. But it didn’t really fit into the topic of “The Party’s Over,” so I’m repurposing this content and adding an update. … Read more…
Blue House on Main has moved…
Well, let me explain. I’ve moved the site to a different server and if you’re a subscriber to my blog, you will probably have gotten a blog post called “Hello … Read more…
Reconstructing the wall
The previous version of the wall was a loosely stacked stone wall consisting of sandstone. Because the new incarnation is more tightly fitted, like a giant, HEAVY, jigsaw puzzle, there … Read more…
Humpty Dumpty…
Well, in this case, it’s not Humpty Dumpty that fell down, it’s the wall. We have a stacked stone retaining wall along the sidewalk—who knows how long it’s been there—but … Read more…
Oh, don’t you love basements!?
Our electricity was off for much of the day Sunday. My friend Vicki has a 1928 Tudor house about 5 blocks up from here. She texted me that her basement … Read more…
Brasfield & West
Since the first of September, Vicki Brasfield and I have rented a space at the Collector’s Market on Court Street in Medford. We’re selling “Vintage and Pre-Loved Goods.” We both … Read more…