The Cool House has been our home for seventeen years now, that’s hard to believe as we’d lived in many houses in various countries on two co...

Yard after landscaping Those Cool House readers who follow me on instagram , Facebook or the twitters will be aware that the past mo...

Last week  I was in mourning for the magnificent spruce tree  that has been the focal point of the property since the lots were d...

We are in mourning today for a part of the landscape, for what the tree surgeon described in April as the best tree in the Incorporated V...

Hard to believe that it's been almost a year since I last posted anything on this blog. It's not that we haven't been tending to...

Finally, 10 years after we moved in, thirteen years after the last coat of Navajo white, we summoned up the courage to have the space...

It has rained so much this month that residents are hallucinating they have replaced their sedans with motor cruisers, and are rudely aw...

Pretty, no?

Bought at an estate sale of a wonderful old house in our old neighborhood and lovingly placed*, thanks to The Guy, in a sandy, stony pa...

Ready to install Again. The front fence was a casualty of Superstorm Sandy. Thank goodness the east fence and the back fence made it t...

Nine days after Sandy, while a lot of neighbors were still without power, a nor'easter rolled around and dumped a pack of snow on Lo...

How fortuitous was it that we had the trees trimmed earlier this month? Hurricane, or by the time it hit us, superstorm Sandy blew in ...

Dining Room Great Room Kitchen Playing with the Panoramic feature on the phone.

You probably wouldn't know it unless you live in the neighborhood and had to listen to the noise of the chainsaws for six hours, bu...

We got ourselves a lake...

Eight years ago, June 29 2004, a day not quite as hot nor as humid as today we loaded up beach car and a pantechnicon of furniture and ...