I love when a long renovation comes to an end , the feeing of tranquility that descends when you know you don't have to be dressed and ...

Happy Thanksgiving! This year I am thankful that I beat my neighbor to the finish in the great ground floor renovation: New kitchen; redone ...

This bugs me on so many levels Take the back wall: The sink off-centered between two windows - although the faucet seems dead centre; the...

It took four entire months to convince the carpenter that not having a backsplash was a viable option for the kitchen renovation. That's...

After all the drama around here recently I'm looking forward to a little peace and quiet. Just a little, mind you. I don't want to ...

on the kitchen renovation... and my sanity. Yesterday was not a great day on the house renovation front. Not as bad as the previous week whe...

Is it me being more slovenly than usual or are the spiders more dedicated in their web building endeavors this year? It seems that every tim...

The trauma that the owner of casacaudill (a fellow houseblogger ) is going through with her windows reminds me of the months of anguish we ...

The newspaper phoned this afternoon to ask if they can send a someone to photograph our house for the article on Andrew Geller's work t...

bath window exterior Originally uploaded by modernemama . But without the fogging, with low argon, and fully operable. An open wind...

We have begun to get quotes for the bathroom renovation. I can see that this is going to be a long process. We've already started with t...

working. Of course. It is if it happens to be the only free day of the summer when you're at home, it isn't too hot to move, it isn...

We just got the last oil delivery of the winter so I was able to do a definitive comparison between winter 2004-5 and winter 2005-6. Althoug...

Tax season is crazy time here. Every year from January to April 15 the media relentlessly presses the message: the government has your money...

But not one I ever subscribed to. We are still waiting on the second delivery of windows, including replacements for the dinged ones. I hope...

On closer inspection the crew did not do such a good job on the windows. The plastering looks good and the windows themselves seem to be gre...

I am thankful that we had a good crew to put in the windows because the rot in my office was more extensive than we had first suspected. Bot...

Four of the big windows went in yesterday and, although I still think they are horrible, I did a little test last night to see if they will ...

Well, at least it's stopped snowing but temperatures remain frigid. When I take the dogs out the oils on their coats freeze giving them ...

Last Saturday's blizzard dumped over 12" snow on us and for half a day after it stopped it looked so beautiful: deep white snow, bl...