I’m meeting with a new potential kitchen designer in a few days. During our initial conversation, it was interesting to reflect on how far this new potential design is from the old one. A world of difference and I love it. This new kitchen placement just feels so much more natural to me. As a…
One of the best features of this house has been sticking around for over 100 years – the stairs. You can’t build stairs like this. Well, you can – but it just would not be the same. I’ve loved these stairs from the beginning. I love the two landings. I love the window at the…
How is it week 8? It feels like it should be both week 3 and week 12 all at once. This was a bit of a slower week with Thursday being a holiday. I haven’t been able to really get back inside the house because all the ladders are actually inside the house and I…
As previously documented, I was responsible for brining two things to Thanksgiving Dinner. Cranberry Sauce… and Butternut Squash. The cranberry sauce went much better than the squash. The squash was too lumpy and unimpressive. I tried to fix it by adding candied walnuts and that was really just a bandaid for a bad dish. So…
Cranberry sauce is a pretty straight forward dish. It could not be easier to make and customize to your own tastes. You have a better chance of screwing up everything else on your table than the cranberry sauce. About a month ago I went to a cooking demonstration at a local appliance store. The chef…
Welcome to our week 7 recap! I’m writing this a few days later since it’s been a busy couple days – which makes it harder to actually remember what happened. But when I look back on the pictures, it has been a pretty crazy week. So much happened and with even more progress. Every time…
I’ve been itching to make scones for several weeks now – and today was the day. When I put up my Christmas tree last week, I felt like I had some gingerbread scones on the brain. But with Thanksgiving happening, I pulled a switcheroo and went with some pumpkin. I am not a “pumpkin” person…
Welcome to the Week 6 recap. It feels like a big week of change – but maybe not. When I stand on the lot, it feels like things are really happening. After months of talk about things hypothetically, we are actually seeing the fruition of our conversations and plans. When we did the demo, it…
One of the things that I’m pretty stuck on is not wanting a house that feels new. Thankfully, the bones of this house are 100+ years old. My hope is that even with all the “cosmetic surgery” we are doing, you’ll still feel like the house is super old … but not from poor insulation…
The house has this original 1900s-ish era fireplace. You could see it in a lot of family pictures. But admittedly, there wasn’t much special about it except it’s age and emotional significance. Those are both important factors to be clear, but when making decisions about the future of those house… they don’t necessarily win out.…
