Archive for the ‘The Refurnished House’ Category

Growing My Own Grub, Part Deux

Spring has come early to my New England town, which would usually make me happy (ignoring, of course, the larger reason as to why it’s so warm these days) …but secretly I have been fretting. I REALLY want to have a vegetable garden this year and this warm weather is telling me I should already [...]

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Basement Envy

Mark my words…there will come a time when I deliver some amazing before and after images of my basement. Right now it is a mix of creepy and fifties cool. When we moved in there was a bar down there, a (low) drop ceiling, 6×6 red / black linoleum tiles and sheetrock that is covered [...]

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My Powder Room, Part Deux

So remember a few months ago I wrote about my downstairs powder room and I couldn’t figure out what to do with the walls? Well, I figured it out and I have to say I’m pretty happy with the results! I ended up going with an amalgam (ooh big words) of a few ideas I [...]

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Those Little Touches

One of the things that I wanted to do fairly soon after we moved in was to put up artwork. I don’t know about you but to me, a home can be transformed with artwork. Your house turns into home with the artwork reflecting the home-owners taste. Here is some of the art in my [...]

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