You know what’s so sad about putting your house up for sale? You get it as clean as the day you moved in… until it’s like new but better. Because over the years you’d figured out the most pleasing furniture arrangements and the closets are organized and you’ve hung pretty [...]
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Available for Show
Posted in Favorite things, House for sale, Mother nature, Nostalgia, There's no place like home on August 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I Can See Clearly Now
Posted in There's no place like home, Wild kingdom on August 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hmm… think I need to clean my windows? The dogs make it hard to keep up with the back windows. They’ve torn up all the grass right next to the house so mud splashes up when it rains and then I get lazy about cleaning them because I know they won’t stay that [...]
Before & After, part 2
Posted in There's no place like home on July 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
(Part 1 here). I wanted some red to spice up the living room and here’s what I envisioned:
I ended up with pretty much exactly that:
I wanted healthy plants atop the kitchen cabinets:
But I never did do that:
In the master bedroom I wanted balloon shades on the windows and to get the poster print nicely framed:
I [...]
Real Estate
Posted in Rodney, There's no place like home on July 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Here’s our current house:
Here’s the house Rodney is smitten with:
The goal is to downsize so we’ve been looking at townhouses but I came across this place and it is so “us.” It would be a downsize as it’s less square footage and considerably less cost than our current house, but it’s [...]
“the things on the wall next to the dining room window”
Posted in There's no place like home on July 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a close-up of the decorative plate and the print. Because Michele wanted to know what they were. :)
Before & After
Posted in There's no place like home on July 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Two years ago I came up with some things I’d like to buy to make our new house more homey. At that point we weren’t sure if we’d be staying here or not, so it was hard to know what purchases would be worth it in the long run.
Now that we know we’re going [...]
Inside the Country Townhome
Posted in There's no place like home on July 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m being actively careful I don’t get attached to any house. We’re not really ready to move yet, and I don’t want a repeat of the Walden House Debacle of 2005. That’s when I fell head over heels in love with a home that we ultimately could not move into. [...]
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