Meet my French cabinet.  There are actually two of them in my living room.  I had an inspiration photo that I gave my builder and then the work began.  It’s hard to remember that my house looked like this for a long time. Slowly the cabinets began to take form.  Then the building phase was […]

Oh yes the house is painted. It’s painted!! Finally it’s beginning to look like the pictures I have had in my head for months. I am so excited I’m going to show you what the house looks like, but keep in mind, it’s a mess still.  The construction is still going on, so all of […]

Here’s what I’ve learned. The top horizontal part is called the handrail, the up and down pieces that I would call ‘spindles’ are called balustrades,  and the big post at the beginning of the stairs is called a newel post.  This process began when I chose an antique cast iron fence post to be my newel […]

It’s getting closer to completion, and the closer it gets.. the messier the house looks. This is why home owners move out when their homes are being renovated. It’s just a mess. This is the primer coat. You can see it’s all over the hardwood floors, but it will all get cleaned up when we […]

I was feeling pretty good about my selections for the new house, maybe a little too good, because as some point I realized I hadn’t picked out the tile. Do you know how many different kinds of tile they make?   A LOT! I didn’t want to spend hours and hours looking at hundreds of […]

I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed going to the salvage yard to check out the junk.  My builder thought I was too dainty to go by myself.  (All Mr. CH said was ‘Lock the car!’)   I keep trying to explain to him, that I really am okay going somewhere that’s not a […]