I’m excited to say that our new flooring has been installed. And by new, I mean it is new to us, but the wood used isn’t new at all.   There are lots of hundred year old houses in our new neighborhood. Many are being restored, but when a house is deemed not worth saving, […]

Caroline and I have been working hard selecting granite for my new house.   At least that’s what I tell Mr. CH. What we really did was go to one of my builder’s houses, click here, to see his granite, lunched in a fabulous restaurant, and then stopped by the granite place. These kitchen photos […]

Building this new house is such an exciting ride for me. I go to the antique shop or salvage yard, grab a few things, hand them over to an artist, and *BOOM* I’ve got an awesome architectural wow piece in my home. These corbels are from a hundred year old house.  The top board is who knows […]

The house has been abuzz with carpenters in every room. The molding is going up in the living room as you can see below.  Here you can see the master bedroom. The crown molding is already in place on the tray ceiling and the window trim is there as well. Our bathroom is beginning to […]

Oh I love it when things work out like this. Bad news, the plans for our new house had a column at the end of our kitchen peninsula that would have made the breakfast room seemed closed off from the rest of the kitchen and living room. Insert sad face here. 🙁 Good news, my builder, Ridgewater […]

Oh yes, things are moving right along with our new house. See the door and the window leaning against the wall?  Well this is just part of construction. I wanted an 8 ft door for the front of the house, but they put in a standard 6 ft door instead. They changed it out no […]

I remember long ago, the horror walking in my children’s bathroom only to find the wallpaper ripped off the wall and pen marks all over another wall. My kids got a talkin’ to that day. Later I realized that a ‘certain friend’ had been visiting and the mom of that friend said her daughter often ripped wallpaper off […]

We’ve been searching for some gorgeous antique doors for the study in the new house.  The plan is to hang them like barn doors. I found a matching pair of these doors at the local antique auction. They had a set of 5, but I only needed two. Thank goodness, because I couldn’t fit another […]