January 24, 2010
Living in a cold house
This has been the winter of both getting the weatherstripping in right and working to heat less of the house.
January 3, 2010
The Fairmount Historic District
In the years of on&off work on the house, our neighborhood has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. Part of the application includes a fairly detailed history of the neighborhood…
January 2, 2010
As it gets cold enough for frozen pipes…
We learned a few years back that we have to drip the faucets when the temperature drops below 20 at night or face not having any water the next day (and the worry of frozen and burst water lines). A lesson learned was that we also have to drip when it stays below freezing for a few days, just like we’re getting into now, the first colder spell of the winter.
August 6, 2009
A Byrd Park renovation gets underway
Happened upon another house renovation blog out of Richmond, of a wonderful house in the Byrd Park area. Read through to find out about their “half bath”…
August 2, 2009
A snapshot of recent progress on the porch
With some carpentry work on the trim still hanging and much scraping/sanding/painting to get to on the inside of the porch, the view from the street is still a bit sharper than it was a month ago.
July 31, 2009
Painted porches from around the neighborhood
In anticipation of getting to paint the porch, I scoured the neighborhood for examples to help get the design started…
July 22, 2009
More of the same
Scraping on and off for the past two weeks, with a few more days yet to go.
July 9, 2009
Scraping 100+ years of paint
Ever since we moved in back in 2003, we’ve talked about what it would be like to scrape the paint off of the detail on the porch and get it looking sharp. We’ve begun to take a whack at that over the past few days…
June 24, 2009
Schizophrenic
Over the course of 2 days, our neighborhood was named both one of the 10 most dangerous in America and also one of the best places to buy an old house. The first accolade is seriously undeserved, this isn’t even the most dangerous neighborhood on our side of town.
June 12, 2009
Open house on Sunday
A freakin’ fantasticly renovatated Victorian right down the street will be open this Sunday to folks looking for a house. Only $195,000, with grants available for first-time homeowners…
May 23, 2009
Something small and pink
Over the past 2 or 3 years we’ve put enough plants in the yard that we’ve forgotten what some of them are. Like this one.
