I ‘ve been doing some shopping this weekend. This is not necessarily a good thing, but sometimes a deal comes along and you know you only get one shot at it, so you better take it. I’ve been planning to put banquette seating in my kitchen. Although I love the round table that came […]
T he house at the end of our road is undergoing a major landscape renovation that is nothing short of spectacular. Hopefully I’ll get permission to snap a few pictures next summer. But I did snap a picture of the most spectacular stacked stone wall that serves as the entrance to their property. The wall […]
T hat sounds awful doesn’t it? I mean, any kind of littering is bad, right? It is, but there is one kind of littering I don’t mind as much: throwing glass bottles in the water. I’ve never actually seen anyone do this (thank goodness) but obviously at some point, people did all the time. Because […]
W ow, what a weekend! I think much of the country experienced beautiful weather this weekend and up here in Wisconsin, the situation was no different. Saturday was hovering near 70 degrees and even though and invitation to go golfing with my girlfriends was tempting, I knew this was going to be one of our […]
A nyone who has ever tried to pick out white paint will tell you that white is not white. Several years ago, as I set out to repaint much of the chipped and faded white trim in the house I went in search of white paint. That’s when I first discovered how many whites there […]
S o far, we’ve changed very little about our house in the seven years we’ve owned it. But the first thing I did was paint the brown front door. I can’t fathom how this cool door (certainly original to the house, which is now 70 years old) ended up brown, but that’s OK, because after […]
When we moved in, the wood floors were in pretty good shape, other than the fact that they were pink. Yep … pink. They are red oak and had been “pickled” which gave them a decidedly pink appearance. Add in two enormous and often wet Newfoundlands and the fact that our house, which had previously […]
