1900 Farmhouse

There's a house up on the east slope of Mt Tabor (a few blocks from me) that inspired me to take on this summer project of recreating th...

Having a somewhat decent garden in front, with a crazy chocolate labrador retriever that likes to tear it up from time to time with Sophie f...

So now that I have the Rhodie out of the way, it was time to take on the towering butterfly bush. I forgot to take pictures before the move ...

In the first week of June, I decided it was time to get back to work on the house. The first project to take on was making the landscape in ...

As I mentioned before in an earlier post, I travelled to St. Louis where my family is based. My mom had gotten this clock when I was just a...

This rainy and cold afternoon in Portland was spent outside chopping wood to smaller more usable firewood for the woodstove . After being on...

On Saturday morning I woke to a fairly large puddle in the downstairs bathroom. Such a drag. Fortunately, I didn't have any solid plans ...

Now that I got this blog up and running again, there's no stopping this next post. After all, this is a house blog, and toilets are a pa...

Last year at Labor Day, I used the 3 day weekend to paint part of my house. Since house painted is such a daunting task, I decided to break ...

While waiting for the paint to dry during the Labor Day project, I took a bike ride downtown to Art in the Pearl , where I had found the ...

For Labor Day I decided to celebrate by being laborious. Actually, the truth is that the wet Portland winter is just around the corner and I...

The new chandelier from Hubbardton Forge in Vermont arrived yesterday. Based on the comments from my mom, dynochick and one Ted Morgan , th...

On Labor Day last year, I went down to Art in the Pearl in downtown Portland to support some fellow irish musicians performing there. While...

Lately, the focus of the blog has been on the dining room remodel. In fact, that's actually the reason for creating the blog - a means o...