Eric and I are both geologists. One of the things that you do as a geologist is travel around and look at rocks. Another thing that you do as a geologist is find cool rocks to bring back home with you. Here’s a quick inventory of the rocks that I can see as I sit here and write: Eocene fish… (more…)
Our den sits above a crawl space that is completely insulated. It’s nice and warm in there. Our den on the other hand, is not so nice and warm. In an attempt to warm up the den, Eric climbed into the crawl space to size up the air ducts for insulation. Hope your home improvements are this comfortable! You might… (more…)
So, you bought the house from the [insert previous owner's last name here]‘s. You may or may not have been lucky enough to meet these people to put a face with the name. All of the pleasantries of closing are behind you – they have moved on, and you have moved in. Now you really get to examine the place.… (more…)
It was clear what the first project was to be… the office. We relocated to Madison for Eric’s job. I left a great job in Houston to improve our quality of life… but now I had to figure out how to employ myself. So – along with my business partner, I started a geologic consulting company. I would work out… (more…)
Well, maybe its not the best analogy, but I’m guessing that if you sat down and talked to Eric and I for a few seconds, you’d figure out what our house must look like. As soon as ‘architectural salvage’ spilled out of my mouth – you could imagine that I’m the kind of person who wants her home filled with… (more…)
If you’re interested in unraveling your home’s history, start by knowing when that history began. Our first house was built in 1930 – our real estate agent told us that, and of course it’s listed within the hundreds of pages of closing documents. I actually contacted the city’s historic preservation officer to see if he would drive by my home… (more…)
We purchased our first home on Valentine’s Day, 2003. We searched for 3 days and toured about 24 homes… our home was the fourth one we saw on the first day. It was a house that I found on the local MLS site… and when we pulled up to it and realized that it wasn’t the cutesy bungalow that we… (more…)