OK – maybe I’m preaching to the choir here – but I just have to bring it up. Say you’re like me, and that the little TV attached to the elliptical at the gym is always tuned to HGTV… and you’re at the mercy of what ever home show is on – for the next 45-60 minutes. If you’re lucky,… (more…)
Hmmm, you learn something new every day. Case in point: Directly from Merriam-Webster.com Lo-ca-tion: noun “1 a : a position or site occupied or available for occupancy or marked by some distinguishing feature : situation b (1) : a tract of land designated for a purpose (2) Australian : farm, station c : a place outside a motion-picture studio where… (more…)
Time to use Building Character as a force for good. My brother-in-law and his family have their house on the market it Seattle. It’s a beauty… Jeff & Chris did all of the home renovations themselves. AND Jeff just added a bathroom upstairs – the paint may still be drying… Whether or not you’re in the market for a house… (more…)
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…)
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…)
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…)