Category - Home & Garden

One of the things I am really enjoying about our redesigned house is the easy access we now have to the back garden from our basement — and vice versa. Steps lead down from the garden...

I can mull over paint colors all day, actually for several days, before making a color selection. John appreciates a good color choice, and moved the process along by painting samples for...

Hurricane Sandy passed over us last night. We are fortunate to have electricity when so many others do not. We know how uncomfortable it is to be without power (this time last year we had...

If anyone had told me a year ago that I would get excited and passionate about a thermostat I would have thought they were nuts. But, as it turns out, I am nuts — about the Nest...

When I brought the box in from the porch, I read the name LatticeStix on the label and knew immediately what was inside. The wooden grille panels I had ordered online had arrived. I opened...

We really like our little old house. It was a challenge to design an addition that would not overpower or upstage the original. When I made the sketch below, the idea was to make the...

Dan has been planning our addition for many years. We started talking about it the day we viewed the house in 2002. I remember Dan drawing sketches in a notepad on our drive home to...

Part of the fun of our construction project is walking through new spaces as they take shape. I look forward to John getting home from work each day so that we can explore together the...