Boys and Toys
We have a decent amount of new friends around the blog these days, so I thought it might be time for a round-up ( ... . And of course, little houses for all of us.We're currently making plans to replace the old house ... more pleasant. Ideas have ranged from a cabin to a simple house to a park model RV to a ...Well, this is where [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 16:31:00
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Release Day!
A good friend of mine has her first book out with BookStrand Publishing ( A division of Siren Publishing) ... business and plans to tear down the old house. Katie wants the house to remain and is willing to fight for it. The people of Treehaven believe the old farmhouse is haunted. Katie [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 13:05:00
Local Color
I snapped these at the church before the social on Saturday night. The clouds were gorgeous, and the air smelled like rain ... websites for building plans for new old houses in the Craftsman and bungalow styles, some of which ... t turn out so well. Here is a charming brick house cue the soundtrack , complete with my beloved [more...]
Date: 2008-06-30 10:27:01
HOW TO MAKE A DRAFTY OLD HOUSE INTO AN EFFICIENT COMFORTABLE HOME – PART 1
Bungalow This is the first of a series of articles giving an actual example of what can be done to convert a drafty old house into an efficient ... provides us with a plan of action that many of us can use to save money on utility bills ... natural gas water heater (1989) Floor space approx 1,000 sq ft Blown insulation only [more...]
Date: 2008-09-06 16:13:13
Are Banks Utilities?
Is "Capitalism2" - where my bank is as bland as my natural gas provider - our only path after the economic lessons of 2008? ... , and since you're conservative with money, you're sitting on an old school LARGE down payment of $60,000 cash. All parties are ready, the moving plans are made, and your old house is already sold. You wake [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 13:08:31
Presevationists Rally Around Historic Farmhouse
It's not often that a historic preservation battle focuses on and old farmhouse ... plans to move the 139-year-old Mumford House, which was named for the school's original Dean of Agriculture. The house reportedly stands in the way of new landscaped plaza and bell tower.This "Model [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 01:47:00
The Availability of Foreclosed Houses has made Habitat Change its Methods
Till 2009, Habit for Humanity followed its own beaten track of putting deserving families into the right houses. It collected donations to purchase land and then build the house from the foundation by using ... to do some rethinking. It is now planning to refurbish the old abandoned house in addition [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 11:19:54
Massive Changes
Again! While neither Jess or I could be at the house to document the action - our amazing crew demolished the darkroom and removed the old duct work ... this old house” project to a 1 week “extreme home makeover” episode…they don’t use plans on that show ... and the furnace! The other good news was someone actually took the old fridge home with them, so [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 05:02:06
Family Finds Man Living in their Attic
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - One family’s Christmas wasn’t very merry due to an unexpected guest to come visit for the holidays ... and noticing a laptop, cash, and a new ipod had dissapeared. Her father, the owner of the duplex ... of the plans the 21 year old un-welcomed house guest emerged from attic willingly. Stanley Carter [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 01:05:52
Signing
We had a nice weekend in Th*non enjoying the fresh lake and mountain air and dreaming of our plans to eventually have our house back one day as a vacation house. That part was nice. Then there was the difficult part where the scar of leaving ... it is to see him in my house, using my old dishes and my blender and cooking on my old stove [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 09:38:00
Stalk of the Town
Katelyn has, as usual, what feels like several dozen shows to attend this weekend ... at Snoqualmie. Sunday is for laundry and replacing some janky old door knobs around the house. Jay has no plans to appear in public this weekend, for a welcomed change! MvB is spending Friday's happy [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 23:00:00
Bad Credit Home Improvement Personal Loan
Bad Credit Home Improvement Personal Loan By Lauren Thompson | December 20, 2008 by Ada Denis If your house is in shambles, ... decision making. Old houses or homes with faulty construction need heavy repairs and remodelling ... need urgent repairs. You may want to extend the house, add another floor. If you’ve not planned [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 19:24:55
The Trick Garage & Wacky Windows
The Pugh + Scarpa Vail Grant Residence is old school in terms of architecture, but I’m not so sure I’ve ever talked about it here ... from renderings or models? Well, with this house I like the plans as much as the finished product ... ) but I had a little family emergency (nothing big). Tags: cool house plans, cool renderings, lake views [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 18:00:12
Home Design News - January 2009
Home Design News - January 2009 By admin | 13th Jan 2009 | Filed under Newsletters HAPPY NEW YEAR! ... and business practice. This month’s featured plans are a good example of the variety to be found on our website. The Prichard is old-fashioned simplicity of a ranch style house plan perfect [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 17:53:39
North of Wine Country: California’s Secret Clearlake Wedding and Event Venues
While I’ve lived in the Bay Area for 30 years, I took my very first trip to Lake County only recently when I rented a house on Clearlake for a ... of old Europe amongst California’s vineyards has already been achieved in their lovely ranch house, but I learned there are even bigger plans for this property. Situated on a picturesque stretch [more...]
Date: 2008-08-18 19:34:02
The Next Recyclingwatch
The Unquiet Dead: Christmas Dickensiana, also featuring homeless aliens trying to take over the Earth ... with the converted; Cybermen chasing people through the corridors and back staircases of an old house ... creatures whose merging doesn't quite go according to plan, leading to an internal power struggle between [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 13:06:00
Silence
And so this is Christmas Day - yet again. I sit here at my blank computer screen and try to entice various words to take shape before my eyes ... our batteries, take stock, renew the family bond, talk about old times, make plans, share hopes ... happily alone in the back lane behind our house in Railway View, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary. I could [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 15:00:00
Volker to Chair President's "Economic Recovery Advisory Board"
As first reported in media outlets largely targeted at business leaders -- such as the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News -- this morning ... and the vigor and insight with which the community plans for the future," according to the White House ... by 81-year-old Paul Volker, former Federal Reserve Chair under Presidents Carter and Reagan [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 13:21:45
McCain mocks Obama's premature inauguration plans, but...
John McCain has mocked Democrat Barack Obama all week as so cocky that he is already “measuring the drapes” in the White House Oval Office ... video by clicking on the Read more line below) in a newspaper story on White House transition planning ... was confirmed. Addressing a sun-washed rally in the Old West plaza of historic Mesilla, in southern New [more...]
Date: 2008-10-26 02:26:02
A Day in My Mind
My family was sitting around the dinner table this weekend, eating steaks to celebrate John David's birthday, when my Dad posed the question, " ... that there was no need to hurry out of bed. We'd talk excitedly about the plans for the day, though it would be silly ... and worn stairs of our old English manor house and smell breakfast being prepared in [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 17:28:00
Keri Russell: “One gift for the kid”
dgg-021148.jpg Now that Keri Russell is looking forward to her first real Christmas with her 18-month-old son River, ... about her holiday plans stating, “We’re having all the parents at my house this Christmas and we told ... t understand that. My gift is being home. It’s been so nice to be in our house in Brooklyn [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 07:27:11
Migration, taxes and work patterns
Mark Perry has an interesting look at how successful taxes and unions are when it comes to attracting a workforce ... his lifetime chasing the California dream. This year he's going to look for it in Colorado. With a house purchase near Denver in the works, the 38-year-old engineering contractor plans to move his family 1,200 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 03:23:58
Nordstrom, coffee and the Zen of notebooks
cup-of-coffee.jpg It’s sort of odd to be sitting in the middle of a ginormous mall and writing out my plans for the week in an old spiral note ... to school, come home, clean up the house, then sit alone at the computer. I miss people ... job, also, to get ahead of the game. (Can we say small vacation in December! Merry Xmas [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 21:02:43
EaterWire: Door Foils Robbery, Counter Comes to Marin
OAKLAND—Given the inherent fire hazards and racial profiling, ... tasting room in the old Craftsman house on the property and demolished the old building it formerly ... Center tenant for 22 years ... Within the next 10 years, Counter Intelligence plans to open 25 to 30 [more...]
Date: 2008-08-28 00:42:20
Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady Setting Up House?
Gisele Bundchen’s noviocito Tom Brady bought a house. A big, big house ... canyons - comes with plans for an 11,500-square-foot Mediterranean-style manse by award-winning ... . A house so big, it would make about three or so of your abuelito’s old world hacienda. New [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 19:17:56
Tuesday Traps: The Xmas Files
T’was the night before Christmas and throughout the guildhouse, no thief was stirring, not even the king mouse… ... s an Eladrin,” claimed another, “that’s how he gets into everyone’s house.” Nervous whispers flew around ... old man with a whole lot of toys, and this year our plan is foolproof!” For many rogues, Father [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 08:40:45
Shoppin'
We finally got the floor plans for our house!!!! And y'all know what that means!!!!??!?!!? I can finally start decorating in my head! ... one in an old victorian with bright white molding.. Gorgeous! eeeeeee! Our house closes on Feb 10th, I can't [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 03:12:00
Link Time!
Link Time! 33 min 22 sec ago by casasugar 7 Views - 0 comments Black interiors are chic and trendy. — The Style Files Discover 10 smart uses for coffee filters beyond the Mr. Coffee. — This Old House Take a shopping trip in Mill Valley. — Domino's Daily Dose Planning some remodeling? Check [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 21:00:27
Californication
They've wrecked their home state with their left-liberalism ... Reilly spent his lifetime chasing the California dream. This year he's going to look for it in Colorado. With a house purchase near Denver in the works, the 38-year-old engineering contractor plans [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 16:30:00
Sacramento Mortgage Delinquency Rate Approaches 7%
From the Sacramento Bee: 6.8 percent...of residential mortgages in El Dorado, Placer, ... was diagnosed with cancer so we had to push back our plans a bit. We purchased this house in West Texas in April ... for the sprawling, 8-year-old Natomas Park development hired Paladin Security. The community has endured [more...]
Date: 2008-12-04 22:21:40
Why decorating?
This is an antique German armoire we bought at Carl Moore Antiques in Houston many years ago ... by her regularly.Next, we built our home in Virginia. I poured over hundreds if not thousands of house plans ... . We used to keep a television in it but now it is home to many of my old decorating magaizines [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 15:16:00
Lord Willing and if the Creek Don’t Rise
Hark! What is that I see through yonder passenger-side truck window? An outhouse! And it looks like a good one! ... and the foundation remains of the long-ago home it once served. Between the house in its sunny meadow ... they have to really plan ahead? It’s no short jaunt over to that old outhouse. I walk the creekbank [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 07:05:34
A Thanksgiving wedding
{MS image}As we're getting ready for the holidays and making our plans for Thanksgiving, ... , the bride's parents own a charming colonial-style farmhouse (in Massachusetts, of course!) with an old ... house; Pottery Barn dining room; cranberry wreath; Row 2: MS pumpkin dip; Caramel pumpkin pie; turkey [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 04:52:00
Trees vs. Streams: A Planned Real Estate Development Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
When the folks at Columbia Gas massacred dozens of trees for the sake of some ugly underground pipeline you couldn't even see, ... are flipping out over a teensy bit of collateral damage from the ongoing stream restoration project:David Oliver has lived in his house on Old Trail Drive for nearly 40 years, all along enamored [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 05:05:00
No Time like the Present: Repurposing Christmas Decorations
It may be a new year, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to salvage from the old one! ... , and plans ahead. So today I thought I'd show you a few of the post-Christmas sale finds I'd gotten ... seemed just right at home in my house...Here are a couple of purple and silver tree-topper-type stars [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 12:00:00
No Fuckin' Way Man, You Know He's Real
A month or so ago I was hanging out with an old friend, shooting the shit, when I got a wild hair up my ass and said to him " ... a road trip during my three weeks of vacation in February.Our only question was "Where to?"Pinky ... ? Philadelphia? Cincinnati? Somewhere in Kentucky?One of these days, I plan on road-tripping to The House [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 06:11:00
A new baby.
Santa brought her a new baby (and a new stroller that Santa and Grandma Bev worked on together). So I had big plans of uploading the remainder of my Christmas shots today ... either). Oh, and that's inside the new, old house. I just painted those olive green walls [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 17:04:27
Part 3~Swedish Love~Lantlif
A visit with Anette and her lovely blog Lantlif~ ... in an old house with my husband and two daughters. We have a dog, Nisse, he is a West Highland White ... plans do you have for yourself and Lantlif: I want to remodel our kitchen and repaint our veranda [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 14:16:11
Blogging Hiatus
It has been a month since I last posted on this blog ... my callings, to create a "HOUSE OF ORDER"...more on that later) that I haven't had much time ... to spend in DC because we had dinner plans with more old DC friends in New York. Here is Oliver [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 04:39:00
Army, Sears clothing deal irks lawmakers
Army, Sears clothing deal irks lawmakers By: David Rogers September 9, 2008 09:22 AM EST From Cantigny, France, ... is from another world, a clash between the New Army and Old over plans to commercialize the 1st Division’ ... to be disclosed. “I’m astounded,” said Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), who chairs the House [more...]
Date: 2008-09-09 20:09:56
Bush Dies Peacefully In His Sleep
WASHINGTON—George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States of America, passed away painlessly in his sleep Monday night, White House sources confirmed. The 62-year-old Bush was reportedly discovered lying unresponsive ... dead of natural causes at 7:24 a.m. Plans for Bush's funeral have been postponed indefinitely [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 19:23:00
Coco Arquette: Jennifer Aniston is Nouna!
Courteney Cox (in Marc Jacobs) works the red carpet at the premiere of Bedtime Stories at the El Capitan Theatre on Thursday (December 18) ... plans: “Christmas is insane in our house. I say: ‘Let’s buy Coco one good toy,’ but he wants to buy ... in Los Angeles. The 44-year-old Friends star recently opens up to UK’s Mail on Sunday: On making [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 19:23:59
Coco Arquette: Jennifer Aniston is Noona!
Courteney Cox (in Marc Jacobs) works the red carpet at the premiere of Bedtime Stories at the El Capitan Theatre on Thursday (December 18) ... plans: “Christmas is insane in our house. I say: ‘Let’s buy Coco one good toy,’ but he wants to buy ... in Los Angeles. The 44-year-old Friends star recently opens up to UK’s Mail on Sunday: On making [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 19:23:59
The Restorers Library " Pallisers New Cottage Homes 1887"
From Time to time I like to recommend reference books that may be of interest to Old House restorers, Palliser's New Cottage Homes 1887 is a reproduction of the rare catalog that originally was published in 1887. It includes 1,500 detailed drawings of floor plans, elevations, perspective views [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 17:50:00
The 12 Days of Christmas & Other Winter Holiday Picture Books for Kids - Day 10
Reviewed by Amy M. O’Quinn for the National Writing for Children Center ... Ages: 4-8 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers (October 12, 1957) ISBN-10: 0394800796 ... many of us haven’t enjoyed the story of the mean old Grinch and his nasty plans to steal Christmas [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 16:57:58
Old News by digby In another example of angry, vitriolic, hate-filled left wing blogging, a number of us were writing and discussing, ... between unsavory characters involved in Iran-Contra, the Office of Special Plans, AEI --- the whole shoddy ... of the White House. The many interconnecting webs seem to lead to and through the forged Niger [more...]
Date: 2008-06-06 18:31:06
the best laid plans … and the latest mini-quilt
You know what happens to those! They go wildly astray ... finish his restoration of one of his older push bikes for dear old Grandad, followed by a visit ... the house to the front footpath where it was scavenged all afternoon and night by passerbys (we stood [more...]
Date: 2008-10-20 21:11:05
Tory recession ad uses bankrupt builder
Oh dear, these Joe the Plumber attack ads don’t really work do they? ... had struggled because of the recession. But Companies House records show the 51-year-old father-of-four’ ... . More at the Liverpool Daily Post. The ad is as fatuous as their own economic plans. [more...]
Date: 2008-12-06 13:57:23
Today’s Science Policy News for November, 20th 2008
A look at today’s science and health policy news: Bush attacked over wildlife plans BBC–US environmentalists have accused President George W Bush ... to the global environmental threat once he moves into the White House. Obama Advisers May Signal ... emergency funds into old economic sectors like the auto industry, the federal government should look [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 15:56:13
OT: What Are Your Plans for Thanksgiving?
What are you doing for Thanksgiving? We are staying local again this year and celebrating with my wife’s family. This Thanksgiving will mark one year since my dad visited our house for the last time before ... out his old wooden red toolbox and said, “You want dibs on this toolbox?” I wanted to cry. I knew [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 17:00:29
