The Perfect Vacation Cottage

by katie George If you are looking to purchase a place where you can simply get away from the world on your own little vacation, ... . Another benefit of cottages would simply be their size. Most cottage style house plans are on a smaller scale. If you are shopping for a cottage, the odds are good that the house is only [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 23:23:43

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The Perfect Vacation Cottage

by katie George If you are looking to purchase a place where you can simply get away from the world on your own little vacation, ... . Another benefit of cottages would simply be their size. Most cottage style house plans are on a smaller scale. If you are shopping for a cottage, the odds are good that the house is only [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 14:04:30

The Perfect Vacation Cottage

by katie George If you are looking to purchase a place where you can simply get away from the world on your own little vacation, ... . Another benefit of cottages would simply be their size. Most cottage style house plans are on a smaller scale. If you are shopping for a cottage, the odds are good that the house is only [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 03:42:43

recycling a tiny house

My cousin, Noah, built himself a tiny house. It’s adorable and perfect for him. Let me tell you what happened to it ... Tiny Houses that has pictures and plans for houses like Jefferson’s Cottage, Henry Thoreau’s Cabin ... and satisfied with one’s home. It only takes the right amount of beautiful space to do the trick [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 16:35:26

Self Catering Cottages - Choose Your Style

Self Catering Cottages - Choose Your Style Posted in November 22nd, 2008 Category: ... House Plans Self catering cottages which have grown in popularity in the last few years ... cottages are ideal for those who are hard pressed of time and want to squeeze in a mini vacation inside [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 01:40:15

New Zealand – 17th Dec 2008 - Day 55

It was certainly a relief to leave the eco lodge this morning. This place is very quiet but also very dark and a tad depressing ... . There was a horse drawn carriage wine tour available on the Friday, but that meant changing our plans ... so cute!The cottage was actually a massive house with a hot tub, BBQ, two bedrooms, two bathrooms [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 15:47:00

Building Supplies

A man with a nagging secret couldn't keep it any longer ... my own house, and enough for my son's house, and houses for our two daughters and our cottage ... , "But if you can get the plans, I can get the lumber." (via Phil's Phun) [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 16:01:52

Layout Update

Homestead Plan So here is a photoshop of the layout I had drawn by hand. Of course not to scale. Since Brian from Sourwood Farm had turned me on to Country Plans, we have fallen in love with the 1.5 story 20×30 cottage. That will be the big house. Our current little cabin will be Amy’s palace [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 22:46:01

Florida Bed and Breakfasts - Without Breaking the Budget

by Jane Leisteiner Your New Year’s resolution to save money shouldn’t come at the expense of your travel plans ... House Inn should be on your list. A day at the beach is definitely in the cards here with complimentary ... in historic St. Augustine, has the perfect solution with the Cottage Suite. If you are enjoying a romantic [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 16:25:54

Laguna’s ‘oldest home’ a $3.8 million bet

154 Pearl St. slide show Chester Alan Arthur, the nation’s 21st president, was in the White House when a small cottage sprang up at 154 Pearl St. in Laguna Beach, built in 1883 with driftwood floated in from boats and shipwrecks. Cuba ... board-and-batten residence less than a block from the beach. The new owners, who plan to renovate [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 11:44:02

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

Small House Construction, Design, and Renovation Blogs

Small House Society > Resources Summary. Below are personal blogs and online journals of people working on constructing, renovating, ... . Through sharing stories, photos, videos, floor plans, and other details about the process, others ... on the Victorias cottage but it’s been changed a lot. I’ll try to get a plan up soon.” The Jewel Box Home [more...]

Date: 2008-09-07 00:50:07

No Laundry Room

Img_0810_medium Our last home had an indoor laundry room that we had recently remodeled before the house went up for sale ... , and, of course, some whimsical touches. Daisy Cottage does NOT have a laundry room. The washer ... that I was going to be unhappy with the layout and I told my husband about my grand plans for enclosing [more...]

Date: 2008-07-08 13:26:18

Cold Steel

Frost on Entry Grate Down below the entry grate is an air tube that penetrates the concrete slab of our tiny cottage ... to put an insulated box there and use it for a refrigerator. Eventually I plan to build a refrigerator ... the coolth of our spring and possibly and ice house up hill of us from whence the cold can flow down [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 02:46:50

* Kelsie and Rejean

ceremony: Peaks Island House lawn reception: Inn on Peaks coordinator: Kirby Johnson, Cityside Events caterer: Inn on Peaks Island florist: ... put pen to paper and start our own wedding plans! View their slideshow below or click here to open ... ! It's decorated with beautiful, bright Maine Cottage-like furniture. Kelsie and Reg used rocks [more...]

Date: 2008-10-20 19:18:10

Back To Basics Challenge

I'm sorry I will have to do a short post, it is very hot inside today.Sowing seed or PlantingI saw two punnets of six French lavender plants ... garden plan, working out storage plans or more long term goals and projects like plans for digging root ... , managing stores, preserving, building that home made cob or solar oven, adding house insulation, saving [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 10:27:00

feet's adventures in oz pt 1

Jan. 13 Finally found WiFi (free!) at Mickey D's of all places.... The flight from houston to LAX is fairly awful ... in his car stopping at a friend’s beach house where we meet up with a couple mates - let's call them Dan ... some more. Cook’s cottage. More gardens. Another beer... Back to Rob’s for a little telly and my first [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 08:42:20

Conundrum

We Are Family - Sister SledgeWhen I was a kid growing up, Christmas was always exactly the same: we'd get up at an ungodly hour, open presents, play, ... at our house or my aunt's: it was always with my mother's family since all my father's relatives were ... to one side or the other (my family lives out of town, hers spent Christmas at their cottage), [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 15:11:00

Reinventing America

America faces serious challenges to maintain its storied status quo. Hurdles include a sinking economy, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the rising cost of education, global warming, a crumbling infrastructure and American workers with uncertain futures. Trendwatchers are more acutely aware of these issues than most, but they’re also more hopeful [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 09:40:59

On the Web Things Last Forever

Well, here we are un- expectedly in Florida with only winter clothes. As long as I crank up the air conditioning in the car, I am fine ... there but an empty storefront there. Just Stitchin' -- Across America thinks that Cross Stitch Cottage ... disrupted my in-laws' plans. Christmas is my dearest mother-in-law's favorite day. She hadn't seen [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 23:34:00

That Darn Jet Stream

Okay...so, I said I would be better with the blogging thing back on US soil. There's just something strange once you change all these time zones ... long, especially when there is no insulation in one's 100 year old house in the middle of remodel ... with water. Well, that fridge doesn't have an ice maker. I run into the bathroom and the pipe under [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 03:39:00

courage in a bottle

I don't know why...maybe I'm just a sucker. But when I found myself in the homeopathic section of Whole Foods, idly reading labels, ... have been few and far between and I have lots of photos to take. Tomorrow is the Cottage's holiday open house so I'll be there as an auxillary shopgirl...at least in the morning. In other news, I found [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 19:10:00

Why I enrolled for ADM 3396

Guest Column by David Huffman, Mature Student, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, January 2009 ... . I lost everything. My family, my truck, my house, my pension. When I say everything, I mean everything ... is just a grave with both ends knocked out. Then a friend of mine, Joy Statham, offered me her family cottage [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 19:26:31

Success Guidelines For Making Cold, Hard Dough With Your Investment Property In The Uk

You may have heard that owning an Investment property UK in the United Kingdom can be lucrative. It turns out such speculation is true ... of buying a beach investment property or perhaps a cottage property and renting to those on vacation ... that house individuals, families, or other groups. Homes, apartments, and trailers are among the various [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 06:50:23

End-of-December Daybook

Outside my window. . . the sun is shining on green grass and bare-naked trees I am thinking. . ... . . . just this Daybook entry, nothing extravagant but a piece of me and my cottage I love to share  I am going. . . are you kidding?! I'm very glad to be home today I am reading. . . Knit Together: Discover God's [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 19:06:10

An introduction from the banking “Pup”

Hi, First I want to thank all of you for making me feel so welcomed as one of the newest members of the Bloodhounds ... .   My 18 year old will be attending Calvin College in the fall to pursue a nursing career.  She plans ... s just say life is never boring at our house! One of the questions that I enjoy asking others in the real [more...]

Date: 2008-07-09 13:46:07

The father and daughter who war-monger together

The Cheney tag team is in the ring at the same time versus Iran. In recent days we’ve seen headlines from Bush’s European farewell tour like this from the London Times: “President George Bush starts talking language of a dove.” Also, in an apparent admission that his beef with Iran might not be settled during his presidency, Bush, [more...]

Date: 2008-06-17 00:11:05

At thirty thousand feet

Today has been one of those unintentionally awesome days. See, we’ve got Weather today.  Capital W ... d had plans to hit my work stuff pretty hard in the morning, then skeedaddle off into town to give myself ... the house….Mother Nature decides to spring Teh Evil on us.  Thanks.  Thanks for that, Ma [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 07:28:29

CPSIA, Books, Businesses, and Why Lead Paint...

Publisher's Weekly is concerned about the impact this bill will have on the publishing industry- pass that link on to those of your friends who would like to dismiss concerns as uninformed hysteria (the uninformed part is particularly rich, given the position of ignorance from which these people are themselves arguing) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 21:30:00

Smells Like Holiday Spirit

Hello my friends and happy new year! My apologies for the rather lengthy holiday sabbatical ... in Santa Monica - in a manner of speaking. Our plans to drive north to Portland for Christmas ... photos of their snowbound home that finally convinced us a quiet holiday at home was preferential [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 06:04:05

Socialness & Sociability

So this week has turned into social planning extravaganza. See, now I can't remain in my strike coma, 'cause I got tings to do, mama! ... Margo's roomie. Great excuse to have a house party, M. And I'll get to check out the new AGO ... ). I rock.Winterlicious! We're going to Amaya (upscale Indian) and Auberge du Pommier (Swanky McSwankerson French [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 04:17:00

Fast Food At Home

By Nicole Dean Families need to eat and the hungry mouths never stop asking "what's for dinner"? ... them out on a platter with some ranch style dressing. I've seen the most dedicated vegetable-hater ... of noodles at the ready. When dinner plans are unsure, noodles will be there to pull off a family [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 16:50:36

Quirky Celebrations are the Best

At the close of a particularly nutty year, we were privileged to ring in 2009 with my dearest friend and her family ... came home from work feeling very sick. By the time the Carter clan arrived, he had taken powerful medicine and collapsed in our bed with the flu. That kinda nixed our plans to play games, since [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 16:02:00

Travel Plans

Yes, I've already spilled the beans in my last post. We're all going up to Donegal next Saturday ... up in the cottage we've booked (so no posts from me for a week unless I get round to preparing ... the weather won't be much to write home about this time round I expect. But we booked a house with sea view [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 17:42:00

Time Inc Releases Details Of Consumer Marketing And Sales Reorg, More On Digital; 92 Laid Off

Forget the long knives; at Time Inc these days, it's all about the memo. In the latest to hit my inbox, Brian Wolfe, president of consumer marketing, explains the group's new organization. What it doesn't mention: this reorg covers nearly one-sixth of the roughly 600 layoffs CEO Ann Moore announced two weeks ago; 92, to be exact, as U.S [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 00:17:36

2009 Could Be My LUCKY YEAR!!!

Bella and BabyOh...aren't they precious?! They're two of the kittens I adopted from the park because they lost their moms ... and wake everyone up. It was around 1 am I was laying on the sofa trying to get back to sleep with Sweet ... Sweet Pea, landed on my eye then proceeded to use it as a trampoline to jump over the back of the sofa [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 10:25:00

When darkness fails: On horror, The Strangers, terrific first acts, lousy endings, and using unlikable stars to your advantage

For all my problems with the movie—which you can read about here—I have to give Eden Lake some credit ... of our vulnerable, desperate heroes, a young couple trapped in a cottage in the woods. Still, I find ... , venture into the woods for a romantic getaway during which the male of the couple plans to propose [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:52:00

Mississippi Mud

On Saturday, January 3rd I boarded a plane headed for New Orleans. We touched down a few hours later, and made the hour-long drive to a little town forgotten by the world: Pearlington, Mississippi. Having spent some time in the Gulf region last year, I wasn’t sure what to expect three years out from Katrina [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 20:35:47

Pet News - Pet Advice - Pet Photos

When Owners Bark or Biteby Joe Schoenman - Las Vegas SunLied Animal Shelter’s intensifying struggle with visitors who lose their coolEmotions have always run high at Lied Animal Shelter, but outbursts and violence from angry pet owners there have gotten so bad that the shelter is planning to remodel its lobby to protect workers from the public [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 12:10:00

Homes Under $300,000 in Key West

People ask me all the time if there are still homes in Key West for sale for under $300,000.  A few years ago, the answer would have been "NO WAY" ... opportunity to purchase a spacious midtown home on a 5000 square foot lot in nice neighborhood. Good solid home with nice floor plan, tile floors throughout, off street covered parking and big back yard [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 23:45:45

All About Spelling

As a member of the TOS Homeschool Crew, I have been given the wonderful opportunity to review many homeschool products over the next several months ... of homeschool (including two years of preschool for my oldest), our children went to a cottage school for homeschooled children. They attended school there two days a week and I taught them at home [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 18:21:00

East Coast Coast Destinations

New England Coast Destinations – Vacation with Friends School break is coming up and you and your friends are eager to travel to New England ... by these places. Yale University You may have no plans of switching colleges or universities ... satisfactory bed and breakfasts to solve your dilemma. 1886 House, Massachusetts You’re going to share [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 17:21:47

Without a Guide

Despite his alcoholism, my father was a brilliant man. He was in the Army Intelligence, so he had to be smart. It was that part of him I patiently waited to come out day after day. Walking home from the school bus, I used to wonder, What I am I coming home to today?He wasn’t abusive, it’s not that. He did [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 03:05:54

Carl Drega, Part II

I wrote this some years ago, 11 September 2002, on the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and e-mailed it to myself. It has to do with another terrorist attack. Not the one on New York and Washington; an attack on another town. The events I'm talking about took place on 19 August 1997. Later I posted the letter in our newsgroup over at sff [more...]

Date: 2008-08-19 20:24:51

Success Guidelines For Turning A Profit With Your Investment Property In The Uk

You may have heard that owning an Investment property UK in the United Kingdom can be lucrative. It turns out such speculation is true ... to purchase and rent out cottage property or beach investment property. The catch may be that seasonal ... included in commercial property is any house with a store located on the bottom/ground-level floor [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 06:25:26

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

My New Year Daybook at the Cottage

Outside my window. . . gray and rainy I am thinking. . . about my health I am thankful for. . . the birth of my Savior From the schoolroom. . ... House by Dickens I am hoping. . . for health in 2009 I am hearing. . .Annie and her friend playing in the corner with new Christmas toys Around the house. . .all things sparkly and Christmasy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 20:39:22

Restarting America

While America has a lot to be thankful for, the nation faces serious challenges to maintain its storied status quo. The hurdles are many: a sinking economy, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the rising cost of education, global warming, a crumbling infrastructure, and the very future of the American worker [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 09:40:59

The Adventure of the Devil's Foot

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is one of the most favorite characters in the history of detective fiction. You already know that he is my most favorite hero, someone that I want beside me when in danger, someone I can trust completely. Such a wonderful character cannot be seen anywhere in the realworld, as far as I know [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 09:09:00

I Say “In With The Old!”

Dolores and I visiting a historic site in Tulsa this past October. Both of us resolve to see more of them in 2009. 2009 is right around the corner. As we all make exciting plans to celebrate the new year ... , the Robie House and Unity Temple. The Pui Tak Center taught me about the history of Chinese [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 13:18:03

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