Archive for August, 2004

The House

August 28, 2004 at 8:54 pm · Filed under Woe


front view (click photo to see larger)
Originally uploaded by merideth.

This is the house just before things got reallllllly ugly.

(This is a flickr photo so if you go to the large size, don’t forget to roll over the boxes on the photo to see comments.)

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Day 1

August 28, 2004 at 8:25 pm · Filed under About Us

Well Day 1 wasn’t documented. And I’m sad about it. Sad.

We found the house. We loved the house. We bought the house. We did a dance of joy at our unbelievable good fortune in grabbing it up before someone else did. But I genuinely thought that our thrill at owning a 1922 bungalow fixer would diminish as the newness of the whole house-procurement experience wore off. I was wrong.

I had no idea we would get so INto our house. I mean, yes, we’ve had an HGTV addiction since the network first went on the air and yes, we’re both creative types, and we have a love for early/mid century accoutrements, but I didnt think that would add up in a way that made our lives house-centric. Yet here we are. Hardcore.

We’ve done a good bit of renovation/restoration already including some basic things like painting. But there is more, oh much more, to come. I want it documented. I want this freakin huge craft project of ours spelled out and illustrated.

I’m aware that, in the end, it may serve as a dire warning of what never to do again.

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