This Saturday we are having a party…a demolition party. It will be like a barn raising, except the opposite. And when you’re demolishing the main habitable spaces of your home (while living in said home), there’s a lot of preparation involved. In fact, we have spent the last couple of months getting ready for this epic […]
As we continue to pack away the living room and kitchen and haul things to the basement, we’re reminded of how lucky we are to have our short basement. Projects like this are a good example of how thoughtful architectural planning can uncover hidden square footage in older homes—something we explore frequently through our residential architecture […]
I had my doubts, but ladies and gentlemen, the porch is finally done!* *ok, we still have to construct a storage bench but the impending demo party has delayed that for now. But before the big reveal, let’s take a moment to reminisce. Here is our cute, perfectly practical open porch in the 1930’s. Yikes…and […]
Work on the porch continues. One more coat of paint, then the finishing touches and we’ll finally be done!
Back in October, we put together a materials palette for our porch. Four months later (after a much needed break) we are finally finishing the space up and realized we have yet to order the coat hooks! Below is the coat hook style that we picked out last fall – it’s the Bach hook and is sold through a few […]