Before we could check the room of the list, we needed to choose the paint for the walls and decide on window treatments. Nate and José outdid themselves with the built-ins (see previous post). Nate added variable color LED lighting to the niche. The Ganesh statue was a birthday present from Nate and my mother, […]
After we moved in and got settled, building out the library was high on the priority list. Living around piles of disorganized books is bad enough; not being able to find the resource title you need in the moment is even worse! The “library” was essentially a white box. We replaced the floors with Brazilian […]
While packing up our house our neighbor was going through her parents things next door. We took time out during the day to help and lend moral support. Going through fifty years of memories is never an easy task. One weekend we had the pleasure of having a picnic lunch with Gay and her father. […]
After the suggestion that “we buy her mother’s house”, we expressed our doubts. “We can make it work,” she reassured. Later, she let slip that her late mother had come to her and told her that she wanted the boys to have the house. We scheduled a time to walk through the house for the […]
We moved to our current neighborhood in the winter of 2017. Beside our first house on the street sat a similar three story columned property. The latter was unoccupied—the previous owner having moved in with his family after his wife’s passing. For the four years we lived beside it, the house sat dark and vacant. […]
