As our prior house sale closed first, we were allowed to move in prior to closing on The Refuge. The carpets in the front rooms on the ground floor needed replacing. Though installed after Katrina, they had certainly seen better days. We chose a manufactured wood floor option in Brazilian cherry. We arranged to have […]
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. […]
