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Remember the highly slanted article in the Wall Street Journal, Three Martini Renovation? A lot of people were pretty upset with the author for hoodwinking them into contributing to her preconceived piece. But the timing worked out pretty well– [Read More]

Two Oak Park housebloggers, John and Jen from the Humphrey House, were on the Today Show this morning. It's a great segment and you can see it here. Lots of demo action but no cocktails were spilled. :) [Read More]

Yup, this is it. Our fifteen minutes have come. And we're pretty damn happy about how it all worked out. This morning a segment aired on NBC's TODAY Show that featured Humphrey House and the regulars of the Wrecking Crew doing what we do best: some [Read More]

I came across these gory but excellent costumes via houseblogs.net that some DIY's put together for a party. What's really scary is the article in the Wall Street Journal that inspired the costumes. In fairness to the people referenced in the article [Read More]

We at Humphrey House were recently contacted by Chicagoland's surburban newspaper, The Daily Herald, as they wanted to photograph us for a reprint of the WSJ article "The Three Martini Revolution." Due to the negative slant this article took, we at [Read More]

Our Halloween costumes this year are dedicated to Kristin of 1902 Victorian, who wrote this post after her picture showed up in a Wall Street Journal article about idiotic homeowners who drink and renovate. Who says wine and circular saws don&#821 [Read More]

Back on 9/21, in a comment that she has since deleted, Jennifer Saranow from the Wall Street Journal left a message similar to this one as a comment on my blog:Hello,My name is Jennifer Saranow and I'm a reporter with The Wall Street Journal in New Y [Read More]

It’s official, the Wall Street Journal is clueless. Here’s their response to my strongly worded e-mail: “I’m writing in response to your email of October, 4, 2007 objecting to certain aspects Jennifer Saranow’s Sept. 28 [Read More]

Another blog moment - a reporter from the WSJ read my blog on our Demolition party and contacted me for an interview!Read the article here!And the blog that started it all? Read it here!I'm always amazed that people that I don't know read this blog. [Read More]

One more reason to be wary of the press… one of our favorite housebloggers, Kristin of 1902 Victorian, was recently tricked by a writer for the WSJ. She unwittingly became part of a none-too-flattering story about DIY’ers gone wild. The s [Read More]

We were very honored to have been written up in the Wall Street Journal today, mentioned as one of the many housebloggers that converge on the Houseblogs.net site. Many blog about their work in order to share progress with family... [Read More]

Something we at Humphrey House have been keeping as a secret can now be told. We were one of several people interviewed by the Wall Street Journal for a story about people that host Renovation Parties, titled "The Three Martini Renovation" which ment [Read More]