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We didn't do it last year (I am not sure what happened, maybe we just had a collective mental breakdown or something) but Beautiful Bungalows, an incredible tour of bungalows in the OP is back.a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SzRAqPpBR0E/Sa-31kXIURI [Read More]

The City of Loveland, Colorado, is hosting two workshops in the next few weeks for old house owners. If you are in the area, it might be worth stopping by... it looks like they will supply some great information! Sadly I can't attend the first...R [Read More]

Can you count the number of times Congress has investigated this person for this and that person for that? Company after company for one thing or another has been investigated. Our tax dollars have paid for all these inquisitions.Just who is investig [Read More]

If you are a fan of The Prairie School, Arts & Crafts Architecture, or if you just love old homes, this is an event you can't miss. On June 21st, Pleasant Home Foundation is sponsoring a tour of Historic Hutchinson Street in Chicago. For those of [Read More]

It's bad enough, the way I peek at their pink bricks and the tall windows.Now I also want to have tea in their garden.I live just a block away but we haven't met, so I walk past their magnificent house every day with my dog and her pretty red leash - [Read More]

I am in a lazy and beautiful place right now.So it's time for a lazy and beautiful post.  When I am not with my house, I will feature...other houses!Who doesn't love historic Old West Lawrence (Kansas) eye candy? I mean, these people, above, bro [Read More]

A walk around my neighborhood in all its frozen grey glory.Dead for 107 years and she's still in charge.There's no question that her bejeweled fingers still reach far across the pond......all the way to the cold, cold Midwest.How did they ever let a [Read More]

I have a whole hour to myself till my next convention meeting...yee-ha. Found an invite to the Rocio Romero home tour in my inbox this morning...I love Rocio's designs and I desperately want to build one of her homes. They are doing a tour of one of [Read More]

The Georgian Doorways of Rodney Street Originally uploaded by fotofacade... [Read More]

We started up the House Voyeurism Flickr Pool for Houseblogs.net. Here is the description from the introduction: [Read More]

I love our Box House, but I am suffering a bit from bungalow envy. It's not like I've even been in very many of them. Most of our friends live in condos or two flats or out in the suburbs. Ted and I have one friend who just purchased a 1920s bungalow [Read More]

I went over to the house we will purchase Monday to measure for lattice under the back edge of the house to keep our dog in the back yard. I had my good camera with me, so I took a couple of nice shots of the front of the house. The flowers and sti [Read More]

One of my favorite craftsman style homes in town. Just click and zoom in at the detail on the porch to the right of the tree. With some updates on the paint and removal of the screen porch, this one could be pretty handsome.Not a 4 square, but it ce [Read More]

Photo of Mark Twain’s study - found at: http://www.galenfrysinger.com/mark_twain_elmira_ny.htm  Yeah, I know - it’s freezing cold up here in New York and no one wants to take a walking tour in January. But this one is well documented on [Read More]

I couldn't sleep last night so I was up till 2AM putting junk, umm, I mean "fabulous stuff" up on ebay and eating the Fiance's Stoned Wheat Thins. We fight over Stoned Wheat Thins. Who ate more than the other, who paid for them, who hid them, etc. We [Read More]

We loved Iowa City. We loved the old houses. We loved the people. We loved our hosts from Foxcroft. We loved talking to the folks from the Friends of Historic Preservation. We loved meeting Becky and Elsa from That's a Cute Little Farmhouse. We [Read More]

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I love digital cameras, but sometimes it can be a pain to decided which pictures to keep and which ones to get rid of. Its nice to be able to shoot 10 frames of something and then be able to pick the best one. The problem is, I never seem to get rid [Read More]

Another break I took over the Christmas holiday? Dragging my young niece on a photo-taking adventure in Harmony, PA. Harmony is a historic town close to my (bionic!) sister's house that was founded in 1804 and was the cradle of the Harmonist moveme [Read More]

I know you are thinking WOW they have been busy painting the exterior, but no, it's our twin. (Scroll up and look to the right, that 's us. )Our twin has great railing. Not that crappy,rusty, 60's style metal railing. Every time I look at our raili [Read More]