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it’s really going slow. “it” being “everything.” the deck is coming out very nice… but it’s taking forever. finished installing the decking surface on the upper deck, got maybe 1/3 of the lower deck&#8217 [Read More]

So, if you’ve been reading my other blog- A Cotterpin Life-  you’ll have seen that we went to the Amana Colonies.  Absolutely beautiful old buildings- I would love to have a house with the same type of brickwork.   Or even have a walk [Read More]

Okay April, here it is. Or at least the first part of it. And, since I rushed some of this, please excuse the "draft" quality of it. Hopefully, I'll refine it at a later date.If I'd remember to bring my camera with me last weekend, this would be a [Read More]

Dad has started painting the old house. There was a little mix-up in that we'd thought Dad was going to be putting undercoat on - and thus we still had time to tweak the final choice of colour - but it turned out that for this kind of paint, you us [Read More]

I had lunch at the bakery in town today since I had to take my library books back and get stamps anyway. I came across this article in the Mason City paper. It's not terribly informative, but it caught my eye because I toured the Melson house last sp [Read More]

It is a grey day here in Brockville. I am sitting around avoiding working on the never ending guest-room project. I have been reading some of my favorite old house blogs. The more I read, the more I find myself growing a little envious of my fellow b [Read More]

Oh yeah, we used to answer reader questions every once in a while.  Let's do that again. Hi Guys-   I absolutely love your blog.  We have an 1896 frame house in Chicago we've been working on, and love reading about your pr [Read More]

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This Christmas one of my wife's uncles gave us an enormous wall clock. By enormous, I mean human torso sized. In addition to telling time, this clock also tracks the temperature and relative humidity.Humidity is not something that is normally on my m [Read More]

When we started looking at houses, I'm not sure we even considered a new house. For one, old houses have history. There have been lives lived here and it is not all sterile and new feeling when you walk in. Secondly, as soon as I walked into this ho [Read More]

A while back, we visited the bank to discuss our house, mortgage etc. We had a fantastic conversation with our representative, who started asking questions about our house. It turned out that she too had an old house that was in a constant state of [Read More]

Since we are certifiable crackheads and clearly don’t have enough to do with our time, I’ll just go ahead and throw this one out there; we’ve been thinking about starting a non-profit. Not now, but sometime in the near future.This idea has been [Read More]

I'm always swearing that, once we are finished with the HouseInProgress, I won't ever do this again.  I insist on it all of the time when people ask me.Ahem.  Aaron and I were strolling Grace around North Park this evening when we spotted&n [Read More]