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The folks over at Capessa.com asked me to blog on their site about my home renovation. Yay! Capessa is owned by Yahoo, Zizo Media and Proctor & Gamble, maybe they’ll send me some groovy coupons. Everyone knows I love a good coupon… An [Read More]

My house is in the free press!......at lest it's in the picture...somewherehttp://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080422/NEWS01/80422033sad news tigers fans [Read More]

Our blog was featured in the LA Times blog section called Pardon our Dust.There was a nice little review of our work, which increased our visits by quite a bit. [Read More]

A couple of weeks ago Barry Owens from the College Hill Commoner interviewed me about our house blog. The interview is up on their Web site now, and I think it turned out pretty good. At least I don't think I come across as a complete idiot.Rereading [Read More]

The spring 2008 issue of Cottages & Bungalows magazine has a blogging sidebar and they were gracious enough to include 1916 Portland Bungalow right there at the top! I hope this doesn't count towards my 15 minutes. ;-)Due to my poor photo quali [Read More]

I was interviewed for Victorian Homes magazine, and I don’t even remember it. The only way I found out was by reading it on one of my favorite houseblogs, Fixer Upper, the writer of which was also interviewed. When I tell people this, they loo [Read More]

My poor, neglected houseblog. It’s been far too long since I’ve written something insightful or useful for our readers. There was a time when so much was going on around our house that I literally could not keep up! Lately we’re str [Read More]

Our award certificate from Minneapolis Blooms that I mentioned a couple months back arrived in the mail today, proclaiming our yard a “Garden of Merit.” That’s an important-sounding title, but the letter accompanying the award helpf [Read More]

Ahhhhh yes, it's that time of the year. That time where you're not sure whether you love shopping because it gets you in the Christmas mood, or whether you hate it because you can't find a parking place when all you're trying to do is buy a roll of t [Read More]

Patrick wrote a response to an article recently released by the Associated Press. I'm reposting it here to maximize its visibility because I feel that it's important to show people the slanted representation the AP article gave. ****************** [Read More]

This just came out in the Times Union. (There was one tiny mistake, but it's less than a century long, so...: for the record, the house was built in 1780, not 1870.) From: timesunion.com Age of restoration Tinsmith Dennis Heaphy is turning a 19 [Read More]

You'll have to excuse my ignorance but I'd never heard of Schmap until this morning when I received an email letting me know that one of my Flickr photos had made it to the shortlist for the fourth edition of the Vancouver guide. Even if the photo do [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]

Our inadvertent media blitz regarding our home remodel continues this Friday, Nov. 2 when NBC's TODAY Show will be airing a segment they filmed a few weeks ago at our house as we demo'd the kitchen with the help of family and friends (and corresponde [Read More]

I got a postcard in the mail today notifying us that our garden was selected to receive a 2007 Minneapolis Blooms Award! It looks like a neighbor or someone nominated us (Who is it? Fess up!) and then a garden evaluator stopped by sometime this su [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]

After having been featured in two of my favorite house blogs (Materialicious - click here , and Future House Now - click here ) we got picked up recently by HouseBlogs.net. Click here for the story including excerpts of my interview with one of t [Read More]

I'm thrilled to be included in the premiere issue of CS Interiors, a luxe new Chicago magazine! [Read More]