Our Ice Stone countertops were installed today and they look fantastic!  They are made of green, white and pearlescent pieces of recycled glass, mixed together in a base of off-white concrete.  (Sage Pearl is the name.)  It’s starting to look like a real kitchen now!    Suzanne and Hilary came to see the new look. [...]

We have posted our most recent house photos.  The first batch should be viewed, well, first.  These are the photos that we took the day after we got back from our vacation, and they show the progress that was made in our absence.  (Highlight — the walls arrived!)  The second batch shows the status of [...]

We’re off for a long-awaited vacation out west.  But before we left, we put the uncut, unedited version of all of our August house photos on our website.  Now, this is not for the faint of heart — there are almost 200 photos and there are tons of duplicates.  But, if you just can’t wait [...]

That’s what Frank said last night after he spent the evening sanding the walls and was covered in a thick layer of fine green paint dust. The end of the stripping and sanding is in sight — we are working on the living room windows now and then have to do the dining room windows [...]

Check out our monster-size produce! The broccoli was absolutely delicious — the best I’ve ever had in my life. The fennel was good, though a bit tough. Perhaps we let it get too big? And the tomato was fabulous! Can’t wait until all the green ones turn red! (Hopefully we’ll be able to find them [...]

It may seem strange to dedicate this much space to something as plain and boring as a sink, but I am extremely excited about the “new” sink we found for the basement.  A couple of weeks ago we traveled to NJ and we picked up an old sink at an antique shop.  This sink, which [...]

It’s been a long time since we last posted photos of the house, and a lot has happened.  It was actually very therapeutic for me to look through the photos tonight and get all the web albums ready because I’ve hit a low point where I feel like we’re not making any progress at all.  [...]

We have lots of pictures of the progress of the house, but no time to sort through them and put them up for all to see.  We’ll try to get to that in the next few weeks.  But in the meantime Frank wrote a funny email to me that I had to post on here.  [...]