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All of my friends are getting married and having babies. They all definitely look down on me and feel like I am messing up. Nope, I don’t have a ring or a pregnancy on the docket. Instead I have a home that I am updating. I am happier than a pig in mud with my […]

Things just sort of worked out for me. My wife and I moved into our house that had no air conditioning and a boiler system in the basement. Since we live in the north, air conditioning is like owning a pony or a swimming pool. It is cool but not totally necessary most of the […]

I am not technologically savvy by any means. The only reason I bought a smart thermostat was because it looked pretty. I originally bought my house with a beige thermostat that had a plastic toggle. It was super easy to bump it and change the HVAC settings. Frequently my husband would complain and the thermostat […]

When my husband and I moved into our home it was obvious the previous homeowners had a colonial theme going on. They had a wood ceiling, half wood walls, brown rugs, colonial looking wallpaper and a wood stove right in the living room. It was horrendous. The room had such potential though. I left the […]

Plus, we had so much work to do. We weren’t sure about relocating to the city. But, it was the best place to expand our small business. Our mom had been an excellent source of support and helped our house hunt. We found a small apartment with extra space for a home office. It wasn’t […]

There was an abandoned house at the edge of town that our parents had warned us about. It belonged to an old lady who had passed on. No one had managed to locate her relatives, so it remained unclaimed for years. It was such a beautiful structure, and I always had a vision of restoring […]

If I could go back to undergraduate school again to do something different, I would study chemistry. I find it so fascinating now that I’m interested in drugs and their effects on the body, in particular the brain. Neuropsychology is an emerging field that is making serious progress in mapping the human brain and understanding […]

That means I am required to have turtle glass on any window facing the water. I recently bought a beach house that I am slowly renovating so I can rent it out during the summer season. The beach house needs lots of love. Since it is near saltwater, a lot of the metal inside the […]

Rather than an ugly spot in the house, my bifold doors are a focal point Due to space limitations, I have bifold doors on most of the closets in the house. When we first moved in, I was very unhappy with this style of door. They were flimsy, unattractive and difficult to clean. They each […]

It’s tough being an executive assistant in the office at our city’s largest boat marina. I started as a simple deck hand in high school, but I quickly proved my worth and was given new responsibilities as I got older and became more proficient with the tasks I was given. When I was around the […]