June 1, 2005

another older house

ACORN has info on a a neat old house for sale in Manchester.

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June 3, 2005

plant for more beautiful streets

In a perfect compliment to our recent tree planting and other reading, I found some neat old stamps at Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space, an urban revitalization blog out of Washington DC.

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June 10, 2005

checking out the tin roof

I recently had a reason to use the newish hatch to the roof from the back porch. The hatch is good.

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June 24, 2005

ACORN to offer plaster workshop

For anyone local, ACORN is offering a hands-on/on-site workshop on how to repair decorative plaster detailing in historic homes. Find out more.

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June 25, 2005

bathroom floor demo

I've spent the last few days pulling up the downstairs bathroom floor.

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June 28, 2005

banned from the dump

Six months ago, at about the same time that we pulled the wall down from the entrance hall, I got banned from the dump. This should've been posted months ago, but I needed time to get some perspective.

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June 30, 2005

folk victorian

We knew from the first that our house was sort of Victorian. When we began to research the architecture of the time, we kept finding information about Queen Anne or Stick style Victorian houses, but neither seemed to fit.

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all of the local neighborhoods

I built one of those Chicago-style crime info websites for Richmond.

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on shingles

I was on break from pulling shingles off of the back off the house when I heard that we'd gotten a mention in an article on houseblogging in the Wall Street Journal. I'm sweaty and it is crazy hot and this is what gets attention.

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