remodeling our house
Concrete History
You know I’m a history geek, so of course I have to be a little geeky about the house I live in. I’ve mentioned before that our house was built in 1955, and that we bought it from the original owners. To commemorate their new home way back when the original concrete was poured for … Continue reading
Hero of the Week
Five months ago today Karl and I closed on our ‘new’ Cheyenne house and began the work of remodeling it. As I mentioned, due to the cold weather a couple of weeks back, we moved into the house, but it isn’t done. Mostly what is undone is cosmetic detail…woodwork, door and window casings, things like … Continue reading
Do the Work
We moved back to Cheyenne in April. We purchased a house, but it was in pretty rough shape. Consequently, most week days can find us (well, Karl mostly!) ripping out walls or pounding on something in an effort to update and remodel this structure into a home. It’s not an simple challenge, and after being … Continue reading
No more boxes here!
As we prepared to sell and move out of our house in the country in October of 2014, I packed boxes furiously, getting rid of tons of stuff and sorting through years of accumulation. I had an office in that house that Karl had lined with bookshelves, floor to ceiling, and I had literally tons … Continue reading