Back in 1903 "they" built two twin houses for the managers of Dallas Mills, here in Huntsville, Alabama. Fast forward 100 some odd years and we are trying to bring back the restored beauty of one of the properties (our house was cheaply turned into a duplex). Luckily, we are friends with our 90 year old neighbor, Vera, that lives in the identical ( Read more... )

The other day I saw that this cute little icon on flickr had favorited several photos of our house. After clicking on her stream and having an eyegasm for her new sofa, I clicked the blog link to read about it! And the rest, as they say, is history. I added her on flickr, and she asked to feature my home on her blog! But of course! What an honor ( Read more... )

On Monday Andy and I spent the day bringing in all of our green babies (plants) to get them ready for winter. A few weeks ago we planted several things so hopefully come Spring, we'll have a beginning of a garden plan. I was tired of just letting plants sit in their containers until I could decide where to put them...so in the ground they went! I ( Read more... )

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I made a site for our house!

The Real Vertical HouseIt's pretty simple, but it gets the point across. I'm not one for really flashy, hard-to-navagate sites anyway. It took me about a day to put it all together. Most of it was pulling photos all the way from last December. Going through those photos made it feel like so much still needed to be ( Read more... )