Another couple very promising properties on the market this morning...

241 acres, includes 14 acres of lake frontage, possibly dividable, house needs work but then that's what we wanted.

This one is nice, but we'd really have to wheel and deal on the 'more acreage'

And in very good news, this house up the street - one of the ones that have ( Read more... )

My ed-u-mication in spray painting continues ( Read more... )

I've been working - off and on - on the gardens and landscaping since we arrived here. Mostly it's been piecemeal, a bit here, a bit there. Largely it's been destructive - plant removal. Not necessarily because they were ugly or sick, but because they didn't fit overall with the feel of the place ( Read more... )

We finished up the master bedroom a week ago. Paint, flooring closets, lighting - but with the master bath not done yet I decided I'd hold off on posting completed pictures until the whole job is done ( Read more... )

One of the really wonderous parts of this journey we've been on is the fact it really does constantly evolve. We start out with one plan, and it grows and changes and tweaks and before you know it it doesn't really look like what we started out with in the first place at all ( Read more... )

Cairo Gold

I think we like it!.

Sometimes my efforts in recycling/cheap creates headaches for myself

That it took me ALL day to properly inventory the house paint we have on hand ( Read more... )

Like life in prison?


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If you look at the house in the icon picture, James_b and my home office space is the 'great room' over the garage a largish 15x21 room with 3 foot walls on each side and a 9 foot ceiling in the centre ( Read more... )