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What Is the Mushroom Factor?

What Is the Mushroom Factor?

by | Jan 27, 2011 | fixing-it, old houses, remodeling

fixing up old houses That is the question of the day, isn’t it? Well, though I wrote a small blurb about it early in the days of this blog, I found that Squidoo had no search results for it. That is right: a whole huge online community had no resource for...
Old Inhabitants

Old Inhabitants

by | Nov 2, 2006 | old houses

I tend to have many asides when I tell the tales of the house and the renovation, but I thought you might be entertained by a few stories about former inhabitants of the home. In my ‘Flooring’ post I didn’t fully explain the story of the reservoir. I...
Ode to an Old House

Ode to an Old House

by | Oct 8, 2006 | Madison Cawein, old houses, poem

Something about old houses calls to certain sorts of people. Is it the history, the sense of rescue from the brink of no return? or is it just more pragmatic motivations? For all of us: a poem, and a picture. Deserted THE old house leans upon a tree Like some old man...