On the last day of each month I like to just stop and take a moment to thank you all for everything you’ve done to support, encourage, and spread the word about my little blog. I also like to link to as many of my blog friends as possible and return the love.
One day, when [...]
It looks like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have decided to give birth in France this time around (the twins are due this summer). At the Cannes Film Festival, Jolie told reporters, “We are certainly thinking of France.”
According to French newspaper Nice Matin, the dynamic duo just signed a 3-year lease on a $70 million [...]
What I should have been doing tonight: working on some of my writing projects that need attention. You know, for my real job that I actually get paid for.
What I’ve been doing instead: searching for old decorating books on eBay and then waging a bidding war on a vintage one from 1965, simply because it [...]
Remember that bedroom room I showed you with the layers upon layers of crown molding in it? I asked the question, “Is there such a thing as too much crown molding?” And boy, did you guys have a lot of opinions on the subject!
Well, Hooked on Houses reader Susie, who has a fun blog called [...]
Country crooner Kenny Rogers is selling his 9,000 square-foot mansion in Atlanta, Georgia, for $7.95 million. (Should I try to make a joke here about how, when it comes to real estate, Rogers knows when to hold ‘em. . .and he knows when to fold ‘em? Um, probably not, if I want you to [...]
Hooked on Houses reader DaK sent me these photos of textured ceilings that are in swirly, spiral and sunburst patterns. It was one of the most unusual ceiling treatments I’ve ever seen, so I just had to show you.
And, of course, I have to know what you think. First look. Then discuss.
I’m back after spending three days with the in-laws in Amish Country. Did you miss me? I loved coming home to all the comments you left while I was gone. I hope you had a great weekend, and that the weather wherever you are was as gorgeous for you as it was for us [...]
Happy Memorial Day weekend to my American readers! (Happy regular weekend to everyone else!) I’m packing up and heading to Northern Indiana to visit family members for three days, but I didn’t want to just take off without saying goodbye first.
I also wanted to post a picture of flowers for Memorial Day, but this bunch [...]
As promised, today we’re taking a tour of this charming yellow-painted Victorian home in Columbia Tusculum, which was the first neighborhood founded in the Cincinnati area (then known as Losantiville) in the late 1700s. (To read more about it, check out yesterday’s post.)
It was on the market earlier this year and I found interior photos [...]
Irecently discovered Amber’s blog Snapshots of Life, which featured some amazing photos of Columbia Tusculum and its famous “Victorian Painted Ladies.” I was excited because these houses are beautiful, of course, but also because they’re not far from where I live here in Cincinnati. Somehow it had never occurred to me to show them to [...]
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