This is where I wish I was sitting right now–on Susan’s charming back porch. When I saw it on her blog Between Naps on the Porch (which is one of my favorites!), I swooned. I had a screened porch at my last house and miss it like crazy. We practically lived on ours in the [...]
To Do This Weekend:
Open the windows.
Set the clocks ahead.
Sweep the spiderwebs off the front porch.
Re-hang the porch swing and add fresh pillows.
Take a nap.
Pull the covers off the patio furniture and sit outside with a book.
Check the yard for signs of green poking up through the ground.
Paint toenails and dust off flip-flops.
Pretend that winter is [...]
My friend Cindy over at The Amateur Tightwad told me I had to check out Anna Maria Horner’s amazing kitchen makeover, and I’m so glad she did. Wait until you see what lies beyond those bright blue doors!
Have you heard of Anna Maria Horner yet? If not, you’re in for a treat. Anna Maria is [...]
Today is my birthday. I know at my age I should just sort of sweep birthdays under the rug and pretend they’re not happening, but they still make me happy. Anything that involves cake, in my book, is a good thing (dark chocolate cake with cream-cheese frosting, to be exact).
I’m lucky to have a Spring birthday because [...]
Michael J. Fox, Tracy Pollan, and their four children are moving into this gorgeous Gambrel shingle-style, traditional home in Quogue, an incorporated village inside Southampton, New York. According to Newsday’s Real LI blog, they paid $6.3 million for the 6 bedroom, 7.5 bath home (it had been on the market for $7.25 million, so they [...]
I’m broadcasting from the mountains around Pigeon Forge, Tennessee this week. Take a look at our view!
When we asked our son what he wanted for his 13th birthday, he said “All I want is to take a family trip to Gatlinburg.” Now that he’s a teenager, who knows how much longer he’ll think of family togetherness as a gift? So we’re taking advantage [...]
I know all the talk about “green houses” can get boring at times, but there’s nothing dull about HGTV’s Green Home 2008 in Tradition, South Carolina. If this is what environmental responsibility looks like, then sign me up.
Here’s the foyer, which proves they don’t have to be grand to be gorgeous:
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These floors are beautiful:
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The kitchen:
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The [...]
I’m crazy about porches. The strange thing is that it’s so hard to find houses with them any more. In our entire neighborhood, a subdivision less than 7 years old, there are only a handful of houses that have them. When we built ours, we paid the builder extra to change the front elevation and [...]
NOTE: THIS WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS A “GUESSING GAME” UNDER THE TITLE, “CAN YOU GUESS WHO LIVED HERE?”
Can you guess which famous literary figure lived in this Hartford, Connecticut house from 1874 to 1891? Here are your three clues:
1) He was born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835. Missouri was a slave state at the time, [...]
