By JULIA @ HOOKEDONHOUSES.NET
After the first post I did about the Victorian Painted Ladies in Columbia Tusculum, Ohio, a Hooked on Houses reader wrote to tell me that she grew up in the historic neighborhood. Valerie sent me this old photo of the house her family lived in from 1953-1987. She writes:
It’s from the multiple [...]
Take a look at this old red brick house on the market for $249,000 in Cincinnati. It was built in 1898 and has four bedrooms and two baths. It’s been “completely renovated,” which sounds good. Sure. But wait until you see the “improvements” they made. I’m not sure they took things in the right direction.
Remember how I told you that you really, really need to watch the reality show Flipping Out? Did anyone take my advice and catch the episode last night?
Ryan Brown is Jeff Lewis’s calm and level-headed business partner on the show. He does a lot of the design work for the houses we see (they collaborate [...]
This Tudor Revival-style home was built in 1915 by Stephen Gerrard, who was known as “the Cantaloupe King.” He was a truck farmer who built an empire by shipping cantaloupes from Colorado to the Midwest in refrigerated railroad cars. He went on to invent the refrigerated truck and popularize iceberg lettuce in the U.S.
Sadly, when [...]
If those pictures in my last post inspired you to install crown molding and trim in your own home, then my husband Dave (who has done his share of it) offers some advice.
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Every day, Hooked on Houses gets a lot of visitors searching for information about crown molding, so here’s a gallery of rooms that I hope will offer you some ideas and inspiration.
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This dining room is from a house in Palm Beach, and I love how the white crown molding contrasts with the color on the walls. You can get away with much [...]
If you have ever moved into a brand spankin’ new house that feels like a big, uninspiring box of white walls and bare windows, raise your hand.
We did just that in 2003, and it was a daunting task to even know where to begin. All of our walls and baseboards were painted “builder’s white.” We [...]
I have to tell you that I love this new book, House Lust: America’s Obsession with Our Homes, by Daniel McGinn ($24.95, hardcover). And if you’re hooked on houses like I am, then I think you’ll love it, too.
Want a free copy?
I’ve decided to send a copy of the book to one lucky winner as a way of saying [...]
Homeowner Sues Real Estate Agent. Marty Ummel says she paid way too much for her house in Carlsbad, California. So did lots of other people who bought at the height of the housing boom. But Ummel is blaming her real estate agent for not warning her that other houses in the neighborhood were selling for much [...]
There was an interesting article on MSN’s Real Estate page this week about the housing trends for 2008. Among other things, it claims that stainless-steel appliances are on their way out.
At the beginning of 2007, I read a similar article claiming that stainless steel was dunzo, and I didn’t believe it then. I still have [...]
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