I mentioned emphasizing native plants in my post “Looking Out My Backdoor”, and got a request for what some of my favorites are. The short answer is almost ALL of them (not poison ivy), but that’s not really helpful. I could end up writing another 15 page long post just on natives, but I decided …
I don’t know how anyone else feels about this, but for me, moving out of my parents’ house came with a whole lot of responsibilities I didn’t have to manage before. I had to keep the house clean, feed myself, feed the dog, make sure the bills got paid on time, and continue staying on …
I have grumbled some about my postage stamp-sized kitchen on this blog thus far, but I like it a lot more than I did when we moved in. When we were renting the house from Seth’s parents, the walls were bright red, the cabinets were the worst light-wood laminate I can imagine, and the cabinet …
Land use and development is something that occupies my mind on an almost daily basis. How am I using space? How are we as a society using this or that space? How can we do it better? As a species we have a tremendous impact on the natural world around us, and to disregard how …
When Seth’s parents first bought our house with the intention of renting it out, I had absolutely no intention of living there. But being involved with Seth as I was, his friend and partner in breakup woes at that time, I was happy to help clean the place up and help get it move-in ready. …
If you’re anything like Seth and I, you graduated college with some serious debt. Seth was luckier and smarter than I was in that respect. His parents had money set aside for college and he started with an associate’s degree at a community college, which was much cheaper. Even though he didn’t have to take …
Alternative title for this post: Never Renovate on a Deadline. Murphy’s Law states that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Nowhere in life is this more true than during a renovation project. So before I get into examples, I will give some words of advice: never plan a renovation with a hard …
If you have ever been in my kitchen (or even have seen a picture of it), you’d know that counter space and cabinet space are both at a premium. With so little space, it irked me that my collection of spices took up one ENTIRE SHELF of the right overhead cabinet (and I only have …
Of the two of us I tend to be the spender and Seth is definitely the saver. But of the two of us I also work more jobs at any given time and therefore make more money to spend, so that may have something to do with it. At some point I got sick of …
Right now we’re in the midst of the largest renovation we’ve undertaken together: the entire upstairs of our house. Taking apart almost half (500ish square feet) of our 1200 square foot house to the studs has been quite an undertaking so far, and we’re nowhere near finished. However, we do have a vision for the …
