Category: furnishings

  • Nesting…. nesting.. Nest..Ing.

    We haven’t been posting much, mostly because we’ve been busy nesting. That’s the technical term for pregnant mothers who start taking on home improvement projects in their last trimester, in a vain attempt to be as busy as possible and to not think about their heart burn and the increasingly difficult time they have getting…

  • The split queen box

    That’s what we now have on our third floor. It’s not some arcane chess or poker move – it’s what one needs if one has a tiny, narrow stairway and yet wants a queen bed up said stairway. Like us. When we first moved into the house we moved my queen bed, with my beautiful…

  • list of stressful items

    This week’s highlights: cabinets, carpeting, floors, heating oil, snow. Plus a funeral. The last few days have been especially stressful, as we rushed out of town on Saturday to attend my stepgrandfather’s funeral leaving a bunch of things undone. Prior to jumping on a plane (which we had to do Saturday early to avoid the…