Brooke here: New carpet has been installed in the Murder Room, which is good as we needed the psychological boost of seeing a project completed. I still need to touch up the trim and paint the doors, but it no longer can be used in a court of law as justification of homicide. Here, have […]
Brooke here. We’ve got new carpet coming this Monday, so I’ve been inside working on the master bedroom and bath; painting with the pink (fuschia? coral?) cat pee-stained carpet has been remarkably liberating, as this is the first time ever when I didn’t have to worry about protecting the floor. Half of the paint has […]
Brooke here: We’re a week into the brick removal stage of the pool repair and roughly half of the brick has been torn up and stripped away. North Carolina had several absolutely gorgeous 70-degree days over the last week – someone must have made a wish – so I spent much of it shoveling rock. […]
Brooke here: “If we’re not playing tonight, let’s grab some beers and drink them out by my broke-ass pool” – Brown, in email to the Lucky Bunch. We are very excited about the broke-ass pool. Not so much about the two weeks of backbreaking work that need to be done before the deck can be […]
Brooke here: When we first bought the house, Brown and I looked at the budget and came to the (very easy) decision that we couldn’t afford to do all that we wanted to the house prior to moving in. At the top of the list was repainting the master bedroom; in our old bedroom, we […]
Brooke here: The Jarrell house is a combination of things we want to preserve at all costs and things we want to destroy while giggling maniacally. There are hundreds of lovely details unique to the house and we keep discovering them; two days ago, Brown found a fountain under the ivy. These features . . […]
Introducing the Randall Jarrell house.
Flying by night 