Brooke here: It struck me this morning that I had yet to mention the Labyrinth (well, as it’s more of a tunnel than a maze, it’s more of a La than a Labyrinth, but Labyrinth sounds cooler and has 80% more David Bowie). The house has this amazing wide, covered front porch, complete with swing. […]
Preparing a wall for painting… sometimes not as easy as it sounds.
Brooke here. Got to get Brown to start writing these up… With the master bedroom under control and the enormous pile of bricks flying itself out of the backyard thanks to a Craigslist post for free antique pavers, I’m now working on my office. I’m excited as it’s going to be a remarkable deep blue; […]
Brooke here: Brick removal is done. There’s just the slightest, teeny-tiny, eeeensiest smidgen of cleanup ahead of us, but the tear up is finished. Our friends Elizabeth and Jo came over to help Brown with the heavy lifting on Saturday, and Elizabeth and I knocked out the last fifty square feet or so this morning. […]
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 . . […]
Flying by night 