Category: renovation

The first big coordination piece in this project happened in November. We are installing an interior stair to our basement – up until this point the basement has only been accessed from the back yard. Our house was originally a two-family house, a very common housing type in our neighborhood and on our block. Many…

We’re twelve days out from the new year, so I think I’m overdue a few project diary entries. Thanks for all the kind notes here and on IG about the holiday cards. When I send them out each year I’m finished with them – I never expect feedback from recipients. I typically get a few…

The last two weeks have been really busy on the house project. One of the biggest challenges of renovating (versus a new build) is that there’s never a simple way to mark something off the to-do list. It’s all so interconnected that it takes a lot of coordination, and some tasks that we’d like to…