(nine) July 2008. My relationship with our backyard is fraught. It’s seems like it should be such a nice place to be, but it’s like this neglected growth on the house. It gets rundown and overgrown, and when we finally find the time to do something about it, it sucks up the whole day just to…

(eight) July 2008. Our house has no closets – not a single one. We could have added them to each room, boxed some in with wood studs and drywall. When we first married, I used to do a lot more residential work and much of that work was in historic homes. I’d walk through old houses…

(seven) August 2003. I’m pretty sure this living room sofa was the first piece of furniture that we bought as a married couple. We placed it between the front two windows of the house, and it lived there happily for over a decade. Buying a couch together felt like a monumental thing, a grownup thing….