Our new house was built in 1996, which has a lot of advantages–like extra large room sizes, and a few disadvantages–like lots and lots of brass fixtures. The good news is that changing brass fixtures is an easy fix. Changing room size is not. My first attempt at covering up the brass was our dining room chandelier. Here it is…
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I’ve been on the search for a dining table ever since I decided to up and sell my old pub height table on Craigslist on a whim. The curb appeal of that pub height table wore off quickly and even though I loved the table itself, I couldn’t stand actually SITTING at it. That’s not good. In the interim we’ve…
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We broke our cardinal rule of no chain food on the trip by having a continental breakfast at the Residence Inn that morning. To make up for it, we ate it at a conference table with four Italian women, three of whom spoke no English. I had the best time listening in on their conversation and trying to decipher the…
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Day two of our trip we awoke to this headline in the news: Yuck. It was still raining and just pretty overall miserable weather. I was in a funk about the weather, so I didn’t take nearly as many photos of this trip as I did the last one. I’m regretting it now, because there was so much cool stuff…
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After taking a virtual tour of the 2011 HGTV dream home in Stowe, Vermont, I’m totally kicking myself for not remembering to post about our October anniversary vacation to New Hampshire, Vermont and New York. How could I have left such an important trip out of this blog? Seems I have a mental block for writing about New England vacations…
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