News + Notes
Un-Lazy Summer Days
It's been way too long since the blog was updated, as projects have been flying thick and fast. There are a pile of photos just added to the Porfolio section, and in the meantime a few photos of what's in process right now will whet your appetite for what's coming...
Best of? Really?
4/1 got news last week that Houzz.com has given us a 'Best of 2012' award. I'm thrilled, of course, but puzzled - while I use the site with nearly all of my clients, I only just put up photographs of the Ottawa house recently and did not think they were...
Opening Up the Ranch
My favorite part is the view: you can now see through the house from the kitchen to the foyer, diagonally across the dining and living spaces The Chapel Hill News just printed a nice piece by Sally Keeny about one of my renovations that wrapped up over the winter. Of...
Old vs. Historic
A neighborhood kerfuffle has me thinking about old and historic - where the two overlap, where they're separate, and why there are people who think anything old is bad unless it is, officially, 'historic.' As though preservationists have had a chance (and the...