A friend asked me what this photo was about and I told her we’re going for a house with a moat. She says she didn’t believe me but she did hesitate for just a second or two. The team has been hard at work battling all kinds of crazy winter storms in Ireland to get …
As of today, more than half of the house is gone and what’s left isn’t much to write home about. The demo part of the construction is moving swiftly along. I’ll be excited to see walls going up and the new space starting to take shape.
The guys did such a great job of clearing out yesterday. The former kitchen and dining are gone – hasta baby!
The fun all started today — here are a photos just from the first 20 minutes of demo day. I really wish I could throw on a hard hat and join the fun… I found a photo behind an old mirror that was in the house when I bought it. A photo had slipped behind …
We officially broke ground on the 20th January. There’s a pause of a few days before the real work starts on Monday. Am I ready? Not in the slightest. Have I finished packing up? Nope. Am I excited? You betcha.
One hard thing with Matilda House over the past year has been to avoid exercises in futility. There are so many things I would have liked to have changed or improved but there comes a point when it just doesn’t make a lot of sense working on something that’s only going to be ripped up …
I was perplexed by the sitting room in the house when I went to the viewing. It was super cold in the room — no insulation in those ceiling rafters — and the furniture was too big for the space and pushed up against the walls. Thanks to my sweet friend, Abby, we were given …
One really great thing about buying a less-than-pristine house is that there’s no real risk in trying some quick and easy decorating approaches to spiff it up. I did a couple of little interim projects just for fun when we moved in. At the time, I thought we’d only be living here for about 5 …
A garden room or, as they commonly call it in Ireland, a “seomra” (Irish for room pronounced “show-mrah”), has always been a popular concept in this country – maybe because the size of the houses is typically smaller than what we would have in the States. Google tells me that the average size in the …
I wasn’t really planning on buying a house when I started my search. What I had been planning for since 2018 was selling a house. I had bought a condo in the Boston area in 1998 and had been renting it since 2005 and it just felt like it was time to sell-up in Boston …