It’s already started
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.
A bit of clean-up
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 …
An ode to Abby
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 …
Some interim projects
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 …
The garden room
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 …
Welcome to my latest project
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 …