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This past week has been very mild in Carlisle, though it rained most of the day on Saturday. Today my dad and I took care of some stuff that needed doing We cleaned out the wood shed in preparation for fixing the roof Cleaned out all the leaves in the Sea Pearl (my parent’s whale ...
Deck Acorn has given me permission to post up a photo of the 3D rendering their Design department did for my house – this was still in the pre-visualization stage of things as we were working on finalizing. I was pretty sure that I would not need an outside architect based on what I had ...
A little bragging here – my Mom was invited to show and sell her quilting at the local art co-operative in the center of Carlisle – the Carlisle Artisans Their shop is very small but the stuff they have is great. They saw her work during the Old Home Day art show on the town ...
For those of you who are not cross wired like me – Steve Martin classic bit here on Youtube NSTAR (aka – national grid or something) came on Friday and installed the electrical power hook. Woo-Hoo! Paul’s team has been busy roughing in the drywall as well. I think the contrasts between the glass, the ...
Please see the prior post here for the answer to the question – Why build a mid century modern house in the early 21st century At this point in my process, I had the land, the permits (thanks to the Fields hard work prior to selling the land to me!), and a builder picked out. ...
This is a post that I have been mulling over for quite some time – why did I decide to build a mid-century modern Atomic Ranch house as opposed to some other design style? What is the thought process behind my house? I think I am going to post this as a new thread/category because ...
I am flying to SFO on December 2, then flying to Pittsburgh PA on December 9 and returning to Boston on December 13’th ...
Good morning all NSTAR might be coming in the near future – but I am starting to wonder if Paul will be able to get the Generac placed and running before they get organized and arrive – lol There have been some beautiful fall days here in New England and the weather, on average, has ...
edit at 6pm – added Geothermal details at the bottom of the post I have been doing some work travel and so it is has been a couple of weeks since any post here. Fall has arrived in a definite way – it got very windy last week and a majority of the trees are now pretty bare ...