Category: house
a happy cat
Dot gives her full approval to the new shade in my studio. After replacing this window in 2021, I went 4.5 years without any covering, hanging a spider plant in the deep alcove as a temporary placeholder while researching options. It’s taken me over 15 years to find a style I am truly happy with.…
a different kind of home improvement
In 1987 I built a house with my dad, it was the second house we built together (more on the first one another day, it was Penny-sized). I have fond memories of building it then decorating with furniture my mother received as a child from her parents. A few weeks ago, when visiting with mum,…
a new space
For the past year, I’ve rarely spent a full day in my basement office. I found I’d unplug my laptop and work all around the house instead. The laptop is no longer my primary machine and I also recently made several other changes to how I work. So last week we decided to take these…
a new nook for reading
For the past two years we’ve been slowly making the upstairs of the house ours. This space used to be the closet. It works much better as a reading nook. The new chair came home from IKEA with us on Sunday. We still have a few things to finish such as patching the carpet, installing…
stand simple
After first discussing the need a year ago and out of frustration doing something about it in February, I finally built a laptop stand last weekend. The parts arrived sometime in March. Other high priority projects kept taking our time and the temporary solution was functional if not very attractive. It features shelves for paper…
