by Serena | Nov 17, 2019 | Around the Home
The mason’s scaffolding has been removed and the brickwork has all been completed. We’ve been told that once we’re back to the dry climate of summertime, the bricks and mortar will permanently settle into becoming pure white (as they were when they...
by Serena | Nov 11, 2019 | Around the Home
Progress continues on all aspects of the house. I’m not sure if I’ve talked about the overall plan for the exterior yet, which is for the entire house portion of the exterior to be brick and the garage to be concrete board and batten siding. The mason and...
by Serena | Oct 3, 2019 | Around the Home
Earlier this week, a bunch of creative friends met at The Farmhouse on GreenBluff for our annual dinner hosted by our friend, Alisa Lewis, founder of The Creatives. The dinner is always so beautiful and we all look forward to catching up and talking about our hopes...
by Serena | Sep 24, 2019 | Around the Home
In my last update on the house construction, I talked about the brick that we’d be using as the siding. I had explained that we had originally planned on using brick but it turned out that the type of brick we wanted wasn’t available so we had decided to go in a...
by Serena | Sep 7, 2019 | Around the Home
When I first wrote about our new home project, I explained that we had originally planned on using white brick but it turned out that it wasn’t available and we had decided to go in a different direction. We looked at different natural stones and eventually...
by Serena | Sep 3, 2019 | Around the Home
We’re just about wrapping up all the construction items on the house that we’ll never see. The stuff behind the walls and in the floors. And although these things are obviously so important, I’m really looking forward to moving on to the stuff we...
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