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The Painters of Ancora

Primora… James Parrish and the Ancora Construction gang have been laboring away giving the house its first coat of paint. It’s a Sheetrock primer/sealer that actually looks nice enough to leave on the walls all by itself. (In case you’re wondering,...

Pano-riffic!

Tapo-rama… Teeny as it may seem, load this baby up and you’ll get a nice view of our living room and dining room all taped up and, two coats from ready to go. (If you want to see a larger version, click here.) Sunday morning the sun was crispy clean and it...

The Upstairs Rocks!

And we make a lateral move… The upstairs is now completely sheetrocked. Cleaned up too, although the scrap rock is sitting in the great room at the moment. Oh, by the way… it really is great too! The first shot above is taken standing in the corner of our...

Welcome To The Barricades

French Revolution? I’ll start my own… Soo… you come home from work—after three hours of sleep—to see how the sheetrockers have done for the day. What you discover upon your arrival is that you’ve received a delivery from the City...

The Incredible Shrinking House

Smaller we seem, yes… If it’s all about how far you can see, suddenly, we can’t see from one room to the next. This makes the house suddenly seem smaller and makes it seem that the rooms are shrinking a wee bit. It’s not too small though....

Rock-it Man!

And now we have closure… Monday February 14th at 2:00 pm EST Dave Buckley, the City of Beacon’s building inspector, came and made the rounds at our house on the hill. He scratched a few more things off of his one page punch-list and gave us a smiling...