I am finally walking around the neighborhood again and I'm enjoying the chance to see some of the changes folks have made to their house...

We drove to Prineville on Monday to sign the papers and get the keys. The house is pretty small, actually. Only about 1600 square feet. It...

Jeff and I are thinking about moving out of Portland. We LOVE our house and we love the neighborhood, but Portland? Not so much. Since movin...

I've been working on more research for Laurelhurst trying to fill in some of the later history. In my search, I am always looking for mo...

I've been poking through period publications looking for bathrooms. As usual, when I see an interesting picture I will take a screenshot...

Today, I had an opportunity to help a neighbor find appropriate color schemes for her English cottage style home, so I found myself poking t...

In the past week or so—when I was procrastinating making runners—I finished up my Laurelhurst data spreadsheet. For most houses, I have the ...

So, besides being sick for the last several days, I've been obsessed with trying to figure out Ida McCain's story. (As a reminder, ...

I ran across another supply of color bungalow pictures from the early 1900s. I'm going to backdate this blog post so folks won't see...

I have found some awesome resources online for researching the exterior appearance of our home and I thought I should share them. Of course,...

I just got an email from our realtor: "Your purchase of the house is final. Congratulations!" It's a relief to finally have th...

We finally have a deal! The sellers are going to sell us the house for our offered price. They have decided to close on May 18, but I have c...

We received our bid for foundation and pest repair work on the Multnomah house today. It totaled $13,160; combine that with the roof repair ...

Last night we received another extension form from the sellers of Multnomah extending our inspection deadline until Wednesday. Since they gr...

We have been back and forth with the sellers and it seems somewhat likely this house purchase is going to fall through. Today is the current...

We're still waiting to hear from the sellers about whether they'll accept our revised price. If they don't get back to us by tom...

We're about to find out. =) So, after having our builder and a mason out, we have much more information about what this house needs to b...

It took about 4 hours to have the home inspection done today. In addition to the many problems we already knew about, the inspection also fo...