I’ll just show you a few in progress photos before moving on to part three, the after shots! See part one for the before shots. As renovations go, I guess ours were pretty minor. There were two main things we wanted to do: Paint just about everything, and restore the floors to their natural wood [...]
I fell in love with this house the moment I saw it. We’d looked at a lot of houses at this point, and we’d even tried to buy two of them (both had severe structural issues that we couldn’t afford to fix right away). There are a lot of cute houses here in Portland, but [...]
About six or seven months ago, I took up running. Portland Winters are wet and gloomy, and I’d started to feel a little stir crazy being inside all the time, so I picked up this excellent book called Outdoor Fitness. I highly recommend it. It’s not about running per se, but more about integrating exercise [...]
Hi friends! You may have noticed that things have been pretty slow around this blog. On top of working on a million different things for Colette Patterns, Kenn and I have been engaged in another huge undertaking… buying our first house! It’s taken us many months to find one, but we’re both excited and absolutely [...]
I am a big fan of baked fruit in the Winter. With a few nuts and spices, it is the perfect sweet and warming breakfast or dessert. I saw some beautiful jewel-colored baked grapefruit at our local favorite neighborhood brunch spot, the Swedish restaurant Broder, and decided to replicate it at home. All you have [...]
