Weekend Open House Report

The weekend open house slog is nigh, and we're here to help, as always. Agents, have a listing of your very own? Hustle! 2008_12-1-Federal.jpg ... ." Open House: Sunday, 12/14 2008_12-3-Chenery.jpg Location: 3 Chenery St, Glen Park Size ... , transportation, google bus, coffee houses/restaurants. Victorian home has a very flexible floor plan [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 21:30:04

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Three items with increasingly tenuous links to Victorians

First, 2009 is the 150th anniversary of Big Ben – the bell inside the clock tower of the what tourists call the Houses of Parliament ... , the infinitely powerful energy source of the species of superhumans which featured in Victorian author [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 15:06:00

Weekend Open House Report

The weekend open house slog is nigh, and we're here to help, as always. Agents, have a listing of your very own? Hustle! 533_Steiner.jpg ... Pitch: "Situated near Alamo Square Park this classic Victorian condo offers all the charm of the era ... to trendy & delicious restaurants, transportation and shopping." Open House: Saturday 10/25, 1-4 [more...]

Date: 2008-10-25 15:30:05

Holiday links galore

The real story of Christmas from The History Channel.History Channel also has the history of Hanukkah.Decorate a virtual gingerbread house ... the perfect number of ornaments for your tree.View Alek's house via webcam and turn his Christmas ... snowman desktop wallpaper.Print your own beautiful gift tags, gift certificates, Victorian Santa cards [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 14:00:00

Conventional Wisdom: Denver

Now that the Democratic Convention is in full swing, Denver, the mile-high city, is in the spotlight ... . Landmarks include Union Station and Coors Baseball Field. The People’s House Like some candidates, Molly Brown proved “unsinkable.” A survivor of the Titanic, Brown had a sumptuous Victorian mansion [more...]

Date: 2008-08-26 16:00:00

Monday Melbourne Medievalism Blogging (2)

... and here are the ruins of the old city walls .. ... Pell.After the war Royal Park was the principal demobilisation centre for all Victorian service ... of its current architectural style.Anyway, I'm struck by the survival of the gate houses [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 08:06:00

Stork Tools is a Cool Diaper Bag for Geeky New Dads

How many new dads have gone out with the baby on their own for the first time, ... and Victorian teddy bears on it. Of course, with all the sleep deprivation being suffered at the time ... house). But it's the features that really make this bag a step up: double bottle holder for dad [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 15:00:08

10.27.2008: Chicago

The air is cold and clear and the wind in the early part of the day is bearable, so we bike south along the lake for a few miles ... there are a whole bunch of Frank Lloyd Wright houses, including his very first commission after he left the Sullivan firm. That one looks more like a Victorian Gothic mansion gone out of control [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 16:43:08

I lived a "Victorian Farm" life!

Victorian Farm was GOOD, again, this week ! I can remember stuff like that in the laundry in our house in 1969 ( ... in the winter..trying to get them dry was terrible...and the house wreathed in stream...and the pages [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 00:33:00

Hairless cats - what would Trotsky say?

Most of the big name Marxists were a bit reluctant to make predictions about what humanity’s communist future might look like ... of human improvement was the Victorian love affair with science and he seemed to be adumbrating ... to Bono by not letting him into my house. This works out a lot cheaper than breeding a version lacking [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 13:39:19

Real Estate in Charlotte, North Carolina

We all know that North Carolina is such a great place for vacation, ... s real estate includes hotels, condominiums, single houses and North Carolina golf courses, NC Golf ... that ranges form $315,000 to $369,000. Old style Victorian inspired bungalows are located [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 13:23:56

Wood Stoves and Other Alternative Adventures

One of the biggest selling points when we purchased our home over a year ago was the fact that it had multiple fireplaces. Our Victorian home is charming- with it's wood floors, beautiful moldings, and historic feel ... into a traumatic episode of Little House on the Prairie as we huddled in front of the fire trying [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 15:29:55

Review: The Winter Rose

The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly4.25 starsReasons for reading: I lurved The Tea Rose over my Christmas vacation; Seconds ChallengeSummary (from Publishers Weekly): "In late Victorian London, idealistic new medical school graduate India ... , leading the reader through turn-of-the-century England from the Houses of Parliament to ale houses [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 06:30:00

A bit from Dining with Dubya in Vanity Fair,  C. Brian Smith's piece on having family dinner at the White House: We start at the Lincoln Bedroom ... . That treaty, like many others before and since, was signed on a grand Victorian desk originally [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 18:53:25

Bedroom Decorating Ideas

A lot of times people focus more on the family room, dining, kitchen, guest rooms but they forget about their bedroom. A bedroom is a place in the house which is your own private sanctuary. After being tired of a day ... them yourself.Floral or feminine artwork look best with victorian or chabby chic bedroom theme.If [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 11:06:19

Baby, It’s Cold Outside

Everybody’s sending us these sympathetic messages these days, pitying us for the cold we’ve been enduring in Chicago ... country houses of the “dark and stormy night” variety. I went to grad school basically so I could spend two years reading Victorian Gothic novels full of terror and hauntings in gloomy and drafty [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 02:39:04

Dole Scrounger’s Paradise: Congolese Claim Benefits in Rochdale

The staggering extent of the immigration swindle has been revealed once again with the report that out of the 4,500 residents of Falinge, Rochdale, ... Incapacity Benefit. In the Victorian era, Falinge was a hub of the textile industry, while ... of families in Falinge are Pakistani, the community also houses asylum-seekers,” reports the Daily Mail [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 13:15:19

Simple Woman's Daybook

Visit Peggy at The Simple Woman's Daybook by clicking on the picture above.FOR TODAY January 12th, 2009Outside my window...Sigh of relief.. ... to be sewn.One of my favorite things...victorian graphicsA few plans for the rest of the week: Bible ... of silence, and now a jingling bell againAround the house...Boxes that need to be labeled for future use [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 18:11:00

133 Kenyon Street- Hartford’s West End

I recently listed this stunningly remodeled Victorian located at 133 Kenyon Street in the West End of Hartford. The architect was William H ... by my Open House on Sunday, January 25 from 1:00-3:00. Here are some pictures for a preview… 133 Kenyon [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 19:23:23

JUST A TYPICAL SUMMER IN A COLLEGE TOWN: Of Urban Hiking, Coppertone Patrons, & Why Your Campus Creeper's Really Scared of Librarians

OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- I'll go ahead and call them the Sunshine Sisters.All summer long, on my "walks" ( ... up their street blind, in fact, and still identify their house - the scent of tanning oil and baked skin whips down the tree-lined street, drifts in between the decaying Victorian homes and student apartment [more...]

Date: 2008-07-29 11:24:00

an eye on washington

As you can imagine, Washington is quite a beehive of activity these days ... with you all some of the wonderful historic houses and small museums that make "unofficial" Washington such a great place. Since ... you ~ it has one of the most complete late-Victorian interiors in the country.* The Textile Museum ~ One of my favorite [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 21:08:00

Stannary Street apartment restructured project by Voonwong-Bensonsaw

Located in a converted Victorian schoolhouse in London, the apartment conceived as a new structure which inserted into an existing space. ... ;bensonsaw Unit 3D, Burbage House 83 Curtain Rd [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 14:26:01

Your Grandma’s Hardware

If you’re like me, you have a soft spot for vintage hardware, such as these classic hex glass knobs, an American favorite from 1900 to 1940 ... and retro interior design, they mix easily in a modern setting, providing a reminder of our charmed past ... available (i.e. Resto), you can locate the good oldies and many other pulls at House of Antique [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 11:00:19

Our historic VA hospital

Last night, I gave up, promising to finish this post today (Friday); now, after consulting The Google re: Whipple Barracks, I am overwhelmed with bits and pieces of historic information (something like 29,000 citations). They range from the Buffalo Soldiers once stationed in Prescott to census records to a wonderful article about Fiorello [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 05:04:00

Book Review: Glaucia the Greek Slave: A Tale of Athens in the First Century by Emma Leslie

Following the death of their Epicurean father - a man following a hedonistic Greek philosophy that drove him into heavy debt - young siblings ... the gospel from his house arrest in Rome. Likewise, the epistles he wrote to the churches abroad ... - was a prolific children’s author with over 100 titles to her name. Written during the Victorian age [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 01:49:12

Eliminate distractions when home staging

When decorating a house to sell, it’s important to eliminate distractions, but how far past the line between “lived in” and “deserted” should you go? Decorating to sell, otherwise known as home staging, and decorating to live are two entirely different things. This dining room in a Victorian-era home is filled with the owner’s treasured items [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 13:00:25

Clara's Perfect Mystery

There's no better way to get a read on what concerned people in the past than to look at the classified ads in old newspapers - they can tell you about what kinds of jobs and houses people wanted, things they had lost, what was for sale ... Times on 1855 that struck me. I'm planning to use it in my NaNoWriMo Victorian mystery, and I thought [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 14:26:00

On visiting Dickens’ only surviving London house

A conversation about literary pilgrimages with my favorite Poe fan last week reminded me that I never told you about my visit to the Charles ... Expectations or Bleak House. As I say, all sorts of papers and drawings and knick-knacks ... now to talk about the house of The Man Who Invented Christmas? Dickens lived at 48 Doughty Street [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 07:38:48

Victoria Dahl | Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone

Victoria Dahl When my agent first asked me to write a straight contemporary romance, I was taken aback. “Me? But I don’t write contemporary.” At that point I was published in historical romance (To Tempt a Scotsman) and distinctly unpublished in paranormal (a vampire trilogy you are unlikely to ever see). My agent was unconcerned [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 05:01:00

Running fast from the world out there.

New Years (especially this one) seemed like a good  time to go on a long walk (we went camping in the Santa Cruz Mountains,) ... .  Right now, I'm sick of the suburbs. I'm sick of living in my cookie cutter box of a house there.  This house was our first home purchase and, even so, there is really nothing about it that excites [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 10:06:34

A Sleepy Hollow Christmas shop Update

Cottage Style Christmas Box w/ Pink Putz House and Bottle brush Tree I have been a crafting fool since Thursday!!!!You can't even imagine how much glitter is on my dining room floor and how many emergency runs ... so many neat apothecary jars and fun Victorian domes in Romantic Homes magazine~ so I played around [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 20:57:34

Sev's Booklist

Here's most of what I remember I've read since my last pointless reading list, in no particular reading order. I seemingly have no life. The theme of this list appears to be taking over the world or blasting it into teeny bits.Fitzpatrick's War, Theodore Judson. Twenty-sixth century post-apocalyptic sorta thing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 15:42:00

I Seem To Be Doing It Right With Ghost Furniture

How Does Design Respond to a Bleak Economic Landscape? ... French Salon Chair/Victorian Riding Jacket Philippe Starck There are other priorities now. Perhaps ... for longevity. In an average house I see an enormous turnaround of stuff. There are plenty of homes where [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 14:14:28

Introducing: John Caird

John Henderson Seaforth Burleigh, in his momumental A Church History of Scotland (London: Oxford University Press, 1960), described one nineteenth-century churchman as holding ‘aloof from all ecclesiastical strife, but he was reckoned to be the greatest Scottish preacher of his age’ (p. 379). The person in question is John Caird [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 03:02:49

Giving Essence Lip Balm Giveaway

I'm a lip balm junkie. Okay I've said it out loud. I can't go anywhere without a tin, stick, or tube of lip balm. I have several in the house at all times in every room, in my purse, and in the glove compartment ... An Herbal Bedfellow for healthy recipes made with herbs, and also my newest blog:Happenstance House [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 17:19:00

Why It Burns

1874, Castle Creek Valley, South DakotaSame location, 1973In nature, as in human life, it’s hard to pin an event on a single cause.A half-degree change in average annual temperature translates into a winter warm enough to let a particular beetle survive from one year to the next [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 04:55:00

My First Work: Victorian Home Addition Near USC

My First Work showcases a project recently completed by a student, architect or designer. Submissions to the tipline ... from the University of Southern California. Over the years, the interior of the existing house had slowly been partitioned off to become a duplex with dormitory type accommodations for students. Programmatically [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 19:17:26

Chapter Thirty-Three : Val and Mike (part one)

(Editor’s note: This is a long chapter. Our of respect for topic, we’ve chose to keep the chapter together rather than split it into two chapters ... . We apologize for any inconvenience.) CHAPTER THRITY-THREE (part one)  “Ok, Mike?” The producer asked. “Can you sit right here?” Denver Cereal - Mike Mike sat on the ornate Victorian style [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 06:01:08

The History Of Fishkeeping

The history of fishkeeping dates aback to antiquity, and one can alone brainstorm as to its exact origins. Could it be for instance, that continued ago in a abroad land, possibly China, that a man took a angle from a pond, or stream, and placed it in a container? Thus acceptable the aboriginal angle keeper! Who knows for sure? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 12:12:58

The Curious Case of Gnomes vs. Welcome Mats (Splash Pages vs. Home Pages)

I've only been on three road trips in my life, and strangely enough, two of them were to Arizona ... or gnomes that would make me want to walk up to someone's house to pass out girl-scout cookies ... you what their house number is. Unfortunately, there are also plenty of websites [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 19:25:27

Color Inspiration From New Wallpaper Designs

A nice write up about the latest wallpaper trends and tips on how to best incorporate them into your home or office by House to Home. Archive designs Wallpapers taken from the archives are historic but far from old-fashioned. Follow our tips to make a traditional archive-print wallpaper work beautifully in your home. • You don [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 11:10:46

Women, Crime, and Character

Nicola Lacey is Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the London School of Economics, and the author of Women, Crime and Character: ... of legal processes: think of Dickens’s condemnation of the chancery court in Bleak House, or Fielding’ ... us an enduring image of the stereotype of female criminality that pervaded the Victorian era and indeed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 08:15:07

Christmas 2008, in a nutshell

After all the festive plans and preparations, I thought you might enjoy a peek into my 2008 Christmas family album .. ... Father Christmas brought to our house!My son, still a big kid at heart!Stuart opening ... for taking this rare pic!And to close my 2008 Christmas celebrations, a Victorian Christmas carol [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 10:12:00

Pocket Watches

Click The Below Links To Expand And Collapse Articles: Pocket Watches - Easy-To-Carry Groomsmen Gifts By Janet Verra Pocket watches are a favored accessory of men many years ago but are not seen today as often as it was before. Pocket watches are a kind of jewelry that is appealingly sophisticated and functional [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 07:09:15

A Class Act

In addition to a brilliant single-paragraph post on the Gaza situation, Peter Hitchens has this today, really marred only by the term "meritocracy", which Michael Young made up as a piece of satire before suffering the misfortune of being taken entirely seriously by his targets: [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 14:44:00

Morgan: 60-40

Like Essential Media before it, Roy Morgan’s first poll of the year shows no significant change from the last polls of 2008 ... of the Victorian Liberal Party’s constitution last year”. • Liberal Senator Judith Troeth has announced she will retire when her current term ends in mid-2011, adding a new dimension to the Victorian [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 05:33:10

Our Getaway

Hello there! I just realized that I have not blogged about our wonderful weekend and it's been a week today that we returned. Oh well...better late than never, right? :) The background information is that almost 9 years ago, James and I spent the first two nights of our honeymoon in Monterey, California [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 17:13:00

Where to get Sinks?

Planning for a house renovation soon, like kitchen or bathroom updates? If so, you need to check out faucet.com for different designs and styles of faucets, sinks and other accessories. They have wide ... , Victorian, and many others. Give them a visit now and who knows you will find the one you are looking for. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 00:19:10

5 highest closing prices in Nassau in late '08

Time to take another look at what is happening with housing prices across Long Island and Queens between the listing and the closing ... a haircut -- some in the six figures -- by closing. Several homes had asking figures of more than ... at $1,100,000, down from $1,295,000. 4. A four-bedroom Victorian on Hempstead Avenue in Rockville Centre [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 15:16:48

A Delusion That Values Would Forever Rise

Some housing bubble news from around the world. Buffalo News, “It is a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Susie Lenahan glides her Acura sedan past a row of picture-book Victorians. A recent afternoon finds her in Allentown, Buffalo’s frayed but still elegant artsy/gay epicenter [more...]

Date: 2008-06-11 20:14:41

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