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

The Concept of Non-Ownership (by Phila)

I've been thinking lately about the form that architecture takes in an economy based on land speculation rather than, say, industrial productivity ... would have their sovereign acre of prairie (and a Wright house planted squarely on it), to Frank Gehry ... . Is there a certain type of building, or building style, that becomes dominant during a real [more...]

Date: 2008-11-01 16:49:43

Two Black Friday Recommendations

Clearly today is not the day to go to Walmart. Obviously we have what we need and Walmart will not be protecting us any more than they’ll be ... when I have more free time. 1. Jelly Bean Row is beautiful handcrafted little victorian buildings that sit ... can be observed in heritage homes in the northeast U.S., especially New England. They are whimsical [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 17:56:20

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

Bringing Families Together With Dollhouses

by Rhys Fairfield Building a miniature dollhouse has been a favorite activity of many households since they first came on the scene ... adults and children to fulfill personal fantasies of having a perfect house without having to spend a fortune. While it may just be a toy, the house provides a sense of pride when they admire it daily [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 20:13:53

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

Big Box Problems

The half-finished exurban housing development is an anthropological symbol of an exhausted society. High gas prices, years of frantic consumption, raised environmental consciousnesses, and, most importantly, a collapsed real estate market have left their mark on the American landscape, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 20:37:32

What Will Save the Suburbs?

Allison Arieff doesn’t update her NYT blog very often, but when she does it’s always thought-provoking ... awaiting recovery and subsequent conversion into high-end office space condos). Old homes get divided ... as big as, say, Victorian mansions in San Francisco that can be subdivided into apartments. So they’re [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 04:15:10

MANDALAY AGAIN

My email box pinged and there, under the capitalised title ‘HAPPY NEW YEAR,’ was an email from my eldest half-sister, the one who has nine children and lives somewhere deep in the South of France. She is an erratic correspondent but surfaces at odd moments with some breathless message, hammered out in capitals [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 13:04:00

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

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

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

A lot has changed in Biggie's old Brooklyn neighborhood

Friday, January 16, 2009In rapper Biggie Smalls' old Brooklyn neighborhood, the building that once housed a coin laundry is now a plastic surgeon's office. A block away, a wine bar sells "artisanal" cheeses and meats.Much has changed where the late superstar spent all but a few years of his life and sometimes sold crack cocaine before spinning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 02:49:00

Dancing on fire

It’s hard to feel shitty when the Steve Miller Band is playing Jet Airliner in the middle of your head. Or smart, either — at least in my case. Jeebus, all these decades I’ve been thinking the chorus was Big old jet had a light on Don’t carry me too far away Oh oh oh big old jet had a light on ‘Cuz it’s here that I’ve got to stay [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 15:45:26

Rachael & Josh’s Victorian Gothic Woodland Wedding!

The offbeat bride: Rachael, DJ/Producer Her offbeat partner: Josh, IT Guy/Producer Location & date of wedding: Forest (ceremony) ... a wedding in Victorian times, but not happy bubblegum Main Street at Disneyland Victorian. A little darker, like a haunted mansion! So my dress was pretty Victorian-looking with a hint of the dark side [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 12:00:13

Square Today, Octagon Tomorrow

Orson Squire Fowler was determined to be a preacher. At the tender age of 17 he walked 400 miles from his small town of Cohocton, New York to Massachusetts so that he might be tutored in the ways of the ministry. When Fowler enrolled in Amherst he made fast friends with another minister-to-be, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 04:45:17

Australian Sex Party tells politicians what it wants

The Australian Sex Party (previous IPR coverage here) has now issued its policies: * To bring about the establishment of a truly national classification scheme which includes a uniform non-violent erotica rating for explicit adult material for all jurisdictions and through all media including the Internet and computer games [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 03:08:19

Look: Bigger Homes Aren't Always Better! Austin

Remember those gorgeous vintage doors from that bold and colorful Austin house tour earlier this month? ... her amazing vintage finds, and this company is not only supplying vintage materials for homes, they're ... just helping people beautify their homes by creating homes for sale! And, realizing that ever-so-popular [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 12:00:00

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

Advantages To Families With Miniature Dollhouses

by Rhys Fairfield Households across the world have indulged in making miniature dollhouses from the time the hobby was created ... home. The miniature furniture pieces are often crafted with skill and have immaculate designs. Once ... dream home using a fraction of a real home’s cost. The result may be a toy, but it comes with no less [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 16:00:35

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

The Country Roads That Took Me Home

children mentioned and viewed...I have an on-going, smoldering love affair with West Virginia. If I could, I would make sweet love to the land, but barring that, I decided early in life that I would never marry a man who didn't share in my love of the Mennen's Toilet Powder sign and I stuck hard and fast to that rule [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 15:09:00

Beyond ‘All Tied Up With A Bow’ - Great Tips for Creating Beautifully Wrapped Holiday Gifts

No matter what the season, packages make a statement even before they’re opened ... into the purchase. Visit Historic Inns of Rockland, Maine’s Holiday House Tour held each year on the Sunday after ... and Captain Lindsey House owner, Ken Barnes how to create gifts that are bound to impress everyone [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 00:11:59

A Day in San Francisco

Had the shittiest of flights on United last night. But this morning ...Awoke, showered and dressed (in that order), and then walked to one of the Piers in Embarcadero. They have a bunch of gourmet stores, you know the kind, artisan bread, an organic cheese maker, and the Italian word for butcher, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 04:57:00

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

Belfast City Guide, Including Belfast Hotels

Introduction: Nestled in a valley and bordered to the east by the Irish Sea, the capital of Northern Ireland, Belfast, ... the architecturally stunning City Hall dominates the skyline, and elsewhere Victorian and Edwardian ... up until modern day. The museum houses both permanent and temporary collections, and regular, creatively [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 07:04:52

Around the World: Regent's Park

My short trip in London was a spring break, and obviously it was a rainy one! We tried to spend as much time as possible inside the museum (beautiful costume history exhibition inside the Victorian and Albert Museum...) and the first day of sun we took the tube to see Regents Park. It's huge and all surrounded of beautiful mansion [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 09:48:06

Depressing Financial News Abounds - Are We Headed for a Depression?

I told you guys we were in a recession back in March, but now I fear we could move from a recession straight into a depression. Things could get really bad… Let’s examine shall we? In economics, a depression is a sustained, long downturn in one or more economies [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 19:47:03

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