Happy Monday! If, like me, you're still trying to recover from your weekend, here's a chair. Sit a spell. If you follow My Place to Yours on Instagram, you know Renaissance Man and I were "wheels up" before dawn last Friday and headed to Texas. We were hunting for bluebonnets. Best we recall, it had been twenty years since we'd last laid eyes "up close and personal" on the state flower of Texas. And since we're both native Texans, there's something seriously wrong about that! We flew into Austin, rented a car, and started working our way west. First order of business was lunch in Fredericksburg with a couple who supports our work with orphans in Brazil. They actually ... Keep Reading...
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Finally Farmhouse update – and a 24-hour question
The bad news: The builder we chose for our Finally Farmhouse was diagnosed with cancer. We're broken hearted for him. If you pray, I hope you'll pray for Danny as he spends the foreseeable future focusing on his health. The good news: We met with another builder this morning; someone Danny recommended. His name is Jeff. I really liked him! He immediately caught the vision we have for our home and, like Danny, he's very familiar with using reclaimed wood and salvaged pieces. We have a lot of those! He's willing to work with subs with whom we already have really good relationships — and and y'all, he's worked with my all-time favorite painter and has the same respect ... Keep Reading...
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LOVE FOR THE GABLED FARMHOUSE
Show me a house with lots of steep-pitched gables, and I'll show you some old house love. Condition is irrelevant. I fall just as hard for the ones losing the battle. Maybe harder. I have a friend who once told me she'd really wanted her custom-built home to have lots of gables—but her husband only saw their risk: Too many intersecting angles/valleys; too many potential leaks. And so she got her cookie-cutter house. I don't want a cookie-cutter house. I want a Folk Victorian Farmhouse. one-story (though my heart skips a beat over the two-story beauties) big front porch bay window 2/2 double hung windows corbeled chimney decorative ... Keep Reading...
