The Boys’ Room – Hildring House Update from Debra


Remodeling & Design

We are very lucky to have our grandchildren nearby. They spend a good bit of time at our house, so it was important to us to create a space just for them – the boys’ room. Kids’ rooms run the gamut from “leftover” to “designed-within-an-inch-of-their-lives-cutesy” spaces… The Boys’ Room Design I was shooting for something […]

July 16, 2017

New Listing with Great Neighbors!


Real Estate for Sale

From Debra: My friend Kellie Bullinger (with League Real Estate 817-523-9113) has this great listing – which happens to be right across the street from Hildring House! Come be our neighbor! Call Debra (Virginia Cook Realtors) at 817-903-1112 or Kellie to see! It will go fast (because the neighbors are awesome…hehe)  

July 10, 2017

A Stroll Through La Recoleta Cemetery Buenos Aires


Travel

It’s summer in Texas, so let’s head south – way south. Far enough south that summer becomes winter. We’ll trade the Texas heat for Argentina’s capital city, Buenos Aires, sometimes called “the Paris of the Southern Hemisphere.” This is not by mistake. At the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the government of Argentina recruited many […]

July 9, 2017

Hildring House Long Overdue Laundry Room Post


Remodeling & Design

First Hildring House Project Completed Four months and many many dollars later… the laundry room is “finished”…. well, as finished as anything ever gets with me around. [This is Dan – I’ll be chiming in occasionally. Just can’t help myself, you know. I have to agree – “finished” is euphemistic for “reasonably satisfied for the […]

July 6, 2017

Lagniappe for the Fourth of July


Lagniappe

Today’s something extra is lagniappe for the Fourth of July. A Brat I was an Air Force brat. If you think that the word “brat” makes that a self-deprecating statement, you are mistaken.  Other military brats know what I mean. When asked the question, “Where did you grow up?” a military child typically can’t answer […]

July 4, 2017