It’s time for things to get messy – not dirty and decrepit like the street scene from Montevideo, Uruguay, below, but sawdust flying and sheet rock dust hanging heavy in the air as the old gets torn out to make way for the new.
Wow – seems like forever since I’ve blogged about Chrysalis Casa stuff. We’ve taken a couple of months break, traveling some and thinking about our next project. The 1985 movie “The Goonies” was filmed around Cannon Beach, Oregon. This pic is of Haystack Rock, it’s most iconic natural feature: The only relevance to this post […]
The world is full of wonderful places and spectacular buildings. I wouldn’t even try to rank them. Yet, when you think of a beautiful environment where people live, work, and play, Paris is always among the places that come to mind. The first pic is the interior of the Musee d’Orsay, Debra’s favorite museum. Frankly, […]
The Church of Our Savior on the Spilled Blood in St. Petersburg is an example of a spectacularly successful renovation project. During the Soviet era, it reportedly was used as a vegetable warehouse. Today, it’s stunning, inside and out. While our goals for the LOAP Alpha aren’t quite so lofty, we’re shooting for a pretty […]
Sometimes during a remodeling project, things can feel a little overwhelming. You begin to feel a little like this guy at National Harbor just outside Washington, D.C. It has occasionally felt that way with the SoMoToHo kitchen project – particularly when we got a weekend of record rainfall and the (new) roof began leaking in […]
Debra got this great shot with her phone using her Instagram account and who-knows-what filters in Hyde Park, London, last year. When this post actually appears on the blog (automatically at a pre-arranged time, by virtue of computer magic), we likely will be in London on vacation with the new owners of this house: This […]
