The Back Stoop - Done! (Well, for the most part)
What a Difference! As a reminder, when I started the back stoop , which seems like forever ago, it …
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Water!
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Hate to Say I Told You So! For years I've been saying 173 was living on borrowed time with th…
The Back Stoop
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We Don't Need No Lists! What started as another overdue outdoor project turns into new steps, r…
The Gardens at 173 - An Impressionist Retrospective
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Going through some pictures, and looking around the yard made me realize I haven't done a "…
The Stoop Stairs - Softening the Blob!
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That Stupid Little Thing Bugging Me You know how some things just bug ya? And sometimes it's j…
"Carport Rebuild: The Second Time Around at House 173
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The Things We Learn I built it with what I knew then, and fourteen years later I knew a little more…
Phase Complete
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The last couple posts were about the gable and the oriel . In this post I want to pull …
The Oriel
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A Little Architectural Interest In the last post about the gable I mentioned there was more to com…
I Tried to Resist Immediate Gratification
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One of the hallmarks of maturity is the ability to delay gratification. If that's the case, I&…
Spring '16 - Gettin' Started
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Spring has finally arrived in upstate New York! Not that it's been a particularly long winter,…
The Plant Stand
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Painting a Classic Not much has been done at 173 since last summer. Life has a way of getting craz…