The Face of House 173
Ramblings Twenty Years of the House 173 Masthead How fifteen years of mastheads, Photoshop, yellow …
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The View From the Porch Floor
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One Photograph, One Story An Afternoon on the Front Porch Lying on the front porch floor with my be…
Look at That Countertop!
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One Photograph, One Story Where Some Things End Up Old coffee cans, hand tools and a few good stick…
Look at That Apple Tree
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One Picture The Funny Thing About Photographs Sometimes a photograph doesn't show you what you …
Why Does House 173 Have an Enclosed Front Porch?
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Why is My House Like This? Thirteen Windows and One Very Old Question Why did 1920s homes have encl…
99 Things I've Learned From a 99-Year-Old House
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Ramblings After Nearly Three Decades at House 173, You'd Think I'd Know Better by Now After…
Megapost: The 2026 Living Room Update at House 173
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Living Room Twenty-Two Years Later, the Living Room Gets a New Look What started as a simple plan t…
Back Porch Rehab '24: The Megapost
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Porches Eight Years Later, We Finally Finished What We Started Started : Sort of 2016 Finished : Fi…
The Things That Plant Themselves
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One Photograph, One Story Look Around the Edges A close look at one sunny corner of House 173, wher…
Window Restoration: The Study Pt. 1
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Windows 99 Years in the Same Window Restoring One of House 173's Original Double-Hung Windows I…
Painting the Porch Storage Chest: One Last Project for the House 173 Porch
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Porches One Last Project for the Front Porch A tired storage chest gets a rich red finish, a little…
Front Porch #5 Moving Back In
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Front Porch The Porch That Waited A Century of Welcomes, One More Chapter After weeks of sanding, …
The Old Macintosh Gets a Face
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Ramblings More than a Quarter Century A whimsical gift became the latest chapter in the story of on…
Front Porch #4 The Porch Floor
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Porches Painting the Porch Floor Sometimes the best color choice is the one you've already live…
Front Porch #3 - Painting
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Porches One Last Color Change Sometimes the best design decision is the one you almost didn't m…
House 173 in 1927 (According to AI)
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History A Century Ago Sometimes the most interesting old-house photographs are the ones that were…
Front Porch Update #2: Prep Work
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Porches The Part Nobody Pins: Porch Prep Before Paint Every beautiful paint job begins with the wor…
Upstairs Hallway Mirror Megapost: Restoring a 1935 Dresser Mirror
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Painted Furniture Long Hidden Treasure A vintage dresser mirror from 1935 is restored, repainted, …
Front Porch Update #1: Choosing Colors for House 173
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Porches Green Paint Chips & Too Many Opinions Every porch makeover starts with a decision. For…
Back Door Refresh at House 173
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Back Porch Matching the Front, One Repair at a Time A little paint, a few old-house repairs, and o…
The Cookbook Shelf
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One Picture Architectural Digest Isn't Calling Or, how one little corner of the kitchen became …
The Return of Honeysuckle at House 173
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Flowers It's Back! A familiar summer fragrance returns to the backyard at House 173 and brings…
Faith in a Seed: A Close Look at a Canadian Hemlock Seed
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One Picture Faith in a Seed Our Canadian hemlock ( Tsuga canadensis ) eventually became a substanti…
2026 Living Room Update, Part 3
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Interior The Color We Never Saw Coming Sometimes the perfect color isn't the one you planned, i…
2026 Living Room Update, Part 2
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Interior The Prep Work That Makes the Difference The best paint job begins long before the first br…
2026 Living Room Update, Part 1
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Interior Stripping Away Twenty Years A room that served us well for more than twenty years begins i…
1918 Bailey No. 5 Plane Restoration
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Tool Restoration Megapost Bailey Plane No. 5 Restoration - Part 1 GBS October 09, 2022 ━━━━━━━━━━━…