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Grout Cottage: Dog ears
High drama at Grout Cottage project this morning. Climbing high to remove those dog-eared gables or ridge line (not sure) and replace them with them with an A-frame. This will make a big change in the...
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Grout Cottage: Layers
After some delay, the crew is back at the Grout Cottage today. Scaffolding in full effect, they are working on changing the last gable end on the front of the house. Lots of people are stopping to...
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Grout Cottage: A-frame complete
The Grout Cottage has some new lines on all four sides. All of the gable ends are now a-frame. This is the back exterior of the house now. I know it still looks rough. They all look rough for a while...
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Turning 5
My oldest daughter DC has turned five! This is DC and her Daddy celebrating the occasion at the Marbles Kids Museum. I guess you can tell who she looks like! (right Danielle?) We opted out of the big...
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Thought you might want to see the front of Grout cottage too
Thought you might want to see the front of Grout cottage too
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Grout Cottage: Rockin’
The upstairs apartment is now…well an actual apartment at Grout Cottage. Sheet rock has been hung with care. We went all cathedral style in the living room for a little wow.
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Grout Cottage Status Update
New outside stairwell will be completed today at Grout Cottage. Finally the dilapidated stairs, the little outhouse thing and shabby arbor are no more. Work was suspended for most of last week because...
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Grout Cottage: A relic
During heavy construction, the crew found this August 1910 edition of the New York World. The World was published from 1860 to 1931. So the house was built in 1895, the paper is dated 1910, let’s do...
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In the world of landscaping, the “rising sun” redbud tree is totally trending
In the world of landscaping, the “rising sun” redbud tree is totally trending
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From our Phones
We just text and email back and forth in photos to talk out ideas and products and rooms and what we’re doing with our day in the way of home decor. It looks something like this lately. Sarah was...
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Who and What We’re Following on Instagram
We’ve always been attentive to the lovely details in our local lunch spot, or in the ephemery of sunlight on a building — but lately, more and more of us are framing these moments beautifully to share...
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Hanging Out and Taking Pics
Sarah and I got to spend this past weekend together working on our new products and projects. It was a joyous celebration of friendship and porch chats where we shared the greatest and scariest of all...
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From Our Phones
Surely it’s cooling off in North Carolina as Sarah and her family bundle up for Fall. This means early evening soccer practices and kicking freshly fallen leaves down the sidewalks on the walks home...
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Pop kisses for Betsy
Pop kisses for Betsy Thanks for playing, drop us a line below! Pop kisses for Betsy was originally created for The Estate of Things. Join us for more home decor ideas. The post Pop kisses for Betsy...
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