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Walk pics

Liz — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:15:34 +0000

Some nice garden and house images from our walk when we had a friend in town last weekend. This is touring the Oak Park historic district and the Frank Lloyd Wright houses.

Stucco details

Liz — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:14:56 +0000

One of the first things that I noticed about our house is that it does not have all of the nice stucco detail that a lot of the homes around Oak Park have. It is what makes the stucco charming. Matt used to hate stucco until he saw the hosues here. In Oak Park, they fit nicely in the nighborhood, and don’t seem tacky, but rather charming. A large part of this is the trim, which our house is sorely lacking.

These are some of the details we found on our walk today that I think might be nice.

And The Winner Is…

Liz — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:53:13 +0000

Rusty takes time to smell the flowers

So to get ideas for what we want to do to the outside of the house, Thor and I have started taking a camera on our walks with the dog. We’re hoping this will not only help us figure out what we like, but exactly what is wrong with the house now that we need to fix.

Right now I don’t think that the outside of the house could get much uglier or have less character, so anything we do is bound to be an improvement. However, any changes we make we definitely want to fit in with the character of the neighborhood. And looking at a house and knowing instinctively that it is ugly is different from figuring out how you need to fix it. So, in our ramblings we have identified the main problem areas, and hopefully are beginning to get some ideas on what we want to do.

So pictures of things we like will be forth coming, and maybe then we can gradually compete for second ugliest house on the block