The Innards
INNARDS the internal organs of a human being or animal the internal parts especially of a structure or mechanism According to Tache, I talk too much about the first definition of innards and the subsequent…
INNARDS the internal organs of a human being or animal the internal parts especially of a structure or mechanism According to Tache, I talk too much about the first definition of innards and the subsequent…
I thought this was going to be a quick post to bring all my faithful fans up to speed on the building progress, but then I realized my last post had nothing to do with…
I keep telling friends and family – just wait, we’ll have a guest room soon. But for some, soon isn’t soon enough. They’ve already arrived! Our first visitor was polite enough to knock. Although knock…
We have been literally and figuratively raising the roof over here at 23 Magnolia. For those of my readers not versed in late 90s hip-hop, that means we have been physically raising the roof whilst…
To all my avid readers: my apologies. I’ve been slacking in my blog posting. We definitely made progress before we laissez-ed les bons temps rouler in NOLA, but it was spread out over the past…
Here at Kingdom Magnolia, we know we’ve made it through winter and that spring has arrived when we hear the omnipresent sounds of Prince Paddy, our creative and benevolent overlord. He greets us every evening…
Something about the walls going up makes the fact that we're building a house feel so much more real. They make the future more evident, more tangible. They make the space look bigger – which…
After three weeks of waiting for Mother Nature to cooperate (see photo above of untimely February snowfall), we finally poured our concrete slab today! As I fell asleep last night to a light drizzle on…
How cute is he?!? Yes, it’s true, I left Tache home alone to build me a house while I dashed off to meet my girlfriends for a fun-filled weekend in warm, sunny Scottsdale, AZ. But,…
Our future house is now two feet higher than it was last week – all thanks to the stem wall we poured yesterday. Progress was slow due to high demand for Jefferson County building inspections…