BufferIt seems that black and gray tones are taking over our landscape styling. We like these colours in our home, but I am not as used to them outside where we expect to find more, well, earthy tones. But I think the yard is looking very stylish with the black and gray accents. I can’t [...]

BufferWe almost didn’t buy this house. More precisely, we almost didn’t even look at it. Mostly because the MLS listing featured its garage so prominently. The interior pictures looked interesting, but LA felt it was all garage based on the picture in the listing. We skipped it the first night and it was almost the [...]

BufferThe story behind how we bought this house is key to today’s posting. During our mid-June 2008 house hunting trip, we saw about a dozen houses. I kept looking at this one on MLS and I showed it to LA several times. She looked at the listing picture and dismissed it as “all garage”. To make [...]

BufferEveryone is excited for the trip, mostly because I have been excited for the past few weeks. The weather is now showing mixed precipitation for most of the weekend. I hope that means we can see the mountains. It would be a colossal drag of we didn’t. I went provisioning today and picked up a new pair [...]