The past several weekends have been spent in the garden creating raised herb beds, (at long last) constructing our compost bin and transforming the hard-packed, sod-covered, weed-choked corners of our yard into Harpoon Gardens. Read more »
Ecoroof Update: Entry
Just a quick update, nodding onions, self heal and yarrow are in full bloom on our entry ecoroof. Read more »
Painting Window Frames
We were able to take advantage of the great weather this weekend to finally paint our window frames and on Monday our contractor had a couple guys come out to paint the windows that require being up on a tall ladder. Read more »
Sedums and Trim
We went up to our upper ecoroof for the first time in two months over the weekend. This roof is entirely sedums in an attempt to make it as low maintenance as possible and they were planted by throwing piles of cuttings around and then waiting to let them root. So now coming back up two months later, we’ve found everything thriving and surprisingly red. Read more »
Street Resurfacing
It’ll be nice when the city stops breaking things in front of our house. Its all in the name of a modern sewer (no more terracotta pipes from the 1890s) which is a pretty needed infrastructure upgrade, I’ve just never gotten used to having the house shake every morning starting at 7:00 while the crew busts up the street surface. Read more »
More Paint
We’re slowly making progress with the various pieces of finish work that need to be completed, and recently we finished off painting our stair risers. Read more »
More Plants
The agenda for this weekend was going to be all about painting the risers for our stairs, all of which are just raw MDF at the moment… And then the weather turned beautiful and we got totally distracted by garden work. Read more »
money
Now that its tax time I thought it would be a good time to talk about financial incentives for green building. Read more »
Closet and Paperwork
We’re still in the long process of moving in… Mostly sorting and unpacking and wading through a sea of boxes. Of the work that is still underway, our closet was installed a couple days ago. Read more »
Moving In
A big thanks to everyone who showed up on Sunday. We had probably around two hundred and fifty people come through the house and we’re pretty thrilled to have been able to share our house with so many neighbors and architecture enthusiasts. Read more »
