Victorian Entropy

Quite a number of people have asked us about the name of my blog.  Science geeks may be familiar with the term "entropy," but I became...

Our upstairs tenants moved out at the end of April and we waited all of a week to open the servants' staircase!  For 70 or 80 years, the...

Around the time we discovered the brick walk, we also found the original cistern.  It is located several feet from the back porch and the...

Before we moved into our house, we were fairly sure there was a brick path between the house and the garage.  The walk became more...

After Rob installed a temporary fence to keep our dogs corralled and I made numerous stabs at cleaning the first floor, we moved in...

We moved through the process of obtaining a zoning variance during the fall of 2011.  That gave us plenty of time to plan some of the...

Not long after our purchase offer for the Neil Avenue house was accepted, we were in Barnes & Noble and came across a book from the...

A project list doesn't mean much if you don't know the house! Here's the exterior view, somewhat comparable to the old photo we...