I’m feeling a bit nostalgic this evening as I write this. For one thing I’m wondering where the time has gone. I happened upon a fascinating website which has a lot of history of New York City of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Old and Sold is an antique dealer, and someone spent a [......Read More
First, I would like to welcome Elaine Vitone as a blogger on OldHouseWeb.com. Her blog on possible uses of small closets in old houses was great, and I enjoyed reading it. I was born, and spent the first 12 years of my life, just north of Pittsburgh, and know the area is full of beautiful [......Read More
One question I’ve been asked on MyFixitUpLife is “I see carpenters on TV using impact drivers. They look cool but do I need one?”
My answer is: depends.
Cordless impact drivers are pro-grade and one unit I’ve used that I like quite a lot is Makita’s BTD 141. If you’re only doing a few projects a year, [......Read More
I don’t think I will ever get over my fascination with the Internet. I enjoy reading, and increasing my knowledge in any area that I have the slightest bit of interest in, and the Internet has been the perfect avenue for that. I can’t count the times I have sat down for what I thought [......Read More
Hello, all. My name is Elaine Vitone, and I’m the winner of last month’s blogger contest. Very first, I’d like to express my gratitude to everyone who voted for me. Thanks to you, I was offered a contributing-writer gig for OHW, which I was thrilled to accept. Really looking forward to getting to know my fellow [......Read More
A story in USA Today caught my eye the other day, mainly because it was about a town close to where I grew up. The story was about how the housing downturn has affected home sales in Frederick, Maryland. USA Today is evidently looking at a different city in various areas of the country each [......Read More
I’m glad I had a chance to enjoy the warm weather while it was here, because winter is now back. We have snow and freezing rain tonight, and it is supposed to continue tomorrow. Well, it was nice while it lasted.
After reading about the Old House Expo in Kalamazoo, I got to wondering if there [......Read More
I must say I am really enjoying the unseasonably warm weather we have been experiencing the last several days, it is almost 60 here today, and after several weeks with highs in the 20’s, it is very nice. I almost feel like getting out the bicycle, but instead I’ll share a few interesting items I [......Read More
After writing about house fires in my last post, I thought I would attempt to find some uplifting news to write about this time. I was in luck, I not only found a couple of stories that ended well, but they were also pretty interesting.
The first deals with an old house that Steve Jobs owns. [......Read More
I am going to take this opportunity to write about a subject I have written about previously, but after reading the many articles online this past week, perhaps it bearing repeating. We have been going through a very, very cold period the last couple of weeks. The entire east coast down to Florida has been [......Read More
