The Victorian: Beginning the Odyssey
So where to start this odyssey of home remodelling; I suppose I'll start this story where every story begins, the beginning. By now anyone who has happened upon this blog has seen several interesting cooking and home-maker posts by my wife, and the occasional dryly written technical account of something I have recently built or grown. As we have been quite busy the last year our posts have been few and far between, with the last one in April after we had begun the process of buying our next house. Now, when I say process, I mean PROCESS of buying a HUD repo house. Actually this was fairly straightforward from our end as the buyers, but it did take quite a while. As a point of fact it took about two months from writing an offer to the closing, even though our offer was accepted by day...