Building and Renovation Resources

Building and Renovation Resources

I’ve had a number of requests for information on where we got this or that item for our house (and previous renovations). Here’s a list! Feel free to email me at rachael (at) wordarountown (dot) come if you have any specific questions or want recommendations 

House Pics

House Pics

Here are pics of the finished Medford house that I took to show Larry of Huntington Homes when we visited him in September in Greenfield, MA.

Foundation

Foundation

The unstoppable Frank Limone got our foundation in place and it’s looking excellent. Set date on Thursday.

Set Day

Set Day

It got done! Thanks to the drivers, the crane guys, the set crew, the GC, the policeman, the Temple, the people from National Grid, the kind neighbors, and to the lovely visitors, callers and texters who accompanied us on this day. and for a look 

A Poem for Building a House

A Poem for Building a House

The Guest House, by Rumi (Translated by Coleman Barks in The Essential Rumi) This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even 

The House @ Huntington Homes

The House @ Huntington Homes

I went to the see the house under construction at Huntington Homes in Vermont on June 6th. Adam walked me through. I reached there in about 3 1/2 hours from Boston, thanks in part to the loan of my sister’s safe and zippy Honda Fit, 

IKEA Kitchen Cabinets with Custom Doors from Scherrs

IKEA Kitchen Cabinets with Custom Doors from Scherrs

Update as of 10/2011 — I’m about to launch into another kitchen project and Scherrs now makes things really easy — you provide the IKEA box numbers and they take it from there. I recently completed a kitchen renovation in which I used IKEA base