by Sears Homes | Feb 12, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Yesterday, I talked about the CLH, which is an acronym. Sometimes, it meant, “”Cute Little House”! Other times it was short for “Compact Little House.” And other times it was our abbreviation for “Crummy Little House.” Sears...
by Sears Homes | Feb 11, 2013 | Uncategorized |
When Dale, Rebecca and I were gallivanting about the Midwest, seeking and finding kit homes, we developed a few “abbreviations” and one of them was, “The CLH.” “No, don’t bother pulling out the books for this one,” one of us...
by Sears Homes | Feb 8, 2013 | Uncategorized |
About 14 years ago, I excitedly dashed into the living room of our old house in Alton, Illinois and exclaimed to the husband, “I just saw my first Fairy!” Unfazed, he didn’t even look up from his desk, but merely asked, “And what kind of fairy...
by Sears Homes | Feb 7, 2013 | Uncategorized |
In 2002, I visited my friend Rebecca Hunter in Elgin, Illinois (southwest of Chicago) and she drove me out to Palantine to visit what she described as, “A very unusual Sears Westly.” Of course, I was captivated and could hardly wait to see the thing. She...
by Sears Homes | Feb 4, 2013 | Uncategorized |
“The Chesterfield home has an English ancestry which has stood the test of public favor for many centuries…” The Sears Chesterfield was indeed a nobby tudoresque design, but apparently it didn’t catch on. And it was offered only in the 1926...
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